Chief Justice Fulke de Orreby

Primary Sources

CP 25/1/136/85, number 56.
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County: Lincolnshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Holy Trinity, 10 Edward II [12 June 1317].
Parties: John, son of Fulk de Orreby, and Joan, his wife, querents, by Walter de Waynflet, put in the place of Joan by the lord king's writ, and John, son of Peter de Burton', deforciant.
Property: The manor of Dalby.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: John, son of Fulk, has acknowledged the manor to be the right of John, son of Peter, as that which the same John has of the gift of John, son of Fulk.
For this: John, son of Peter, has granted to John, son of Fulk, and Joan the manor and has rendered it to them in the court, to hold to John, son of Fulk, and Joan and the heirs of their bodies, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to Philip, son of the same John, son of Fulk, and the heirs of his body and (2) to the right heirs of John, son of Fulk.
Source: Abstracts of Feet of Fines

1259 on the feast of S. Michael [September 29], Roger de Montalt resigned the office of justiciary of Chester. Fulke de Orreby succeeded him.

1261 On the eve of S. Bartholomew the Apostle [August 23] Fulke de Orreby, justiciary of Chester, died. Thomas de Orreby, a blood relation of the said lord Fulke, succeeded him.

Source: 'The chronicle: 1235-61', in Annales Cestrienses Chronicle of the Abbey of S. Werburg, At Chester, ed. Richard Copley Christie (London, 1887), pp. 60-79. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lancs-ches-record-soc/vol14/pp60-79 [accessed 22 September 2017].

1. Fulk de ORREBY , Sir was born BEF 1230 in Hatherton, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, and died after 23 AUG 1261. He was the son of 2. Philip de ORREBY , Justiciar of Chester, Sir and 3. Alice de BAUMVILLE.

family

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He married

1. Philippe STRANGE , Heiress of Dalby in 1st wife, daughter of John STRANGE , of Dalby. She was born 1238 in Dalby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England, and died BEF 1261.
2. Sibyl BEF 1261 in 2nd wife. She was born ABT 1240 in England.

Children of first wife

1. Sir John de Orreby, knight banneret, b say 1258
2. Alice de ORREBY b: 1260 in Hatherton, Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Married Peter CORBET , of Leighton

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biography

Note: FULK DE ORREBY, son of Sir Philip the Justiciar by his 2nd wife, must have succeeded to his father's estates, because his widowed mother had dower by his assignment. He was a knight by 1238. He held sundry offices in the Palatinate-eg., in 1249 he was keeper of Chester Abbey during a vacancy, and in 1251 keeper of the Forest and escheatori in Cheshire. At Michaelmas 1259 he was appointed justiciar, and retained office till his death, 23 August 1261. He is said to have married Philippe, daughter and heir of John STRANGE of Dalby, and to have acquired with her Dalby and other lands in Lincs. His widow was named Sibyl. [Complete Peerage X:170]