Family of John WALDESHEF

Husband:	John WALDESHEF ( -1334)
Wife:	(unknown)
Children:	Robert WALDESHEF ( -1367)
	Alicia WALDESHEF ( -1334)

Husband: John WALDESHEF

Name:	John WALDESHEF 1,2
Sex:	Male
Father:	Robert WALDESHEF ( -bef1300)
Mother:	Joan UNKNOWN ( - )
Residence	btw 1300 and 1334	Waldeshef Hall, Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England 3
Civil (1)	22 May 1317	appointed special land assessor in Lincolnshire; Westminster, London, England 4
Civil (2)	18 Mar 1322	commissioned to levy fine from men of Huntingdonshire that did not bear arms; Blyth, England 5
Civil (3)	2 Dec 1322	appointed assessor and collector in Huntingdonshire; York, Yorkshire, England 6
Civil (4)	3 Nov 1324	commissioned in Huntingdonshire to enforce commercial standard of measure; Mortlake, England 7
Civil (5)	16 Apr 1327	commissioned as tax assessor in Huntingdonshire; Peterborough, England 8
Civil (6)	23 Sep 1327	appointed tax collector for Huntingdonshire; Lincoln, England 9
Civil (7)	btw 5 Oct 1327 and 26 Apr 1328	keeping the manor of Ufford Cluny, Huntingdonshire for the king; Nottingham, England 10,11,12
Civil (8)	20 Aug 1328	as tax collector of Huntingdonshire, to pay merchants 100l; Pontrfract, Yorkshire, England 13
Civil (9)	1 Apr 1329	examines bridge in Huntingdonshire; Wallingford, England 14
Civil (10)	22 May 1330	witness to deed for land in Little Hadham, Hertfortdshire, formerly held by John atte More; Westminster, London, England 15
Civil (11)	16 Sep 1332	tax assessor of Huntingdonshire; Westminster, London, England 16
Civil (12)	38 Mar 1333	collector of subsidies in Huntingdonshire; Cowick, England 17
Death	1334 18,19

Child 1: Robert WALDESHEF

Name:	Robert WALDESHEF 1,20
Sex:	Male
Residence	btw 1334 and 1353	Waldeshef Hall, Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England 21
Civil	1340	In seisin of Waldeshef Hall; Waldeshef Hall, Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England 22
Military	28 Mar 1360	ordered to bear arms overseas in defence of the country; Westminster, London, England 23
Death	1367 24

Child 2: Alicia WALDESHEF

Name:	Alicia WALDESHEF 1
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	William GRIMBARD ( - )
Spouse 2:	Michael COLEVILLE ( - )
Spouse 3:	Richard BAGLEY ( - )
Spouse 4:	Richard HENNINGTON ( - )
Death	1334 25

Note on Husband: John WALDESHEF

There are two John (de) Waldeshef's associated with Huntingdon at this time. Because the father of this one was a clerk and one record naming him as a tax collector specifies he is from Dodington, I have assigned all tax-related reocrds to this John.

Sources

1	"File (merged): C:\Users\Doug\Documents\Family\trees\Waldeshelf of Huntingdonshire.GED". Record originated in...

2	"A History of the County of Huntingdon, Vol. 2" (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42498). p. 269-272.
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Ibid. pp. 269-272. Text From Source: WALDSHEF'S MANOR ... John Waldshef succeeded before 1300 (fn. 68) and was living in 1332. (fn. 69) He is said to have died in 1334 and was succeeded by his son Robert, (fn. 70) who was in seisin in 1340. (fn. 71) ... 68 Cartul. Mon. de Rames. (Rolls Ser.) ii, 306; cf. Feud. Aids, iv, 472. 69 Feet of F. case 93, file 24, no. 12. 70 Harl. MS. 2044, fol. 92d. 71 Feet of F. case 93, file 25, no. 41.

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"Patent Roll of Edward II Volume 2 1313-1317". p. 666. Text From Source: 1317 May 22. Westminster. Whereas the king lately took the homage of Hugh le Despenser the Westminster, younger, who married Eleanor the eldest sister and one of the heirs of Gilbert de Clare, late earl of Gloucester and Hertford, of Hugh de Audele the younger, who married Margaret, another of the sisters and co-heiresses of the said earl, and of Roger Damory, who married Elizabeth, the third sister and co-heiress, for all the lands and tenements which the earl held in chief on the day of Ms death and which the king had rendered to the said Hugh and Eleanor, Hugh and Margaret, and Roger and Elizabeth, together with knights' fees, advowsons of churches, religious houses and hospitals, etc., and further at their request that the said lands, tenements, fees, advowsons, etc., as the right, inheritance, and free custom of the said heirs and coparceners should remain in his custody until Christmas next, that in the meantime a partition' thereof might be made with their assent, and if such partition could not be made with their assent, then that the lands, etc., should remain in the king's hands until a partition should have been made among them ; and with their assent certain of the Council and others wore charged to make such partition among the heirs and co-parceners of the lands, etc., held in chief, and of the other lands, etc., which are held in dower or otherwise for life. As the heirs and co-parceners have petitioned the king to enquire touching the true value of the lands, etc., the king that he may the better help them, and at their request and nomination. appoints Richard Damory, Richard de Louches, Edmund de Passele and Robert de Dalyngeho to enquire into the true value of the lands, etc., of the earl in the counties of Oxford, Buckingham, Surrey, Sussex and Kent, and to make an extent thereof, if necessary, by oath of men of those counties according to a form agreed upon by them and the co-parceners; they are to certify Hervey de Staunton, John de Foxle, and William dc Ayremynne, •who with others are charged with making the partition, with their proceedings therein. By K. The like of the under-mentioned persons in the counties named, viz. :— Philip de la Beche, Ithcl de Kerwent, Richard de By lie t and Richard de Chissebech in the counties of Northampton, Worcester, Gloucester. Wilts, Southampton, Somerset, Dorset and Devon. Thomas de Grey, John de Chelmersford, William de Neuport and Nicholas de Fayrford in the counties of Essex, Hertford and Suffolk. Heury de Wylynton, Henry Chaumbernoun and Henry de Kirkeh) in the county of Cornwall. William le Flerneng, William de Caversham and John de Chelreth in the lands of Gloinorgan and Morgannou. Richard de Polhampton and John Cokerei in the county of Berks. John de Chelmersford, William de Neuport and Nicholas de Fairford in the counties of Bedford, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Norfolk. The mayor and sheriffs in the city of London. Robert de Staunton and John Waldeshef in the county of Lincoln. The justice of South Wales, or his lieutenant, in South Wales.

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"Fine Rolls v03 - Edward II 1319-1327" (http://archive.org/details/calendaroffinero03greauoft). p. 108. Text From Source: 1322 March 14. Derby. Commission to John de Ippestanes, John de Benteleye and Philip de Luttileye, reciting that for the men at arms of the county of Stafford who ought to have come with the king in his service in his present expedition against certain his enemies and rebels and came no according to the tenour of a warning made by the king on pain of heavy forfeiture, certain of them have made a fine of 200l. for them selves and others to have the king's pardon therefor, to be paid in the wardrobe before Easter next ; and appointing the said commissioner to levy the said sum from the men at arms of the said county who came not, and to pay the same in the wardrobe before Easter next taking heed that they levy nothing thereof from the men at arm who came in the king's service or were of the retinue of others in the same service, or from the commonalty of that county ; the king having ordered the sheriff of the county to be intendant to them herein and to summon before them all of the county by whom the premises can be speeded. By K. on the information of Master Robert Baldok. March 18. Blyth. The like to Emery de la Zusche, Thomas de Chalers, Geoffrey de BIyth. Burdeleys, Simon de Drayton and John de Waldeshef to levy 400 marks from the men at arms of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon and to bring the same to the wardrobe before Easter next. By K.

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"Patent Roll of Edward II Volume 4 1321-1324". p. 225. Text From Source: 1322 Dec 2. York. Writ of aid for Henry de Sarden and Stephen de Delham, and a clerk to be selected by them, appointed assessors and collectors in the county of Kent of the tenth and sixth lately granted at York. [Parl. Writs.] By K. The like for the following:-- ... John Waldeshef of Dodington, Andrew le Moigne co. Huntingdon. ...

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"Fine Rolls v03 - Edward II 1319-1327" (http://archive.org/details/calendaroffinero03greauoft). pp. 314-316. Text From Source: 1324 Nov. 3. Mortlake. Commission to Henry de Campo Arnulphi and Reynold de Botereux, Mortlake. reciting that in Magna Carta it is contained that there be one measure of wine throughout the realm and one measure of ale and one measure of corn, to wit, the quarter of London, and that on 20 February, 10 Edward II, on the frequent complaint of the magnates and chiefs at divers Parliaments and of others of the realm that certain merchants and others used divers measures, to wit, larger with which they bought, and smaller with which they sold, to the great deception and manifest loss of the people and contrary to the said charter, the king caused proclamation to be made through every county of the realm, in cities, boroughs, towns, market-places (mercatoriis) and other places, prohibiting merchants or others on pain of forfeiture from buying or selling by other measures than those approved by the standard of London, or from otherwise using them, and afterwards the king caused to be made certain measures for measuring corn, wine and ale, by the said standard, and to be sent to the principal town of each county, to wit, one for corn and one for wine and ale approved by the said standard, that certain measures in those counties might be made and proved by the measures so approved, and now the king has understood that certain merchants and others, not fearing the said proclamation and prohibition, use measures disagreeing with the said standards in these days, to the grave deception of the people ; and appointing the said commissioners to survey all measures whereby wine, ale and corn are sold and bought in the county of Cornwall, and to cause the same to be approved by the said standards, and to burn all false measures found by them, and to make inquisition in that county as often as need be touching the names of those who have used other measures than those approved by the said standards since such measures were so approved, and to punish all such by ransoms and amercements according to their guilt, and to cause the premises to be observed in that county ; and order to them to be intendant herein and to deliver estreats of the rolls of such fines and amercements at the Exchequer twice a year, to wit, at Michaelmas and Easter, that the same may be there levied to the king's use ; the king having ordered the sheriff to summon jurors before them on days and at places fixed by them, and to be intendant to them herein ; the king being unwilling, however, that owing to the premises the clerk of the market should be impeded from exercising his office whenever the king come to those parts, as hitherto. By K. & C. The like to the following in the following counties :-- ... Robert de Thorp, knight, and John Waldeshef. Huntingdon. ...

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"Fine Rolls v04 - Edward III 1327-1337" (http://archive.org/details/calendaroffinero04greauoft). p. 39. Text From Source: 1327 April 16. Peterborough. Commission to Roger de Somervill, Thomas Deyvill and Adam de Peterborough. to make inquisition in the county of York what lands Hugh le Despenser, earl of Winchester, Hugh le Despenser the younger, Edmund, earl of Arundel, and Master Robert de Baldok, had, each of them, in fee for life or years by name of wardship or otherwise in that county, and what goods and chattels were therein at Michaelmas last, and how much the said lands are worth yearly, and of what value are the said goods and chattels, and into whose hands the said lands, goods and chattels came and in whose hands they now are, and what debts were due to the said Hugh and others and by whom and for what cause and in what manner ; and to send the inquisitions made by them to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, and this writ, so that they have them there before Trinity next or then at latest, that the treasurer and barons may do further thereon what they shall deem for the king's advantage ; the king having ordered the sheriff of the county to summon before them etc. By K. & C. The like to the following in the following counties :-- ... William Moigne, Simon de Brunne and John Waldeshef. Cambridge and Huntingdon. ...

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"Patent Roll of Edward III Volume 01 1327-1330". p. 172. Text From Source: 1327 Sept. 23. Lincoln. Appointment of Robert de Daventre and William le Breton, with a clerk chosen by them, as collectors in the county of Northampton of the twentieth of movables granted to the king by Parliament for the defence of the kingdom against the Scots. By K. & C. The like of the following:-- ... Henry Tilly, John Waldeshef co. Huntingdon. ...

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"Fine Rolls v04 - Edward III 1327-1337" (http://archive.org/details/calendaroffinero04greauoft). p. 65. Text From Source: 1327 Oct. 5. Nottingham. Commitment during pleasure to John de Waldeshef of the keeping Nottingham, of the manor of Ufford Cluny, co. Huntingdon, in the king's hand for certain causes, at the yearly rent at the Exchequer of the extent thereof in moieties at Easter and Michaelmas. By K.

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11	"Patent Roll of Edward III Volume 02 1330-1334". p. 99. Text From Source: 1331 April 11. Eltham. Exemplification of letters patent, dated 5 October, 1 Edward III., appointing John de Waldeshef to the custody of the manor of Ufford Cluny, co. Huntingdon. Witness ; John de Eltham, earl of Cornwall.
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The Deputy Keeper of the Records, "Calendar of Close Rolls - Edward III - 1327-1330". p. 279. Text From Source: 1328 April 26. Northampton. To John de Waldeshef. Order to deliver to Peter, abbot of Cluny, the manor of Offord Cluny, co. Huntingdon, which is in John's custody by the king's commission, and the issues thereof from 12 February last, when the king took Peter's fealty for the lands held by him of the king in England, which were taken into the late king's hands by reason of the death of the late abbot.

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Ibid. pp. 311-312. Text From Source: 1328 Aug. 20. Pontrefract. To John de Blunvyll, Geoffrey de la Lee, and Roger de Luda, taxors and collectors of the twentieth lately granted to the king in co. Hertford. Whereas the king has assigned James Nicholas, Francis Grandon,, Peter Reyner, John Fraunceys, Peter Byne, Tannus Jacobi, and their fellows, merchants of the society of the Bardi of Florence, 120l. of the twentieth to be received from the said taxors and collectors, in part payment of a great sum of money lent by them to the king for his urgent affairs, and has caused two tallies of the receipt of the exchequer on the 18th of the present month ; and as the exchequer is closed in the pressent season so that writs under the exchequer seal cannot be made concerning the premises, the king, to avoid the damages that may arise to him by delay, laying aside all excuse, to the said merchants, or to their attorney bringing this writ, out of the money collected or to be collected from the twentieth, receiving from them the tallies aforesaid. By p.s. The like in favour of the said merchants to the following taxors and collectors of the twetieth in the counties specified below : ... Henry Tilly and John Whaldeshef, in co. Huntingdon, for 100l. by one tally. ...

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"Patent Roll of Edward III Volume 01 1327-1330". p. 379. Text From Source: 1329 April 1. Wallingford. By an inquisition lately taken by John Waldeshef and Roger Chartres it has been found that the bridge of Huntyngdon is in a ruinous state, in many places broken through and at one part threatening to fall, and that divers legacies bequethed in the past for the support of the bridge, for want of a keeper of the same, have not yet been used for the purpose. The king therefore apppoints Philip de ravele, chaplain, as keeper of the bridge, to receive the aforesaid legacies from the executors of the testators, with other offerings hereafter to be bequethed or made out of charity for repair of the bridge, to apply the same to that purpose, and out of any surplus which may remain to build a chapel on the bridge in honour of St. Thomas the martyr and St. katherine the Virgin, wherein a chaplian, to be found out of the alms of those coming to the bridge, shall daily celebrate divine service for the faithful departed.

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"Patent Roll of Edward III Volume 02 1330-1334". p. 172. Text From Source: 1330 Oct. 2. Westminster. Inspeximus and confirmation of a deed dated 25 June 1330, by the prior and chapter of Ely Cathedral, being an inspeximus and ratification of an indenture date 22 May in the same year, and witnessed by John de Heselarton, Ralph de Crophull, William de Calthorp, knights, John de Drayton, John Waldeshef, Robert de Holbeck, Elias de Thoresby and others, whereby John de Hothum bishop of Ely, granted to John le Warner of Much Hadham, co. Hertford, which John atte More while he lived held of him in villenage, to hold, for life, at the rent of 9s. 2 1/4d., payable at his Exchequer at Ely at the usual terms, with remainder to the right heirs of John le Warner, to hold of the bishop and his successors by those customs whereby the same were held before the making of this indenture as contained in the terrier of Hadham manor. By fine of . . marks.

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Ibid. pp. 357-358. Text From Source: 1332 Sept. 16. Westminster. Appointment of John Daundelyn and Eustace de brunneby, with a clerk to be chosen by them, to asess and levy ih the county of Northampton the fifteenth and tenth of movables granted to the king in the present parliament for the business of Ireland and other business. [Faedera.] By K. & C. The like of the following:-- ... William le Moyne, John Waldeshef in the county of Huntingdon. ...

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"Fine Rolls v04 - Edward III 1327-1337" (http://archive.org/details/calendaroffinero04greauoft). p. 354. Text From Source: 1333 March 28. Cowick. Commission to John de Trehampton, Simon de Grymesby and John Pelsone of Boston, reciring the foregoing commission, and that many merchants of the county of Lincoln evade distraint to pay the said subsidy in ports where there are staples, and appointing them to levy the subsidy from those merchants whose names the said collectors will give them with the number of sacks of wools, hides and woolfells, whereon the ssubsidy is due, from their goods and chattels in port of Lincoln, and to answer therefor at the Exchequer according to the orinance which the king is sending, and to make inquisitions if need be according thereto ; the king having ordered the sheriff etc. as above. By K. & C. The like to the following counties:-- ... William Moyne and John Waldeshef. Huntingdon. ... Vacated as above.

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18	Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen, "The Reliquary and illustrated archaeologist" (J. R. Smith, 1868). p. 232. Text From Source: from pedigree in Harl. MS. 2044 John Waldechef, ob. 8 Ed. III.

19	"A History of the County of Huntingdon, Vol. 2" (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42498). pp. 269-272.
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20

Ibid.

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Ibid. pp. 269-272. Text From Source: John Waldshef succeeded before 1300 (fn. 68) and was living in 1332. (fn. 69) He is said to have died in 1334 and was succeeded by his son Robert, (fn. 70) who was in seisin in 1340. (fn. 71) 68 Cartul. Mon. de Rames. (Rolls Ser.) ii, 306; cf. Feud. Aids, iv, 472. 69 Feet of F. case 93, file 24, no. 12. 70 Harl. MS. 2044, fol. 92d. 71 Feet of F. case 93, file 25, no. 41.

22	Ibid. pp. 269-272. Text From Source: WALDSHEF'S MANOR ... He is said to have died in 1334 and was succeeded by his son Robert, (fn. 70) who was in seisin in 1340. (fn. 71) ... 70 Harl. MS. 2044, fol. 92d. 71 Feet of F. case 93, file 25, no. 41.

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"Patent Roll of Edward III Volume 11 1358-1361". pp. 413-414. Text From Source: 1360 March 28. Westminster. Commission to Hugh Chastilon and his fellows,arrayers of men at arms and archers in the county of Buckinghamre, citing that because it is the king's will that twenty men at arms, to wit the said Hugh, Henry Chalfhunt, Geoffrey de Lucy, John son of John Giffard, Edmund de Hampden. Edmund Waleys, Martin Chaunceux, John de Coueley, William Wyot, John de Thame, Thomas Frisel, Richard Hampden, John Baret, John de Wermeston, John de Amondesham, John Reynam, John de Nowers of Gothirst, and three other men at arms, twenty armed men and eighty archers of the strongest and bravest of the county be selected in the county and go in ships upon the sea for the defence of the realm, he commands that on sight of these presents these said men be arrayed and duly furnished with arms, armour, bows and arrows and brought to Sandwich and that if need be they be compelled to this by incarceration of their bodies and taking of their lands and goods into the king's hand, so that they be there by Tuesday in Easter week to enter the ships ordained to take them to go on the king's service at the accustomed wages of war. In the meantime the commissioners are to send men to Sandwich to provide victuals for the men ready to be shipped on their arrival. It is the king's will also that when they reach the sea their horses shall be sent back to their own parts. He has commanded the collectors of the tenth and fifteenth granted by the commonalty of the realm for the expenses of the men going on the said service to pay them their wages, to wit to every knight 2s. to an esquire I2d. to an armed man 6d. and to an archer 4d. a day, for one month from the time of at which they left the said county. Furthermore he gives the commissioners power to arrest and imprison contrariants or rebels and take their lands and goods into his hand, and hereby gives command to the sheriff, men at arms and archers, mayors, bailiffs, ministers and others of the said county to be attending, answering, counselling and aiding to them in the premises. By the guardian & C. ... Thomas de Hemynton and his fellows, arrayers in the county of Huntingdonten, men at arms and armed men, to wit the said Thomas, Richard Dalbert, Robert Waldesshef, Richard Geddyng and six others and sixty archers. ...

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24	Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen, "The Reliquary and illustrated archaeologist" (J. R. Smith, 1868). p. 232. Text From Source: from pedigree in Harl. MS. 2044 Robert Waldechef, ob. 40 Ed. III.

25	Ibid. p. 232. Text From Source: from pedigree in Harl. MS. 2044 Alicia, ob. 1334 = William Grimbard, 1st husband. 2. Mich. Coleville. 3. Richard Bagley. 4. Rich. Hennington.