Sir Adam de Brumpton (died 1274)
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1274.
Place of Death: unknown.
20 June 1274 is the date of the writ of diem clausit extremum.
Relationships
Father: Sir Adam de Brumpton.
This relationship is given by Bridgeman (p. 7) and by Eyton (p. 110).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
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Adam de Brumpton married Mary.
Evidence
from Bridgeman:
On 26th January, 1236, Adam de Brimpton (I.) being dead, the King orders the Sheriff of Shropshire to take security for 100s., the relief due from his son Adam de Brimpton (II.), whose homage the King had accepted. The Sheriff is forthwith to give seisin to the heir of all such lands as his father had held in capite. And the Pipe Roll of 1236 shows Adam de Brinton paying the whole fine at once. In or about the year 1240, various Feodaries record his different tenures. In Shropshire, he held one fee in capite in Langeford; in Staffordshire, one fee of the Baron of Stafford in Eyton and Orselawe; in Oxfordshire, half a fee of the Baron of Stafford in Middel-Aston; and in Berkshire, one fee in Brimton under Ralph de Mortimer.
In 35 Henry III. (1250–1) Adam de Brinton had a grant of free warren in his manor of Eyton, co. Stafford, as also a market on Mondays and a fair on the vigil and the day of St. Edith (25th April). In 1254 he was returned among those who held 20 librates of land in Shropshire and Staffordshire. The Shropshire Bradford Hundred Roll of 1255 speaks thus of his tenure at Longford: "Adam de Brinton holds the manor of Longheford with its appurtenances in capite of the King, by service of a knight's fee in time of war at his own charges. He does suit neither to county nor hundred, but by what warranty of exemption the jurors know not."
The Cuttlestone Hundred Roll of the same date informs us that Adam de Brumton holds Eyton of the Baron of Stafford for one knight's fee; where there are three hides, geldable except the 4th part of one hide which is held by the Abbot of Lilleshull, but by what warrant he pays nothing to the Sheriff's tourn the jurors know not, neither does he pay to the Justice's Court. The aforesaid three hides pay for Sheriff's aid 3s., for frankpledge 3s., and for the Hundred Court 12d. There is an interlineation over the words "three hides geldable except the 4th part, &c.," to the effect that Michael de Morton has a tenure here. This will doubtless allude to his tenure of Orslow under the Baron of Stafford, as heir to the Woodcote inheritance, less the portion granted to the Abbey of Lilleshall by Milicent de Woodcote, as will be shown hereafter in speaking of Orslow.
On 23rd June, 1258, at Oxford, the Lord the King, by Lawrence de Brok his attorney, sued Alan de Rumelyaco (Romilly) for the advowson of the Chapel of Myddeleston (Middle Aston, co. Oxon), which pertains to the Church of Hopton (co. Staff.), and which is of the free Chapel of the Blessed Mary of Stafford, and of which the King is patron; and Lawrence stated that King Henry, the grandfather of the King, was in seisin of the said Chapel, through Robert the Dean of the said Chapel. Alan pleaded that he did not hold the whole advowson, because Adam de Brymton is patron of that part which is stated to belong to the said Chapel, and that King Henry never was in seisin of his portion of the advowson. The Sheriff is commanded to summon a jury at fifteen days from St. John the Baptist.
By the award of Roger Meuland, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, dated in April, 1261, a final concord was made between Sir Adam de Brinton, Lord of Eyton, and the Abbess and Convent of Pollesworth, with respect to the patronage of the Church of Eyton, by which it was agreed that Adam and his heirs should nominate, as often as the Church became vacant, a fit Clerk to the said Nuns, who should present him to the Bishop for institution, and the Rector of the Church should pay to the said Nuns and their successors an annual pension of 20 marks.T
The Pipe Roll of 1261 shows a sum of £7 10s., paid by the Sheriff of Shropshire to Hoel ap Madoc, Thomas de Roshal, and Adam de Brington for their expenses in proceeding to the Ford of Montgomery as commissioners to treat about a truce with Llewelyn, Prince of Wales.
Adam’s inquistion post mortem (CIPM v. 2 no. 126):
Adam de Brinton
Writ, 20 June, 3 Edw. I.
Oxford.
Inq. Saturday the octave of SS. Peter and Paul, 3 Edw. I.
Midelest'. 1½ hide land in demesne, 9s. rent of assize, 8½ virgates land in villenage, and a mill, held of the baron of Stafford, rendering 5s. yearly to the fee of Stafford; and a messuage and 1 virgate land in demesne, and 1 virgate in villenage held of Thomas de Clare, rendering 1d. yearly.
Adam de Brymp[ton] his son, aged 30 and more, is his next heir.
Salop.
Inq. Tuesday after SS. Peter and Paul, 3 Edw. I.
Longeford. The manor (extent given), held of the king in chief by service of 1 knight's fee, and he ought to find a follower (satellitem) with barded horse for forty days at his own cost if the king shall come in person towards Wales in time of war.
Stafford.
Eyton. The manor which is a free burough (extent given), with the advowson of the church, held of the baron of Stafford in chief by service of 1 knight's fee, and two attendances yearly at the baron's court.
Sir Adam de Brunton his son, is his next heir and of full age and more.
References
Bridgeman, G.T.O. “The History of the Parish of Church Eaton and its members, Wood Eaton, Orslow, High Onn, Little Onn, Shushions, and Marston” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire v. 4 p. 2. (1883)
“Brimpton” in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1924).
Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Public Record Office, generally available online at British History Online, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, or Mapping the Medieval Countryside).
Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 8 (1859).