Sir Adam de Chetwynd, of Cublesdon

Adam de Chetwynd was the youngest of Sir John de Chetwynd's three sons and was a very wealthy man [Eyton, viii., p.85]. He was the local banker and lawyer which gave him great opportunities to enrich himself by purchasing bankrupt estates. In a contemporty deed he is addressed as "Our beloved Clerk." Adam was the King's Escheator in Cheshire and North Shropshire. During his tenure of office, Ellesmere Castle escheated to the King by the death of Hamo le Strange in the service of the Cross in Palestine, and was put in charge. Adam Chetwynd purchased rents at Hilderstone in 1278 from Burnel, Bishop of Bath and Well, for which he paid 200 silver marks [Feet of Fines, Hill. 6 Edw. I]. In 1284, Adam's son John was mesne-lord of Hilderston.

Adam de Chetwynd is usually designated as of Cublesdon, but it is impossible to say exactly what rights he held there. Walter Chetwynd, writing in the latter half of the 17th century, says:

"The lord of Cublesdon have ever since the time of Edward I held certain lands within that manor by service of a Knight's fee and £5 of yearly rent, of the Chetwynds of Ingestre, but what lands they are or by whom first granted I have not been able to discover."

Cublesdon or Cubleston (now Kibblestone) was a large manor containing a number of hamlets in the parish of Stone.

Adam Chetwynd died in the autumn of 1282, for on 28 Dec of that year, his widow, Eva de Oswaldestre, appealed to the king at Rhuddlan Castle in North Wales, where he was hold his first Wlch Parliament, to complain that the sheriff had unjustly depreived her of her rights. An enquiry was held at Stafford in January, and the jurors found her entitled to the custody of Tixall, Isptones, Weston and Chetwynd, for they all had been given to her by her husband some time before his death [Eyton, viii. p. 88]. ~ Chetwynds of Ingestre, pp. 20-24

• from A Brief History of Chetwynd

The village and manor of Chetwynd passed from the lordship of Thurold de Verley to Alan FitzFlaad, a Breton noble who had found favour with Henry I. He was granted the lordship of Oswestry along with several manors in Shropshire including Chetwynd In 1102 the family that became known as de Chetwynd held the manor under William FitzAlan, Alan's son. The first recorded mention of the lord of Chetwynd was of Adam de Chetwynd in 1180.

Sources 

1. Horne and Shewell from the Visitation of Shropshire, 1623. Harleian Society, London 1889, page 260
2. The Visitations of Staffordshire, 1614 & 1663/4, pp.76-77, Adam de Chetwynd, de Cubleston, living Henry III, son of John de Chewynd, married to Eva, filia Rog. de Albo Monasterios, who was a widow sometime during the reign of Henry III. Their children are given as: eldest son, John de Chetwynd, living 14 Edward I; William, second son, living 4 Edward II, Agnes, Cecilla and Alicia.
3. H. E. Chetwynd-Stapylton, The Chetwynds of Ingestre being a history of that family from a very early date (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892).
4. William Playfair, British Family Antiquity; Illustrative of The Origin and Progress of the Nobility of the United Kingdom. Accompanied with an elegant set of chronolgical charts., vols. 9 (London: T. Reynolds and W. Playfair, 1809-1812), vol. 5: p. 67;

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