Sir Alan de Cherleton

Events 

Date of Birth: about 1278.

Place of Birth: unknown. 

Date of Death: 3 December 1360.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given in Alan’s inquisition post mortem.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Cherlton, of Cherleton.

This relationship is given by Eyton (9:319).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Ellen la Zouche.

This relationship is given by Eyton (9:56). The relationship is confirmed by the appearance of Ellen’s son by first first marriage in Alan’s inquisition post mortem.

Children: 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Alan de Cherlton married Margery FitzAer.

Evidence

Alan’s inquisition post mortem:

Alan de Cherleton

Writ, 6 December, 34 Edward III.

Devon.

Inq. taken at North Molton Sunday the feast of St. Lucy, 34 Edward III.

North Molton. The manor (extent given, including 3 corn mills (molendina blaeretica) and a fulling mill) except the advowson of the church, held for life by the law of England, of the inheritance of Nicholas Seymour, knight, son and heir of Ellen, late Alan’s wife, to whom the reversion belongs. The manor is held of the king in chief by service of a moiety of a knight’s fee and doing suit at the king’s court at Langacre in the forest of Exemour on the morrow of the Ascension and at the king’s court of Haukrugge on Friday in Whitsun week.

Blak Toryton. 1 1/2d. rent and the advowson of the church and one knight’s fee, parcel of the manor of North Molton, and held with it as above.

The said Nicholas is 30 years of age and more.

North Molton. A messuage and a carucate of land held of James de Audele, lord of Heyle, by service of a moiety of a knight’s fee; and 2s. 6d. rent held of the aforesaid Nicholas Seymour by service of 12d. yearly.

The said Alan died on Thursday before St. Nicholas last. John, son of Alan de Cherleton, aged 20 1/2 years, is his kinsman and heir.

References

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. 9 (1859).

A History of the County of Shropshire: Volume 11 (Victoria County History, 1985).

Peel, Alice Maude. “Charltons of Apley Castle, Shropshire” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society v. 53 pt. 2 (1950).

The Visitation of Shropshire, 1623. Paul Grazebrook and John Paul Rylands, eds. (London, 1889).