John de Chetwynde

• Preferred Name: John de Chetwynde^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: MLP9-PH2
  
• Death: Y
  
• Birth: ABT 1261 in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England at LATI: N2.7833 LONG: E2.4
  
• Notes:

  === Joan/de Ercall * 1320 ===
  Joan/de Ercall * 1320
  
  === John de Chetwynd III, eldest son of Adam ===
  John de Chetwynd III, eldest son of Adam of Cublesdon, was of full age when he became mesne-lord of Hilderstone in 1284. We have seen how he gradually got possession of Chetwynd and Weston, and obtained the grant of a Fair and Market from the king. The last-named was due to the interest of his liege lord, Edmund FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, and it was a gain to Fitzalan as much as to Chetwynd. Both would be interested in the profits to be derived from the droves of cattle which came that way out of Wales to relieve the famine which was then desolating a great part of England; and both would be glad to set up a rival to Newport, which was fast becoming a thriving town.
  
  Prior to his visit to Northampton, Sir John had served in the war in Scotland. In March, 1310, he had protection for his estates while serving in the retinue of Edward Burnel. In this campaign, the king met with little opposition from the Scots, and after wintering at Berwick they returned to England in July, 1311. When Robert the Bruce invested Stirling in 1314, Edward called out the whole force of his kingdom to muster in haste at Berwick by the 10th June. John and Nicholas [?his cousin Vivian] de Chetwynd seem to have received Letters of Protection; but the battle of Bannockburn, which terminted the campaign so disasterously for the English, was fought on the 25th, and it is not unlikely that John disregarded the summons, as so many others did, for he received a second more peremptory notice a week after the battle to join the king at Newcastle by the 15th August. In 1317, John again had Protection with Vivian to serve in the retinue of Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Fitzalan's father-in-law, but this muster we know was postponed. Hatred of Gaveston had driven Fitzalan from the Court. By a curious whirligig of fate he was afterwards one of Gaveston's judges when the latter was condemned to death at Warwick. In 1318, however, Fitzalan and his tenant had returned to their allegiance, when they were granted the Fair at Northampton. The names of the witnesses may be cited here as showing the state of parties and who were then in attendance on the king. There were Walter Reynolds, Archbishop of Canterbury, always a steady supporter of Edward II; the high-minded Walter Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, an old and trusted adviser of the first Edward, who had been thrown into prison by the young king, but was now restored ot his former office of Lord Treasurer; Thomas, Earl of Norfolk, Earl Marshal; Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford; Fitzalan; Bartholomew, Lord Badlesmere; Robert Fitzpagan, and some others. De Bohun and Badlesmere afterwards joined the Earl of Lancaster. De Bohun was killed at Boroughbridge, and Badlesmere was executed at Canterbury. HIs insult to the queen had not been forgotten. Fitzalan henceforth became the king's most faithful adherent. Lancaster in his last extremity execrating among "the king's worst counsellord, the Despencers father and son, the Earl of Arundel, and Robert Baldock a false Clerk," We should expect to find Fitzalan and Chetwynd again with the king in 1321, when he overran the Welsh marches, and captured several of their castles.
  
  . . . After the death of his patron, Sir John resided principally at Chetwynd or Weston; sometimes at Caverswell Castle, which he occupied in right of his wife during the minority of the heir. In the Subsidy Roll of 1 Edward III he is assessed at 3s 6d on his "moveables" at Caverswall; 5s at Weston; and only 2s at Chetwynd. One Alice le Locsmyth, the principal tenant at the latter place, was assessed at 3s. After he come Richard Bercarius (the shepherd), and Wills le Herdeman. At Weston we still find Thomas Molendarius the miller; and the names of John and Thomas Bercarius show that the land was used mostly for sheep-farming. The frequent fines for "trespass in the lords corn" in the Court at Standon, show that much of it was unenclosed. Standon possessed a doctor (Medicus), and a chaplain, William Pultney. William de Weston was Domestic Chaplain (Capellanus) at Weston Hall.
  
  The special Assizes held in Staffordshire between 1323 and 1325, after Lancaster's rebellion, bring to light many deeds of violence, in which nearly all the leading families of the county were concerned. In 1322, Sir John de Chetwynd was one of the sureties for Vivian de Staundon, who was bound in the sum of 500 marks to keep the peace to Sir Roger de Swynnerton, Chivaler. There had been a feud of long standing between the Swynnertons and the Staffords of Sandon, in which many of their neighbors engaged as partisans. But the Swynnertons were not alone the aggressors, for in 1324, James, son of William de Stafford, and Sir John Stafford of Broomshull (Bramshall) were charged at the Assizes with having caused the death of one Richard de Swynnerton of Isenhall (?Biana) at Eccleshall so long ago as the 12 Edward II.
  
  In 1335, Sir John was one of the Commissioners of Array in North Wales, with Walter de Hugford his tenant at Hilderston, for raising forty soldiers for the war in Scotland. A few months later he joined the army at Durham in the suite of John Lestrange of Blankmonster (Oswestry), and remained in Scotland till Easter 1337. A fine levied in 1343 shows the extent of his Warwickshire manor at Baxterley, which his ancestors had had from the Lovels. At this time it comprised sixteen messuages and six virgates of land (about 180 acres) with some wood and pasture besides. But a moiety of the manor having been given "by some ecclesiastic persons," feoffees of one William de Hennever, to say mass for him in Merevale Abbey, Chetwynd is said to have sold his portion for the same purpose. In 1345 he once more heads the list of Shropshire knights summoned for the war in Gascony, but being now near 80 years old he might well be excused. A writ addressed to the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, dated at Reading, accordingly orders that all demands upon him should be stopped "for men-at-arms, hobelars, or archers." But though too ill to undertake the voyage himself, he sent the Earl three men-at-arms in his place. The last act recorded of him was his presentation to the Chruch of Chetwynd in 1354.
  
  Sir John left two sons. By his first wife he had Reginald, parson of Chetwynd, whose daughter carried away his estates to the Peshalls. By his second he had William de Chetwynd of Shaynton, who was in remainder to Chetwynd and Weston in the event of failure of male heirs to Peshall. The name of his first wife was Joan, as we gather from a Plea Roll which runs as follows: "William [younger] son of Adam de Chetewynde [of Cublesdon]. appeared against John son of John FitzPhilip, Roes Pantulf of Cublesdon, and Robert Burnel, Bishop of Bath and Wells, in a plea that the said John should [be called upon to] warrant to him a third part of a messuage and a carucate of land and fifteen acres of wood at Barlaston; and Roes to warrant him in a thrid of a messuage and fifteen acres of land in Cublesdon; and the Bishop to warrant him a third of a rent of 16 marks in Hilderston, which Joan, formerly wife of John de Chetwynd, claimed as dower in this Court." The principal difficulty of this passage will be removed if we construe the words quondam uxor as "the former wife" and not the widow, and regard the claim of dower as having been made at her marriage (and not her husband's death), and recorded in court at that time. The date of the Plea is 1292, when (as I suppose) Joan was dead and Chetwynd was still a young man. How his younger brother William came to claim the thirds I have been unable to discover. Sir John's second wife was another Joan, daughter of William Ercall, of High Ercall, co Salop, the last of that name, and widow of Richard de Caverswall of Caverswall Castle. Richard was living in 1317-18, indeed he was summoned to Lichfield Assizes in August, 1320, though he failed to put in an appearance. His widow held Caverswall during her son's minority. At Michaelmas, 1324, she was summoned to appear in court coram Rege with John and Vivian de Chetwynd and twenty others to answer a charge preferred by William Coyne, of Weston Coyne, for having come to Weston vi et armis with swords on the feast of St Bartholomew (August 1323), and taken by force his goods and chattles, viz., turf and linen and woollen cloth, to the value of £10. amd beaten and illtreated his servants "so that he was deprived of their services for five months," for which he claimed £60 damages. The defendants appeared and denied the charge, and appealed to a jury. [The Chetwynds of Ingestre pp25-33]
  
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  John de Chetwynd was presented by the Bradford Jurors at the Assizes of October 1292, as claiming rights of Free-Warren in Chetwynd. An Inquest taken in 1293, states taht a quarter of a feen in Baxterley was held of Richard de Harcourt, deceased by the heir of John de Chetwind, a proof that John de Chetwynd had not long been in possession. Again, an Inquest of the year 1300, already quoted, names John de Chetwynd as then Mesne-Lord of Evelith. On June 30, 1314, John de Chetwynd was included in a military summons against the Scots. In the Nomina Villarum of March 1316, he is returned as Lord of Chetewind. On June 27, 1318, Sir John de Chetewynde, Knight, presented Reginald de Chetwynde, an Acolyte, to Chetwynde Church. On July 17, 1318, John de Chewind obtained the King's Charter empowering him to hold a weekly Market, on Tuesdays, at Chetwind, and a yearly Fair on the vigil, day and morrow of All Saints (Oct 31, Nov 1 & 2). The Arms of Sir John Chedewynt appear on the Roll of the Battle of Boroughbridge (March 1322). They were Azure, a Chevron between three Mullets or. He was on the Rebel side. Nevertheless he attests a Deed at Shrewsbury on April 25th following and was summoned to attend a general Council to be holden at Westminster on May 30, 1324. In that and the two following years several writs were addressed to him as a Comm
  
  === !HEBER J. GRANT RECORDS BY ANTHONY W. IV ===
  !HEBER J. GRANT RECORDS BY ANTHONY W. IVANS IN LDS GEN LIBRARY.

• m. ABT 1290

1. Reginald De Chetwynd, b. ABT 1292 in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England     d. ABT 1360 in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England

1. Title: International Genealogical Index (R)
   Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index (R), Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of July 25, 2007, Film #: 458000, Family History Library, 35 N. West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150.
   Note: [PFT:AQ] [S:Titl] International Genealogical Index (R) [S:Auth] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [S:Publ] Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of July 25, 2007 [Page] Film #: 458000 [R:Name] Family History Library [R:Addr] 35 N. West Temple Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 [/PFT]