1310 Robert de Knyghteleye and Alice, his wife, were granted land in Stafford. [1] [2]
County: Staffordshire. Berkshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from Easter, 3 Edward II [3 May 1310].
Parties: Robert de Knyghteleye and Alice, his wife, querents, and Gilbert le Keu of Rontone, deforciant.
Property: 14 messuages, 7 and a half virgates of land, 13 acres of meadow, 8 acres of wood and 41 shillings and 6 pence of rent in Rodelowe, Ansedesleye, Knyghteleye and Rodeyre in the county of Stafford and 4 messuages, 1 mill, 5 virgates of land and 8 shillings of rent in Kyngeston' and Wentesclyue in the county of Berkshire.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: Robert has acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Gilbert, as those which Gilbert has of his gift.
For this: Gilbert has granted to Robert and Alice the tenements and has rendered them to them in the court, to hold to Robert and Alice and the heirs begotten by Robert on the body of Alice, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of Robert.
Collections for a History of Staffordshire states, [3]
Sir Robert de Knightley, of Knightley, the third of that name, who was Knight of the Shire for Staffordshire in 1325, married Alice, daughter of Sir John D'Oyley, of Ranton, co. Stafford, Knight, and heiress of the whole blood of her brother Henry D'Oyley, of Cowley, in the same county. On her marriage in 2 Edward II. (1308-9), her father gave to her and her husband as her marriage portion, all his rents in Norton and a part of those in Longnor, in the county of Stafford;5 and by another deed he also settled upon them the manor of Little Wyrley, in the same county.6 Sir Robert died about 1333, leaving Alice his wife surviving, who occurs as Lady of Little Wyrley in 1335.7 They appear to have had issue: 1. Sir Robert de Knightley, of Knightley, the fourth of that name in succession (whose granddaughter and heiress Joan, the daughter of John de Knightley, of Knightley, married Roger de Peshall, and left an only daughter and heiress Joan, who became the wife of William Lee, but died without issue); 2, John de Knightley, of whom presently; 3, Gilbert Knightley, Clerk, who was presented by one of the D'Oyleys to the Church of Stoke D'Oyley, co. Northampton, in 1349, which he held till 1369.1
5. "House of D'Oyley," by William D'Oyley Bailey, who quotes from Vincent and Harleian MS. 506, fol. 150.
6. Ibid., quoting from Shaw's "Staffordshire," Vol. II., p. 58.
7. Huntbache MS.
1. "House of D'Oyley."
[1] Feet of Fines, Online Abstracts, CP 25/1/285/28, number 28, [Medieval_Genealogy].
[2] Feet of Fines, Court of Common Pleas, CP25, The National Archives, UK, Anglo-American Legal Tradition, University of Houston, CP 25/1/285/28, number 28, [AALTImage].
[3] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 4 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1883), 110-111, [GoogleBooks].