Sir William de Tendring & Margaret de Kerdeston

 2955076. Sir William de Tendring & 2955077. Margaret de Kerdeston

~1326, Margaret born in England, d/o 5910154. Sir William de Kerdeston & 5910155. Margaret Bacon.

1/24/1327, Edward III, age 14, succeeded Edward II as King of England.

1327, William de Tendryng born at Tendring Hall, Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk, s/o 5910152. John de Tendring & 5910153. Agnes ?.

1347, William’s father died.

[––William & Margaret––]

12/1347, William de Tendring married Margaret de Kerdeston in Tendring Hall, Stoke By Nayland, Suffolk.

1348, The Black Death entered the west countryside of England [likely entering through Bristol].

By 1348, William knighted.

12/6/1348, William de Tendring, knight, and Margaret his wife, of the diocese of Norwich received Indults to the underwritten persons to choose confessors, who shall give them, being penitent, plenary remission at the hour of death, with the usual safeguards [usually for a pregnancy for a young couple.] (S) Cal. Papal Reg’s., V3, 1897, Reg. 184.

6/1349, The Plague reached Dorset, and had spread across England by the end of 1349.

1351, William, Knight of the Shire, for Suffolk.

1358, Defeasance by William de Tendryngg of a bond given by William de Kerdeston (father-in-law) for £10 rent from the latter's lands in Norfolk : Norf. (S) UKNA.

1361, Margaret’s father died.

7/6/1362, Charter of Michael de Ponyngges knight, …  in the towns of Bures St. Mary, Asyngton, Wyston, Great and Little Cornerche, co. Suffolk … Witnesses: … John Gernoun, …, William de Tendryng, knights, Thomas Boteler, … (S) CCRs.

2/8/1368, Indenture made between … of the one part and Sir William Bourcher, Sir John Gernoun, Sir John de Sutton the son, Sir Richard his brother, Sir William de Tendryngge, Sir John de Hevinyngham and John de Peyton of the other part, being a defeasance of the foregoing recognizance of £350. (S) CCRs.

1369, William de Tendryng, knight, to grant land in Stoke by Nayland to John de Stansted, vicar of the church there, and his successors. Suffolk. (S) UKNA.

3/20/1370, To John Gernoun, William Tendryng, Robert Belknap and John Rokewode. Order for particular causes to stay the taking of inquisitions concerning the bridge of Bures in Suffolk on the border of Essex and Suffolk. (S) CCRs.

1371, William Tendryng on a commission to collect a subsidy in Suffolk. (S) CFRs.

2/15/1375, Writing of John Longeleye, son and heir of Robert Longeleye of Stokenaillond, being a quitclaim … Witnesses: William Tendryng, William Cheyne knights, … (S) CCRs.

1375, William de Tendring died; buried at Austin Friars Church, London, England.

[––Margaret––]

6/21/1377, Richard II, age 10, succeeded Edward III as King of England.

1394, Margaret died.

Family notes:

·         There is an early contemporary William de Tendring, with wife Margaret, of Essex and Suffolk. [Aft. 1305, the death of William’s grandfather, and bef. 1347, William still a minor.]

Children of William and Margaret:

i. William de Tendring (1477538), born 1349 in Suffolk, England.