Sir Robert de Fulleshurst

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1389.

Place of Death: unknown.

Ormerod (3:300, 3:306) states that Sir Robert’s inquisition post mortem was taken in 13 Richard II. The writ diem clausit extremum was dated 17 November 1389 (see below).

Relationships

Father: Richard de Fulleshurst of Edlaston.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:302). It seems to be supported by the escheator's account given in ACOCC (pp. 155 ff.).

Mother: Ellena.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:383, 3:385).

Spouse: Elizabeth de Praers. Married about 1354.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:302, 3:306) and by Hall (p. 27).

Children:

Isabella de Fulleshurst married Thomas de Weever.

Sir Thomas de Fulleshurst (about 1366 - about 1402) married Joan.

Evidence

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Ninth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Chester Plea Rolls):

(p. 55):

7 Ric. 2. Fouleshurst, Robet de, Kt., Inspeximus and exemplification of Letters Patent of Edward, Prince of Wales, of the 10th of Oct. 1372, exempting the said Robert from serving at assizes, on juries, &c. [7 & 8 Ric. 2. m. 12.]

From the Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(page 187):

1354-5, March 18. Robert de [Fulleshurst], grant of free warren to, in the desmesnes pertaining to his manors of Bertumlegh and Crue. [28 & 29 Edw. 3. m. 2 d. (3), (4).]

1389, Nov. 17. Robert de [Fulleshurst], of Crue, writ “diem clausit extremum” on the death of. [13 & 14 Ric. 2. m. 1 (10).]

Petition of Thomas son and heir of Robert de [Fulleshurst], for livery of the lands of the said Robert, stating that the inquisition returned on the foregoing writ, proved him of full age when the said Robert died, and that the said Robert died seized of the manors of Crue, Bertumlegh, and Landecan, with the advowsons of Bertumlegh and Wodechurch, as tenant by the law of England after the death of Elizabeth his wife, who held the same in her desmesne as of fee; also of 2 messuages in Batynton and Wych-Malbank, held of Ralph de Vernon and William de Bromley, in soccage. [Ibid. (11).]

References

Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester. 1301-1360. (Ronald Stewart-Brown, ed.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. LIX: 1910).

Hall, James. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester. Nantwich, 1883.

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

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).