Sir Philip de Orreby

Justiciar of Chester

Events

Date of Birth: probably about 1160.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:168).

Date of Death: about 1230.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:169).

Relationships

(presumed) Father: Herbert son of Alard, constable to Gilbert de Gant, earl of Lincoln and to Simon de St. Liz, earl of Northampton.

The Complete Peerage (10:168) states that there is no proof of this relationship, but that there is a strong presumption that it was the fact. It is given by Ormerod (3:548).

(presumed) Mother: Agnes, daughter of Simon fitz William of Kyme.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:168).

Spouse: Emma de Coventre.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:169).

Spouse: Alice de Baumville.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (10:169) and by Ormerod (3:548).

Children (by Emma):

Philip de Orreby married Leucha, daughter of Roger de Mohaut.

Children (by Alice):

Sir Fulk de Orreby (possibly) married (1) Philippe Strange; married (2) Sibyl.

Evidence

from Barraclough (no. 434):

Quittance to Philip of Orreby of two pigs a year for pannage from Alvanley and 14d. Annually for streteward and sheriff’s stuthe.

Orig.: Chester City Record Office, D/CAS/1. Transcr.: B.L. Harl. MS. 2074, f. 172 (new f. 69).

Rannulfus comes Cestrie et Lincolnie omnibus presentem cartam inspecturis vel audituris salutem. Sciatis me dedisse et concessisse et hae presenti carta mea confirmasse quietanciam de me et heredibus meis Philippo de Orreby et heredibus suis de duobus porcis, quos annuatim de consuetudine pro pannagio percipere consuevi de Alvaldeleghe, et de quatuordecim denariis qous annuatim percipere solebam de eadem villa pro streteward et shirrevestude. Et in huius donatioois et quietancie testimonium hanc presentem cartam sigillo meo munitam ei habere feci. Hiis testibus Fulcooe filio Warini, Baldewino de Ver, Nicholao de Litteris, Walkelino de Arderne, Willelmo de Malo Passu, Ricardo de Sondbache, Hugooe de Chelmundele, Ricardo de Kingesle, Petro de Frodesham, magistro Gileberto de Westona, Ricardo de Arderne, Simone et Petro clericis, et multis aliis.

SEAL: on tag, missing.

Philip of Orreby, the famous justiciar, purchased Alvanley from Richard of Pierrepont and Robert of Alvanley some time after 1210 (Orm., ii. 75). The names of the witnesses of the present charter indicate that it was given shortly after Orreby’s retirement from the justiciarship in 1229, probably in 1230. The first witness, Fulk fitz Warin, married Agnes, the daughter of Orreby’s son, another Philip, who predeceased his father. It is a curious fact, by comparison with the grants showered on Philip’s contemporary, Peter the clerk, that this is the only grant Ranulf III is specifically known to have made to his great justiciar. For shirrevesteth, defined as a ‘customary rent collected in the five hundreds of the county of Chester’, see R.S.L.C. lix, pp. 133, 171.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

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).

The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237. (Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.). (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. CXXVI: 1988).