15211420. Baron Edmund de Ufford & Lady 15211421.
Sibyl de Pierrepoint
6/24/1314,
Edmund’s father Thomas slain at the battle of Bannockburn.
By 1315,
Edmund born in England, 3rd s/o 30422840. Thomas de Ufford &
30422841. Eve de Clavering.
1/24/1327,
Edward III, age 14, succeeded Edward II as King of England. [1/20/1327, Edward
II abdicated.]
~1330, Sibyl
born in England, heir & d/o 30422842. Simon de Pierpoint.
10/1/1337,
Protection … for Robert de Ufford, earl of Suffolk, going beyond the seas on
the king’s service … going with him … Edmund de Ufford, ‘le frere’, Robert de
Ufford, ‘le cosyn,’ Edmund de Ufford, ‘le cosyn,’ … (S) CPRs. [Earl Robert had
recently been created an earl and appointed as an admiral.]
2/18/1342,
Order to pay … to Edmund de Ufford, ‘le cosyn,’ £80 … (S) CCRs.
1346, Edmund
granted 40 marks yearly by Henry, Earl of Lancaster, from the manor of Higham
Ferrers, Northamptonshire.
6/1349, The
Plague reached Dorset, and had spread across England by the end of 1349.
[Usually 2-3 wills were executed
in the town of Colchester, Essex, each year. In the 2 years 1349-50, 111 wills
were executed.].
5/1356,
Edmund, styled “le cousin” to distinguish him from Sir Edmund, brother of the
Earl of Suffolk, granted a patent of protection to sail to Brittany in the
retinue of Henry, duke of Lancaster.
9/19/1356, Battle of Poitiers in France. Edward,
the Black Prince, defeated a larger French and allied army led by King John II
of France, leading to the capture of the French king, his son, and much of the
French nobility. By treaty, England was permitted to annex much of western
France. In addition, France would pay a ransom of 4 million écus for the king.
1361, Edmund
heir to his brother John, Lord Ufford, acquiring the manor of Great Belstead,
West Lexham, Poswick, Burgh, Glemham and Chippenhale. [Edmund’s older brother
Robert died before John.]
6/29/1368,
Edmund a legatee in the will of his cousin Earl Robert de Ufford.
9/20/1369,
Edmund succeeded to the Barony of Clavering on his mother’s death.
1371, Edmund
presented as heir of his mother to the rectory of Blythburgh, Suffolk.
4/2/1372, IPM
of John de Wylughby, knight. Norfolk: Eggefeld and Walcote. … The manors are
held of Edmund de Ufford, ‘le cosyn,’ by knight’s service, as of his manor of
Horsford. (S) CIsPM.
Sibyl died
before Edmund. (S) Ess. Tow’s Topo. Hist. of Norfolk, V4, 1775, P563.
9/1/1374,
Edmund de Ufford, ‘le cousin,’ knight, wrote his will; executors Reginald de
Eccles and Thomas de Flycham. (S) CPRs, 5/20/1379.
Bef.
10/3/1374, “Edmund de Ufford ‘le cosyn,’ knight” died; buried at Langley Abbey,
Norfolk.
7/14/1375,
Writ for IPM of Edmund de Ufford, 'le cosyn ' in Norfolk and Suffolk. (S) CFRs.
(S) Magna
Carta Ancestry, P212. (S) Gen. Memoris of the Extinct Family of Chester of
Chicheley, Waters, 1878.
Family
notes:
·
8/21/1375, Grant to the king’s daughter Isabel,
countess of Bedford, of the keeping of the lands late of Edmund de Ufford, ‘le
cousyn,’ … until full age of the hier, together with the marriage … (S) CPRs.
Children
of Edmund and Sibyl:
i. Ela de Ufford, born ? in England.
Bef. 1376,
Ela married Sir Miles Stapleton of Ingham, Norfolk.
1417, Sir
Miles died.
ii. Robert de Ufford (7605710), born ~1360 in
England.
