Peter Corbet, Baron of Caus

Primary Sources

Inquisitions Post Mortem for Peter Corbet of Caus. Writ 10 Aug. 28 Edw. I [1300]. His death date is not recorded. He died before 10 Aug. 1300 (date of writ). Peter his son, aged 30 and more (is his next heir).

March 14. 1315 Westminster.
Licence to Peter Corbet and Beatrice his wife that they may enfeoff Edmund, earl of Arundel, of the castle of Caus, and of two parts of the manors of Caus, Wentenore, Munsterlcye, Yokethulle, Shelve, Hope, Overe Gordor, Nethere Gordcr and Buughaltref, of two parts of 400 acres of wood and moor, and of a moiety of 10 acres of land, 200 acres of meadow and 50s. of rent in the manor of Worthyn, co. Salop, and of the advowsons of the churches of Wentenore, Shelve and Worthyn in the same county, all held in chief ; and also that they may grant to him and his heirs the rever- sion of the third part of the said manors of Caus, Wentenore, Munsterleye, Yokethulle, Shelve, Hope, Overe Gordor, Nether Goidor and Baughaltref, and the residue of the said manor of Worthyn, likewise held in chief, which Alice, late the wife of Peter Corbet, father of the said Peter Corbet, holds in dower of his inheritance, and also the reversion of the manor of Bynne- weston, co. Salop, held in chief, which Joan, late the wife of Henry de Bohun, holds for her life of his inheritance of the themise of his said father. Licence also for the earl of Arundel to regrant the same to the said Peter Corbet and Beatrice, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder, failing such issue, to the said earl and his heirs. By K.
Source: Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Edward II, A.D. 1307-1327. Page 266

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Piers (Peter) Corbet, son of Thomas Corbet and Isabel de Vautort. Married (1) Joan de Mortimer; Children: Thomas and Piers; (2) Alice ???; child: John.

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm

PIERS Corbet (-1300 before 13 Aug). He was summoned to parliament in 1295 whereby he is held to have become Lord Corbet. m firstly (-1253 or before) JOAN de Mortimer, daughter of ROGER de Mortimer & his wife Gwladus of Wales. m secondly ALICE, daughter of --- (-after 1315). Piers & his first wife had two children:

(a) THOMAS Corbet (-1295). m JOAN Plugenet, daughter of ALAN Plugenet & his wife ---.

(b) PIERS Corbet ([1269/70]-before 29 Jan 1322). m (before 17 Aug 1302) as her first husband, BEATRICE de Beauchamp, daughter of JOHN de Beauchamp of Hatch, Somerset & his wife Cecily de Vivonne (-before Oct 1347). She married secondly John de Leyburn Lord Leyburn.

Piers & his second wife had one child:

(c) JOHN Corbet (25 Mar 1298-before 1347).

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corbet_family

Feudal barons of Caus and their descendants
In the Domesday Book of 1086, Roger FitzCorbet and his brother Robert were listed as some of the most important tenants-in-chief of the king and also of the powerful Marcher Lord Roger, Earl of Shrewsbury[4][5] Roger is generally believed to have been the first feudal baron of Caus in Shropshire, which was a barony within the marcher lordship of Roger de Montgomerie (died 1094). He was succeeded after 1121 by his son Robert FitzCorbet (d. pre-1155). He was succeeded by Roger FitzCorbet, who himself was succeeded by Robert (died 1222), who left a son Thomas who died in 1274. There followed his son and heir Peter Corbet (died 1300) who left a son Peter Corbet (died 1322), who died childless. The barony then passed to his half-brother John. Although the family soon died out in the senior line, when the barony was lost, cadet branches spread out and thrived.

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From http://powys.org/pl_tree/ps19/ps19_258.html
Notes for Sir Piers Corbet Lord Corbet m. (1) Joan de Mortimer, (2) Alice le Wafre

His and Alice's son John was the last baron of Cause, and who was b. 25 Mar 1148 and d. bef 1347. John's heirs were his aunts Alice m. Robert de Stafford and Emma m. Sir Bryan de Brampton - see CP.

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“In terms of family strategy, it may even have been a deliberate policy to have kin in both camps. Even for staunchly Montfortian kin groups, the picture is not entirely black and white. Bishop Walter de Cantilupe, himself a significant figure in the rebel camp, was head of his family at the time due to a series of unfortunate deaths and minorities. Yet the Cantilupes seemed to have been somewhat divided during the war, with Sir Nicholas de Cantilupe of Greasley, brother of Bishop Thomas and nephew of Bishop Walter, being rather difficult to place on one side or another depending on the jury being asked about his rebellious actions. Similarly, while Peter Corbet was pardoned at his father’s insistence in 1266, there is little evidence to place him directly on the rebels’ side. After all, he had married Joan Mortimer, between whose family and Earl Simon de Montfort there was a bitter enmity, which culminated with Earl Simon allegedly falling in battle at the hand of Roger Mortimer, and chroniclers concurring that body parts were then ‘barbarously’ hacked from the earl’s corpse and sent to Lady Mortimer as gruesome trophies.[21] Nicholas, of course, seemed to have little choice in the matter of his own political leanings, given that the head of the Cantilupe family was the staunch Montfortian Bishop Walter of Worcester, a childhood friend of the rebel earl.[22].”

[21] John Sadler, The Second Barons’ War: Simon de Montfort and the Battles of Lewes and Evesham (Barnsley, 2008), 123.
[22] C. H. Lawrence, ‘Cantilupe, Walter de (c.1195-1266)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford Universtiy Press, 2004), online resource, http://www.oxfordnb.com/view/article/4571 .

Source
Melissa Julian-Jones, “Family Strategy or Personal Principles? The Corbets in the Reign of Henry III,” in Thirteenth Century England Authority and Resistance in the Age of Magna Carta: Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2013, ed. Janet Burton, Phillipp Schofield, and Björn Weiler, vol. XV (Boydell Press, 2015), p. 73.

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Plantagenet Ancentry

Richardson, D. and Everingham, K. ed., 2011. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families.

     2nd ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Douglas Richardson, pp.149-150, 562.

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