Sir Adam de Chetwynd
King’s chamberlain of Chester
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1282.
Place of Death: unknown.
The writ for the inquisition below in the evidence section is dated 28 December 1282. Adam was still alive in June 1282.
Relationships
Father: Sir John de Chetwynd.
This relationship is given in Dugdale’s Visitation of Staffordshire and by Chetwynd-Stapylton.
Mother: uncertain.
She is said to have been a daughter of Robert de Stafford.
Spouse: Eva de Oswaldestre.
See Eva’s page.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John de Chetwynd (died after 1351) married Ellen de Titley.
William de Chetwynd
Adam de Chetwynd
Cecily de Chetwynd
Agnes de Chetwynd
Alice de Chetwynd
Evidence
In a quitclaim from between 1272 and 1282, “Dom. Adam de Chetewint” is a witness.
from the Calendars of the Close Rolls:
1275.
[Appointment to tax and appraise the fifteenth…] Roger le Ros and Adam de Chetewind in co. Gloucester: superior, Walter de Helyun.
1276.
April 25. Kempton.
To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to audit the account of Adam de Chetewynd for the time when he had the bailiwick of Ellesmere by commission of Robert Bumel, now bishop of Bath and Wells, and of others then supplying the king's place in England when the king was in parts beyond sea, and to cause to be done for Adam what ought to be done of right.
1276.
October 30. Westminster.
To Adam de Chetewind, king's clerk. Order to deliver to Roger Lestrange (Extraneus) the vessels, tools, iron fittings of military engines (ferramenta ingeniorum) cords, cross-bows, quarells, armour, and all other his goods and chattels in the castle of Certeleye at the time when Roger delivered the castle to Adam by the king's order.
1280.
Nicholas, baron Stafford, acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Chetewynd 40s.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Stafford.
Roger Sprengehos acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Chetewind 12l. 6s. 0d.; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Salop.
1281.
October 28.
Westminster.
[To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer.] Wheras the king granted to Adam de Chetewynd, his clerk, the wardship of the lands and heir of John de Chetewind, which came to the king’s hands by reason of the wardship of the lands and heir of John son of Alan de Albo Monasterio, tenant in chief, of whom John de Chetewynd held his land by knight service, to have until John de Chetewind’s heir come of age; and the king ordered the sheriff of Salop to deliver the wardship to Adam with everthing received thence; and the sheriff had paid 9l. 8s. 10 ½ d. of the issues of the wardship into the exchequer before he received the said order, for which sum the sheriff is bound to answer to Adam by reason of the grant aforesaid: the king orders the treasurer and barons to allow this sum to the sheriff out of the other issues of his bailiwick.
November 3.
Westminster.
Roger Sprengehos acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Chetewind 10 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Salop.
1283.
October 24.
Acton Burnell.
[To the treasurer and barons of the exhequer.]
Whereas the executors of the will of Adam de Chetewynd remitted to the king 167l. 2s. 2d. in which he was indebted to Adam for the surplus of Adam's account for the time when he was the king's chamberlain of Chester, as appears by the king's letters patent sealed with the seal used by those who supplied the king's place in England when he was in the Holy Land, and the executors have restored the letters to the king to be cancelled: the king orders the treasurer and barons to acquit the executors of 220 marks in recompence for the remission aforesaid, to wit 120 marks in which they are indebted to the king for the wardship of the heir and land of John de Chetewynd sold to Adam by the king, and 100 marks wherewith Adam was charged in the account of Reginald de Grey in the exchequer.
from the Calendars of the Patent Rolls:
1282.
December 28. Rhuddlan.
Grant to Richard de Bishopeston of the chapel of the castle of Oswaldestre, void by the death of Adam de Chetewynd, and in the king’s gift by reason of his custody of the land and heir of John son of Alan.
An inquisition:
Adam de Chetewynd.
Writ to the sheriff of Salop and Stafford, on the complaint of Eva de Oswaldestre that certain manors of which she had the custody by the gift of the said Adam, were taken into the king's hand after his death, 28 Dec. 11 Edw. I. [1282]
Stafford [and Salop]. Inq. Saturday after the Epiphany, 11 Edw. I. [9 January 1282/3]
The said Eva had of the gift of the said Adam the custody of the manors of Tyxhal, Ypstanes, Weston and Chetewynd long before his death, and was always in peaceful possession thereof, excepting the hunting of the park of Ipstanes, and the fishery of the great pond of Ipstanes and of the pond of Weston, until through the death of the said Adam the custody of those manors was taken into the king's hand by the sheriff.
And John son of Philip enfeoffed John son of Adam de Chetewynd of the manor of Hortwell, and he was always in peaceful seisin until the manor was taken into the king's hand by the sheriff.
Mandate to cause the said Eva to have the king's writs according to the tenor of this inquisition; and whereas the said Adam was in debt to the king and the king to him, to command the Treasurer &c. of the exchequer to cause his debtors to come to answer to his executors; and to write to Edmund de Mortuomari to put Richard de Bishopeston clerk in possession of the chapel of the castle of Ossewaldestre, which the king lately granted him.
A plea:
Staffordshire Forest Pleas: 14 Edward I [1285/6]
It was presented, etc., by the same that Ralph le Wasteneys of Tykeshale, and Philip de Barynton, the lord of Cratton (Creighton), came with greyhounds and bows and arrows, into the forest on the Sunday after St. Hillary, 56 H. III., and took a hind and a feccon of a hind, and carried the venison to the house of Adam de Shetewyde (Chetwynd), who is now dead. And they did not appear, and were not attached. The Sheriff is ordered to arrest the said Ralph; and as the said Philip is in Ireland, the Sheriff is ordered to take his lands and tenements into the King's hands. The said Ralph is committed to prison, and afterwards fined 40s., for which Thomas Corbet and John de Wauton are sureties. Philip de Barynton was afterwards fined 40s., for which Robert de Stapelton, Knight, and Robert de Stafford, Knight, are sureties.
from the plea rolls:
7 Edward III. [1333/4]
Staff. John de Ipstanes, Chivaler, was summoned to answer the plea of John de Weston under Brewode, Chyvaler, and William, son of Peter de Joneston, that he should permit them to present a fit person to the Church of Blemunhulle (Blymhill)
….
said William de Ipstanes and Sarra, and that her right had descended to one John de Ipstanes, as son and heir, and from the said John to one William de Ipstanes, who was under age and in the custody of Adam de Chetwynde, who also held the custody of his purparty of the manor, and that Adam, on a vacancy occurring by the death of Thomas Personessone had presented the said Walter de Lega, and after the death of the said Walter, the said William de Ipstanes, being of full age, in his own right, had presented the said Roger de Staundon, and from the said William de Ipstanes, …
References
Calendar[s] of Inquisitions Post Mortem. [Public Record Office. Digital versions available at British History Online.]
Chetwynd-Stapylton, H.E. The Chetwynds of Ingestre (London, 1892).
Eyton, Rev. R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire. (12 volumes, 1854-1860).
The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire made by Sir Richard St. George, Norroy, in 1614, and by Sir William Dugdale, Norroy, in the Years 1663 and 1664. (H Sydney Glazebrook, ed.) (Collections for a History of Staffordshire part II, volume 5; 1884).
'Staffordshire Forest Pleas: 14 Edward I', in Staffordshire Historical Collections, Vol. 5 Part 1, ed. G Wrottesley (London, 1884), pp. 157-175.
“Staffordshire Cartulary, 1200-1327” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (1911).