Thomas de Titley
The surname is spelled in a variety of ways, including Tyttele, Tittenley, and Titteleigh.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Joan de Gerponville (Jarpenville, Jarkenvill).
This relationship is recorded in an inquisition post mortem of Robert Burnell, the bishop of Bath and Wells and lord chancellor of England. Joan’s first name is also recorded in a fine and is in the plea rolls. See the Evidence section below.
Spouse: Andrea.
This relationship is recorded in a fine given below in the evidence section.
Children (by Joan):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Ellen de Titley married Sir John de Chetwynd.
Evidence
from an inquisition post mortem of Robert Burnell:
Lincoln. Inq. Thursday before St. Thomas the Apostle, 21 Edw. I. [1293]
Est Tyrington. Two parts of the manor, which was of Reginald de Jarkenvill (extent given, with services due from each bovate), including lands &c. at Herdewyk and Burgh by Beyne, held of Lady Isabel de Roos by service of 1/2 knight’s fee, by the enfeoffment of one Thomas de Tytteleye and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of the said Reginald.
Philip Burnel his nephew, aged 25 and more, is his next heir.
from the Feet of Fines (abstracted at Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy):
County: Lincolnshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 21 Edward I [7 June 1293].
Parties: Philip Burnel, querent, and Thomas de Tytteleye and Joan, his wife, impedients.
Property: The manor of EstTyrinton' and the advowson of the church of the same manor.
Action: Plea of warranty of charter.
Agreement: Thomas and Joan have acknowledged the manor and advowson to be the right of Philip.
For this: Philip has granted to Thomas and Joan the manor and advowson and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Thomas and Joan and the heirs begotten by Thomas on the body of Joan, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of Joan, quit of the other heirs of Thomas and Joan, to hold of the chief lords for ever.
County: Shropshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: One week from St John the Baptist, 1 Edward II [1 July 1308].
Parties: Thomas de Tytteleye, querent, and Hugh de Garmeston' and Eleanor, his wife, impedients.
Property: 2 messuages and 3 bovates of land in Shauynton' and Aderleye.
Action: Plea of warranty of charter.
Agreement: Hugh and Eleanor have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas, as those which he has of their gift, to hold to Thomas and his heirs, of the chief lords for ever.
Warranty: Warranty by Hugh and Eleanor for themselves and the heirs of Eleanor.
For this: Thomas has given them 10 pounds sterling.
County: Shropshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: The day after St John the Baptist, 6 Edward II [25 June 1313].
Parties: Thomas de Tytteleye and Andrea, his wife, querents, by William de Routon', put in the place of Andrea, and Robert de Hatton', chaplain, deforciant.
Property: The manors of Culsesel and Upton' Walteri and 2 messuages and 5 virgates of land in Shauynton' and Moreye.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Thomas has acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Robert, as those which Robert has of his gift.
For this: Robert has granted to Thomas and Andrea the tenements and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Thomas and Andrea and the heirs begotten by Thomas on the body of Andrea, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of Thomas.
from Feudal Aids:
Lincoln A.D. 1303
Feoda Willelmi de Ros.
De Thoma Tytteley tenente iiijtam partem in Tyryngton et Borgh, quam Reginaldus de Jerpinvill quondam tenuit.
from “Extracts from the Plea Rolls”
(p. 24)
6 R. II
Cestria. Richard de Pesale, chivaler, and Joan his wife, sued Nicholas de Tittelegh for two parts of the manor of Tittelegh, and they sued Richard de Clayford and Margery his wife for a third part of the same manor, which Philip Burnel had given to Thomas de Tittelegh and Joan his wife and to the heirs of their bodies in the reign of Edward I, and which should descend to them, and they gave this descent: --
Thomas de Tittelegh = Joan, temp. E.I.
I
Elena.
I
Reginald.
I
Joan = Richard de Peshale.
The defendants asked for a view and the suit was adjourned to the next Court. m. 17, dorso.
7 R. II.
Cestria. Richard de Pesale and Joan sued Nicholas de Tittlelegh and Richard de Clayford and Margery his wife for the manor of Tittelegh and repeated their plea as above. Nicholas de Tittelegh appeared in person and denied that Philip Burnel had granted the manor as stated by the plaintiff and appealed on this issue to a jury. Richard and Margery stated that one Thomas de Tittelegh was lately seized of the manor, and had taken the said Margery to wife and they had issue one Joan, and Thomas had died, and Joan had married one John de Mokleston, and they had endowed her out of the manor, and Thomas and Joan had both died, and that the reversion of the dower belonged to Nicholas de Tittelegh, the brother and heir of Thomas, without whom they could not answer to the writ, and she asked for the aid of the Court to enforce the attendance of the said Nicholas. A day was given to the parties at the next Court. m. 1.
References
Calendar[s] of Inquisitions Post Mortem. [Public Record Office. Digital versions available at British History Online.]
“Extracts from the Plea Rolls” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire (William Salt Archaeological Society,Volume XII, (1891).
Feudal Aids: A.D. 1284-1431 v. 3 (1900).
Transcripts of Charters relating to the Gilbertine Houses of Sixle, Ormsby, Catley, Bullington, and Alvingham. (Lincoln Record Society v. 18, 1920).