189127106. Sir John de Birkin & 189127107. Johanna ?
~1180, John born in England, s/o 378254212. Adam fitz Peter
& 378254213. Maud de Caux.
1186, John’s maternal grandfather died.
5/27/1199, John succeeded
King Richard I of England.
1207, John’s father died; John inheriting Falthwait through his
mother. (S) Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract, 1902, P603.
1207, John de Birkin confirmed the gifts of his father to the
monks of Pontefract. (S) Miscellanea – Thoresby Society, V41, 1954, P49. [At this
time his wife is Johanna.]
1208, Maurice, grandson of Robert de Gant, sued John de Birkin
for the vills of Cottingley, Cullingworth, Halton and Harden. (S) West
Yorkshire, Moorhouse, 1981, P324.
1208-09, John de Birkin a witness to the Langbaurgh charter of
Peter de Brus; an agreement with his Cleveland tenants. (S) The Brus Family,
Blakely, 2005, P56.
1209, Maurice de Gant, the chief lord of Bingley, recognised
the right of Thomas de Mohaut to hold 6 bovates in Marley from John de
Birkin. (S) West Yorkshire, Moorhouse, 1981, P327.
1212, John de Birkin held inquests of the forests in the north
of England. (S) Taxation in Medieval England, Mitchell, 1971, P73.
1213, William de Stapleton, a knight of John, constable of
Chester, Jordan Foliot, John de Birkin, and 17 other knights are bound to King
John for John’s payment of 7,000 marks dur from Robert his father. (S) Thoresby
Society, Vs1-2, 1891, P514.
10/28/1216, Henry III, age 9, crowned king of England.
8/1218, ‘Rex Willelmo de Tametun, Johanni de Birkin, …
constituimus vos justiciarios nostros ad assisam nove dissaisine capiendam, …’
(S) CPRs.
1218-19, Walter de Percy claims from the prioress of
Sinningthwaite two bovates of arable
with the appurtenances in Marton-le-Moor as his right etc., and those [bovates]
in which the same prioress has no entry except through John de Birkin and his
wife Agnes the mother of this Walter whose inheritance the land was, who made
that gift to the prioress while the same Anges lay on her death-bed in the
illness of which she died. (S) Baker and Milson Sources of English Legal
History, Baker, 2010, P20.
1220, John de Birkin witnessed a charter of Amabilia, sister
and heir of Jordan de Insula; a confirmation to the church of Selby. (S) Yorkshire
Arch. Journal, V11, 1891, P461.
6/1221, ‘Johannes de Birkin, Marmaducus de Tueng, Willelmus de
Tametun, Jordanus Heirun, constituti sunt justiciarii ad assisam nove
dissaisine capiendam …’ (S) CPRs.
9/30/1221, Order to take into the king’s hand without delay all
of the king’s demesne lands, namely those demesnes of which King John, the
king’s father, was seised at the beginning of the war between him and his
barons. John de Birkin, Robert de Percy, Marmaduke of Thwing and Nicholas
Basset to support the sheriff of Yorkshire. (S) FRsHIII.
3/28/1223, Yorkshire. The prior and monks of Selby give the
king 20 m. for having custody of their abbey for as long as it pleases the king
with the lands, rents and other possessions of the same abbey, by the view of
John of Birkin. … Order to John of Birkin to see that the prior and cellarer
are to keep it, as aforesaid, and that the monks and servants of the house are
to have their reasonable maintenance, as they are accustomed and ought to have
it, without excess or waste. (S) FRsHIII.
1223, John de Birkin, sheriff of Yorkshire. (S) History and
Antiquities of Selby, Morrell, 1867, P70.
7/1223, ‘Johannes de Birkin, Adam de Novo Mercato, … assignati
sunt justiciarii ad assisam nove dissaisine capiendam …’ (S) CPRs.
1224, John’s mother died.
5/25/1224, To Robert of Lexington. John of Birkin, heir of
Matilda de Caux, has made fine with the king by 300 m. for his relief of the
lands formerly of Matilda that fall to John by inheritance, and, similarly, for
having custody of the forest of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, which falls to
him by inheritance, and the king has taken his homage. (S) FRsHIII.
1225, Eboracum. {Robertus de Ros, J. constabularius Cestrie,
tamquan superiores, Adam de Novo Mercato, Johannes de Birkin, … } in crastina
medie quadragesime … (S) CPRs.
1225, John de Birkin witnessed a grant from William de Nevill
to Richard de Mirfield of a bovate of land in Lepton. (S) Yorkshire Arch. Journal,
1882, P410.
1227, Idem … assisam nove dissaisine capiendam … Galfridus
Pincerna aramiavit versus Johannem de Birkin … (S) CPRs.
Bef. 10/22/1227, John died. (S) Coucher Book of the Cistercian
Abbey of Kerkstall, 1904, P1.
Family notes:
·
John appeared in numerous charters by his
father, giving consent to the alienation of family property. (S) Rievaulx
Abbey, Jamroziak, 2005, P97.
·
Agnes de Flamvile is sometimes given as wife of
John. Agnes was the wife of John de Birkin, uncle of this John. (S) Thoresby
Society, V9, 1899, P49. [The records earlier than 1207 of ‘John de Birkin’ are
assumed to be that of this John.]
Children of John and Johanna:
i. Thomas de Birkin, born ? in England.
Thomas married Joan ?.
Bef. 10/22/1227, Nottinghamshire. Thomas of Birkin, son and
heir of John of Birkin, has made fine with the king by 200 m. for having seisin
of the lands formerly of John that fall to him by hereditary right, with the
bailiwick of the forest of Sherwood. (S) FRsHIII.
By 9/1230, Thomas died; his sister Isabel his heir. [The
following December, Henry de Lonchamps gave 50 marks the marriage of Thomas’
wife Joan.] (S) FRsHIII.
