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Edmund Bacon
- Preferred Name: Edmund Bacon[1] [2] [3]
- Alternate Name: Edmund Bacoun Sir
- Gender: M
- Birth: ABT 1289 in Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England at LATI: N2.8896 LONG: E0.1583 with note: Standardized
- FSID: LZPK-5YX
- Death: 25 MAR 1336 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.6 LONG: E1.125 with note: Standardized
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Knight
- NFS ID: with note: Description: LH3K-VVR
NFS
- Occupation: Constable of Wallingford Castle in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.6 LONG: E1.125
- Nat ID: with note: Description: JOYCE
Nat
- Title Nob: with note: Description: Sir Knight
Title
- PhysicalDescription: 19DYD34 with note: Description
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
On 27 June, 1303, Edmund Bacon, who was staying with John de Sancto Johanne in Scotland, had letters of respite of the aid in co Oxford.[1]
In 1311, the king ordered resumed into the king's hands all lands and rents, wardships and marriages granted after 13 March 1309, one of which was the manor of Hatfeld Peverel, which he had previously granted at Berwick on 28 November, to Edmund Bacun, which Alexander Quintyn held for his life, after Alexander's death.[2]
Edmund Bacon was married to Joan de Brewes.[3]
Edmund and Joan had a child:
Margery, who married William de Kerdeston,[3]
On 22 May 1325, from Bordeaux, Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, sent a request to Hugh le Despenser, jnr, for Edmund Bacon to have the marriage of John de Braose.[4]
Edmund married Margery Pounynges.[3]'
MARGERY DE POYNINGS, married (1st) EDMUND BACON, Knt., of Oulton, Suffolk, Hatfield Peverel, Essex, etc. [see MOLEYNS 13]; (2nd) NICHOLAS DE LA BECHE, Knt., of Beaumys (in Swallowfield), Berkshire [see MOLEYNS 13]; (3nd) JOHN DE DALTON, Knt. [see MOLEYNS 13].” She was the daughter of Joan de Poynings, by Thomas de Tregoz:
Edmund and Margery had children:
Margery, who was married to William de Molyns,[3]
Edmund Bakun was the keeper of Walyngford castle on 26 June 9 Edward II [1316].[5]
A writ from Pontefract, dated 12 February 16 Edward II [1323], was sent to Master John Walewayn clerk, escheator south of Trent regarding Hatfeld Peverel, and the resulting Inquisition taken at Hatfeld Peverel Essex, on Mid-Lent Sunday, found that Alexander Quintyn held the manor of Hatfeld Peverel for life, and that Edmund Bacoun was the only person with any right in the manor.[6]
On 3 March 1329, Edmund Bacon was owed 300 marks by Constantine de Mortuo Mari, John de Brewouse, and Wakelin de Hardeshill, which was to be levied in default of payment from their lands and chattels in cos Norfolk and Suffolk.[7]
Edmund Bacon died about the feast of the Annunciation in 10 Edward III which was 25 March 1336.[3]
At an Extent in Essex taken in 27 Edward III, 25 January 1353-24 January 1354, it was found that 1 1/2 knight's fees in Wydeford and Pacchyng were lately held by Edmund Bacon of John, Earl of Kent.[8]
A writ was sent to the escheator on 13 April 35 Edward III [1361], to enquire as to the lands and heir of Edmund Bacon and who had had possession of his lands since his death, after which an Inquisition made at Dorchestre in Oxford on Monday the morrow of St James in the same year, found that Edward had held the manor Spenseresfee with the advowson of the church in Ewelm, and the manor late of Robert Pipard, knight, and his heirs were his daughter Margery, aged 21 years and more, and his great-grandson John de Burghwasch, aged 18.[3]
Sources
↑ "Calendar of Various Chancery Rolls: Supplementary Close rolls, Welsh rolls, Scutage rolls. Preserved in the Public Record Office: A.D. 1277-1326", London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1912, Archive.org, p. 90
↑ "Calendar of Various Chancery Rolls: Supplementary Close rolls, Welsh rolls, Scutage rolls. Preserved in the Public Record Office: A.D. 1277-1326", London, His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1912, Archive.org, p. 99
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 "Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office", London: Mackie and Co. Ltd., 1935, Ser. 1, Vol. XI, Archive.org, p. 11 Abstract No 19 Edmund Bacon
↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: SC 1/49/193, Special Collections: Ancient Correspondence of the Chancery and the Exchequer, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12228936, 24 October 2014.
↑ The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Micellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol II, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1916), accessed 3 October 2014, https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinqu02grea#page/62/mode/2up pp.62-3. Abstract No 257.
↑ The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Micellaneous (Chancery) preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol II, (London: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1916), accessed 3 October 2014, https://archive.org/stream/calendarofinqu02grea#page/140/mode/2up pp.140. Abstract No 555.
↑ The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of the Close Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Edward III 1327-1330, (London: Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, 1896), accessed 27 October 2014, https://archive.org/stream/calendarclosero07offigoog#page/n531/mode/2up pp.520.
↑ The Deputy Keeper of the Records, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other Analogous Documents preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol X Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921), accessed 13 November 2014, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.l0066756867?urlappend=%3Bseq=95 pp.53. Abstract No 41 John, Earl of Kent. Starts on page 41.
↑ IPM 35 Edward III # 19 Edmund Bacon [Dawes, M. C. B.. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 156." Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 11, .Edward III. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1935. 1-20. British History Online. Web. 23 July 2021. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol11/pp1-20 IPM]
See also:
Badham, Sally. "The Bacon Brass at Gorleston, Suffolk." Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society, VOLUME XVI, PART 1 1997. pp. 2-25. Bacon
Alfred Suckling, 'Gorleston ', in The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk: Volume 1 (Ipswich, 1846), pp. 360-380. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/suffolk-history-antiquities/vol1/pp360-380 [accessed 2 April 2022]
"Royal Ancestry" Douglas Richardson, 2013, Vol. IV. p. 106
HARNESS PENDANT [1]
The Stirling Roll of Arms, c. 1304
https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I16421
Family 1: Joan Beaumont, b. 1289 in Witnesham, Suffolk, England d. ABT 1332 in Ewelme, Oxfordshire, England
- m. 1311 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England
- m. 1311 in Oxfordshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sir Knight Edmund BACON (BACOUN) -
Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: IX:40, VII:192
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741118
- Title: KNIGHTs from Continental Europe to England/Ireland, to Philadelphia (PA), to France: Sir Edmund BACON, Knt., of Baconthorpe
Publication: Name: http://knight-france.com/geneal/names/4701.htm;
Note: Born: 1286, , , England
Marriage: Joan DE BEAUMONT [2807]
Died: 3 Apr 1336, , , England at age 50
Another name for Edmund was BACUN, BAKUN.
Sources, Comments and Notes:
Source Par Arthur Collins:
"... which Sir Robert, was the son of Sir Edmund Bacon, of Essex, Knt. by his first wife, Joane, the daughter of ___ Marshal; and Sir Edmund, was the son of William Bacon, living 15 Edw. III. by Dionifia, daughter of Ufford, which William, was the son of Sir John Bakun, Knt. temp. Ed. II. son of Aspelo Bakun, temp. Hen. III. ..."
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5. GlLESDE BREWES, Knt., of Stinton (in Sale) and Heydon, Norfolk, Luaborough, Lincolnshire, Akenham, Stradbrooke, aid Whittinghan (in Fressingfield), Suffolk, etc., son and heir, born about 1273 (aged 28 in 1301). He maried (1st) KATH ERINE DE HUNTINGFIELD, daughter of Laurence de Huntingfield, Knt. They had no issue He maried 2nd) in or before 1303 JOAN DE BEAUMONT, daughter and heiress of Richard de Beaumont, of Witnesham, Suffolk. They had four sons Richard, Robert, John, Knt., and Alexanda. SIR GlLES DE BREWES died Portly before 6 Feb. 1310/11. In 1310[/11] his widow, Alice [sic] presented to the church of Heydon, Norfolk. His widow, Joan, maried (2nd) (as his 1st wife) shortly before 15 Nov. 1311 EDMUND BACON, Knt.,of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, Oulton, Suffolk, Hafield Peverel, Essex, Constable of Walingford Castle, and, in right of his wife of Witnesham, Suffolk. She was living in 1316. Following her death, Edmund married (2nd) ELIZABETH LA WARRE, daughter of John la Ware Knt., 2nd Lord la Ware by Joan, daughter of Robert de Grelle (or Greiley), Knt.. They had no issue. His wife Elizabeth, died testate 1323. He maried (3rd) MARGERY DE POYNINGS (died at Calais 1 or 40ct. 1349), daughter of Michael de Poynings, Knt.. SIR EDMUND BACON died 3 April 1336."
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Source :
"Gresham, Norfolk
... Sir Edmund Bacon of Baconsthorpe held the manor. 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. ..."
Edmund married Joan DE BEAUMONT [2807] [MRIN: 2757]. (Joan DE BEAUMONT [2807] was born in , , England and died after 1315 in , , England.)
- Title: Edmond Bacon in Our Royal, Title, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p552.htm#i16579;
Note: Sir Edmond Bacon, Constable of Wallingford Castle
M, #16579, d. 6 March 1336
Father Sir Robert Bacon
Mother (Miss) d' Hingham
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). 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. 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). 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+b. c 1336, d. 1 Jun 1399
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