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Robert (Sir) Peverel, of Castle Ashby

Male 1300 - 1326  (26 years)


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  • Name Robert (Sir) Peverel 
    Suffix of Castle Ashby 
    Born 1300  Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire. or 1280 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    1 Source See Stirnet Genealogy at http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ee/ezmisc01.htm See also The Complete Peerage by G E Cokayne under "Engaine" Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died May 1326  Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, May 28, 1318 Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I047766  Ancestorium

    Father Richard Peverell, of Sandford,   b. 1250, Sanford, Devonshire Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1341, Sandford, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years) 
    Mother Jane Elyon,   b. Abt 1255,   d. UNKNOWN 
    Family ID F02442  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alice de Lisle,   b. 1306, Campton, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. UNKNOWN 
    Married 1323 
    Children 
    +1. Joan Peverell,   b. 1324,   d. Aft 19 Mar 1358  (Age > 34 years)
    +2. Edmund Peverell, of Castle Ashby, Northamptonsh,   b. Abt 29 Sep 1306, of, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Mar 1331, or bef 1349 Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 24 years)
    Family ID F29213  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • For more information on Peverels see under William "The Older" (Nottingham) Peverel in this file.

      http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp230-236
      Langton afterwards settled it upon Robert Peverel and his wife Alice with remainder to their son Edmund. (fn. 22) In 1325 the two fees in Ashby were held by Robert's widow Alice. (fn. 23) She married Thomas de Verdon with whom, in 1329, she claimed to have view of frankpledge and free warren in the manor, (fn. 24) and he was said to hold half a fee in Ashby and Grendon in 1346. (fn. 25) Alice de Verdon and her grandson John, son and heir of Edmund Peverel, both died in 1349, probably from the Black Death. The manor then included 160 acres in demesne, but was not worth more than 40s. for want of servants because of the pestilence, only six out of twenty-four bondmen surviving. (fn. 26) John son of Edmund Peverel, when 21, had demised all his lands in the county to John de Lyle of Rougemont, (fn. 27) from whom the manor passed into the possession of William de la Pole, the husband of Margaret sister and heir of John Peverel, (fn. 28) and he, in 1358, settled it on himself and his wife in tail male. (fn. 29) He was succeeded in 1366 (fn. 30) by his son Sir John de la Pole of Chrishall, Essex, who married Joan daughter of John Lord Cobham. (fn. 31)