Sir Henry Mortimer, of Chelmarsh & Quat

Henry de Mortimer died 7 Jul 1361. He was the son of Hugh de Mortimer of Chelmarsh and Margaret.

family

He married

1. an unknown woman
2. Elizabeth ap Rhys, who survived and married 2nd to Adam de Peshall as his 2nd wife

Children of Henry de Mortimer and his first wife

• William de Mortimer died 7 Dec 1391. dsp

Children of Henry de Mortimer and his second wife

• Hugh de Mortimer died 21 Jul 1403 dsp. Married Petronilla

notes

From page 184 of Antiquities of Shropshire, Volume 3 By Robert William Eyton

However Quat was one of those estates which, after the death of Hugh de Mortimer, were seized into the King's hands by reason of the idiocy of William de Mortimer, Hugh's Grandson and heir. Consequently, on William's death in 1391, his estates so seized were found to have been Chelmarsh and its member of Sutton (held of the Earl of March), Quatte (held of the King), and a meadow (held of Hugh de Dudmaston). Moreover the Manor of Lye-Hall (held of Hugh de Dudmaston), the Manor of Aston juxta Caus (held of John Mouthe), certain rents in Hempton and Sutton, members of Chelmarsh, were part of William de Mortimer's
inheritance, which had not been seized into the King's hands so early, hut only on the death of Elizabeth, widow of Henry, William's Father, which Elizabeth had enjoyed them for life by grant of Hugh, her deceased husband's Father.39
These details furnished a part of that Pedigree of Mortimer which I have already given.'40 How the family became possessed of Lye Hall, I cannot say. Certainly it was no portion of the estate of Richard de Welles.
Again, on the death of Sir Hugh de Mortimer, who was killed at the battle of Shrewsbury (July 21,1403), he was found to have held Quatte in capite at the time of his death, but Chelmarsh, Lyehall, and other estates he had conveyed to Trustees during his life.41
Again, John de Cressi Senior, Cousin and heir of Hugh de Mortimer, dying in 1407-8 (as I now find) was possessed of twothirds of Quat;42 and Petronilla, widow of Hugh de Mortimer, dying in 1423, was seized of the remaining third.43 The heir to all three portions was at that period John de Cressy Junior, whose elder brother Thomas had died in infancy.
With him I may quit a subject which has already tempted me far beyond my usual limits.

supporting data

From page 62 of Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 2

It is probable that Matilda or Maude, the other coheir of Thomas le Champion, had died without leaving issue before the execution of this deed, and that by it all Thomas le Champion's interest in the lands belonging to the Fouleshtirst share passed to Adam de Peshale and his second wife Elizabeth (ap Rees).
Elizabeth, Sir Adam de Peshale's second wife, died before 1388, when we find him marrying his third wife Joyce, the daughter and coheir of Sir John de Bottetort and widow of Sir Baldwyn Frevill.* Elizabeth de Peshale's previous death is mentioned in the Inquisition taken on the death of William Mortimer, her first husband's son and heir, in 1391,3 but the exact date of her death is uncertain. It seems probable however that she died about the year 1384, when Adamde Peshale ceased to have the management of the Chelmarsh estates, which had belonged to her first husband Sir Henry de Mortimer and had been taken into the King's hands on account of the imbecility of his son William le Mortimer, and the custody of which had been granted by the King to Adam de Peshale in 1372.* It appears from the Inquisition taken on the death of Sir Adam de Peshale that there was issue born of his shortly after the death of his first wife Elizabeth de Weston, who is stated in the monument in Weston Church to have died in 1366: before the deed of 1377 nest stnted he had married another wife Elizabeth ap Rees, whose son by a former marriage is placed next in remainder in default of issue of Adam and his wife.
Hugh Mortimer, Elizabeth's son by her first marriage, was killed at the battle of Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403, and left no issue, his first cousin once removed, John Cressy, being his next heir.2 How his interest in the lands at Weston under the limitations of the deed of 1377 became vested in the descendants of Adam de Peshale does not appear, but the latter probably bought up his step-son's interest.

• 1 Harl. MS. 5816, fo. 23b.; Add. MS. 18667, fo. 79 (from original at Weston).
• 5 Add. MS. 18667, fo. 83 (given post, pp. 89, 90).
• 3 Inq. 15 Ric. II, No. 46. As William le Mortimer was over 26 years old at the death of his grandfather Sir Hugh Mortimer in 1372, and Elizabeth ap Rees is described as only " 30 and more" at the death of her father in 1369 (Inq. 46 Ed. III, No. 41, and Inq. 43 Ed. III, 1st part, No. 4), it is presumable that he was not her own son. Her own son Hugh Mortimer is described as 24 years old and more at the death of his brother William in 1391.
• 4 Eyton's "Ant. Shrop.," Vol. II, p. 47, x.; Orig. Roll, 46 Ed. IIl, m. 10.

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From page 47 of Antiquities of Shropshire, Volume 3 By Robert William Eyton

The male line of Mortimer of Chelmarsh expired with William and Hugh, Grandsons of this Sir Hugh, one of whom was imbecile, while the other (Hugh) fell at the Battle of Shrewsbury on July 21, 1403.

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