47281728. Lord Waleran de Rocheford & 47281729. Albreda de la Fenne
~1170, Waleran born in England.
~1180, Albreda born in England, d/o 94563458. Ralph de la Fenne.
1185, Albreda’s father granted her rights in the church of
Quadring.
1185-90, After the death of her father, William of Budville
agreed to pay £20 for
Albreda’s wardship.
[––Waleran & Albreda––]
By 1190, Waleran married to Albreda.
8/1/1198, Matilda de Badlesmere granted Waleran and Albreda
and their heirs 7 parts of a sixth part of a knight’s fee in Clipston to hold
of Matilda and her heirs for 40 shillings.
6/1199, Waleran and Albreda in a suit over her inheritance.
Ismenia of Whaplode the widow of William the Angevin, Cecilia the wife of Henry
Portarius of Salisbury, and Isabella the wife of Baldric de Grendale, about 75
acres in Skirbeck and Benington.
6/1199, Waleran and Albreda’s in an inheritance suit with
the nuns of Stainfield over the rights in the church of Quadring. [See 1185.]
The parson, Albreda’s uncle John, had died, and the nuns had appointed a new
parson of their own choosing.
10/1199, Sisters Cecilia and Isabella appointed sister
Ismenia as their attorney in a counter suit against Waleran and Albreda. [Suits
continued for 3 years.]
1200, Waleran and Albreda continued the suit with the nuns
of Stainfield in the Curia Regis.
1200, King John levied a tax on the men of the honour of
Richmond. Waleran paid 11s 4d for property in Skirbeck.
4/1201, Waleran and Albreda’s suit with the nuns of
Stainfield concluded when the nuns showed a charter of her father that granted
the nuns the right to the choose the parson.
1202, Waleran “chief lord” of some land in Fenne. [Land held
of the King.]
1205, Waleran paid scutage on a 4th and 10th
of a knight’s fee of the honour of Richmond.
1207, Waleran in suit at the Curia Regis with Ralph Barry,
over 30 acres of land at Clipston. [Waleran won.]
9/1207, Waleran the elector for the grand assize case at the
Curia Regis, appointing a jury of 12 other Lincolnshire knights.
4/1208, Waleran the elector for the grand assize case at the
Curia Regis in Lincolnshire.
1210, Waleran paid 12 marks to avoid service in King John’s
expedition to Ireland.
1210-11, Waleran holding a 10th of a knight’s fee
in Skirbeck and Fenne, in Kirton wapentake. [SW side of Boston.]
1211, Walter elected as 1 of 12 knights to hear a grand
assize over a knight’s fee at Swinstead, Lincolnshire.
1212, Waleran holding a 4th and 10th of
a knight’s fee in Skirbeck and Fenne.
6/1212, Walter elected to hear a grand assize case in
Nottinghamshire.
2/1214, King John landed at La Rochelle, France in an
expedition into Poitou. Waleran had to borrow 12 marks from the Exchequer to
fund his service.
By 10/1214, King John’s forces returned to England.
6/19/1215
at Runnymede near Windsor, King John forced to agree to the terms of the Magna
Carta. [The barons in revolt together held more castles and knights fees than
John did as King. Eventually a civil war broke out.] Waleran sided with the
revolting barons and his lands were seized by the king along with those of all
in the rebellion.
11/30/1215,
King John captured Rochester castle.
1216,
King John captured Lincoln, and held parliament there.
3/4/1216,
King John issued letters of safe conduct for Waleran and his associates.
4/22/1216,
King John ordered that Waleran hand over his son Robert as a hostage, and pay a
fine of 20 marks for his rebellion. [6 days later Waleran had still not
delivered his son.]
5/12/1216,
Prince Louis [future VIII] of France, after a successful landing, crowned King
of England in London. In June, Louis captured Winchester and controlled half of
England.
10/18/1216, King John died at Newark of dysentery.
10/19/1216, Henry III succeeded John as King of England.
Louis of France also claimed the throne.
5/20/1217, English forces, with the aid of some previous
rebel barons, defeated the French forces at Lincoln. [Other barons were still
in revolt.]
1218, Waleran holding a 4th of a knight’s fee in
Skirbeck and Fenne.
1218-19, Waleran again serving on the court of Curia Regis
in Lincolnshire.
1219, Waleran had still not paid off his 20 mark fine of
1216.
1222, Waler elected a jury knight to a grand assize at the
Curia Regis in Nottingham. [Served twice that year.]
1224, Waleran still owed the 12 marks he borrowed for his
service in France in 1214.
1224-25, Waleran died.
[––Albreda––]
4/1227, Albreda, a widow, went to court to sue for her dower
or “widow’s portion” of a plot of land against Thomas Burnell. [This case
documents the existence of son Thomas.] Albreda won the case.
1227, Albreda died.
7/14/1227, Order to the sheriffs of Lincolnshire and
Nottinghamshire to take into the king’s hand the land formerly of Albrea
daughter of Ralph de la Fenne in his bailiwick, which she held of the count of
Brittany, and to keep it safely until the king orders otherwise.
(S) Rochford of Fenne, V1, Nettleton, 2016.
Child of Waleran and Albreda:
i. Ralph de Rocheford (23640864), born ~1203 in England.
ii. Robert de Rocheford, born ? in England.
iii. Thomas de Rocheford, born ? in England.
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