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Subject: Sir Robert Peverel of Ashby Castle
Date: 2 Aug 2006 06:22:29 -0700


Sir Robert Peverel of Ashby Castle, Northamptonshire, was the
father-in-law of John, 1st Lord Engaine (CP, Engaine).

According to Moore's Knights of Edward I, he bore "goules, a les
crusules patee de or e[t] une fesse de argent"; he held lands in
Northants of at least £20 in value, and was summoned to serve overseas
(1297) and against the Scots (1301); in 1316, he was Lord of Ashby
David and Chadstone, Northants; he died circa 1318, when "certain men
were imprisoned for his death"; custody of his lands were granted to
Robert de Insula during the minority of Edmund, his son and heir (who
was also nephew and heir to Walter, Bishop of Coventry), and the
escheator was ordered to deliver Edmund for his marriage in 1323.

VCH Northants, sub Castle Ashby alias Ashby David, records that Walter
Langton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and sometime Treasurer of
England, obtained the manor of Ashby by 1306, when he had licence to
crenellate the house he was building there. The property was
afterwards settled upon Robert Peverel and his wife Alice for their
lives, with remainder to their son Edmund. After Robert's death, Alice
remarried Thomas de Verdon (ff 1346) and died in 1349, probably of the
plague, together with John, Edmund's son and heir; Ashby then passed to
Margaret, son's sister, and her husband William de la Pole. Their
granddaughter, Joan, Lady Cobham nee de la Pole, sold the estate to the
Braybrookes, who sold it on to Sir Reynold Grey of Ruthin in 1423.

ODNB, in its article on Walter Langton (d 1321), says that he was
probably born in West Langton within the parish of Church Langton,
Leicestershire [presumably he derived his surname from his birthplace],
and says that Sir Robert Peverel was the son and heir of his [ie the
Bishop's] brother, Simon Peverel.

Thus:

1. [unknown], had issue:
2a. Walter, called de Langton, Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield, d 1321
2b. Simon Peverel, had issue:
3. Sir Robert Peverel, Lord of Ashby & Chadstone, d c1318; married
Alice (married 2ndly Thomas de Verdon), d 1349; issue:
4a. Joan Peverel, married John, 1st Lord Engaine, left issue.
4b. Edmund Peverel, living 1323, dead by 1349; issue:
5a. John Peverel, died 1349 spl
5b. Margaret Peverel, married William de la Pole; issue:
6. Sir John de la Pole; issue:
7. Joan de la Pole, Baroness Cobham

MA-R



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