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About Sir Giles de Erdington, Lord of Shawbury
- 'Sir Giles de Erdington, Lord Shawbury1
- 'M, d. after 10 June 1359
- Father Sir Henry de Erdington b. c 1274, d. a 1342
- Mother Joan Wolvey
- ' Sir Giles de Erdington, Lord Shawbury was born at Warwick, Shawbury, Salop, Corfe Mullen, Dorsetshire. He married Elizabeth Tolthorpe, daughter of William de Tolthorpe and Alice de Normanville. Sir Giles de Erdington, Lord Shawbury died after 10 June 1359.
- 'Family Elizabeth Tolthorpe d. 26 May 1375
- Children
- Sir Thomas de Erdington+2 b. c 1347, d. 28 Mar 1395
- Margaret de Erdington+ b. c 1353, d. 14 Nov 1395
- Citations
- 1.[S2813] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 86/7; Burke's Dormant and Extinct Baronetcies, p. 132.
- 2.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 87.
- From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p367.htm#i...
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- At some date between 1135 and 1166 Gervase Paynel granted a knight's fee to Henry de Erdington, (fn. 82) who was succeeded by William. (fn. 83) The vill of Erdington was before 1218 divided between three coheirs, Thomas de Erdington, Roger de Erdington and Walter Maunsel. (fn. 84) This division is echoed in 1323, when among the fees of John de Somery was one fee in Erdington held by Henry de Erdington, Roger Hillary and Richard de Pype. (fn. 85) Each of the three divisions was later described as a manor.
- Thomas de Erdington died in 1218 (fn. 86) when his widow Rose (previously wife of Adam) (fn. 87) de Cokefield was given seisin of the manors of Erdington and Aston until dower was assigned to her. (fn. 88) His elder son Peter having died on crusade, (fn. 89) his heir was his younger son Giles, then under age. Giles was a king's clerk, constantly employed as a justice of assize from 1245 onwards; (fn. 90) he was Dean of Wolverhampton from about 1248 (fn. 91) until his death late in 1268, (fn. 92) when he was succeeded in his estates by his nephew (fn. 93) Henry de Erdington. Henry married Maud, daughter and coheir of Roger de Somery, (fn. 94) and died in 1282, leaving a son Giles, then aged ten. (fn. 95) Giles died young and his brother Henry succeeded, receiving his father's lands in 1295 and those of his mother on her death in 1302. (fn. 96) He was knighted in 1306 and by summons to the Parliament of 1335–6 is held to have become Lord Erdington. (fn. 97) In 1297 he settled the manor of Erdington on himself and his wife Joan with remainder to 'their son Giles. (fn. 98) Sir Giles was living in 1359 (fn. 99) and his widow Elizabeth died in 1375,when the manor, which she had held for life, went to her eldest surviving son', Sir Thomas. (fn. 1) He died in 1395, having previously settled the manor on his son Thomas and his wife Anne, daughter of Thomas de Harcourt, (fn. 2) and his widow Margaret retained ? of the manor until her death in 1405. (fn. 3) The younger Sir Thomas died seised of the manor in 1434, (fn. 4) leaving a widow (his second wife) Sybil, who died a year later. (fn. 5) The next Sir Thomas, son of the last by his first wife, married Joyce, daughter and coheir of Sir Edward Burnell and died without issue in 1467, his heirs being unknown. (fn. 6)
- From: 'Manors', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7: The City of Birmingham (1964), pp. 58-72. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22962 Date accessed: 26 November 2012.
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- 'The Victoria history of the county of Rutland (1908) Vol. 2
- http://www20.us.archive.org/details/victoriahistory02page
- http://www20.us.archive.org/stream/victoriahistory02page#page/238/m...
- Pg. 238
- William de Tolethorpe married Alice, daughter of Ralph de Normanville of Empingham, and was holding in 1303 and 1305.45 He had two daughters, Maud, wife of Nicholas de Burton of Stamford, and 'Elizabeth, wife of Giles de Erdington', and settled the manor of Tolethorpe before 1316 on Nicholas and Maud,46 ....
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Sir Giles de Erdington, Lord of Shawbury's Timeline
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1301
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Shawbury, Dorsetshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1330 |
1330
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Shawbury, Shropshire, England
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| 1353 |
1353
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Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1359 |
June 30, 1359
Age 58
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Birmingham, Warwickshire, England (United Kingdom)
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