Thomas 'de' Erdington

• Preferred Name: Thomas 'de' Erdington^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: 9ZCG-T9B
  
• Death: 20 MAR 1218 in Warwickshire, England at LATI: N2.3378 LONG: E1.5609
  
• Birth: ABT 1185 in Erdington, Warwickshire, England at LATI: N2.5222 LONG: E1.8459
  

1. Mary de Erdington, b. 1203 in Erdington, Warwickshire, England     d. in England
2. Giles Erdington, b. BEF 12 APR 1209 in Erdington, Warwickshire, England     d. 1268 in Melton, Mowbray, Leicestershire, England

1. Title: Manors Pages 58-72 A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 7, the City of Birmingham
   Publication: Name: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol7/pp58-72;
   Note: 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)