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1344 John de Herdby was rector of Staveley; patron, Anker de Frescheville. [1]

1347 Nicholas de Longford and Anker de Frecheville were among the Derbyshire men of England who fought at Crecy (Battle of Cressy), France. [2] [3]

1347 15 June, 20 Edward III, Anker Frecheville, of the retinue of Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, had the same [letter of protection]. [4]

1348 15 January, 20 Edward III, "Writ to the Sheriff of co[untie]s. N[ottingham]s and Derby to supersede any arrest of body or distraint on goods of Anker de Frecheville, of the retinue of Sir Adam de Everyngham, who had left Calais with the King's leave on business, the said Anker being prepared to return as soon as possible with Sir Adam de Everyngham, as had been certified in the Chancery by the said Adam. 15th January." [5]

1349 Roger de Boston was rector of Staveley; patron, Anker de Frescheville. On the death of John de Herdby. [6]

1370 Geoffrey de Alwaston was rector of Steetley; patron, Anker de Frecheville. [7]

1373 Robert de Lammeley was rector of Steetley; patron, Anker de Frecheville. [8]

1375 May. Writing of Sir John de Bret knight, being a quitclaim with warranty to Nicholas de Bakewell, his heirs and assigns, of all lands, rents and services in Hynkerreshulle and Stavelegh and of the whole fee of Stavelegh, and of all reversions there pertaining to him the said John and his heirs. Witnesses: Sir John de Loutheham the elder, Sir John de Loutheham the younger knights, Anker de Frecheville lord of Stavelegh. Dated Chestrefeld, Sunday the feast of the Annunciation 49 Edward III. [9]

1377 On 4 March, a tax was levied in aid of the expenses of the king's war. Aucher Frecheville and others were named to levy the tax in Derby. [10]

1382 William Franceys was rector of Steetley; patron, Anker Frecheville. [11]

1385 John de Bristowe was rector of Steetley; patron, Anker Frecheville. [12]

1387 Richard de Cleyolk was rector of Staveley; patron, Anker de Frecheville. [13]

(1389-90) Sunday next after the Feast of Saint Scolastica the Virgin (10th February), in the 13th year of Richard II. Charter (Lat.), dated at Staveley, confirming a grant from Robert Daweson of Appelknolle to William Hunt of Staveley and Alice his wife, of a messuage and a garden lying between tenements of Robert de Norton on both sides, which descended to the grantor, after the death of Cecilia his mother, with all its appurtenances, iii Staveley. Witnesses: Anker Frecheville, Robert de Norton, Anker de Brimyngton, Adam Lyly, John de Brimyngton. Vellum: one skin 10 ½ X 3. [14]

1390 Dec. 22, Westminster. Order to Walter Stirkeland, escheator in the county of ..., to take into the king's hand and keep safely until further order the lands whereof ... Anker Frecheville; Derby. [15]

1391 "Jan. 30. Order to Thomas de Neuton, escheator in the county of Derby, Westminster, to cause Ralph Frechevill, 'chivaler,' son and heir of Anker Frechevill, to have full seisin of all the lands which his father held of the king in chief or was seised of in his demesne as of fee or in fee tail on the day of his death, saving to Agnes late the wife of Anker her reasonable dower thereof; as the king, for 20s. paid in the hanaper, has respited the homage and fealty of Ralph until the quinzaine of Easter next." [16]

1391 Feb. 1. Westminster. To Thomas de Neuton escheator in Derbyshire. Order to take of Agnes who was wife of Anker Frecheville an oath etc., and in presence of Ralph Frecheville knight his son and heir to assign her dower of his lands. [17]

1392 On 29 June, "To the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer. Order not to trouble Ralph Frecheville knight, son and heir of Anker Frecheville, for his homage, releasing any distress upon him made; as for a fine paid in the hanaper the king respited his homage and fealty until a day past, commanding livery to be given him of his father's lands, and has now taken his homage and fealty. By p.s. [8161.]" [18]

Research Notes:

Who is this Anker Frecheville? 1412 "Grant from John Bakeqwell, chaplain, sometime of Staveley, to Anker Frechwell, late of Hartbill [Harthill, co. York], gent., Robert Roedes of Stavelay Wudthorpe, gent., and William Layche of Chastrefeld, yeoman, his feoffees, of lands, etc., in Stavelay and elsewhere in Co. Derby. Witn. Ric. Frechwell, parson of Staveley, George Phelype, and Henry Oxlay. Dat. Staveley, 16 Apr., 13 Hen. IV. [1412]. (Add. 40146.)" [19]


Footnotes:

[1] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [GoogleBooks].

[2] J. Charles Cox, Memorials of Old Derbyshire (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1907), 13, [HathiTrust].

[3] Wikipedia article about Battle_of_Crecy, content subject to change, [Wikipedia].

[4] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 18 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1897), 91, from French Roll, Edward III, Part I, [GoogleBooks].

[5] The William Salt Archaeological Society, ed., Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Vol. 18 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1897), 108, from French Roll, Edward III, Part II, [GoogleBooks].

[6] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [GoogleBooks].

[7] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 484, [GoogleBooks].

[8] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 484, [GoogleBooks].

[9] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Edward III, Vol. XIV, 1374-1377 (London: HMSO, 1913), 225, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[10] Calendar of the Fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol. VIII, Edward III, 1368-1377, ends at page 385 (London: HMSO, 1924), 386, [HathiTrust].

[11] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 484, [GoogleBooks].

[12] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 484, [GoogleBooks].

[13] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [GoogleBooks].

[14] T Walter Hall and A Herman Thomas, The City of Sheffield Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters, Rolls, Deeds, Pedigrees, Pamphlets, Newspapers, Monumental Inscriptions, Maps, and Miscellaneous Papers forming the Jackson Collection, Sheffield (1914), 120, [InternetArchive].

[15] Calendar of the Fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol. X, Richard II, 1383-1391 (London: HMSO, 1923), 360, of 359-360, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[16] Calendar of the Fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Vol. X, Richard II, 1383-1391 (London: HMSO, 1923), 348, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[17] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Richard II, Vol. 4, 1389-1392 (London: HMSO, 1922), 240, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[18] H. C. Maxwell Lyte, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Richard II, Vol. 5, 1392-1396 (London: HMSO, 1925), 4, [FHLBook], [BritishHistoryOnline].

[19] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 285, item 2253, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].