William de Hardreshull (died 1262)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: before 17 March 1261/2.

The date is of the writ for William’s inquisition post mortem.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Hardreshull.

This relationship is recorded in a fine from 1237/38.

Mother: unknown.

Uncle: Richard of Hartshill.

This relationship is recorded in a fine from 1237/38.

Spouse: Maud

The Close Rolls (Henry III, Volume 12; November 1263) give this relationship. It is also given by the Complete Peerage (6:389 fn h). Maud’s inquisition post mortem describes her as late the wife of William de Hardredishull (CIPM Volume 2 Edward I no. 807).

Children:

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

Robert de Hardreshull (1240 - 1265). Died at the battle of Evesham, fighting on the side of Simon de Montfort.

John de Hardreshull (died 1276) married Joan de Neville.

Evidence

from the Testa de Nevill (2:1020)

Cle. Willelmus de Hardredeshull’ tenet in Cle et in Utterby dimidium feodum militis de comitie Lincolnie, et comes de domino rege in capite.

[translation: William de Hardredeshull holds in Cle and in Utterby one half of a knight’s fee of the earl of Lincoln, and the earl of the king in capite.]

from the Victoria County History of Huntingdon (Volume 2, sub Great Paxton)

The other moiety of the manor of GREAT PAXTON was held before 1219, (fn. 38) by Alan, son of Hugh, who enfeoffed his nephew Robert, son of Robert, (fn. 39) before 1230. (fn. 40) Another Robert, son of Robert, had succeeded before 1261, when the manor was successfully claimed by William de Hardreshull, as a descendant of Alan. (fn. 41) William recovered all the lands and rights granted to the first Robert, with the exception of one messuage and two virgates of land, but paid 100s. in compensation. (fn. 42) He was succeeded by his son, Robert de Hardreshull, who was killed at the battle of Evesham.

from the Victoria County History of Warwickshire (Volume 4, sub Ansley)

...as early as 1246 complaint was made that William de Hartshill, lord of the manor, had made inclosures in Ansley to the injury of his tenants.

from the Calendar of Close Rolls (Henry III, Volume 12; November 1263)

Pro Galfrido de Scalariis.—Rex de fine xx. marcarum quem Galfridus de Scalariis, vallettus regis, fecit cum rege pro habendo maritagio Matillis, que fuit uxor Willelmi de Hardredishull dudum defuncti qui de rege tenuit in capite, remisit eidem Galfrido decem libras in subsidium sustentacionis sue et ad hernesium inde sibi emendum. Et mandatum est baronibus de scaccario quod ipsum de predictis decem libris quietum esse faciant. Teste ut supra.

An abstract of William’s inquisition post mortem (Volume I, Henry III, no. 526)

William de Hardredeshull alias de Hardricheshull

Writ, 17 March, 46 Hen. III.

Robert, his son, aged 22, is his heir.

[Lincoln.] Inq. (undated.)

Cukewald manor, held of the king in chief by service of finding one footman with an axe (hachia) in the army.

[Lincoln.] Inq. (undated.)

Suthkelleseye, 2 bovates land held of the king rendering 16d.

Northkelleseye manor (extent given), held of the chapter of Lincoln rendering 20s. yearly.

[Lincoln.] Inq. (undated.)

Salebi town in Lindres’, 1 knight’s fee (extent given), whereof 5 parts are of the fee of the heirs of Petronilla de Vaus, and the sixth part of the fee of the heirs of William de Wodetorp’, by knight’s service and 17s. yearly.

C. Hen. III. File 27. (1.)

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post-mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume I, Henry III (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1904).

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).

'Close Rolls, November 1263', Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry III: Volume 12: 1261-1264 (1936), pp. 312-324.

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.

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King's College London (accessed 14 March 2015).

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

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

'Parishes: Great Paxton', A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2 (Victoria County History, 1932), pp. 328-332.