Thomas de Lambley (abt. 1185 - abt. 1220)

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Thomas de Lambley Thomas Armiger Thomas Le Esquire 1185-1220 a Justice.

Fine Roll C 60/30, 15 HENRY III (1230–1231) C 60/30 Membrane 9 Fines from the fifteenth year of King Henry, son of King John. 18th Jan

106: For the daughters of Thomas Squire. Because it is clear to the king, by an inspection of a charter of King John that he made for Thomas Squire, that he gave him all of the manor of Tideswell with appurtenances, to have and hold to him and his heirs from the same king and his heirs at fee farm, rendering the ancient farm, namely 60s. per annum at Michaelmas, order to the sheriff of Derbyshire that notwithstanding the commitment that the king made of the same land to Phillip, his saucer, before the inspection of the aforesaid charter, he is to cause Joan and Alice, daughters and heiresses of the same Thomas, to have full seisin of all aforesaid land as of their right.

Joan, daughter and coheir of Thomas LE ESQUIER, a Justice.

The Manor of Tideswell

From the King it seemed to have passed to the Peverils, who, at the time when the Domesday survey was made, had a considerable amount of 'land' in the neighbourhood; e.g. in Castleton, in Bradwell, in Hazlebadge, in Hucklow, and in Abney. But afterwards the estates of the Peverils were escheated. The Manor of Tideswell was granted in 1207 to Thomas Armiger, who also bore the names of “The Squire” “of Lambley” and of “Lamely”, on payment of the sum of 60/- annually.

His daughter, Joan, married Paulinus Peyvere, Bampton, or Taunton, to whom the grant of the Fair was made in 1250. He sold the Manor to Richard Daniel some time before the year 1283.

A Guide to Tideswell and Its Church By Rev J.M.J. Fletcher: Transcriptions by Rosemary Lockie,

In 1207 Tideswell was granted to Thomas Armiger together with a market charter the following year

(In heraldry, an armiger is a person entitled to use a coat of arms. Such a person is said to be armigerous. The Latin word armiger literally means "arms-bearer".)

VARIOUS CHARTERS RELATING TO TIDESWELL

3 R. I. John, Earl of Mortain, granted the Church of Hope with its chapel of Tideswell to Hugh, Bishop of Coventry, which he confirmed in his 7th year to Bishop Gregory. That brought as a consequence a litigation extending over three centuries between various claimants and produced many riots and some blood-shedding lamentable to record. 7 John, the King granted Tideswell and Hope to Coventry, possibly this grant was only confined to the Churches. Of course, the true ground of these disputes was that King John, as usual, had acted in an arbitrary and illegal manner without respect to the right of those already in possession. Perhaps the claimants were equally at fault, for Tideswell being a Manor of ancient demesne, neither the King, William I., nor his nominee, William Peveril, had any right to deal with it.

4 R. I. John, Earl of Mortain, granted to Richard de Vernon six librates stirling of land in Tideswell, dated Dorchester (Harl MS. 1090, fo. 91-6). Nothing is known respecting this grant, and its effects, if it ever had any, are unknown. It does not appear that it was ever acted upon. Afterwards, King John improperly gave the Manor of Tideswell (as if it was his own estate) to Thomas his Esquire, whose history is unknown. It would appear that he endeavoured to cover this illegality by treating it as an escheat of the Crown upon the forfeiture of Wm. Peveril, as his father had improperly done before him. It is possible that when the Vernons became allied with the Peverils that this grant was used to strengthen their title.

Sir Warner de Belegh left a legacy to Tideswell. Little is known of the connection of the Belegh's with Tideswell except that Robert fil Serlo de Belegh granted lands to Tideswell guilds, which Elias Pellepariis and Robert fil Ede held in Litton, ½ a. at Chevestab, 1 a. at Lickhalfstan, 1 a. called Rukedich, and 1 a. at Dumphill, which Wulfetus de Litton then held (see p.137, sect. X.), where a grant by Thomas the Esquire to Warner de Tideswell of two bovates, which Pus [sic], there suggested by the author to mean Propositus, but which, with this charter in consideration, reads more like Pellepariis, and this seems to justify a guess that Warner de Tideswell was identical with Warner de Belegh. If this guess is correct the former guess that Warner de Tideswell was of the Daniel family must be cancelled.

4 H. III. The Manor of Tideswell held by Thomas the Esquire to be given to Agnes, his widow, and three daughters (Close Roll).

6 H. III. Agnes de Oylley, Joan and Alice, her daughters, to have possession of the land which was Tom Esquire's the town of Wheston and land at Tideswell (Close Roll).

7 H. III. Possession to be given of land at Tideswell granted by Thos. the Esquire to Adam de Alta Ripa with half the Manor (Close Roll).

11 H. III. Johanna and Alice, daughters and heirs of Thomas the Esquire mentioned (Close Roll).

Sources

1978 edition: Genealogical History of the Dormant, Aberant, Forfeited, & Extinct Peerages, Burke, Sir Bernard, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore. 1978), 942 D22 bug 1978., p. 245.

The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester, Nichols, John, (4 volumes, each in 2 parts. London : Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1795-1815), FHL X book 942.54 H2nic., vol. 3 pt. 2 p. 682.

Fine Roll C 60/30, 15 HENRY III (1230–1231) C 60/30 Membrane 9 Fines from the fifteenth year of King Henry, son of King John. 18th Jan VARIOUS CHARTERS RELATING TO TIDESWELL

Footnotes

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1. ↑ Entered by Jean Maunder.

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