Johies DE WELLES

Notes:

The "History of the Welles Family" lists Johies birth date as 1315. Can't see how that would be if Adam died in 1311. So I am not listing a birth date for him.

Family/Spouse: Demper ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1299, Created Baron

Notes:

Excerpt from "Welles Family": Adam, being of the retinue of William de Vasci (a great baron in Northumberland), was in the King's service in Gascoigne, in 22d Edward I (1294). So likewise in 25th Edward I (1297), in consideration whereof he obtained the King's Precept to the Treasurer and Barons of his Exchequer, that they should not take any of his Wools of that year's growth. In the 27th Edward I (1299) he was made Constable of the Castle of Rockingham, and also Warden of that Forest.

He was summonded to Parliament as a Baron on the 6th February, 1299 (27th of Edward I)......In 28th Edward I (1300) he was in the wars of Scotland, and in 30th Edward I. had a Charter for Free warren in all his demesne lands within his Lordships of Wyberton, Cumberworth, Sutton, Scrolby, and Billesby, in Lincolnshire; and finally died, having been summoned to Parliament as Peer of the Realm; and had regular summons to Parliament to the year of his decease, 1311. He is styled "Adam Lord Welles" in the letter to the Pope. "Arms: or a lion rampant, double queued, sa," The arms of De Montforts.

He departed this life the same year, being then seized of the Mannours of WElle and Cumberworth, and certain Tenements in Hellowe andSwaby, in County Lincoln; a also of a certain wood and pasture called "Welle Park," containing forty acres of land, as parcel of the Mannor of Skendelby, held of the King, together with the Mannors of Folhynhgam, Edenham, Heckinton, and Barton, which were at that time possed by Henry de Beaumont; and joyntly with Joane his wife, of the Mannour of Wyverton, in the same County; likewise of one messuage and two yards of land in Faxton, in County Northampton; leaving Robert his son and heir, sixteen years of age, and Joane his wife, surviving, who had for her dowrie an assignation of the Mannors of Welle and Brunthorpe, with certainlands in Anderby and Hoggesthrop, and the moytie of all his Lands in Sutton.

Adam married Joanne ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]