Adam DE WELLES

Abt 1245 - 1311  (66 years)

• Name	Adam DE WELLES  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1245	Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Fact	1299	Created Baron   [1]
  Death	1311  [2]
  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.
  Person ID	I17805	Main Tree

  
  

  Father	William DE WELLES,   b. Abt 1200, Lincolnshire
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Isabel DE VASCI
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F13590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joanne ?
  Children	1. Baron Robert DE WELLES,   b. 1295  [Birth]   2. Knight William DE WELLESLEY,   b. 1308, Lincolnshire, England  [Natural]   3. Knight John DE WELLES,   b. 1310, Lincolnshire, England  [Natural] + 4. Baron Adam DE WELLES,   b. 1304   d. 1345 (Age 41 years)  [Birth]   5. Johies DE WELLES  [Natural]
  Family ID	F13588	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1245 - Lincolnshire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S02434] Albert Wells, History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy, (Name: Name: 1876;;). [S02433] History of the Town of Goshen, CT by Rev. A. G. Hibbard.