Sir Adam de Brumpton (died 1315)
Events
Date of Birth: about 1244.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Adam is said to be aged 30 and more in his father’s 1274 inquisition post mortem
Date of Death: 1315.
Place of Death: unknown.
10 May 1315 is the date of the writ of diem clausit extremum.
Relationships
Father: Sir Adam de Brumpton.
This relationship is given by Bridgeman (p. 9) and by Eyton (p. 112).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Mary.
The relationship is given by Bridgeman (p. 10).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John de Brumpton (born 29 September 1287 - died 19 August 1336) married Isabel.
Thomas de Brumpton, rector of Eyton.
Evidence
from the Feet of Fines (abstracted at Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy):
Oxfordshire. Berkshire.
Westminster.
Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 16 Edward I [6 June 1288].
Parties: Adam de Brumpton' and Mary, his wife, querents, and Richard, son of Stephen de Coule, chaplain*, impedient.
Property: A moiety of 1 virgate of land in Wodyton'.
Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Richard has acknowledged the land to be the right of Adam. For this, Adam and Mary have granted to Richard the land, to hold to Richard, of Adam and Mary and the heirs of Adam for the life of Richard, rendering yearly 1 penny at the feast of St Michael. And after the decease of Richard the land shall revert to Adam and Mary and the heirs of Adam, quit of the heirs of Richard, to hold of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty: Warranty, acquittance and defence by Adam and Mary and the heirs of Adam.
from Bridgeman:
1n 1297 Adam de Brinton was summoned for foreign service as a tenant of twenty librates of land and upwards in the counties of Berks and Salop. In 1298, as a Staffordshire land owner, he had military summons against the Scots. In 1299 he was returned as Knight of the Shire for the county of Berks, for the Parliament summoned to meet at London or Westminster on 6th March of that year. And in 1300, as Adam de Brumpton, Knight, he was again returned, as one of the three Knights for the same county, to the Parliament ordered to assemble at York on 20th May of that year, concerning the observation of "Magna Carta et Carta de Foresta." In 29 Edward I. (1301) he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire; and in the same year he had military summons against the Scots in respect of his tenure in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and Shropshire. This is the last I hear of Adam de Brimpton (III.)...... He had another son, Thomas de Brumpton, Clerk, who was admitted to the Church of Eyton in February, 1311. Adam left a widow, Mary, who had evidently been jointly enfeoffed with her husband in the manor of Eaton, for in 1324 it is described as the manor of Mary de Brumpton, as will be shown hereafter in the account of the incumbents and advowson of the Church; and though John de Brumpton, the son and heir of Adam, died seised of this manor in 1336, he appears to have resided in Berkshire, in connection with which county and the neighbouring county of Oxford he constantly occurs, while his name is never or rarely to be met with in connection with Staffordshire and Shropshire.
In 8 Edward III. (1324) an assize was taken to try whether Mary, who had been the wife of Adam de Brympton, and others, had unjustly disseised Margaret, who had been the wife of Henry de Wollaston, of her free tenement in Wollaston, namely, an acre of land with appurtenances, which the said Mary claimed as being within the manor of Eyton. Her claim was disallowed by the jury, and Margaret recovered seisin.
Adam’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM v. 5 no. 504):
Adam de Brympton alias de Brunnpton, de Brumpton
Writ, 10 May, 8 Edw. II.
Stafford. Inq. 8 June, 8 Edw. II.
Eyton. The manor (extent given), held of the baron of Stafford by service of 1 knight’s fee of Mortain.
John his son, aged 27 at the feast of St. Michael last, is his next heir.
Salop. Inq. 23 May, 8 Edw. II.
Longeford. The manor (extent given), held of the king in chief, as of the escheat of Roger de Betlehem, sometime earl of Shrewsbury, by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, and finding an armed man with a barded horse in the king’s army for forty days at his own charges whenever there shall be war in Wales.
Heir as above.
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).