Sir Peter de Evercy
Represented Somersetshire in Parliament in 1307 and 1315.
Represented Southampton in Parliament in 1319.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1324.
Place of Death: unknown.
The writ for Peter’s inquisition post mortem was dated 29 August 1324.
Relationships
Father: Thomas de Evercy.
This relationship is given by the Hampshire VCH (5:sub Arreton). It is recorded in the Patent Rolls (See the Evidence section below.) Brand (p. 152) cites the case “Joan widow of Thomas de Evercy junior v. Peter son of Thomas de Evercy senior [CP 40/49]. It is recorded in a 1304 deed (E 329/265 below.)
Mother: Margery.
Spouse: Isabella.
Batton (p. 77) gives evidence which supports this relationship. Isabella was taxed at 40d. to a subsidy at Brympton in 1327.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Amy (born about 1300 - died by 1331) married John de Glamorgan.
Evidence
from Feudal Aids:
A.D. 1285
Devon
Hundredum de Sancti Georgii.
Forsardeston, villa gudabilis, et modo tenet Petrus de Evirsi, et eam tenet de Willelmo Forsard, et idem Willelmus de rege i.e. per servicium secte ad hundredum regis per tres septimanus, et ad tornum vicecomitis per annum xxij.d. ad laiday xvj.d. ob.
A.D. 1303
Somerset.
[Hundredum de] Stone.
Tenentes per medium:--
Petrus de Evercy tenet Brempton et Alveton de Matheo de Forneaus pro j. f.
A.D.1316
Hampshire
Hundredum de Estmedine
Villa de Bynnebrygg
Robertus Glamorgan, Petrus Devercy, Johannes de Weston, et heres Willelmi Russel.
Villa de Staunden
Petrus Devercy.
A.D.1320
Somerset
Hundredum de La Stane
Brumpton cum hameletis de Hundeston et Loketon
Petrus Devercy, Lucas de Gatry, Johannes de Stanarde.
A.D.1346
Hampshire
Hundredum de Estmedine
[Thomas H]aket tenet in Estaundene, et alibi, j.f. quod fuit Petri Deversy.
A.D.1428
Hampshire
Hundredum de Estmedine
Walterus Veer et Johannes Haket tenent j.f.m. in Staundon et Wode, quod Petrus Devercy quondam tenuit.
from Parliamentary Writs:
A.D. 1297. Evercy, Petrus de…returned from the Counties of Somerset and Dorset as holding lands or rents to the amount of £20 yearly value and upwards, either in Capite or otherwise, and as such summoned under the general writ to perform Military Service, in person, with horses and arms, &c., in parts beyond the seas. – Muster at London, on Sunday next after the Octaves of St. John the Baptist, 7 July… 25 Ed. I
A.D. 1300. Evercy, Petrus de… returned from the Counties of Somerset and Dorset as holding lands, either in Capite or otherwise, to the amount of £40 yearly value and upwards, and as such summoned under the general writ to perform Military Service against the Scots.--Muster at Carlisle, on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 24 June…28 Ed. I
A.D. 1300. Evercy, Petrus de… returned in like manner from the County of Southampton…28 Ed. I
A.D. 1301. Evercy, Petrus de…summoned from the County of Southampton to perform Military Service in person against the Scots.-- Muster at Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 24 June…29 Ed. I
A.D. 1307 Evercy, Petrus de… Knight of the Shire returned for Somerset.--Parliament at Carlisle, in Eight Days of St Hilary, 20 Jan. … 35 Ed. I.
from the National Archives catalogue:
E 329/265
Quarr Abbey (A.,abbot) to Peter son of Sir Thomas de Evercy: Grant, indented, of land in their manor of Arreton:(I. of Wight).
1304.
An inquisition ad quod damnum (file LX no. 16):
34. Edward I. [1305]
Peter Devercy to grant a messuage and land in Brympton by Montacute to a chaplain in the church of St. Andrew there, retaining land in Brympton, Standon, and in the hamlet of La Wode. (I.W.) [Somers. Hants. (I.W.)]
Peter’s inquisition post mortem:
Writ, 29 August, 18 Edward II.
Somerset. Inq. 18 January, 18 Edward II. [1324]
Brumpton. The hamlet (extent given), held of Simon de Furneaux as of his manor of Astington by knight’s service.
Montacute. A messuage and dovecot,held jointly by the said Peter and Isabel his wife, who still survives, of the prior of Monacute by service of 2s. yearly.
Amy (Ammia) his daughter, whom John de Glamorgan married, aged 24 and more, is his next her.
from the Patent Rolls:
1338. February 20. Westminster.
Confirmation to Geoffrey, the abbot, and the convent of Quarr in the Isle of Wight, of the following grants to their house: …(4) covenant by Peter de Evercy, son of Thomas de Evercy for him and his heirs to A. abbot of Quarr and the convent of that place for payment of 12d. of rent out of the manor of Estaundone for an acre of land in the abbot’s manor of Arieton.
References
Batten, John. Historical and Topographical Collections relating to the Early History of Parts of South Somerst. (1894).
Brand, Paul. “Dower Ex Assensu” and Trial by Jury and Trial by Witnesses in the English Medieval Common Law” in The Journal of Legal History, 42:2, 147-170. (2021).
Calendar[s] of Inquisitions Post Mortem. [Public Record Office. Digital versions available at British History Online.]
Lists and Indexes. v. 17. [The inquisition ad quod damnum is on page 88.]
'Parishes: Arreton', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 139-151.
The Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons. v.1. (1827).