Edmund Bacon

His IPMs give two different death dates - 3 April, 10 Edward III [1336] and 6 March, 11 Edward III [1337].

Note: Inquisition post mortems (IPMs) were held when people of some status were thought or known to have held lands of the crown. They give details of what lands were held (a separate one was held for each county involved), and by what tenure, and from whom, as well as the date of death, and the name and age of the heir.

• Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
• M, #16579, d. 6 March 1336
• Father Sir Robert Bacon6,8
• Mother (Miss) d' Hingham6,8
• Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle was born at of Ewelme, Norfolk, England. He married Joan de Beaumont, daughter of Richard de Beaumont, circa 15 May 1311; They had 1 daughter (Margaret, wife of Sir William de Kerdeston, 2nd Lord Kerdeston).2,6,11,8 Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle married Elizabeth la Warre, daughter of Sir John de la Warr, 2nd Baron la Warre and Joan de Gresley, after 1316; No issue.2,3,6,7,8 Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle married Margery Poynings, daughter of Sir Michael de Poynings and Margery Bardolf, between 1323 and 1326; They had 1 daughter (Margery, wife of Sir William de Moleyns).2,6,8,10 Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle died on 6 March 1336 at of Oulton, Suffolk, England; Also had property in Ewelme, Oxfordshire & Hatfield Peverel, Essex.2,6,8
• Family 1 Joan de Beaumont d. a 1316
• Child
  • Margaret Bacon+11 d. 1328
• Family 2 Elizabeth la Warre
• Family 3 Margery Poynings d. 20 Mar 1349
• Child
  • Margery Bacoun+12,4,5,8,9 b. c 1336, d. 1 Jun 1399
• Citations
• [S4796] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VII, p. 192/3.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 388-389.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 580.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 152.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 181.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 59-60.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 459.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 105-106.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 154-155.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 420.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 70.
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 503-504.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p552.htm#i... ____________
• Margery De POYNINGS
• Born: ABT 1298
• Died: AFT 30 Mar 1347
• Father: Michael De POYNINGS (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Margery De AGUILLON
• Married 1: Edmund BACON (Sir)
• Children:
  • 1. Margery BACON
• Married 2: John De DALTON (Sir Knight)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/POYNINGS.htm#Margery De POYNINGS1 _______________
• Margery Poynings
• (c.1310-1349)
• 'Lady De La Beche of Aldworth'
• Born: circa 1310
• Died: 1349
• Margery was the daughter of Michael, Lord De Poynings. She was first married to Edmund Bacon, of Essex, who was descended from Sir John Bacon of Ewelme (Oxfordshire). She held the Manor of Hatfield Peverall, which Edward II had granted to Edmund Bacon in fee in 1310, for the term of her life, 'partly of the King and partly of the Earl of Hereford by homage, and the third part of a knight's fee and two pairs of gilt spurs of twelve pence price.' And she also held Cressing Hall or Cressinges, Essex.
• By her first husband, Margery had one daughter, Margery Bacon, born 1337, who married, in 1352, William De Molynes, son of Sir John De Molynes, and she had also a step-daughter Margaret Bacon - daughter of Edmund Bacon, by his first wife Joan De Braose - who married William, 2nd Baron Kerdeston, of Norfolk.
• As her second husband, Margery married Nicholas, Lord De La Beche of Aldworth (Berkshire) in 1339. They had no children and Nicholas died in 1345. To Margery, he left his castle of Beaumys, in Swallowfield, amongst other lands. Margery must have been still quite young and she was still a great heiress. Consequently, she was exposed to the designs of many suitors and, the following year, we find her mentioned as the wife of both Thomas D'Arderne and Gerard De L'Isle. And again, that same year, Lady Margery De La Beche was carried off and forcibly married to Sir John De Dalton. Very possibly the black death, which was raging this year, may have cut off Thomas D'Arderne and Gerard de L'Isle within a few months of each other.
• John De Dalton was son of Robert De Dalton, a large landowner in Lancashire. Accompanied by many lawless friends, amongst whom were Henry De Tildersley, Hugh Fazakerley, Sir Thomas Dutton, Sir Edmund De Mauncestre and William Trussell (the latter had the Manor of Wokefield, Berkshire, so that he was a near neighbour of Beaumys), on Good Friday, 7th April 1347, before dawn, John De Dalton and his companions broke into the Castle of Beaumys and carried off Margery, Lady De La Beche, and many other prisoners. They killed Michael Poynings, uncle to Lady Margery, as also Thomas the Clerk of Shipton, and frightened Roger Hunt, the domestic chaplain, to death. Goods and chattels were also stolen to the value of £1,000. In consequence of this assault, a writ was directed to the Sheriff of Lancashire to arrest John De Dalton and all his accomplices and commit them to the Tower of London. On the same day, John D'Arcy, Keeper of the Tower, was commanded to receive Sir John De Dalton, his companions and Robert, his father. A precept was also issued to the Sheriffs of Berkshire and other counties to seize, into the King's hands, all the lands, goods and chattels of the said Margery. Thomas De Litherland, the Prior of Buscogh, Tildersleigh and Dutton, were tried and convicted at the summer assizes for Wiltshire, holden before William De Thorpe, Chief Justice of England, and others, but were pardoned on 28th November following.
• At the same time, we read, in 1347, of John, 3rd Baron De St. John, upon the death of his mother, 'being so infirm that he could not come to the King to do his homage, had respite thereof and livery of those she held in dower.' He died on 8th April 1349, leaving, by his wife Katherine, daughter of Geoffrey De Say, who succeeded him and who was then twenty years of age. In a roll of 1348, we find an order for the sale of woods "pertaining to Margery who was wife of Nicholas De La Beche, ore la femme Johan, son of Robert De Dalton, by reason of the forfeiture of the said John for treasons and felonies." The said Lady Margery died this same year, 'seised of Swallowfield.'
• From: http://www.britannia.com/bios/ladies/mpoynings.html ______________
• Gresham is a village and civil parish in North Norfolk, England, five miles (8 km) south-west of Cromer.
• .... etc.
• Sir Edmund Bacon of Baconsthorpe held the manor.[4] After his death in 1336 or 1337, there was much fighting over his property, which included the manor of Gresham. A William Moleyns married Bacon's daughter Margery and tried unsuccessfully to deprive John Burghersh, the son of Bacon's other daughter and heiress Margaret, of his inheritance. A partition of Bacon's property was made between his heirs in the 35th year of King Edward III,[4] and when the division between Moleyns and Burghersh was complete, Gresham went to Margery, who died in 1399. She granted Gresham to Sir Philip Vache for nine years after her death, but in 1414 his widow still held it and Sir William Moleyns agreed to buy it from Margery's executors for 920 marks. He held it for two years, but did not complete the payment. The manor then fell into a complicated contract for the future marriage of Moleyns's daughter Katherine which did not take place, and Thomas Chaucer (c. 1367–1434), Speaker of the House of Commons, and the son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, acquired the manor of Gresham and sold it to William Paston. (Thomas Chaucer was married to a granddaughter of Maud Bacon, almost certainly another daughter of Edmund Bacon.[5]%29 However, Robert Hungerford, Lord Moleyns, then claimed it and seized it by force.[6][7]
• .... etc.
• Gresham Castle
• The remains of a fortified house called Gresham Castle are near the village, opposite the Chequers Pub. It is thought to have been similar to the neighbouring Baconsthorpe Castle, and both were moated.[28]
• The castle was built by Sir Edmund Bacon after 1319, but it stood on the site of an earlier castle. The Paston family acquired it in the 15th century, and later it was looted. Little of the castle remains above ground, and much of the site is overgrown. Bacon's castle was about forty metres square, with round towers at the four corners and a moat.[29] The moat survives, is twelve to fifteen feet wide, and still contains water. The central platform is about 2,378 square metres in area, while the round towers were about eleven metres in diameter.[30]
• .... etc.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham,_Norfolk _________________
• The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Volume 1, The First Phase By Colin Richmond
• https://books.google.com/books?id=okEq7Lj1sloC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=...
  • 118 John de Dalton 'raped' and married her: CIPM Edward III,X. p. 77. For this reference and for many more which follow I am indebted to Terry Simmons, 'Paston v. Moleyns: the Case of Gresham', unpublished BA dissertation, Keele University, 1980. For the Moleynses of the fourteenth century, see CP. IX, pp. 36ff.
  • 119 CIPM Edward III, X. pp. 77-8 (the government was obliged to make an example of him: pp. 262-7); CCR 1349-1354, p. 450; H.A. Napier, Historical Notices of the Prishes of Swyncombe and Ewelme (London, 1858), pp. 21-4. This seems to have been an 'inside job': royal officers making a raid on a royal ward. Margery Poynings was Sir Edmund Bacon's second wife and the mother of Margery who married William Moleyns (CIPM Edward III, XI, pp. 11, 13); for the escheator Michael Poynings' marriage to William Moleyns' elder brother John's widow, see CCR 1369-74, pp. 47, 60, 175. .... etc. _________________
• 'Poynings1'
• .... etc.
• (i) Sir Michael de Poynings (probably d Bannockburn 24.06.1314)
• m. (before 08.06.1298) Margery (a 02.1333, possibly a Bardolf)
  • (a) .... etc.
  • (c) Margery de Poynings (b c1310, d 1349) probably of this generation
  • www.berkshire.history.com contains an article on Margery reporting her marriages as follows ...
  • m1. Sir Edmund Bacon of Ewelme
  • m2. (1339, sp) Nicholas, Lord De La Beche of Aldworth (d 1345)
  • m3. (1346) Thomas D'Arderne (d 1346?)
  • m4. (1347) John de Dalton (son of Robert)
• (ii) .... etc.
• Main source(s): TCP (Poynings - various), BE1883 (Poynings - various)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/pp/poynings1.php _______________