William de Mobberley

Sheriff of Cheshire in 1319.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1327.

Place of Death: unknown.

This date is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:416).

Relationships

Father: William de Mobberley.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:416).

Mother: unknown.

(possible) Spouse: unknown.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:417).

Spouse: Maud Downes.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:416).

Children (possibly by his first wife):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Leycester (Ormerod 1:416).)

Sir Ralph de Mobberley.

Cicely married John Domville.

Children (by Maud):

Elizabeth married Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton.

Margery married Richard Bold of Bold in Lancashire.

Emme married Robert Grosvenor.

Mary married Nicholas Leycester.

Joan married William Atherton.

Ellen married Richard Bromhale.

Agnes.

Evidence

from ACOCC [p. 90]:

Issues of the Lord’s Demesnes 1320

Of William de Modburlegh, sheriff of Cheshire, holding the office of sheriff at farm for 200l. by the year, for the term of St. John the Baptist… 100l.

[p. 101]:

Receipts 1326-27.

For a certain fine of 50l. which Hugh de Venables, son and heir of Sir Hugh de Venables, made in the exchequer of Chester for William de Modburle for a certain fine of 240l. made by the said Hugh, son of Hugh, until the full age of the said Hugh, he does not answer this year, because the said fine of 50l. was atterminated by this King’s writ of privy seal at the exchequer of Chester dated the …. day of Feb. in the first year of his reigh, paying within three weeks next after the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Mary then next following, 20l. ; at the feast of St. John the Baptist, 20l. ; and at the feast of St. Martin next following, 10l. ; which term has not yet happened.

[p. 105]:

Receipts 1326-27.

Received of Hugh de Venables, son and heir of Hugh de Venables, of a fine of 50l. made by the said Hugh for William de Modburle, of a certain fine of 240l. made by the said William for having the lands and tenements of the said Hugh till the lawful age of the said Hugh…. 20l.

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).

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).