Elizabeth de Peshale

Children of Henry de Mortimer and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Philip ap Rhys

• Hugh de Mortimer died 21 Jul 1403 dsp. Married Petronilla

She married 2nd to Adam de Peshall as his 2nd wife, no children

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' The Inquisition on the death of Philip, which was taken at Hereford on the 9 Sept. 43 Edward III (1369), states that he held at the date of his death the manor of Talgarth Engleys, of the King in capite, that he had died on the previous 4 August, and that his heirs were his daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Sir Henry de Mortimer, and Mabel, wife of Sir Hugh de Wrottesleye, and that Hugh and Mabel had a son thirteen weeks old.

From page 344 of Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 1

Thomas le Champion was living.and had some interest at Weston in 1358. According to a Pedigree of the Champions, written on the first page of Huntbache's MS., vol. II., this Thomas le Champion, of Little Sardon, and Isolda de Weston, his wife, both died without issue, and his sisters, Matilda, wife of [Henry] Bentley, Catherine, wife of Geoffrey Congreve, and Isolda, wife of Roger Congreve, became his co-heirs, which last Isolda also died without issue.
If it had not been for this assertion from so high an authority, and the unanimous consent of all the Pedigrees of the Champions and Congreves that I have seen, I should have supposed, from the fact of some of these ladies having an interest at Weston, that they were the daughters of Thomas le Champion, by Isolda de Weston, rather than his sisters. It is possible that they may have acquired this interest by settlement. But, however this may be, I find that in 40 Edw. III. (1366) Henry de Jus,' and Maude his wife, (who was probably identical with Matilda de Bentley,) and Geoffrey de Congreve, and Catherine his wife, concede to Adam de Peshall all their lands and tenements, with all their appurtenances, which they have in the fee of Weston-under-Luzeyerd, to have and to hold to the said Adam, for the term of his life, the reserved rent being 6s. of gold or silver.'

9 Harl. MS., 5816. The deed of conveyance has three seals attached to it, one apparently for Geoffrey and Catherine, and two for Henry and Maude, placed one below the other, and the lower one has the impression of the Weston Eagle. I suppose this purchase to have been made by Adam de Peshale immediately after the death of his wife, Elizabeth de W'eston, who is said to have died in 1366; but before the date of the deed which follows in the text he had been married to another wife, Elizabeth ap Rys, whose son by a former marriage is placed in remainder to the state purchased. 'Harl . MS., 5816.

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From page 62 of Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume 2

It is probable that Matilda or Maude, the other coheir of Thomas le Champion, had died without leaving issue before the execution of this deed, and that by it all Thomas le Champion's interest in the lands belonging to the Fouleshtirst share passed to Adam de Peshale and his second wife Elizabeth (ap Rees).
Elizabeth, Sir Adam de Peshale's second wife, died before 1388, when we find him marrying his third wife Joyce, the daughter and coheir of Sir John de Bottetort and widow of Sir Baldwyn Frevill.* Elizabeth de Peshale's previous death is mentioned in the Inquisition taken on the death of William Mortimer, her first husband's son and heir, in 1391,3 but the exact date of her death is uncertain. It seems probable however that she died about the year 1384, when Adamde Peshale ceased to have the management of the Chelmarsh estates, which had belonged to her first husband Sir Henry de Mortimer and had been taken into the King's hands on account of the imbecility of his son William le Mortimer, and the custody of which had been granted by the King to Adam de Peshale in 1372.* It appears from the Inquisition taken on the death of Sir Adam de Peshale that there was issue born of his shortly after the death of his first wife Elizabeth de Weston, who is stated in the monument in Weston Church to have died in 1366: before the deed of 1377 nest stnted he had married another wife Elizabeth ap Rees, whose son by a former marriage is placed next in remainder in default of issue of Adam and his wife.
Hugh Mortimer, Elizabeth's son by her first marriage, was killed at the battle of Shrewsbury on 21 July 1403, and left no issue, his first cousin once removed, John Cressy, being his next heir.2 How his interest in the lands at Weston under the limitations of the deed of 1377 became vested in the descendants of Adam de Peshale does not appear, but the latter probably bought up his step-son's interest.

• 1 Harl. MS. 5816, fo. 23b.; Add. MS. 18667, fo. 79 (from original at Weston).
• 5 Add. MS. 18667, fo. 83 (given post, pp. 89, 90).
• 3 Inq. 15 Ric. II, No. 46. As William le Mortimer was over 26 years old at the death of his grandfather Sir Hugh Mortimer in 1372, and Elizabeth ap Rees is described as only " 30 and more" at the death of her father in 1369 (Inq. 46 Ed. III, No. 41, and Inq. 43 Ed. III, 1st part, No. 4), it is presumable that he was not her own son. Her own son Hugh Mortimer is described as 24 years old and more at the death of his brother William in 1391.
• 4 Eyton's "Ant. Shrop.," Vol. II, p. 47, x.; Orig. Roll, 46 Ed. IIl, m. 10.