Sir Edward de Weever

Events

Date of Birth: about 1392.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Earwaker (2:596) states that Edward came of age in 1413 and had livery of his estates on 20 June of that year.

Date of Death: 3 October 1434.

Place of Death: unknown.

Sir Edward’s 13 Henry VI inquisition post mortem states that he died on the Sunday next after the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, last past (Ormerod 2:209). Earwaker (2:596) states that Sir Edward died in September, 1434.

Relationships

Father: Thomas de Weever.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:209-210) and by Earwaker (2:596). Thomas is given as Edward's father in the record of Thomas having livery of his lands (DKPR 1876, p. 773).

Mother: Isabella de Fulleshurst.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:210; 3:302).

Spouse: Elizabeth.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:209-210).

Children:

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

Richard de Weever (died 1422), was contracted in 1417 to marry Elizabeth de Whitmore.

Thomas de Weever (died 1445) married Elizabeth Fitton.

Margery de Weever married John Vernon of Haslington. (Marriage contract 4 January 1443/4).

Evidence

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records:

(p. 77):

1 Hen. 6. Wever, Edward de, Kt. Deed of, granting to Thomas del Bothe and Isabel his wife, for the life of the said Isabel, the manor of Wodeley, and all the lands, &c., which were of Thomas de Wever, father of the said Edward, in Bretlebury and Romeley, also all the lands held in dower by the said Isabel. [1 Hen. 6, m. 13.]

(p. 82):

13. Hen. 6. Wevere, Elizabeth who was the wife of Edward de, Kt., against Thomas de Wevere, Richard Pygot, and John Duncalf, vicar of the church of Prestbury. Dower of the manor of Nether Aldereley, one mill, thirty messuages, four hundred acres of land forty acres of meadow, three hundred acres of pasture, a hundred acres of wood, and two hundred acres of turbary in Wevere, Rissheton, Neuton near Middlewich, Clyff, Middlewich, Manley, Barettespoole, Nether Alderlegh, Over Alderlegh, Bredbury, Upton, and Romeley. [13 Hen. 6. m. 31 d.]

From the Appendix to The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records:

(pp. 773-774):

Weever-Wevir

1413, June 20. Edward, son and heir of Thomas de, livery to. [14 Hen. 4 & 1 Hen. 5. m. 2 (12).]

1416, Sept. 26. Edward de, Randal le Maynwaryng, and Robert del Mere, to the King, recognizance in 200l. that the said Edward keep the peace towards William, Matthew, John, and Randal de Brereton, and …. Furnyvall, and ….Furnyvall. [3 & 4 Hen. 5. m 9. d.(10).]

1416-17, Feb. 9. Edward de, Hugh de Weever, and William del Clyf, to Elizabeth, Prioress of the nuns of the house and church of Saint Mary, Chester, recognizance for 24s. [4 & 5 Hen. 5. m. 3 d. (10).]

1417. Edward, marriage of Richard son and heir of, with Elizabeth daughter of John de Whitmore.

1422, April 2. Edward de, Kt., license to Thomas le Grosvenor, Kt., Randal Maynwaryng, Robert del Mere, Thomas del Mere, and John del Dedwode, to act as the attornies of the said Edward who was about to go to France in the retinue of Katharine Queen of England. [9 & 10 Hen. 5. m. 2 d. (5).]

1426, Oct. 8. Edward de, Kt., John de Caryngton, Richard de Whelok, Nicholas Scot, and George de Wevere, to Richard de Bulkyley, of Chedle, recognizance in 100l. that the said Edward abide the award of John de Stanley, Kt., touching all disputes between him and Richard de Bulkeley. [5 & 6 Hen. 6. m. 1 (5).]

1434, Oct. 7. Edward de, Kt., writ “diem clausit extremum” on the death of. [13 & 14 Hen.6. m. d. (2).]

Property, according to his inquisition post mortem as given by Earwaker (2:596):

-the manor of Wevere

-land in Over Alderlegh, held of Henry, Archbishop of Canterbury, as of his manor of Halton

-land in Nether Alderlegh

-land in Woodlegh

-land in Upton near Maccesfield, held of Robert de Downes in socage

From The Soldier in Later Medieval England database, it appears that Edward was a captain in the Garrison of St Lo in 1430.

References

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Richards, Raymond. The Manor of Gawsworth (Manchester: E.J.Morten, 1974; first published 1957).

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1868).

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).