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Sir John de Orreby, K.B.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hatherton, Cheshire , England
Death: March 1329 (66-75)
Dalby, Lincolnshire, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Chief Justice Fulke de Orreby and Philippe Strange, Heiress of Dalby
Husband of Isabel de Tattershall and Joan de Fourneaux
Father of Philip de Orreby, knight
Brother of Alice Corbet

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About Sir John de Orreby, K.B.

Primary Sources

Feb. 12. 1309 Langley.
John de Orreby, who [married] Isabella, kinswoman and co-heiress of Robert de Tateshale, which Robert died under age in the king's wardship, puts in his place Richard de Ayremynne, clerk, to seek and receive in chancery her reasonable purparty of the knights' fees, advowsons of churches and religious houses that belonged to the said Robert.

Source: 'Close Rolls, Edward II: February 1309', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1892), pp. 138-139. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/pp138-139 [accessed 22 September 2017].

March 15. 1310 Westminster.
To the justices of the Bench. Order not to put Thomas son of Adam de Cailli in default for not appearing in a suit before them by king's writ between Joan, late the wife of Robert de Tateshale, demandant, and John de Orreby and Isabella his wife, tenants, of 12l. of yearly rent in Dranefeld, Cestrefeld, Boythorp, Little Trapton, and Ashelunde, wherein the said Isabella was admitted to defend her right before them according to the form of the statute, and she vouched the aforesaid Thomas, Joan de Dryby, John son of Fulco de Orreby, and Isabella his wife to warranty against the said Joan, late the wife of the said Robert, as the said Thomas was in the king's service on Wednesday the morrow of St. Martin last, so that he could not appear. By K. on the information of W. de Melton.

Source: 'Close Rolls, Edward II: March 1310', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: Volume 1, 1307-1313, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1892), p. 216. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw2/vol1/p216c [accessed 22 September 2017].

CP 25/1/136/85, number 56.
Link: Image of document at AALT
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

55. JOHN SON OF FULK DE ORREBY.
Writ of plenius certiorari, on the complaint of Joan late the wife of the said John, that the escheator had taken into the king’s hand the manor of Dalby of which she was enfeoffed jointly with her said husband, 14 April, 3 Edward III. LINCOLN. Inq. Friday after the Invention of Holy Cross, 3 Edward III.
Dalby. The said Joan was jointly enfeoffed with the said John of the manor, by fine levied in the king’s court, in 10 Edward II, of the gift of John son of Peter de Burtone, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies of the earl of Lancaster as of the fee of earl of Ferrers, by service of a third part of a knight’s fee, and she continued her seisin for some time after the said John’s death, until the said manor was taken into the king’s hand by the sub-escheator ex officio as he said.
C. Edw. III. File 20. (2.)

Source: J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 20', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III (London, 1909), pp. 196-199. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol7/pp196-199 [accessed 22 September 2017].

May 25. 1329 Dover.
To Simon de Bereford, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle further with the manor of Dalby, and to restore any issues received thence to Joan, late the wife of John son of Fulk de Orreby, as the king learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Joan was enfeoffed thereof jointly with the said John by fine levied in the late king's court, in the 10th year of his reign, before William de Bereford and his fellows, justices of the Bench, of the gift of John son of Peter de Burton, to them and the heirs of their bodies, and that she continued her seisin thereof jointly with her husband from the time of the levying of the fine aforesaid until her husband's death, and after his death until Richard de Shefeld, sub-escheator in co. Lincoln, took the manor into the king's hand, by reason of the death of her husband, who held in chief, and that it is in the king's hands for this reason solely, and that it is held of the earl of Lancaster.

Source: 'Close Rolls, Edward III: May 1329', in Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: Volume 1, 1327-1330, ed. H C Maxwell Lyte (London, 1896), pp. 454-466. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol1/pp454-466 [accessed 22 September 2017].


John de Orreby

  • Birth: 1258 in Hatherton, Cheshire, England 1
  • Death: MAR 1329 in Dalby, Lincolnshire, England 1
  • Father: Fulke DE ORREBY b: 1227 in Elford, Staffordshire, England
  • Mother: NN LE STRANGE b: 1237 in Dalby, Lincolnshire, England

Marriage

  1. Isabel DE TATESHAL b: 1260 in Tattershall, Lincolnshire, England Married: 1279 1
  2. Joan DE FOURNEUX b: 1297 in Carlton in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, England Married: 1316 1

From "Manor of Stapeford Foulkes" in The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from ..., Volume 2 By George Ormerod

The issue of sir John Orreby, [knight bannereth] (son of Fulk), who was summoned to Parliament by Edw. II. [was John. whose daughter Joan, 33 Edw. III. had license of Edward, Prince of \Vales, at the request of the countess of Exeter, to sell timber, (with the advice and consent of her friends and relations, in aid of a covenant to be made by her touching her marriage), on the manor of Stapelford, then in the hands of the prince, by reason of the minority of the said Joan.



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Sir John de Orreby, K.B.'s Timeline

1258
1258
Hatherton, Cheshire , England
1329
March 1329
Age 71
Dalby, Lincolnshire, England
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