Sir Simon de Etchingham

Events

Date of Birth: about 1218.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Simon was aged 35 at his brother William’s inquisition post mortem (see below).

Date of Death: before 1268.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Saul (p. 2).

Relationships

Father: Simon de Etchingham.

This relationship is given in the Buckinghamshire VCH (4:sub Padbury) and by the Sussex VCH (9:212).

(presumed) Mother: Alice.

Saul (p. 2) gives Alice as Simon’s wife. Alice is mentioned in documents from a few decades later (CIPM vol. 11, Edward III, no. 59 , p. 43; CIPM vol. 12, Edward III, no. 335, p. 328)

Spouse: Pauline.

This relationship is given by Saul (p. 2).

Children:

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

William de Etchingham married Katherine.

Evidence

The inquisition post mortem of Simon’s brother William (CIPM vol. 1, Henry III. no. 287):

287. William Echingham alias de Echingham.

Mandate &c. with transcript of writ, 25 March, 37 Henr. III. Inq. (undated.)

Simon, his brother, aged 35, is his heir in Sussex.

Somerset. Chizelberge, a moiety of the manor held of the inheritance of Margery his wife of the king in chief by barony, Ralph de la Haye holding the other moiety by reason of his wife.

Sussex. Extent (undated). Echingham and Oedymere manors (extents given) held of the barony of Hastynges of Sir Edward the king’s son by service of 7 knights’ fees, and 4l. 4s. one year and 63s. the second year for guard.

Hastinges, land held of the abbot of Fescamp by 10s. yearly.

Oedymere, part of the garden held of the son of Robert de Brede by 17d. yearly.

2a. held of Osbert de Horemere by 12d. yearly; and land held of Richard des Ores by 1lb. pepper.

Oedymere, 5½a. and 1 rood acquired of the fee of the said abbot, held of certain of the abbot’s tenants by 1½d. yearly.

5a. acquired of the fee of Echingham; certain land held by 1lb. pepper; and 60a. held of Herbert Burgers by 1lb. pepper.

From the Feet of Fines:

36-40 Hen. III (1252-1257)

581. Inter Willm. Payforere quer' et Sim. de Echingham deforc':— De quinque marcatis viginti et una denar' et una quadrantata redditus et quinquaginta acris marisci in Odimere; unde placitum convencionis sum' fuit inter eos:—Simo recognovit &c., et preterea concessit quod viginti quatuor solid' et tres denar' redditus scil' quicquid Marg. que fuit uxor Willi. de Echingham tenuit in dotem de hereditate Sim. in marisco de Pudele et que ad Sim. post decessum Marg. debuerunt reverti post decessum Marg. remaneant Willo. et hbs. suis tenenda simul cum predictis tenementis de Sim. reddendo quadraginta den' ad duos terminos scil' med' ad Nativ' Sci. Johis. Bapte. et alteram med' ad festum Sci. Michis. pro omni servicio:—Pro hoc fine Wills. dedit Sim. unum sparvarium sorum. Et hec concordia facta fuit presente Marg. et concedente se nichil clamare in predicto redditu nisi nomine dotis. [40° Henry III. Cycestr' A die Sci. Martini in xv dies. (File 19. No. 12).]

More (p. 299) states that Simon was summoned as a knight in the Rape of Hastings to defend the coast in 1296, and that he is mentioned as sometime holding seven knight’s fees.

References

An abstract of Feet of Fines relating to the county of Sussex, from 2 Richard I to 33 Henry III. Compiled by L.F. Salzmann. (Sussex Record Society, volume 2; Lewes, 1903).

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 9, the Rape and Honour of Hastings, (Victoria County Histories, 1937).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office: Volume I. Henry III. (His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1904).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office: Volume XI. Edward III. (His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1935).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office: Volume XII. Edward III. (His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1938).

More, Charles. Knights of Edward I: Volume I. A to E. (Harleian Society Volume LXXX, 1929). information on the Echinghams is on pages 299-300.

“Parishes: Padbury” in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4, ed. William Page (Victoria County History, 1927).

Saul, Nigel. Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex, 1280-1400. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986).