30422628. Sir Gilbert
de Stapleton & 30422629. Agnes Fitz Alan
1291, Gilbert de Stapledon born in Yorkshire, England, 2nd s/o 60845256.
Miles de Stapleton & 60845257. Isabel Bellew.
1300, Agnes born in England, d/o 60845410. Lord
Brian Fitz Alan & 60845411. Maud ?.
5/10/1306,
Grant to Miles de Stapelton of the marriage of the eldest daughter [Agnes], a
minor in the king’s custody, and one of the heirs of Brian son of Alan, … (S)
CPRs.
7/7/1307,
Edward II became king on the death of his father.
1307-8, Agnes, age 7, heiress to her uncle Theobald
Fitz Alan.
[––Gilbert & Agnes––]
1308, Gilbert married to Agnes.
1310,
Miles settled North Moreton, Berkshire, on his son Gilbert.
5-6/1312, 5 barons involved in the capture of Piers
Gaveston, besieging him at Scarborough castle.
6/19/1312, Piers Gaveston, sometime Earl of Cornwall, King
Edward’s favorite, was executed at Blacklow Hill, Warwickshire, by the earls of
Lancaster, Hereford and Arundel. [Piers, apparently a good soldier and
administrator, would be replaced by “favorites” who were vicious and power
seekers – the law of unintended consequences. 7 Earls would be executed in 18
years – the last English earl having been executed 236 years before.]
10/1313, Miles with his wife and 3 sons [including
Gilbert], in a long list of adherents of Lancaster who were pardoned for the
murder of Gaveston.
6/24/1314,
Gilbert’s father died, his older brother Nicholas the heir.
9/14/1314, IPM of Miles de Stapelton alias de
Stapulton. … Nicholas his son, aged 25 and more, is his next heir. Berks: Northmorton.
The manor held for life … by fine … granted to the said Miles for life with
remainder to his son Gilbert and the heirs of his body … (S) CIsPM.
1315, Gilbert summoned to Doncaster, Yorkshire, by
Archbishop Grenefield.
12/15/1317, Order not to intermeddle further with
the purparty of her fathers’s lands falling to Agnes, daughter of Brian son of
Alan, wife of Gilbert de Stapelton, … Agnes proved her age before John de Evre,
late escheator beyond Trent. (S) CCRs.
7/8/1319, Gilbert appointed the escheator north of
Trent. (S) UKNA.
1319, Gilbert summoned against the Scots.
9/7/1319, King Edward at the siege of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Scotland.
1/27/1320, Gilbert the King’s escheator of Bedale
and North Norton, Yorkshire.
10/31/1321, Gilbert of Bedale, Yorkshire, died.
[––Agnes––]
Anges married 2nd Sir Thomas Sheffield. (S)
Hist. of York North Riding, V1, 1914, Bedale.
7/8/1328 at York, Thomas de Shefeld' and Agnes, his
wife, querents … A moiety of the manor of Baynton' in the county of York and a
moiety of the manor of Biker in Holand' in the county of Lincoln. … the third
part of the moieties - which Maud, who was the wife of Brian, son of Alan, held
in dower of the inheritance of Roger de la More on the day the agreement was
made, and which after the decease of Maud ought to revert to Roger … after the
decease of Maud shall remain to Thomas and Agnes, to hold together with the 2
parts … remainder to Brian son of Gilbert de Stapleton … remainder to the right
heirs of Agnes. (S) Feet of Fines, CP 25/1/286/36, no.88.
4/21/1331
at Westminster, 1328 grant enrolled.
1334
at York, Thomas de Sheffeld and Agnes his wife, quer., Roger de la More, parson
of the church of Little Casterton, def, of 8 tofts and 6 bovates and 44 acres
of land in Ulvyngton and Rumbaldkirk: To hold to Thomas and Agnes for their
lives; remainder to Nicholas their son for life; remainder to the right heirs
of Agnes. (S) Yorkshire Arch. Soc., V42, Feet of Fines for the County of York,
1910, P71.
Agnes
died, buried in St. Gregory’s church, Bedale, with her husband Thomas (d.1345).
(S)
Hist. of Berkshire, V3, 1923, North Moreton.
Family
notes:
·
1360, The priory of Ingham founded by Sir Miles
de Stapleton (15211314), and the Lady Joan his wife, … They were to officiate
and pray for the souls of … Sir Gilbert de Stapleton, and the Lady Agnes,
father and mother of Sir Miles, the founder, … (S) Ess. Tow’s Topo. Hist. of
Norfolk, V9, 1808, Ingham.
Children
of Gilbert and Agnes:
i. Miles de Stapleton (15211314), born ~1315 in
England. [Heir]
ii. Brian de Stapleton, born ? in England.
Child of Thomas
and Agnes:
Nicholas
de Sheffeld, born ? in England.
