The Creting Family
Adam de Creting
Nichola
de Crioll
This marriage had occurred by 1276, when a deed records an agreement between
Roger de Rolling (Nichola's stepfather) and "Adam de Cretinge and Nichola
his wife" (A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds vol 2
p551 Deed C.2362).
Nichola is named as Adam's wife in Adam's IPM.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I p384 (1912)
354.
ADAM DE CRETING alias
DE CRETYNGGE, DE CRETINGK.
Writ, 24 Sept. 26 Edw. I.
ESSEX. Inq. 30
June, 27 Edw. I.
Rumford in Haveryngge. The said Adam and Nichola his wife were
enfeoffed jointly of the manor by the king, to hold of him by service of
¼ knight’s fee, and the said Adam demised the manor to one Henry le
Convers of Winchester, to hold of him and his heirs by service of ¼
knight’s fee and 1d. yearly;
and the said Adam did the said service for his whole life to the king,
and died in his homage.
Many sources, both published and online, name a second wife of Adam to be
Juliana (Fitz Maurice) de Clare, the widow of Thomas de Clare. That Juliana
did marry an Adam de Creting in a plausible timeframe is well documented. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1281-1292
p463 is a grant dated 11 December 1291 allowing the widow Juliana to
remarry, and p476
dated 16 February 1292 refers to "Adam de Creting and Juliana his wife".
There is some doubt, however, that the Adam de Creting who married Juliana
is the same Adam de Creting that married Nichola. When the latter Adam died,
in Gascony in 1295, his IPM refers to "Nichola his wife", with no mention of
Juliana or any property in Ireland that Juliana had brought to the marriage.
A Feet
of Fines document dated 8 July 1290 is made out by both Adam and
Nichole his wife, so Nichole was living at least until that date. Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1281-1292
p492 refers to William, a son of the Irish-associated Adam that we
find no record of as a son of the Gascony Adam. In addition, we know that
the Gascony Adam died in 1295, but we find continued mention of Adam de
Creting holding offices in Ireland after this date, for example in Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1307-1313
p21 we see on 24 November 1307 a "grant, during pleasure, to Adam de
Cretyng’ of the office of clerk of the market (officium
custodie mercati) in Ireland." Of course it is possible that this
refers to a son of the Adam that died in 1295, but I think it is more likely
that there was one Adam who was sheriff of Cork in 1293-4, married Juliana,
and was the clerk of the market in 1307, and then a different Adam who owned
extensive lands in Suffolk and Huntingdonshire, married Nichola and died in
1295 in the war in Gascony.
Knight. Adam fought under
Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in Edward's invasion of Wales in 1277 (Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1272-1281
pp215-6). Adam accompanied King Edward to Gascony in 1286 (Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1281-1292
p247). He was marshal of the army in Gascony
in 1294-5. In a document dated 7 November 1294, Adam "has set out for
Gascony in the king’s service" (Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1288-1296
p375). His services there were evidently valuable enough that after
his death in Gascony the king gave Margaret and Catherine, Adam's unmarried
daughters, 200 pounds for their marriages "in consideration of their
father's services in Gascony" (Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1301-1307
p72).
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1292-1301
p333 (1895)
1298. Feb. 20.
Westminster.
The like to Robert son of Robert Debel of
Gydesham, for the death of Stephen le Lung of Fineton, as it appears by
letters patent of Adam de Cretinges, late marshal of the army in
Gascony, that he has done faithful service in those
parts. By p.s.
Earlier, Adam was bailiff of Queen
Eleanor's manor of Overton in Flintshire, Wales and allegedly
appropriated land from a neighboring manor in Shropshire, based on a dispute
where the county boundary lay. A lawsuit in 1314 attempted to recover the
land.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1313-1317
pp686-7 (1898)
1317. Feb. 26.
Clarendon.
Commission to Henry Spigurnel, Master John
Walewayn, William Trussel the elder and John de Trillowe on
representation by William le Butiller of Wemme, son and heir of William
le Butiller of Wemme, that his said father and his ancestors held the
manor of Dodynton, co. Salop, and all lands and tenements belonging to
it on his side of a stream, which is called ‘le Redebrok’ and which is
the reputed division between the said county and the Welshery (Walecheriam)
in those parts, according to English law and not Welsh, until Adam de
Cretynges, sometime bailiff of queen Eleanor of her manor of Overton in
the Welshery contiguous to the said stream and opposite the manor of
Dodynton, which manor of Overton the late king granted to her to hold at
will, took possession of 100 acres of land and waste of the said William
le Butiller, the father, on his side of the stream, belonging to the
manor of Dodynton, and appropriated the same to the manor of Overton, by
pretext whereof the said land and waste were detained from the father
and are still detained from the son who has petitioned the king for
justice. The commissioners are to view the said land and waste and to
make a perambulation and division between the said county and the
Welshery, viz. between the said manors of Overton and Dodynton by their
ancient metes and bounds and also an inquisition upon the premises by
oath of knights and others of the said county and also of the county of
Stafford and of good men of the manor of Overton and parts of Ellesmere
and Bromfeld in the Welshery adjacent to the said manors and to certify
the king after such perambulation whether the land and waste is to be
considered to be within the said county according to English law, or
without the county in the Welshery according to Welsh law. The sheriffs
of the said counties, the king’s bailiffs of Overton and Ellesmere, and
John de Warenna, earl of Surrey, or his bailiffs of Bromfeld are to
render assistance.
By C.
Adam is referred to a knight a number of times in the Close
Rolls, most clearly on 27
December 1285 ("Sir Adam de Cretyng, knight"), but the earliest
reference I have found is on 28
May 1278.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1272-1279
p427 (1900)
1276. July 20.
Chester.
Walter
de Huntercumbe acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Kreting 60 marks; to
be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos.
Northumberland, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Buckingham, and Bedford.
A Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Deeds vol 2
p551 Deed C.2362 (1894)
Hunt. Essex. C.2362. Agreement between
Roger de Rollinge and Adam de Cretinge, and Nichola his wife, that
whereas the latter are bound to Roger in 200 marks to be paid in St.
Mary’s, Bissemede, as specified, in the years A.D. 1276, 1277 and 1278,
for a release which he had given to them of 35 marks yearly which they
paid for a tenement in Stocton and for lands, &c., at Havering; the
release shall remain in the hands of Sir Richard, prior of Bissemede,
and the lease of lands in Havering in the hands of John le Rus and John
the cook (coci), and if the money be duly paid the said release
and lease shall be given to Adam and Nichola in Roger’s presence;
otherwise they shall be returned to Roger and be void. [A.D.
1276.]
Also acknowledgment by Adam de Cretinge and Nichola his wife that
they are bound to deliver to Roger de Rollinge certain land and rents at
Havering if they fail in the above payments, &c. Damaged.
Endorsed: Deed poll by which Adam de Cretinge
acknowledges that he has taken upon himself the debt in which Roger de
Rollinge is bound to Bennet son of Master Elias, the Jew, of
London. [A.D. 1276.]
Calendar of inquisitions miscellaneous vol 1
p322 (1916)
1057.
Ipswich.
Writ to the bailiff of Eleanor the queen
mother of Havering. 13 April 5 Edward I. [1277.]
Extent of the lands and tenements in the town of Havering in the
parish of Romford held by Adam de Cretinge.
The said Adam holds of the king in chief in the town of Havering
and the parish of Romford 255 acres of land in demesne which he had of
the gift of Roger de Rollinge. He also holds in the same town of the
gift of the Earl Marshal a wood containing 100 acres for which he
renders to the king 5s. yearly and to the Earl Marshal 1d.
He also holds of the gift of Roger de Rollinge 5 acres of grove and 20
acres of land of the fee of Robert son of William de Uphavering to whom
he renders yearly 3d., and 40s. of yearly rent from the
heirs of Richard de Havering and 5s. of rent of the fee of
Richard de Helle. C. Inq. Misc. File 35.
(1.)
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1272-1281
pp215-6 (1901)
1277. June 25.
Woodstock.
Protection with clause volumus,
until Michaelmas, for Adam le Despenser, gone to Wales with Edmund, earl
of Cornwall.
The like for Adam de Creting.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1272-1279
pp441-2
(1900)
1278. Feb. 4.
Dover.
To the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Notification that the king has,
at the instance of Adam de Creting, pardoned Roger de Rolling, late
sub-escheator in co. Cambridge and Huntingdon, 19 marks 6s.
8d, of the 39 marks in which
Roger is indebted to the king for the arrears of the issues of his
escheatry, which are exacted from Adam by reason of certain lands in his
hands of Roger’s grant within the precinct of the manor of Havering, and
order to cause Roger to be acquitted of the said 19 marks 6s.
8d. and to cause him to have
respite for the remainder of the 39 marks until a month from Easter
next, so that the king, when certified of the extent of the said land,
may cause to be done herein what shall seem fit by his council.
p497
1278. May 28.
Westminster.
Adam de
Creting, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Hugh le Poste and Hugh
Pape, merchant, 40 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his
lands and chattels in cos. Norfolk and Suffolk. To do this he found as
sureties John de Cameys and John le Estrange, who made like
acknowledgment; to be levied, in Adam’s default, of their lands in co.
Cambridge.
p564
1279. May 10.
Westminster.
Adam de
Creting, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Nutus, merchant of
Florence, and Burgensis his brother 20l.;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co.
Kent.
The said Adam acknowledges that he owes to Ralph le Mareschal 14
marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels.
Cancelled.
p573
1279. Sept. 8.
Nottingham.
Adam de
Kreting acknowledges that he owes to John de Beda, clerk, 12 marks; to
be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos.
Norfolk and Suffolk.
Cancelled
on payment.
p577
1279. Oct. 18.
Westminster.
John de
Falsham acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Creting 25 marks; to be
levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels.
p581
1279. Oct. 22.
Westminster.
Hamo
Hauteyn, Robert de Ludham, Robert de Valoynes, Henry de Wynton[ia], and
Adam de Creting acknowledge that they owe to Bartholomew de Castello 100l.; to be levied, in default of
payment, of his lands and chattels.
Memorandum, that Robert
de Valoynes, the younger, came into chancery and acknowledged that he
owed to Bartholomew for the same Adam and the others 50l.;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co.
Suffolk. And thus Adam owes only 50l.
Adam de Cretinge acknowledges that he owes to Hamo Hautayn,
Robert de Ludham, Robert de Valoynes, and Henry de Wynton[ia] 100l.;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels.
Memorandum, that
Richard de Valoynes, the younger, acknowledges, for the said Adam, that
he owes to the said Hamo, Robert, Robert and Henry 50l.;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co.
Suffolk.
Vacated,
above because.
Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of
European History vol 4 no.3 pp22-3 (1897)
2. FROM
THE ENGLISH HUNDRED ROLLS, A. D. 1279.
Rotuli Hundredorum, II, 862, 673, and 681 ff. Latin.
... Sir Adam de Cretinges holds and accounts in the vill of Stoughton,
for four knights’ fees from the bishop of Lincoln, and the bishop from
the king. The same Adam holds by homage and scutage, when it runs, and
has in demesne 13 score acres of arable land and 3 messuages of 2 acres,
and 40 acres of woods and 7 acres of meadow and 10 acres of separable
pasture.
11 villains, each with a virgate of 20
acres, a house and some meadow, and each performing certain weekly
works, ploughing, etc.
16 cottars, each with a cottage and a
rood of land, and each paying 12d. a year and performing certain labor.
1 cottar with a half acre, and 2 with
houses only.
Sir Anselm de Gyse holds and accounts for two knights’ fees, from
the same Adam for half a mark a year and for scutage when it happens;
and he has in his garden, with a house and vineyard, 6 acres of land;
and of arable land 13 score acre,s and in meadows 7 acres, and in
separable pasture 10 acres and in woods 8 acres.
6 villains, each with 20 acres, etc., as
above.
The prior of Bissemede holds one knight’s fee from the said
Anselm and pays to him scutage when it happens. The same prior has in
his garden with the house 8 acres, and 5 score acres of arable land, and
8 acres of woods and 8 acres of meadow, and 6 acres of separable
pasture.
5 free tenants with a total of 63¼ acres
of arable land, etc.
3 villains with a total of 1¼ virgates.
5 cottars each with a cottage.
Geoffrey, son of Everard of Stoughton holds half a knight’s fee
from the said Anselm for homage and foreign service, and has in demesne
6 score acres of arable land, and in garden with a messuage one acre and
a half and 4 acres of woods and 2 acres of separable pasture.
1 free holder with 6 acres.
William Schohisfoot holds the twelfth part of one knight’s fee
from the aforesaid Anselm for homage and foreign service, and has in
garden with the house one acre and a a half, and in arable land 20
acres, and 3 acres of meadow; and he ought to have common with his
beasts in the meadow which is called Mora.
William Dingle holds from the said William one acre and a half of
land, and pays annually 1d.
Various free and villein tenants holding
immediately and mediately from Sir Adam de Cretinges.
Feet of Fines Essex vol 2 p25 (1928)
8 EDWARD I.
1279-1280.
131.
Mich.* Henry de Wynton', pi. Adam de Cretyng’ and Nichola his wife, def.
Manor of Rumford with appurts. Plea of covenant. Pl. to hold of def. and
the heirs of Adam by the yearly rent of 1d. at Easter and doing
therefor the service of a fourth part of 1 knight’s fee, for all
service, custom and exaction, and doing all other services to the chief
lords of that fee. Cons., 40 marks of silver. And this agreement was
made with the assent and will of the King, who granted it.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1279-1288
p51 (1902)
1280. May 27.
Westminster.
Adam de
Creting acknowledges that he owes to Nutus, merchant of Florence, and to
Burgesius, his brother 39 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of
his lands and chattels in co. Huntingdon.
p120
1281. May 11.
Westminster.
Benedict
de Rolleston acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Creting 200l.;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co.
Leicester.
Cancelled on
payment.
p184
1282. April 11.
Devizes.
Adam de
Creting, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Master Adam de Crokedak 10
marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in
co. Suffolk.
p188
1282. June 12.
Chester.
Walter
de Huntingcumbe acknowledges that he owes to Ranulph Folejambe 10 marks;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in cos.
Cambridge and Bedford.
The said Walter acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Kreting 60
marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in
co. Northumberland.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1281-1292
p142 (1893)
1284. May 25.
Carnarvon.
The like [commission of oyer and terminer]
to Thomas de Weyland and J, de Luvetot, touching an appeal which
William Luveday brings in the county of Suffolk against Adam de
Cretynge for robbery.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1279-1288
p377 (1902)
1285. June 25.
Westminster.
Adam de
Creting’ acknowledges that he owes to Bartholomew de Castello 60 marks;
to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co.
Norfolk.
Cancelled on
payment.
p408
1285. Dec. 27.
Exeter.
Enrolment of grant by Peter de Grenham, knight, and Eleanor, his wife,
to Sir Adam de Cretyng, knight, of the manor of Woburneford, co. Devon:
to hold of the chief lords of the fee. Witnesses: Sir Hamo Hauteyn, Sir
William Giffard, Sir Peter de Huntingfeld, Sir Robert de Cokefeld, Sir
William de Royng, Sir Hugh Peverel, Sir Thomas du Pyn, Sir Richard de
Heydon, knights; William de Bosco, William de Godescote, William de
Boycote, Thomas Poleyn, Walter Poleyn, William le Engleys, Walter le
Engleys, his brother.
Memorandum, that Peter
acknowledged the aforesaid deed.—John de Vescy received the
acknowledgment, and ordered it to be enrolled.
Philip Denebaud acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Creting 10
marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in
co. Somerset.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1281-1292
p247 (1893)
Letters for John de Hodeliston, going beyond
seas with Henry de Lacy, earl of Lincoln, nominating Adam de Naylford
his attorney in England until All Saints.
The like for the following persons going with the king beyond seas:—
Persons. Nominees. Period.
...
1286. May 16.
Westminster.
Adam de Cretinges - Thomas de Cretinges - Henry son of William de Sancto
Edmundo - One year
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1288-1296
p111 (1904)
1289. Nov. 26.
Frompton.
Adam de
Cretingg’ acknowledges that he owes to Agnes, daughter of Robert de la
Lese, 40 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in co. Huntingdon.
Cancelled
on payment.
p113
1290. Jan. 2.
Westminster.
Adam de
Cretinge acknowledges that he owes to Roger de Grimeston and Juliana,
his wife, 40 marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands
and chattels in co. Suffolk.
Feet
of Fines: CP 25/1/285/24
CP 25/1/285/24,
number 206
Link: Image
of document at AALT
County: Suffolk.
Huntingdonshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from St
John the Baptist, 18 Edward I [8 July 1290].
Parties: Richard
de Sutton' and Isabel,
his wife, demandants, and Adam de
Cretyng' and Nichole,
his wife, tenants.
Property: A third part of 6
messuages, of 400 acres of land, of 30 acres of meadow, of 100 shillings
of rent, of 80 acres of wood, of 1 windmill and of 1 water-mill in Barewe by Sc'm
Edmundu', Hegham, Saxham and Fornham
of St Genevieve.
Action: Plea.
Agreement: Richard and
Isabel have acknowledged the third part of the tenements to be the right
of Adam, and have remised and quitclaimed it from themselves to Adam and
Nichole and the heirs of Adam for ever.
For this: Adam and Nichole have granted for themselves and
the heirs of Adam that they shall render each year to Richard and Isabel
for the life of Isabel 6 marks of silver at 2 terms, to wit, a moiety at
the feast of All Saints and the other moiety at the feast of the Nativity
of St John the Baptist. And after the decease of Isabel, Adam and Nichole
and the heirs of Adam shall be quit of the payment of the 6 marks a year
for ever. Richard and Isabel will have the right to distrain in the manor
of Stokton' in the county of
Huntingdon.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1288-1296
p139 (1904)
1290. July 10.
Westminster.
Richard
de Byboyf acknowledges that he owes to Adam de Cretyng 800 marks; to be
levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in co. Derby.
p233
1292. June 15.
Berwick-on-Tweed.
To the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to acquit Adam de Creting
of 13l. 9s.
7d. of the 26l.
19s. 2d.
in which he is bound to the king’s exchequer for Roger de Rolling, as
the king has pardoned him.
p255-6
1292. Feb. 6.
Westminster.
Adam de
Cretinge acknowledges that he owes to John de Creppinge 11 marks; to be
levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels.
... Adam de Creting acknowledges that he owes to Walter de Agmodesham 12
marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and chattels in
co. Norfolk.
p258
1292. Feb. 6.
Westminster.
Adam de
Creting, knight, acknowledges that he owes to Alan de Thornton, clerk,
13½ marks; to be levied, in default of payment, of his lands and
chattels in cos. Suffolk and Essex.
p384
1294. March 25.
Ipswich.
Adam de
Creting and John, his son, came before the king, on Saturday after SS.
Tiburtius and Valerian, and sought to replevy their land in Barwe,
Saxham and Fomeham, which was taken into the king’s hands for their
default before the justices of the Bench against Norman Darcy and
Margery his wife. This is signified to the said justices.
p375
1294. Nov. 7.
The Tower.
To
Malcolm de Harlegh, escheator this side Trent. Order to deliver to Adam
de Fuleham, as attorney of Adam de Creting, who has set out for Gascony
in the king’s service by his order, the lands that belonged to Philip
Burnel, tenant in chief, deceased, in Esthammes, co. Essex, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Adam de Creping
recovered against Philip, before the steward and marshal, a debt of 120l. 1s.
8d., and that he had seisin of Philip’s lands in Esthammes, which are
extended at 39l. 7s.
0d. by his said attorney by
delivery from the sheriff of that county, to hold until he should be
satisfied for his debt, which lands have been taken into the king’s
hands by reason of Philip’s death.
The
History and Antiquities of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred p10 (John
Gage, 1838)
Sir
Adam de Creting held, jointly with Nicola his wife, half a knight’s fee
in Barrow, which appears to have been principally acquired from the
Giffards, and in respect of which, in the fourteenth year of Edward I.
he exercised manorial rights, taking a deodand on the death of Thomas de
Lincoln, who was accidentally killed within the manor. The greater part
of the lands was held of the Earl Marshal, while part was held of the
honor of Clare.
Sir Adam de Creting, miles
admodum probus, attended the King in his expedition to Gascony,
and was slain by the treachery of Walter Giffard in the twenty-third
year of Edward I. He left Sir John de Creting his son and heirz,
a minor, who was with his father at the time of his death, and was
himself then made prisoner.
z It was found by an inquisition taken at
Barrow in the twenty-fourth year of Edw. I. that Sir Adam de Creting, at
the time of his decease, held in the town of Barrow his manor of William
Giffard and Katharine his wife, and that his capital messuage, with the
appurtenances, was worth iiij s.: that he also held of the same, two
hundred and forty acres of arable land, worth lx s.—per acre iij d.; and
one acre and a half of meadow worth iij s.; half an acre of pasture
worth vj d.; twenty-three acres of wood, of which he could cut every
year eight acres and one rood, worth xxiiij s. at ix d. per acre: one
windmill worth x s. Also, in Fornham, a watermill worth xx s., and six
acres of meadow worth vj s.; five acres of pasture worth ij s. vj d. per
acre; xliij s. rent in Fornham, Risby, and Barewe. That there was a
custom for ploughing called Lovebene,
worth xiij d. and a custom for ploughing called Cornbote,
worth iiij d.; another custom for ploughing called Dongherye
and Harewingherye, worth xv d.
besides other works and customs, worth together iiij l. vij s. iiij d.
Rents of hens at Christmas, viij s.; rents of eggs at Easter, iiijxx.
xix. worth ij d. ob.—j lb. of pepper at Christmas worth x d. That all
these lands were holden of William Giffard and Katharine by the service
of xvij s. x d. and j lb. of pepper, and by the service of a sixth part
of one knight’s fee and a half: that Sir Adam held of the sacrist of St.
Edmund xliiij. acres of land in Saxham, worth xiiij s. viij d.—per acre
iiij d.: four acres of pasture, per acre ij s. and six acres of wood,
worth iiij s. vj d. paying yearly to the sacrist xij d.: that he also
held by scutage of the Earl of Gloucester, in Barewe and Higham, iiijxx.
xv. acres of arable land worth xxiiij s.: and that Sir John de Creting,
son and heir of Sir Adam, was twenty years of age. Inq. p.m. 24
Edw. I. n. 47.
A further inquisition was taken in the same year at Cateshall, at
the instance of Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, whereby it
was found that Adam de Creting held his manor of Barewe of Earl Roger by
the service of a fourth part of two knights’ fees. Esc. 24 Edw. I.
n. 47.
The Manors of Suffolk vol 7 p10 (Walter
Arthur Copinger, 1911)
FELTON MANOR.
Felton Manor was held in 1274 by Sir Adam de Creting jointly with
Nicola his wife, having been acquired from the Giffards. The manor was
held of Barrow Hall Manor, but an inquisition held at the instance of
Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, found that “the Manor of Barrow” was held
by Adam de Creting of Earl Roger by the service of a fourth part of a
knight’s fee.
The extent of the manor was 240 acres of arable land with 60s. (per acre 3d.),
and 1½ acre of meadow with 3s.,
half an acre of pasture with 6d.,
23 acres of wood of which 8 acres 1 rood could be cut every year, 8
acres 1 rood worth 24s. 9d. per acre, and one windmill worth
10s. The capital messuage with
the appurtenances was found to be worth 4s.
The manor was undoubtedly at the time held of William Giffard and
Katherine his wife. Sir Adam de Creting was slain in 1295, and left Sir
John, his son and heir, a minor, and Hawise his mother, and his uncle,
Sir Edward de Creting (who was tenant for life of the manor by gift from
his deceased brother) held the fee till 1346.
A
History of the County of Huntingdon vol 2 pp354-369 (1932)
GREAT
STAUGHTON
The lands south of the village apparently belonged to the chief manor,
the manor house of which stood in the moated inclosure about a mile
south-west of the church, now known as the Old Manor Farm. Here stood an
interesting fortified manor house built probably about 1274 by Adam de
Creting, which for nearly four centuries was the home of the Cretings
and Wautons. The site has been already described. The earthworks with
double moats and the buildings were of great strength and withstood what
was practically a siege in 1624.
Adam de Cretynge appears in The Three Vows of Fitz Aucher. A Legend of the Forest
of Essex., a work of historical fiction written in 1831 about
the trial of a poacher in Essex. In the story, two bondsmen of Adam's, from
his manot at Romford, are found guilty of eating some of the left over
venison, and released into Adam's custody.
p333
while the two
bondsmen, who were found to belong to Adam de Cretynge, holder of the
manor of Romford, on tenure of finding “pannage” for the royal swine,
were consigned to the custody of their master; and heartily did he swear
by the holy cross of Waltham, as he paid down the fine inflicted on
those who appropriated found venison to their own use, instead of giving
due notice to the verderer, that they should ere long have oaken sauce
to their venison.
When an old forester complains that the poacher's sentence should have been
harsher, Adam notes the lack of strong evidence:
p334
“No, times are
changed,” continued he, “or those two bondsmen had made their last meal
on that venison, and that perilous outlaw, who catered so daintily for
them, had hung, ere now, a goodly acorn on yon oak.”
“But,” retorted Adam de Cretynge; “ye say, ye have never seen
more than the plume in his bonnet, or the skirt of his frock.”
“And that had been enow in the old time,” replied Ranulph
8 April 1295, in Rions, Gascony,
slain as a result of a betrayal by Walter Giffard, during the French
counter-attack and capture of the town.
Adam "has set out for Gascony in the king’s service" according to a document
dated 7 November 1294 (Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1288-1296
p375), and is listed as deceased in a document dated 16 November 1295
(Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1292-1301
p156). A later document states that he died "on the king’s service in
Gascony" (Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1302-1307
p264).
Chronica Monasterii S. Albanii 1259-1307 p149
(William Rishanger - ed. Henry Thomas Riley, 1865)
Acta in Wasconia.
Eodem anno, Karolus, germanus Regis Franciæ Wasconiam ingressus
cum exercitu, Risuncium obsedit, et, fugiente ejus capitaneo, Johanne
de Britannia, cum Roberto Tipetot paucis relictis as tuitionem villæ
militibus, feria quinta in hebdomada Pasche cepit; militesque ibi
repertos, scilicet, Radulphum de Touy, Anutum de Sancto Amando, cum
fratre suo, Radulphum de Gorges, Regerum de Leyburne, et Johannem de
Cretyngge, cum militibus tresdecim, et scutiferis trigenta tribus,
Parisius captivos transmisit. Occisus est ibi Adam de Cretynge, miles
admodum probus, proditione cujusdam militis, nomine “Walteri ,”
cognomento “Giffardi"; qui, factus transfuga, moratus est in Galliis
annis multis.
which roughly translates as:
Actions
in Gascony
In the same year, Charles, the German King of France, entered
Gascony with his army, and besieged Risuncius, whose captain, John de
Brittany fled with Robert Tipetot leaving only a few soldiers as
protection of the village, and took it on the fifth day of the week during
Easter; and the soldiers found there, namely, Ralph de Touy, Anutus of
Saint Amand, with his brother, Ralph de Gorges, kings of Leyburne, and
John of Cretyngge, with thirteen soldiers, and thirty-three squires, as
prisoners of war at Paris. There was slain there Adam de Cretynge, a very
upright soldier, by the betrayal of a certain soldier named Walter,
nicknamed Giffard, who, after becoming a deserter, lived in Gaul for many
years.
The Political History of England vol 3
1216-1377 p191 (T. F. Tout, 1920)
THE GASCON CAMPAIGN OF 1295.
It was inevitable that the Welsh war should have reduced to
slender proportions the expedition of John of Brittany and John of St.
John for the recovery of Gascony. After a tedious voyage the English
expedition sailed up the Gironde late in October, 1294. Their forces,
strong enough to capture Bourg and Blaye, were not sufficient to attack
Bordeaux. Leaving the capital in the hands of its conquerors, the
English sailed past Bordeaux to Rions, where they disembarked. The small
towns of the neighbourhood were taken and garrisoned, and the Gascon
lords began to flock to the camp of their duke. Before long the army was
large enough to be divided. John of Brittany remained at Rions, while
John of St. John marched overland to Bayonne. The French garrison was
unable to overpower the enthusiasm of the Bayonnais for Edward, and the
capture of the second town of Gascony was the greatest success attained
by the invaders. With the spring of 1295, however, Charles of Valois,
brother of the King of France, was sent to operate against John of
Brittany. The English and Gascons found themselves unable to make head
against him. There was ill-feeling between the two nations that made up
the army, and also between the nobly-born knights and men-at-arms and
the foot soldiers. The infantry mutinied, and John of Brittany fled by
night down the river from Rions, leaving many of his knights and all his
horses and armour in the town. Next day Rions opened its gates to
Charles of Valois, who gained immense spoils and many distinguished
prisoners. Save for the capture of Bayonne, the expedition had been a
disastrous failure.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I pp215-6 (1912)
354.
ADAM DE CRETING alias
DE CRETINGE.
Writ, 8 Feb. 24 Edw. I.
HUNTINGDON. Inq.
Monday after St. Matthias, 24 Edw. I.
Great Stocton, Blayesworth and la More. The manor (extent
given) with the advowson of the church of St. Andrew, Great Stocton,
held of the bishop of Lincoln in chief by service of 4 knights’ fees
pertaining to his manor of Bockeden, co. Huntingdon.
John his son, aged 17, is his next heir.
HUNTINGDON. Inq.
Friday the feast of St. Laurence, 24 Edw. I.
Great Stocton, Blayesworth and la More. The manor (extent
given) with the advowson of the church of Great Stocton, held as above.
Heir as above, aged 19.
SUFFOLK. Inq. 8
March, 24 Edw. I. (and duplicate).
Barewe. A manor (extent given), including a water-mill, 6a.
meadow and 5a. pasture in
Fomham, 43s. 7d.
yearly rent in Fornham, Riseby and Barewe, customs of ploughing called
‘lovebene,’ ‘cornbote,’ ‘dongherye’ and ‘harewingherye’ and a custom of
hoeing called ‘lovebene,’ held of Sir William Giffard and Catherine his
wife by service of 17s. 10d. and 1lb.
pepper yearly, and by service of a sixth part of 1½ knight’s fee for
scutage, when it shall happen.
Saxham. 44a. arable, 4a. pasture and 6a.
wood, held of the sacristan of St. Edmund’s, paying him 12d.
yearly.
Barewe and Heyham. 96a.
arable, held of the earl of Gloucester, paying him 6s.
8d. for scutage when it
happens.
Sir John his son, aged 20, is his next heir.
Writ of plenius certiorari
on the representation Roger le Bygod, earl of Norfolk and marshal of
England, that Adam de Creting held the manor of Barewe co. Suffolk, of
him in chief by knight’s service, wherefore the wardship and marriage of
the heir pertains to him, 10 July, 24 Edw. I.
SUFFOLK. Inq.
made at Cattishale on Monday before All Saints, 24 Edw. I.
Barewe. The said Adam held the manor of Sir Roger le Bygod,
earl of Norfolk and marshal of England, by service of a fourth part of 2
knights’ fees.
Heir as above, aged 21 and more.
The manor is in the king’s hand and Thomas de Creting has
the custody thereof from the treasurer and barons of the exchequer.
C.
Edw. I. File 75. (15.)
pp384-6
492.
ADAM DE CRETING alias
DE CRETYNGGE, DE CRETINGK.
Writ, 24 Sept. 26 Edw. I.
ESSEX. Inq. 30
June, 27 Edw. I.
Rumford in Haveryngge. The said Adam and Nichola his wife were
enfeoffed jointly of the manor by the king, to hold of him by service of
¼ knight’s fee, and the said Adam demised the manor to one Henry le
Convers of Winchester, to hold of him and his heirs by service of ¼
knight’s fee and 1d. yearly;
and the said Adam did the said service for his whole life to the king,
and died in his homage.
HUNTINGDON. Inq.
Friday before SS. Simon and Jude, 26 Edw. I.
Great Stokton. The manor (extent given), including a pasture
called ‘la More’ held by the gift &c. of William de Keryel, who held
the same of the bishop of Lincoln in chief by service of 4 knights’ fees
by doing scutage to the bishop when it runs.
John his son is his next heir, age unknown because he was born at
Strogul in Wales.
SUFFOLK. Inq.
26 Oct. 26 Edw. I.
Barewe. The manor (extent given).
Fornham. A water-mill, 6a.
meadow, and 5a. pasture.
Barewe, Ryseby and Fornham. 43s.
7d. yearly rent.
All held of Sir William Gyffard and Catherine his wife by service
of 17s. 10d.
and 1lb. pepper, and by service
of a sixth part of
1½ knight’s fee for scutage when it shall happen.
Saxham. 44a. arable, 4a. pasture and 6a.
wood, held of the sacristan of St. Edmunds, rendering 12d.
yearly.
Barewe and Heyham. 96a.
arable held of the earl of Gloucester, rendering 6s.
8d. for scutage when it shall
happen.
Sir John de Cretingge his son, aged 24 and more, is his next
heir.
SALOP AND MAYLIOR SEISNEK.
Inq. Friday before St. Martin,
26 Edw. I.
Overton in Mayliorseysnek. 22a.
arable, 21½a. fallow, 8 free
tenants (named), and an eighth part of a water-mill, held of the king in
chief as of the crown by service of 5s. 6½d.
to be paid to the king’s bailiff at Overton yearly, and doing suit every
month at the king’s court of Flynt, and every three weeks at the king’s
court of Overton, and foreign service as other free tenants of the manor
do for the defence of the country, and for heriot 7s.
6d. and for leirwite 5s.
when it happens.
Heir as last above.
Writ ad melius inquirendum
because it is not contained in the above inquisition whether the said
Adam held the lands &c. in Overton by knight’s service or in socage,
nor by what service they were held before they were annexed to the
county of Flint, 27 March, 27 Edw. I.
SALOP. Inq.
Friday in Easter week, 27 Edw. I.
Overton in Maelorsaesnek. The said Adam held his tenements of the
king in chief by service of 1/20 knight’s fee.
One Kenewreik ap Jonas held the same tenements at one time of Griffin ap
Madoc by Welshry, who held the whole manor of Overton of the king in
chief by knight’s service; but the said Adam held those tenements of the
king in chief by knight’s service for two years and more before they
were annexed to the county of Flint.
Writ of certiorari,
because the above inquisition makes no mention of whom the said Adam
acquired the said tenements, and whether by reason of these lands the
wardship of the lands which he held of other lords in England ought to
pertain to the king through the minority of his heir, or not, 28 May, 27
Edw. I.
SALOP. Inq.
Saturday before St. Margaret, 27 Edw. I.
Overton in Maylorseysnek. One Griffin ap Madok sometime held the
whole manor of the king in chief by knight’s service, and one Kenewreyk
ap Eonas held the abovesaid tenement of him by Welshry, but being
outlawed for the death of one Madok ap Rerid whom he slew, the said
tenement came to the king’s hand by escheat, and the said Adam acquired
it of the king to hold by knight’s service; but whether the wardship of
lands which the said Adam held of other lords in England ought to
pertain to the king or not, the jurors know not, nor will they be judges
upon tenures held elsewhere.
C.Edw.I.
File 86. (16.)
Calendar of Fine Rolls vol 1 Edward I 1272-1307
p362 (1911)
1295. Nov. 8.
Udimore.
Order to
the sheriff of Suffolk to take into the king’s hand the goods late of
Adam de Cretyng, deceased, who was held to the king in divers debts, and
to certify the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer of the value
thereof on the morrow of St. Nicholas next.
The like to the sheriff of Huntingdon.
p369
1296. Jan. 19.
Bury St. Edmunds.
Order to
the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to commit to Thomas de
Cretingges the lands late of Adam de Cretynges, taken into the king’s
hand after his death, to keep during pleasure, answering for the issues
at the Exchequer.
p404
1298. Sept. 24.
Stanwix.
Order to
Walter de la Haye, escheator in Ireland, to take into the king’s hand
the lands late of Adam de Cretinges, deceased, tenant in chief.
The like to the escheator beyond Trent.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1296-1302
p45 (1906)
1297. July 19.
Westminster.
To
Malcolm de Harleye, escheator this side Trent. Order not to intermeddle
further with the lands that belonged to Adam de Creting, as the king
learns by inquisition taken by the escheator that Adam at his death held
nothing of the king in chief by reason whereof the wardship of his lands
ought to pertain to the king. He is ordered to retain in the king’s
hands the lands that Adam held of Joan, countess of Gloucester and
Hertford, until otherwise ordered.
The like to the treasurer and barons of the exchequer.
Catherine de Creting
Adam
de Creting
Nichola
(de Crioll) de Creting
In 1300, at the proof of age of Thomas de Longvillers, the king offered
Thomas to marry one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges. Thomas "on
seeing the said daughters" agreed to marry Catherine's elder sister, Maud.
Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and
Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 (ed. William Brown, 1902)
LXXXIIa,
THOMAS DE LONGEVILERS, BROTHER AND
HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGVILERS.
Proof of age.
[Curia Regis. 28 EDW.
I. No. 158]
... The
heir being asked whether he was married or not, says no. On this the
Treasurer gives evidence that the lord King had offered the heir one of
the daughters of Adam de Cretingges, deceased, and that the heir, on
seeing the said daughters, agreed to marry the eldest. And whereas the
said Thomas has sufficiently proved his age before the lord King, and as
it also appears by the appearance of the heir’s body that he is of full
age, namely twenty-one years, and has also agreed to the said marriage
offered him by the King, as is aforesaid, therefore let the said heir
have seisin of the lands and tenements falling to him from his
inheritance.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1301-1307
p72 (1895)
1302. Nov. 15.
Westminster.
Grant to Margaret and Catherine, daughters
of Adam de Cretyng, deceased, in consideration of their father's
services in Gascony, of 200l by
the hands of the escheator this side Trent, out of the first issues of
custodies or wards that fall in, for their marriages therewith.
By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1302-1307
p264 (1908)
1305. May 8.
Langley.
To the
said escheator. Order to pay to Katharine, daughter of Adam de Cretyngg,
who died in the king’s service in Gascony, 50 marks from the issues of
his bailiwick, as the king granted to her out of charity a suitable
exhibition to be received from his wardrobe until he should cause her to
be suitably married, and he afterwards granted to her by her assent for
the exhibition and marriage 200 marks, whereof he has caused 150 to be
paid to her.
By K. on the information of W. bishop of
Coventry and Lichfield.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1313-1317
p146 (1898)
1314. April 13.
Peterborough.
Commission of oyer and terminer to Gilbert
de Roubiry, Henry Spygurnel and John de Foxle, on complaint by Katherine
de Cretingge that Christiana, prioress of Haliwelle, Margaret le Vernon
and Alice Romeyn, nuns of that house, brother Peter Lambyn and brother
John Peseventre, lay brethren of the house, Richard de Derteford, parson
of the church of Welewes, Matthew le Clerk and Thomas le Peletre,
carried away her goods at Scordiche, co. Middlesex, and also a writing,
by which John de Cretingge was bound to her in 40l.
a year until she should be married.
By fine of 2
marks made before the Council.
John de Creting
Striguil,
Monmouthshire, Wales
Adam de Creting
Nichola
(de Crioll) de Creting
John was the heir of his father, as stated in his father's IPMs in 1296 at Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I pp215-6 and pp384-6
in which John's age is variously stated as 17, 19, 20, 21 in IPMs held in 24
Edward I (i.3. 1295-6) and in IPMs held in 26 Edward I (i.e. 1297-8)
his age is "unknown because he was born at Strogul in Wales", and 24.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1288-1296
p384 (1904)
1294. March 25.
Ipswich.
Adam de
Creting and John, his son, came before the king, on Saturday after SS.
Tiburtius and Valerian, and sought to replevy their land in Barwe,
Saxham and Fomeham, which was taken into the king’s hands for their
default before the justices of the Bench against Norman Darcy and
Margery his wife. This is signified to the said justices.
John fought with and under his father in the Gascon
campaign and was taken prisoner at Rions in 1295. He was held at the
king's prison in Paris at least until 1298 (Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1292-1301
p362-3) and probably until 1300 when he returned to England and did
homage to the king for the lands that he had inherited on his father's death
in March of that year (Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1296-1302
p383).
Chronica Monasterii S. Albanii 1259-1307 p149
(William Rishanger - ed. Henry Thomas Riley, 1865)
Acta in Wasconia.
Eodem anno, Karolus, germanus Regis Franciæ Wasconiam ingressus
cum exercitu, Risuncium obsedit, et, fugiente ejus capitaneo, Johanne
de Britannia, cum Roberto Tipetot paucis relictis as tuitionem villæ
militibus, feria quinta in hebdomada Pasche cepit; militesque ibi
repertos, scilicet, Radulphum de Touy, Anutum de Sancto Amando, cum
fratre suo, Radulphum de Gorges, Regerum de Leyburne, et Johannem de
Cretyngge, cum militibus tresdecim, et scutiferis trigenta tribus,
Parisius captivos transmisit. Occisus est ibi Adam de Cretynge, miles
admodum probus, proditione cujusdam militis, nomine “Walteri ,”
cognomento “Giffardi"; qui, factus transfuga, moratus est in Galliis
annis multis.
which roughly translates as:
Actions
in Gascony
In the same year, Charles, the German King of France, entered
Gascony with his army, and besieged Risuncius, whose captain, John de
Brittany fled with Robert Tipetot leaving only a few soldiers as
protection of the village, and took it on the fifth day of the week during
Easter; and the soldiers found there, namely, Ralph de Touy, Anutus of
Saint Amand, with his brother, Ralph de Gorges, kings of Leyburne, and
John of Cretyngge, with thirteen soldiers, and thirty-three squires, as
prisoners of war at Paris. There was slain there Adam de Cretynge, a very
upright soldier, by the betrayal of a certain soldier named Walter,
nicknamed Giffard, who, after becoming a deserter, lived in Gaul for many
years.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1296-1302
p340 (1906)
1298. Sept. 24.
Stanwix. (Staynewegg’)
To
Walter de Gloucestr[ia], escheator beyond Trent. Whereas the king
understands that the escheator took into the king’s hands the lands of
John de Creting’, who was lately captured in the king’s service in
Gascony and who is in the prison of the king of France, because he was
given to understand that John was dead, and the king now learns by
sufficient testimony that John is alive : he orders the escheator to
deliver John’s lands to John de Berewyk, king’s clerk, together with the
issues received from them, to be kept for the use of the said John de
Cretyng’ until the king shall otherwise order.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1292-1301
p362-3 (1895)
1298. Sept. 24.
Stanwix.
Notification that John de Cretinges, son and heir of Adam de Cretinges,
lately taken prisoner in Gascony, and still detained, is alive in the
prison of the king of France; made lest any one, under colour of his
supposed death, should attempt anything against him or his estate, or
touch anything belonging to him by hereditary right.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1296-1302
p383 (1906)
1300. March 17.
Westminster.
Memorandum,
that John, son and heir of Adam Creting, tenant in chief, did homage to
the king at Westminster, 9 March, for a quarter of a knight’s fee in
Ringeford, co. Essex, and for a twentieth of a knight’s fee in Overton
in the Welshery (Walecheria).
p340
1300. March 28.
Westminster.
To John
Wogan, justiciary of Ireland. Order to cause John de Cretyng, son and
heir of Adam de Cretyng, to have seisin of the lands whereof his father
at his death was seised in his demesne as of fee, together with the
issues thereof received since they were taken into the king’s hands, as
the king has taken his homage for all the lands that his father held of
him in England and Ireland.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1302-1307
pp476-7 (1908)
1306. Nov. 22.
Lanercost.
To the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order not to distrain Thomas de
Cretyng to render account at the exchequer of the issues of the lands
that belonged to Adam de Cretyng, which the king committed to him on 10
January, in the twenty-fourth year of his reign, during pleasure by writ
of the exchequer, as the king, on 12 November, in the twenty-sixth year
of his reign, upon being given to understand upon trustworthy testimony
that John de Cretyng, son and heir of Adam, had been captured in his
service in Gascony by men of the king of France and was alive in the
said king’s prison, ordered Walter de Gloucestria, escheator beyond
Trent, to resume into his hands all the lands that belonged to Adam at
his death, which the king had previously ordered to be delivered to O.
then bishop of Lincoln and Roger le Bygod, then earl of Norfolk and
marshal of England, because he learned by an inquisition taken by the
said Walter that Adam held of him in chief as of the crown at his death
and that John was his heir and of full age, for which reason first
seisin of all the said lands pertained to the king and to no other, and
to deliver them with the other lands that belonged to Adam to John de
Berewyco, the king’s clerk, to be kept for the use of the said John de
Cretyng, as appears by inspection of the rolls of chancery, and Thomas
has satisfied John de Berwyk for the issues aforesaid.
In July 1300, John participated in Edward I's siege
of Caerlaverock Castle in southern Scotland, and is mentioned in the
verse Siege of Caerlaverock, probably
written by Walter of Exeter, a monk in the 13th century, in which each noble
or knight present was named, his feats of valour described, and a poetic
blazon of his armorial bearings given.
|
|
The arms of John de Cretingues as
illustrated by a woodcut taken from the illuminations in the
margin of the copy of the Poem by Glover in the College of Arms
|
The
Siege of Carlaverock pp80-1 (Nicholas Harris Nicolas, 1828)
La gent mon seignour de Hastingues
Ou je vi Johan de Cretinquesr
En peril de perdre un cheval
Hant sour li un vint contre val
Esperounant au sagettez
Mes pas ne semble estre feintiez
Hi tant se haste au fait attaindre
En son blanc escu ot fait taindre
Un chiebron rouge a trois molettes
...
After these, the people of my Lord of Hastings assembled there,
where I saw John de Cretinques in danger of losing a horse. When upon
it, one came beneath pricking it with an arrow; but he did not seem to
be dissembling, he used such haste to strike him. On his white shield he
had caused to be depicted a red chevron with three mullets.
r Cretingues
John was given the king's protection (against legal action) in Ireland in
1300, nominating an Adam de Cretyng (who cannot be his father since that
Adam died in 1295) as his attorney. It is possibly a mis-transcription of
Adam de Cranesford who was appointed John's attorney in 1302.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1292-1301
p501 (1895)
1300. March 26.
Westminster.
Simple protection, for two years in Ireland,
for John de Cretyng, staying in England. By K.
Letters for him, nominating Adam de Cretyng his attorney in
Ireland.
p568
1301. Feb. 1.
Nettleham.
Protection, until a year after Easter, for
John de Cretyngg, going to Ireland. By the chancellor
on the testimony of J. de Benstede.
Letters for him, nominating John de Blayesworth his attorney.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1301-1307
p70 (1898)
1302. Nov. 5.
Westminster.
Letters for John de Creting, staying in
Ireland, nominating Adam de Cranesford his attorney in Ireland for two
years.
p105
1303. Jan. 11.
Odiham.
Letters for John de Cretyng, by reason of
his debility, nominating John de Bleysworth and John de la Hay his
attorneys for one year.
p331
1305. April 14.
Westminster.
Letters for John Cretyng, staying in
England, nominating Adam de Craneford his attorney in Ireland, for two
years.
By K. on the information of J. de Benstede.
Calendar of the Close Rolls Edward I 1302-1307
p297 (1908)
1305. Oct. 28.
Westminster.
To the
treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause John de Cretyng,
son and heir of Adam de Creting, knight, to be acquitted of 220 marks
exacted from him because his father received this sum from the king in
his wardship as a loan at the time when Adam [began] his journey into
Gascony by reason of the war there, as John has besought the king by his
petition to show him favour in this behalf, and the king has pardoned
him this sum.
By pet. before K. [410] on the information of
J. de Kirkeby.
(This petition can be found at the National
Archives SC 8/9/410)
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1301-1307
p536 (1898)
1307. June 28.
Caldcoates.
Protection with clause volumus,
in Ireland, for two years, for John de Crettingg, going to Scotland on
the king’s service.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1307-1313
p117 (1894)
1309. June 3.
Sheen.
John de Cretyng’, going beyond seas, has
letters nominating James Maylle and John de Bleyseworth his attorneys
for two years.
Calendar of the Charter Rolls vol 4 1-14 Edward III 1327-1341
p168 (1912)
1330. Feb. 24.
Guildford.
Grant,
of special grace, to John de Cretyng, and his heirs, of free warren in
all their demesne lands in Great Stokton, co. Huntingdon.
In 1332 John was summoned to Parliament and created a Baron, styled Lord
Creting, but this barony became extinct upon his death.
The Complete Peerage vol 3 p532 (George E.
Cokayne, 1913)
CRETING
BARONY BY WRIT.
I. 1332
I. John de Creting, s. and h. of Sir Adam de C., SherifF of Cork
1293, and Marshal of the English army in Gascony, 1294 (who was killed
at Risonce, 1295), possibly by Nicole his wife. He was b.
at Strigul (i.e. Chepstow), in
Wales, about 1275, being nearly of age at his father’s death; he served
under him in Gascony 1295, was captured by the French and taken to
Paris, being still a prisoner in France Sep. 1298. By Mar. 1299/1300 he
had been released and had done homage for his English and Irish lands.
He was sum. to Parl, on three occasions in one year, viz.
27 Jan., 20 July, and 20 Oct. (1332) 6 Edw. III, by writs directed Johanni de Cretyng, whereby he is
held to have become LORD CRETING. Except during the year 1332, neither
he nor any member of his family was ever sum. to Parl., and at his
death, the date of which has not been discovered, any Barony which may
be supposed to have been cr.
by the above writs is presumed to have become extinct.
The Siege of Carlaverock pp360-2 (Nicholas
Harris Nicolas, 1828)
JOHN DE CRETING.
[Page 78.]
There are several reasons for believing that this Knight was the
individual who many years afterwards was raised to the dignity of a
Baron of the realm; but notwithstanding that that circumstance
occasioned him to be noticed by Sir William Dugdale, few facts can be
stated of his life.
He was the son of Sir Adam de Creting, who died in the 24th Edw.
I. 1296, seised of lands in the counties of Essex, Huntingdon, Suffolk,
and Shropshire, and also in Wales. Two inquisitions were held on his
decease, one in the 24th Edw. I. and the other in the 27th Edw. I. by
the former of which John his son and heir was found to be seventeen, and
by the latter twenty-four years of age, a trifling discrepancy not
uncommon in those records. The precise time of his birth cannot
therefore be determined; but it evidently occurred between 1275 and
1279; and as he must have been of full age, if not a few years beyond it
when he was at the siege of Carlaverock, the first of those statements
is the most likely to be correct. Dugdale asserts that he was born at
Striguil in Wales, and that he accompanied his father in the expedition
into Gascony in the 22nd Edw. I.; but this is not very probable, since
he could not, according to either of the inquisitions just cited, have
been then more than nineteen years old.
The manner in which Creting is spoken of by the Poet is not a
little ambiguous; and, though the passage is translated that he was in
danger of losing his horse by a person pricking it with an arrow, and
that he used such haste to strike him that he did not appear to be
dissembling, considerable doubt is entertained of the accuracy of the
version. It is however certain that he rendered himself conspicuous in
the assault of the Castle; and it is said that he was again in the wars
of Scotland in the 34th Edw. I. 1305-6. Among the petitions on the Rolls
of Parliament of the reigns of Edward the First and Second, but to which
the exact date cannot be assigned, is one from John de Creting, stating
that Adam de Creting his father had borrowed two hundred and twenty
marks of the King’s Wardrobe towards the war in Gascony, and which were
now demanded of him; but as he had heard that the King had remitted the
claim of others who were so situated, he prayed that he might also be
pardoned the debt; and he was answered that the King “le pardone du
tot.”
On the 30th June, 8 Edw. II. 1315, he was commanded to serve with
horse and arms against the Scots; and on the 20th February, 18 Edw. II.
1325, was summoned from the counties of Huntingdon and Cambridge to
attend, similarly equipped, in Acquitaine. In the 4th Edw. III. 1330, he
obtained a charter for free warren in his manor of Stocton Magna in
Huntingdonshire; and on the 27th January, 20th July, 20th October, and
11th December, 6 Edw. III. 1325, he was summoned to parliament as a
Baron; after which time nothing is recorded of him.
Creting probably died about 1333 or 1334, when he must have been
nearly sixty years of age, but no inquisition was held on his decease,
nor has any pedigree been found. It is evident, that his lands were
inherited by his family, for in the 7th Ric. II. 1383-4, Thomas de
Cretings held the manor of Barwe in Suffolk; and in the 22nd Ric. II.
1398-9, Edward Creting was possessed of three parts of the manor of
Fornham, and John Creting held Barwe and part of Fornham, in that
county, each of which manors became the property of John Baron Creting
on the death of his father Sir Adam in the 24th Edw. I., but whether the
said Thomas, John, and Edward Creting were his immediate descendants has
not been ascertained.
The other facts relating to this family which have been
discovered, are, that Isabella is called the daughter and heiress of an
Adam de Creting in a collection of notes from records, and apparently
upon the authority of an inquisition, 24 Edw. I.; that in 1307 Roger
Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, held of John de Creting, in Romford in Essex,
one capital messuage, 180 acres of arable and five of meadow, 100 of
pasture called Layes, and 54s. rent, by the service of one penny per
annum; that on the 3rd October, 11 Edw. III. 1337, and on the 23rd May,
12 Edw. III. 1338, an Edmund de Cretyng received letters of protection,
he being then about to accompany the Earl of Northampton beyond the sea;
and that in the 38th Edw. III. 1364, Margaret, the daughter of Richard
Creting, released to John de Montpiliers and Joan his wife, divers lands
in Suffolk.
The arms of Creting were, Argent, a chevron between three mullets
Gules; but in the contemporary Roll of Arms, where the name of “Sir
Johan de Cretinge” occurs among the knights of Suffolk, they are thus
blazoned, “de Argent, a un cheveron e iij rouwels de Goules.
Margaret de Creting
Adam de Creting
Nichola
(de Crioll) de Creting
In 1300, at the proof of age of Thomas de Longvillers, the king offered
Thomas to marry one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges. Thomas "on
seeing the said daughters" agreed to marry Margaret's elder sister, Maud.
Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and
Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 (ed. William Brown, 1902)
LXXXIIa,
THOMAS DE LONGEVILERS, BROTHER AND
HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGVILERS.
Proof of age.
[Curia Regis. 28 EDW.
I. No. 158]
... The
heir being asked whether he was married or not, says no. On this the
Treasurer gives evidence that the lord King had offered the heir one of
the daughters of Adam de Cretingges, deceased, and that the heir, on
seeing the said daughters, agreed to marry the eldest. And whereas the
said Thomas has sufficiently proved his age before the lord King, and as
it also appears by the appearance of the heir’s body that he is of full
age, namely twenty-one years, and has also agreed to the said marriage
offered him by the King, as is aforesaid, therefore let the said heir
have seisin of the lands and tenements falling to him from his
inheritance.
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Edward I 1301-1307
p72 (1895)
1302. Nov. 15.
Westminster.
Grant to Margaret and Catherine, daughters
of Adam de Cretyng, deceased, in consideration of their father's
services in Gascony, of 200l by
the hands of the escheator this side Trent, out of the first issues of
custodies or wards that fall in, for their marriages therewith.
By K. on the information of W. bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Maud (de Creting) de Longvillers
Adam de Creting
Nichola
(de Crioll) de Creting
Thomas
de Longvillers
In 1300, at the proof of age of Thomas de Longvillers, the king offered
Thomas to marry one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges. Thomas "on
seeing the said daughters" agreed to marry the eldest sister, Maud.
Yorkshire Inquisitions of the Reigns of Henry III. and
Edward I vol 3 pp120-3 (ed. William Brown, 1902)
LXXXIIa,
THOMAS DE LONGEVILERS, BROTHER AND
HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGVILERS.
Proof of age.
[Curia Regis. 28 EDW.
I. No. 158]
... The
heir being asked whether he was married or not, says no. On this the
Treasurer gives evidence that the lord King had offered the heir one of
the daughters of Adam de Cretingges, deceased, and that the heir, on
seeing the said daughters, agreed to marry the eldest. And whereas the
said Thomas has sufficiently proved his age before the lord King, and as
it also appears by the appearance of the heir’s body that he is of full
age, namely twenty-one years, and has also agreed to the said marriage
offered him by the King, as is aforesaid, therefore let the said heir
have seisin of the lands and tenements falling to him from his
inheritance.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem vol 3
Edward I pp495-6 (1912)
620. THOMAS,
BROTHER AND HEIR OF JOHN DE LONGEVILERS.
Writ (missing).
NOTTINGHAM.
Proof of age taken
before the king at York on the octave of Holy Trinity, 28 Edw. I
...
The
heir says he is not married; whereupon it was testified by the treasurer
that the king had offered him one of the daughters of Adam de Cretingges
deceased, and the heir having seen them agreed to marry the eldest.
Wherefore let him have seisin of his lands &c. and let this record
be sent to the chancery.
These sources name the eldest daughter of Adam Creting as Maud.
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland,
Great Britain, and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate vol 8
p130 (George Edward Cokayne, 1932)
THOMAS
DE LONGVILLERS, yr. s. but ultimately heir of
William DE LONGVILLERS, of Gargrave,
Yorks, by Berte, 2nd da. and coh. of Robert DE MARKHAM,
of Tuxford, Notts, was b. 11
Apr. 1279, and bap. at All
Saints’ Church, West Markham. He was returned in 1316 as one of the
lords of Tuxford. Two years later, as Sir Thomas de Longvillers, Knight,
he had a pardon for adhering to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and at
Boroughbridge in 1322 he fought on the King’s side. He was sum. for
military service in 1319, and many later years till his death. In May
1324 he was sum. as one of the Knights of the Shire for Notts to the
Great Council at Westminster. He was Sheriff of Notts 1328-9. In 1334 he
was justice in eyre of the forest in Notts. In 1340 he was exempted from
serving on assizes, &c. On 12 Sep. 1342 he was sum. to a “council or
conference” to be held the following month. He m.,
probably, Maud, elder da. of Sir Adam DE CRETING,
sometime Marshal of the English Army in Gascony. He d.
20 Aug. 1349.
The
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol 42 p50 (1971)
THE FAMILY OF LONGVILLERS
By SIR CHARLES
CLAY
...
SIR
THOMAS DE LONGVILLERS, brother and heir. His proof of age was taken in
1300, when it was found that he had been born on 11 April 1279 and that
he had a sister named Ellota, then living, whose proposed marriage to
Henry de Sutton had not
taken place.
An account of his public career is
given in The Complete Peerage,
the inclusion being due to his summons in 1342 to a council, which
however was not a parliament. In 1300 and 1306 he made grants of land in
Glusburn; and in 1316 and 1346 he was returned as a joint holder of half
a knight’s fee in Tuxford.
It is probable that he married Maud
daughter of Adam de Creting. He died on 20 August 1349, holding in chief
a third of the manor of Tuxford for a third of a moiety of a knight’s
fee and the advowson of a third of the church; his heir being John his
son,
then aged twenty-six and married. His daughter
Elizabeth, wife of Robert Maluvel, will be mentioned below.
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A mutilated 14th century alabaster effigy
of the lady of the knight pictured above, at the north end of the
chantry chapel in St Nicholas, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, possibly
Maud de Creting, the wife of Sir Thomas Longvillers.
photo by jmc4 - Church Explorer posted
at flickr.com |
probably in Tuxford church, where
her husband, Thomas, founded a chantry in 1334.
At the north end of the chantry chapel in Tuxford are two mutilated 14th
century alabaster effigies of a cross-legged knight and his lady. These are
probably effigies of Thomas Longvillers, who founded a chantry at Tuxford,
and his wife Maud (de Creying) Longvillers. The male effigy could be that of
their son, John, who also founded a chantry at Tuxford, but John's wife,
Elizabeth, who survived him, re-married and so is less likely to be the
second effigy.
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