William de Hardreshull

William accompanied Eustace de Hache to Gascony in 1294, and he was summoned for military service against the Scots in 1301 (Complete Peerage 6:390).

Events

Date of Birth: 1269 (or 1271).

A proof of age (abstract given below) gives an implied birth date of 1269. However,William’s age was given as 5 at his father’s inquisition post mortem in 1276.

Place of Birth: Scotton, Lincolnshire, England.

The place is given in the proof of age (abstract given below).

Date of Death: 1303.

The date is given by the Victoria County History of Warwick (Volume 4, sub Hartshill). The Complete Peerage (6:390) notes that he died before 10 November, 1303.

Place of Burial: Saleby, Lincolnshire, England (in the chancel of the church).

The place is given by the Complete Peerage (6:390).

Relationships

Father: John de Hardreshull (died 1276).

Mother: Joan de Neville.

These relationships are given by the Complete Peerage (6:389).

Spouse: Juliane de Hacche.

This relationship is given by the Victoria County History of Warwick (Volume 4, sub Hartshill) and the Complete Peerage (6:305).

Children:

Sir John de Hardreshull (1291 - about 1368) married (1) Maud; married (2) Margaret Stafford.

Evidence

An abstract of a proof of age for William (19 Edward I, no. 818)

William son and heir of John de Hardredeshill alias Hardredeshull

Writ to the escheator, to take the proof of age of the said William, who was born in the county of Lincoln, as he says, and seeks his lands &c. which are in the wardship of John de Monte Alto, 24 Oct. 19 Edw. I.

Return (from the escheator) that he had warned John de Monte Alto to be present, who came not, but a letter patent from him was shown, that he had restored the lands &c. to the said William, and quit claimed.

Lincoln. Proof of age, Monday before St. Edmund the King and Martyr, 19 Edw. I.

Thomas de Nevill, knight, says the said William was born at Scotton in co. Lincoln, and was 22 at Palm Sunday, 19 Edw. I, which he knows because he was in the service of Sir Philip de Nevill when the said John married Joan the said Philip’s daughter and mother of the said William, and when the said William was born, and 18 years ago the said Philip died at Easter, 1 Edw. I, and then the said William was 4 years of age.

John de Bosco, knight, agrees, and knows it because the commonalty of the country (communitas patrie) say he is 22.

John Knicht of Nettelham says the same, and knows it because Robert de Scotton, chaplain, who lifted the said William from the sacred font, swore it to him in the word of God (in verbo dei).

Ralph de Stures of Faldingworth, Henry son of Simon de Wadingham, Alan le Clerk of the same, and John Oliver of Hibaldestowe agree with John Knicht.

William Kissing of Hibaldestowe agrees, for he was at the burial of Sir Philip de Nevill, grandfather of the said William, where he saw the said William and saw well that he was 4 years of age; in the same year he was impleaded at Lincoln by Ralph Northyby his neighbour.

Simon le Taillur of Appelby agrees, and knows it because Sir John father of the said William about Whitsunday, 2 Edw. I, when the sickness of which he died had hold of him, passed by his house in Appelby, when they spoke of his heir, and then it was said that he had a son and heir named William, who was 5 years of age at Palm Sunday then last past.

Walter le Cru of Crosseby agrees with John Knicht, and knows it by the relation of the country.

Richard del Hill of Scotthorn and Robert Beneyt of Wadingham, agree with John Knicht.

C. Edw. I. File 60. (4.)

From the Calendar of Charter Rolls (2:427)

1292.

Dec. 28. Newcastle upon Tyne. 30

Grant to William de Hardreshull, king’s yeoman, and his heirs, of free warren in all his demesne lands in Hardreshull, co. Warwick, Saleby, Culewold, and Keleseye, co. Lincoln, and Pulteneye, co. Leicester.

A similar grant was made in 1296 (CCR 2:464).

An abstract of William’s inquisition post mortem (31 Edward I, no. 176).

William de Hardredeshull alias Hardscill, de Hardescill, de Hardrezhille, de Hardeshull.

Writ, 10 Nov. 31 Edw. I.

Lincoln. Inq. Wednesday after St. Nicholas, 32 Edw. I.

Cokewold. A manor (extent given) held of the king in chief by serjeanty and by service of finding a footman with a pike (cum una hach’ ad pyk) with the king in war in Wales for forty days at his own charges, and by service of 5s. to be paid to John Dalison.

John his son, aged 12 and more, is his next heir.

Lincoln. Inq. Wednesday after St. Andrew, 32 Edw. I.

Saleby. The manor (extent given), including a moiety of the tolls of Alford, held jointly with Juliana his wife, by the gift &c. of Eustace de Hacche to them and the heirs of their bodies by a fine made in the king’s court, of the heir of Walter Pedewardin by service of a kinght’s fee; a bovate of land aforesaid (sic), save a sixth part, held by the said William and Juliana of William de Strubbi by service of 20d. yearly; and they rendered 10s. yearly to the prior of Sixil for a certain tenement aforesaid (sic) in Strubbi.

Heir as above.

Lincoln. Inq. taken at Roulle on Wednesday before St. Lucy, 32 Edw. I. (defaced).

Kellesey. The manor (extent given) held jointly as abovesaid by similar fine, of the mother church of Lincoln by service of 20s. yearly.

South Kell(esey) and North Kell(esey). Two bovates of land pertaining to the manor aforesaid similarly held by the service aforesaid, and paying besides 16d. yearly to the bailiffs of the king’s soke of Thwangcastre.

Heir as above.

Warwick. Inq. 2 Jan. 32 Edw. I

Hardeshull. The manor (full extent given with names of tenants), including a mill called Panckemilne, held of Ralph of Sapecote by service of a knight’s fee.

Heir as above, aged 10 at the feast of St. Michael, 31 Edward. I.

Extent or summary of the lands &c. taken into the king’s hand, viz. the abovesaid manors of Cokewolde and Hardredeshull, divided into a third part and two parts.

C. Edw. I. File 110. (13.)

References

Calendar of the Charter Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 2, Henry III-Edward I, A.D. 1257-1300 (London, H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume II, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1906).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume IV, Edward I (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1913).

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) Volume 6.

“Parishes: Hartshill” in Salzman, L.F. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4: Hemlingford (Victoria County History, 1947).