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Gerard Usflete III
- Preferred Name: Gerard Usflete III[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Gender: M
- Burial: in North Ferriby, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.7399 LONG: E0.4763 with note: From Find A Grave
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
- FSID: LYN4-2JG
- Birth: ABT 1365 in Sussex, England at LATI: N0.981 LONG: E0.3385
- Death: 5 APR 1406
- Notes:
BIO
BIO: from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ufflete-2 as of 9/5/2019
Biography
Father Sir John de Usflete b. c 1256, d. c 1303
Mother Loretta de Furnival b. c 1260, d. a 1340
Sir Gerard Ufflete, Colle
Family 1: Elizabeth Arundel, b. 1366 in Arundel Castle, Sussex, England d. 8 JUL 1425 in Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire, England
- m. 1387 in Arundel, Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Sources:
- Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for John, duke of Norfolk
Author: King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-092/ [Accessed: 20/1/2020]
Publication: Name: http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/24-092/;
Note: JOHN, DUKE OF NORFOLK
92 Writ. ‡ 9 November 1432. [Wymbyssh].
WILTSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Salisbury. 3 April 1433. [Veere].
Jurors: Robert Bodenham ; John Bromeley ; William Pakyn ; John Newman ; Richard Ameros ; Peter Duyke ; Thomas ?Vellard [ms stained] ; Thomas Lyngever ; William Russell ; ?William ?Pe...te ; John Quarley ; and Richard Partriche .
He held no lands or tenements in demesne or service of the king or others. By his deed dated at London on 9 May 1415 and shown to the jurors, and described as John, earl marshal and earl of Nottingham , marshal of England, Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Gower, he granted remainders to the manor of West Hatch, among other things, to Henry, bishop of Winchester , Thomas, bishop of Durham , Simon Felbrigge, chevalier , John de Preston , Richard Steresacre and Robert Southwell , who survive, and Thomas, lately earl of Arundel , Richard Norton , William Ludyngton , John Rome, clerk , John de Aske , John Lancastre and Thomas Brommeham , deceased, and their heirs and assigns. John Hilton and Margaret his wife held 2/3 manor for her life of the duke’s inheritance with reversion to him and his heirs, and Elizabeth, lately duchess of Norfolk , his mother, held 1/3 manor in dower of his inheritance with remainder to John Hilton and Margaret for her life and reversion to the late duke and his heirs. The late duke therefore granted the remainders of these parts after the deaths of the duchess and Margaret, and Elizabeth and John Hilton and Margaret separately attorned to the bishops and fellow grantees. Elizabeth and Margaret died and the survivors entered and remain seised in their demesne as of fee.
West Hatch. The manor is held of the abbess and convent of Shaftesbury at fee-farm, service unknown.
He died on 19 October last. John de Moubray, knight , now duke of Norfolk , is his son and next heir, aged 17 years on 12 September last.
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93 Writ. ‡ 9 November 1432. [Wymbyssh].
Addressed to John Perneys, mayor .
CITY OF LONDON. Inquisition. Guildhall. 27 November 1432. [Perneys].
Jurors: Robert Husbond ; Simon Frank ; John Lacy ; Thomas White ; John Thorne ; John Mordon ; Thomas Soler ; John Walsh ; William Boteler ; John Takele ; Simon Whitehede ; Peter Hoke .
He held the following in his demesne as of fee tail by grant of Edward [II] to Thomas de Brotherton, lately earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, and the heirs of his body [CChR 1300–26, p. 205].
St Mary Somerseta messuage and a vacant plot of land in the parish, at Broken Wharf in Queenhithe ward, held of the king in free burgage, as the whole of the city is held, annual value 4 marks.
The earl was seised in his demesne as of fee tail and the messuage and plot descended successively to the following heirs: Margaret, lately duchess of Norfolk , as his daughter; Thomas de Moubray, lately duke of Norfolk , as her kinsman as son of Elizabeth her daughter; Thomas de Moubray, lately earl marshal and earl of Nottingham , as his son; and John, lately duke of Norfolk , named in the writ, as his brother, because he died without heir of his body.
Date of death and heir as in 92.
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94 Writ. 9 November 1432. [Wymbyssh].
OXFORDSHIRE. Inquisition. Banbury. 20 January 1433. [Restwold].
Jurors: John ?Wauer [ms faint and worn] ; Henry Frebody ; John Draper ; John Aylesworth ; Richard Harpour ; William Capron ; Thomas Hampton ; John Persons , Baker; John Persons , Porter; John Blakwell ; John ?Eddon [ms torn]; John Davers of Wardington; John Densy ; and William Trolle .
He held
4 marks rent in Henton in his demesne as of fee simple, to himself and his heirs. The rent is taken at Christmas, Easter, Midsummer and Michaelmas equally from a hide of land with adjacent watermill, pond and stank, and all lands and tenements that were formerly Aumaury de Suleham’s in that vill.
He granted a remainder to the manor of Moreton in Moreton by the grant in 92. Nicholas Halle , who survives, held the manor for life of the duke’s inheritance with reversion to himself and his heirs, and the manor was described as all lands, tenements, rents and services in Moreton which Nicholas then held for life of the late earl’s inheritance with reversion to the late duke and his heirs. Nicholas attorned to the bishops and fellow grantees.
Moreton. The manor is not held of the king but of whom and by what service is unknown.
He further granted the following members and parts of the manor of Chacombe in Northamptonshire, to the same; of whom they are held is unknown.
Banbury, a messuage.
Wardington, 1/4 knight’s fee which William Smart lately held; and 2 parts of a knight’s fee which William Ilger formerly held.
Westcot Barton, 1/3 knight’s fee which Robert Danvers formerly held.
Date of death and heir as in 92.
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95 Writ. ‡ 9 November 1432. [Wymbyssh].
WORCESTERSHIRE. Inquisition. Worcester. 22 January 1433. [Forthey].
Jurors: John Coby ; William Wyntour ; William Specheley ; John Walssh ; John Bole ; Richard Midenham ; Thomas Clent ; Richard With ; William Smyth ; Richard Furnyng ; Thomas Chirche ; and John Brace .
He held the manor of North Piddle and the advowson of its church in his demesne as of fee tail by a fine levied [on the octave of Michaelmas] in 1344 [CP 25/1/287/41, no. 339], and shown to the jurors, between John de Seygraue, chevalier , and Margaret his wife, querents, and William de Newton, parson of Seagrave church , William de Loughton, parson of Witherley church , and John de Repyngdon, parson of Cold Overton (Ouerton) church, deforciants , John de Seygraue recognised the manor and advowson, which the deforciants had by his grant, to be the right of William de Newton , and the deforciants therefore granted the manor and advowson to John and Margaret and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to his right heirs. John and Margaret were seised of the manor in their demesne as of fee tail and of the advowson in right and fee tail, and died seised of this estate. Right descended successively to the following: Thomas de Moubray, lately duke of Norfolk , their kinsman and heir as son of Elizabeth their daughter; Thomas de Moubray, lately earl marshal and earl of Nottingham , as his son and heir; John, lately duke , named in the writ, as his brother and heir because Thomas died without heir of his body.
North Piddle, the manor and advowson, held of the earl of Warwick , service unknown. In the manor there is the site, worth 2s. yearly; 4s. 8d. assize rent at Lady Day and Michaelmas equally; 13 messuages, each worth 12d. yearly, and 8 1/2 virgates of land, each worth 3s. 4d. yearly and the 1/2 virgate 20d. yearly; a cottage and a virgate of land, worth 3s. 4d. yearly; 6 cottages, each worth 6d. yearly; 80 a. demesne land, each acre worth 6d. yearly; 80 a. pasture, each acre worth 4d. yearly; herbage of the meadow called ‘Wildemormedow’, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; and herbage of the meadow of ‘Grenemedow’, worth 3s. 9d. yearly. The advowson is extended at 5 marks yearly when it falls.
Date of death as in 92.
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96 Writ. ‡ 9 November 1432. [Wymbyssh].
LINCOLNSHIRE. Inquisition [indented]. Lincoln, the castle. 9 December 1432. [Haltoft].
Jurors: Thomas Beltoft , Richard Garner and Ralph Dodithorp , of Belton; William Cutwolfe of Owston; John Beltoft and John Cole , of Belton; John Grenef...ld of East Ferry [ms worn]; William Patryke of East Lound; Robert Jakys of Westwoodside (Westewode); William Qwoylay of Gainsborough; Thomas Feriby of Gate Burton (Burton); John Euerard of Gainsborough; Richard Chipsay of Kirton in Lindsey; Richard Partenay of Northorpe; and John Norton of Dunholme.
He died seised of the advowson of the Carthusian house founded in honour of St Mary [at Epworth] in the Isle of Axholme, in his demesne as of fee, of whom held unknown, annual value nil after prayers.
He granted 2/3 manor of Epworth and the remainder of 1/3 manor, which Elizabeth, lately duchess of Norfolk , his mother, held in dower of his inheritance, reversion to himself and his heirs, to Henry, bishop of Winchester , Thomas, bishop of Durham , Thomas, earl of Arundel , Simon Felbrigge, chevalier , Richard Steresacre , William Ludyngton , John de Preston ,n048 John Rome, clerk , John de Aske , John Lancastre , Richard Norton , Thomas Brommeham and Robert Southwell as in 92, royal licence previously obtained [CPR 1413–16, pp 319–20]. The grantees were seised of 2/3 manor in their demesne as of fee and Elizabeth attorned to them for the 1/3 manor; the survivors entered the 1/3 after her death and remain seised of this in their demesne as of fee.
Epworth. The manor is held of the king in chief, service unknown.
Date of death and heir as in 92.
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97 Writ. ‡ 9 November 1432. [Wymbyssh].
Addressed to the escheator of Northamptonshire and Rutland .
RUTLAND. Inquisition. Uppingham. 24 September 1432.n049 [Sutton].
Jurors: Richard Molet of Uppingham; William Grene and Thomas Thomson , of Ayston; William Assheley and John Penteney , of Wardley; Thomas Dawes and John Warde, junior , of Belton; Thomas Luffenham and Roger Webster , of Wing; William Toly of Uppingham; John Bemond of Ridlington; John Coke of Barrowden; and Richard Bridde of Preston.
He held a messuage and 2 virgates of land in Alsthorpe in his demesne as of fee simple, to himself and his heirs, of whom or by what service unknown, annual value 8s.
He granted 2 knights’ fees in Empingham which the heirs of Richard de Basynges now hold, by the grant in 92, royal licence previously obtained [CPR 1413–16, pp. 319–20], and the grantees were seised in right and fee simple, to themselves and their heirs. The fees are members of the manor of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and are held of the king in chief, service unknown.
Date of death and heir as in 92.
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- Title: Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPMs) for Thomas, Earl of Arundel
Author: J. L. Kirby, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry V, Entries 654-699', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 20, Henry V (London, 1995), pp. 207-219. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol20/pp207-219 [accessed 17 January 2020].
Publication: Name: https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol20/pp207-219;
Note: 654 THOMAS, EARL OF ARUNDEL
Writ 18 Feb. 1416.
LONDON. Inquisition. 28 March.
He held nothing in London.
He died on 14 Oct. last. Elizabeth duchess of Norfolk, Joan Beauchamp and Margaret Arundell are his sisters and next heirs, all aged 30 years and more.
655
Writ 18 Feb. 1416.
KENT. Inquisition. Dartford. 6 April.
He held nothing in Kent.
He died on 14 Oct. last.
Elizabeth duchess of Norfolk, wife of Gerard Ufflete, knight, aged 30 years and more; Joan lady Abergavenny, aged 30 years and more; and Margaret wife of Roland Lenthale, knight, aged 24 years and more, are his sisters and heirs.
656
Writ 18 Feb. 1416.
NORFOLK. Inquisition. Swaffham. 23 April.
He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service: the castle vill and manor of Castle Acre, annual value £20, the manor of Mileham £23 6s.8d., the hundreds of Launditch and South Greenhoe, each 50s., and the advowson of East Ruston 20s.
He died on 13 Oct. last, heirs as above, Elizabeth and Joan, each aged 40 years and more, and Margaret 30 years and more.
657
NORFOLK. Inquisition, ex officio. Oxborough. 10 Dec. 1415.
He held the manor called Earl’s Wickham in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief, with knight’s fees and advowsons, annual value 8 marks and assize rents of £15 13s.7d. payable by equal parts at the 4 terms.
He died on 13 Oct. last. The prior of Castle Acre has taken the profits since then.
[Torn].
658
Writ 18 Feb. 1416.
GLOUCESTER. Inquisition. Gloucester. 17 March.
He held the manor of Upton St. Leonards in his demesne as of fee of the abbot of Gloucester, service unknown, annual value 60s.
Date of death and heirs as above [no. 656].
659
Writ 18 Feb. 1416.
ESSEX. Inquisition. Dunmow. 30 July.
He held in his demesne as of fee:
High Roding, the manor, from which the prioress of Cheshunt has had a yearly rent of 10 quarters of corn, from time immemorial, annual value 50 marks.
Housham, the manor, of the king in chief by knight service, annual value £10 6s.8d. The abbot of Bermondsey holds the manor of Cowick in Sheering of the manor of Housham as 1 knight’s fee, rendering 100s. to the lord of Housham at each vacancy of the abbey.
Margaretting, half the manor, of the king in chief, service unknown, annual value £6. By letters patent he granted the other half to Richard Pavy, esquire, for the term of 60 years or the life of Richard if he died within the 60 years, and the earl warranted it to him. Later he quitclaimed it to Richard for life, with reversion to his own right heirs.
By his charter dated at East Dean on 16 Dec. 1405 he granted John Wele, esquire, the manor of Woolston in Chigwell, except for wards, marriages and reliefs, to hold for life rendering a rose at Midsummer. It is held of the king in chief by knight service, annual value £16.
He granted the manor called ‘Langetones’ in Little Canfield to John Someray for life with reversion to himself and his heirs. It is held of Joan countess of Hereford by knight service, annual value £8.
Date of death as above. Elizabeth and Joan are his sisters and heirs.
660
HERTFORD. Inquisition. Buntingford. 18 July 1416.
By his charter dated at Arundel castle on 10 Aug. 1414 he granted to John Rygoll, his messenger, the manor of Berwick in Barkway, except for wards, marriages, reliefs and advowson, to hold for life rendering a rose at Midsummer. The manor is held of the king in chief by knight service, annual value 8 marks. John Rygoll is living and holding it.
Date of death and heirs as above.
661
Writ to Thomas de Morley and John Inglethorp, knights, Robert Darcy and the sheriffs of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, ordering them to inquire and take into the king’s hands all the earl’s lands etc. 15 Oct. 1415. [CFR 1413–22, p.119. Cf. supersedeas, CCR 1413–6, p.290, 6 Dec. 1415].
ESSEX. Inquisition before John Howard, sheriff and Robert Darcy. Chelmsford. 2 Nov. 1415.
He held in his demesne as of fee of the king in chief by knight service:
High Roding, the manor, annual value £42 4s.
Woolston in Chigwell, the manor, annual value £16.
Housham, the manor, annual value £10 6s.8d.
Margaretting, the manor, annual value £13 7s.8d.
John Someray holds the manor of Little Canfield called ‘Langetones’ for life by the grant of Thomas, with reversion to him and his heirs. It is held of Joan, countess of Hereford, by knight service, annual value £8.
The abbot of Bermondsey holds the manor of Cowick in Sheering of the manor of Housham as 1 knight’s fee, and renders 100s. at each vacancy of the abbey.
Date of death as above. Elizabeth duchess of Norfolk, wife of Gerard Ufflete, knight, Joan de Beauchamp, lady Abergavenny, both aged 44 years and more, and Margaret wife of Roland Leynthale, knight, aged 30 years and more, are his sisters and heirs.
In High Roding he had 12 foals, £4; 6 oxen with 2 ploughs, 60s.; 27 cows, £8 6s.8d.; 120 sheep, 100s.; 24 a. sown with corn at 3s. the a.; 60 quarters of oats and peas, 100s.; 30 quarters of barley, £4 10s.; 1 cart with 2 horses and all the apparatus for manuring, price 20s.
In Housham he had 12 cows, worth £4; 1 bull, 6s.8d.; 40 sheep, 40s.; in the hands of John Lytle, farmer, owed to Thomas before Michaelmas last. The commissioners have taken them into the king’s hands.
662
Writ 5 May 1416.
BERKSHIRE. Inquisition. Wallingford. 19 June.
Richard father of Thomas granted the manor of Sotwell to Thomas Parker, his esquire, for life. Thomas confirmed the grant and Parker still holds of the abbot of Hyde, service unknown.
He died on 12 Oct. last. Heirs to the reversion of the manor as above.
663
Writ 18 Feb. 1416.
SHROPSHIRE AND THE ADJACENT MARCH OF WALES. Inquisition. Shrewsbury. 11 March.
In virtue of a fine of 1347 [CP 25/1/287/43, no. 401] by which they were granted to Richard, earl of Arundel, by John de Alresford and John Sprot, chaplains, he held in his demesne as of fee the castles, manors and vills of Clun and Oswestry, and the manors of Ryton, Bucknell, Clunbury, Dodington, Heath, Church Stretton, Westhope, Lydley, Heys, Cound, Acton Round, Wroxeter, Upton Magna and Hints.
[This inquisition is mainly illegible, but the findings are listed in CFR 1413–22, pp.163–6].
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- Title: Gerard de- Usflete, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TLP8 : 6 February 2023), Gerard de- Usflete, ; Burial, North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, North Ferriby Priory; citing record ID 86008591, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TLP8;
- Title: Gerard de- Usflete, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TLPD : 6 February 2023), Gerard de- Usflete, ; Burial, North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, North Ferriby Priory; citing record ID 86010355, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2Y-TLPD;
- Title: Will of Gerard Usflete
Publication: Name: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x000335059&view=1up&seq=413&skin=2021&q1=Usflete;
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- Title: Gerard Usflete, "Find A Grave index"
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Note: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 May 2020), memorial page for Sir Gerard de- Usflete, III (unknown–1420), Find a Grave Memorial no. 86010355, citing North Ferriby Priory, North Ferriby, East Riding of Yorkshire Unitary Authority, East Riding of Yorkshire, England ; Maintained by Raymond E.O. Ella (contributor 47440325) .
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