Sir Adam Peshale, Kt., MP

PESHALE, Sir Adam (d.1419), of Peshale and Shifnal, Salop, and Weston-under-Lizard, Staffs.

Family and Education

• younger son of Adam Peshale† (d.1346), of Horsley, Staffordshire by Joan, daughter and heir of John Eyton of The Wildmoors, Salop; brother of Sir Richard† and Hamon*.
• married (1) c.1362, Elizabeth (d.c.1366), daughter and coheir of Sir John Weston of Weston-under-Lizard, widow of Sir John Whiston of Whiston in Penkridge, Staffordshire, probably 1 child d.v.p.;
• married (2) Sept./Oct. 1369, Elizabeth (c.1339-1384), daughter and eventual heir of Sir Philip ap Rees of Talgarth ‘English’, Herefordshire and Shifnal, widow of Sir Henry Mortimer of Chelmarsh, Salop, 1 child d.v.p.;
• married (3) by May 1389, Joyce (d. 12 Aug. 1420), daughter and eventual coheir of John, 2nd Lord Botetourt of Weobley, Herefordshire, widow of Sir Baldwin Freville of Tamworth, Warwickshire, 2 daughters.
• Knighted by Nov. 1380.

Offices Held

• Sheriff, Staffs. 14 Nov.-8 Dec. 1480, Salop 3 Nov. 1397-30 Sept. 1399, 4 Nov. 1418-d.
• Commissioner to put down rebellion, Staffordshire Mar. 1382;
• Commissioner of inquiry Feb. 1383 (murder), Salop Oct. 1398 (murder), Jan. 1414 (lollards);
• Commissioner of array, Staffordshire Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392, Salop Dec. 1399, Sept. 1403;
• Commissioner to make proclamation of Henry IV’s intention to govern well, Warwickshire May 1402;
• Commissioner to supervise musters, Salop Aug. 1402;
• Commissioner of oyer and terminer Feb. 1403;
• Commissioner to raise royal loans, Staffordshire, Salop, Herefordshire 1410;[1]
• Commissioner of arrest, Staffordshire Aug., Dec. 1411.
• Keeper of the forests of Morfe and Shirlet, Salop 27 Nov. 1384-Mar. 1396,
• Keeper of the forests of Dawley castle 24 Apr.-c. Sept.1399.
• Justice of the Peace for Salop 22 July-Nov. 1397.
• Tax collector, Salop Mar. 1404;
• controller, Warwwickshire Mar. 1404.

Biography

Peshale’s father, who sat for Staffordshire in 1341, was described four years later as a ‘common malefactor’, and his arrest was ordered for homicide and other crimes. He was slain early in 1346 on Caynton Heath, Shropshire, allegedly while resisting arrest, and his lands in Sondon, Eccleshall and Horsley (Staffordshire) were confiscated. They were eventually restored to his second son, Richard (d.1388), and the latter’s issue. Richard took after his father in ‘bearing himself tyrannously to mean men’, indulging in extortion and assault and starting brawls, most notably with Sir John Ipstones*, son of the man who, in his view, had murdered his father.[2]

Adam, his younger brother, was of similar temperament, as the many violent episodes in his career well attest, and he was often hauled before the courts to answer for felonies committed in Shropshire and Staffordshire, though he always escaped severe penalty. In 1358, for example, John, Lord Botetourt, caught him and Richard poaching and hunting on his land at Mere, and in 1373 Sir William Trussell complained that the Peshale brothers had driven away his livestock at Shifnal, assaulted his servants and held some of them to ransom. On the latter occasion, Hugh, earl of Stafford, was appointed to head a commission to try the miscreants, but he is unlikely to have been impartial, for Adam and his other brother, Hamon, were probably already his retainers; certainly in later years Adam received a life annuity of £10 charged on the Stafford manor of Barlaston.

It is possible that the earl was influential in securing Adam’s election to Parliament for Shropshire later in 1373 and his return for Staffordshire to four Parliaments between 1377 and 1383. Without doubt the Peshale brothers took a major share of the representation of these two counties in the early 1380s, for Sir Richard sat once for Shropshire and twice for Staffordshire between 1380 and 1383, and Hamon sat for Shropshire in 1386 (although this last election took place during Earl Hugh’s absence abroad and clearly cannot have been directly influenced by him). On 28 Feb. 1377, during his second Parliament, Adam was party to recognizances for £1,000 with John Beverley of Penkridge, among his associates being Sir Nicholas Stafford*, an important retainer and kinsman of the earl.

Peshale was knighted in about 1380, possibly for service overseas, and in February 1384 he took out royal letters of protection as about to sail to the Côtentin in the retinue of William, Lord Windsor, the captain of Cherbourg. By this time he had evidently come to the closer attention of the royal court: on 3 June that same year, at the supplication of Queen Anne, Richard II pardoned him all felonies committed before 14 Dec. 1381 and remitted his fines; and in November he granted Peshale custody of the forests of Morfe and Shirlet for life. (During his tenure of the office Peshale was responsible for supplying 12 massive oaks for the vaulting of Worcester cathedral.)

Despite the veneer of respectability bestowed by royal office, Sir Adam continued in his old ways: in 1385 he and his kinsmen were attached for harbouring murderers at Shifnal, but, as always, they escaped punishment. Peshale was described as a ‘King’s knight’ on 19 Oct. 1390, when Richard II granted him an annuity of £20 and retained him for life in peace and war, and the reasons why he was removed from the keepership of Morfe six years later in favour of a ‘King’s esquire’ Richard Chelmswick*) are not explained. Certainly there are no other signs of royal displeasure, and, indeed, Peshale was appointed sheriff of Shropshire in November 1397 at a politically critical time when the King was filling the shrievalties with his proven loyal supporters.

There is just a hint of a connexion between Peshale and Richard, earl of Arundel (from whom he held a knight’s fee in Weston-under-Lizard and for whom he had once witnessed a deed), in that after the earl’s execution an inquiry showed that he and Arundel’s steward at Oswestry had conspired with the keeper of the earl’s stud to sell certain horses worth £96 13s.4d. for their own profit. However, as sheriff, Peshale carried out his duties in delivering other of Arundel’s forfeited goods to the Exchequer, and that Richard II believed him loyal is clear from the award to him for life of the farm and custody of Dawley castle made in April 1399, only shortly before the King’s departure for Ireland (though it should be noted that the place had little strategic value).[3]

Dawley was returned to the Fitzalans by Henry IV, and Peshale’s royal annuity was never confirmed by the new King. Nevertheless, the change of dynasty had little effect on Peshale’s appointments to royal commissions, although he never served again as a j.p. He was one of the four men summoned from Shropshire to the great council of August 1401, and along with a fellow councillor, Sir William Hugford*, he was commissioned a year later to supervise musters of the shire levies for service in Wales under Henry of Monmouth. Sir Adam was elected to two more Parliaments, and his influential position in Shropshire and Staffordshire is evident from his conciliar appointment in 1410, along with the bishop of Hereford, the earl of Arundel and the abbot of Shrewsbury, to raise a loan of 1,000 marks in those two counties and Herefordshire.[4]

Peshale’s high standing in the locality owed much to his substantial landed holdings, accumulated over the years through three profitable marriages, coupled with the same aggressive determination to keep hold of properties to which he had little right in law as had been shown by his late father. He began life with very little, apparently inheriting none of the family holdings apart from Peshale itself (where he had a private oratory),[5] but this state of affairs did not long continue.

Through his early first marriage, to Elizabeth Weston, he acquired a portion of the manor of Weston-under-Lizard, to which he added substantially over the years. The history of the devolution of the five shares of the manor (as divided up on the death of Elizabeth’s father) presents many difficulties, but it is clear that all five parts came ultimately to Peshale or his descendants as a result of a deliberate policy on his part to reunite the manor. The many and complex transactions involved in his scheme would be tedious to relate: suffice it to say that the ‘Whiston’ share was part of his wife’s inheritance; the ‘Foljambe’ share, held by his wife’s daughter-in-law, Margaret Trussell, widow of Nicholas Whiston and by 1363 married to Sir Fulk Pembridge*, was first leased to Peshale and then formally relinquished to him by the next heir, John Giffard of Chillington, in exchange for lands elsewhere; the ‘Champion’ and ‘Fouleshurst’ shares he purchased in reversion, and the ‘Trumwyn’ share was leased to him for life by the Pembridges. By the time of his death all but the last mentioned fifth were held by him in fee simple.

In 1383 Peshale applied to the Crown (unsuccessfully) for a view of frankpledge in ‘his’ townships of Weston and Blymhill, and three years later he made a settlement of what was described as the whole manor of Weston. Peshale’s first marriage also brought him Newton in Blithfield. After his wife’s death (c.1366) he tried to retain possession of the manor of Whiston, which she had held in dower, by refusing entry to the heir, Sir John Whiston’s sister Agnes, wife of Edmund Giffard; and the abbot of Burton had to intervene as overlord. Here Sir Adam met with some success, for the Giffards conceded a life interest to him, and he leased the manor to Walter Pryde, clerk, forcing the latter to pay him rent even though the Giffards’ son, John, later evicted him.[6]

Peshale’s second marriage was to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip ap Rees, who, when her father died in August 1369, shared the inheritance of his lands with her sister Mabel, wife of Sir Hugh Wrottesley KG. This inheritance comprised the town and lordship of Talgarth ‘English’ in Herefordshire and the market town of Shifnal in Shropshire, which latter boasted a deer park as well as a market and fair and was later valued at £4 a year. Some time between the inquiry about the ap Rees estates held on 9 Sept. following and that held on 22 Oct., not only did Elizabeth marry Peshale but Mabel and her baby died. Wrottesley claimed a purparty of the estates ‘by the courtesy’, and after the death of Sir Philip ap Rees’s widow in the following year the Peshales agreed that he might hold their third and the widow’s third of Talgarth for life, in return for annual payments of £40.

Naturally, violent disputes soon arose over the implementation of this agreement. In Richard II’s first Parliament, that of 1377 (Oct.), Peshale complained that Wrottesley had placed a company of armed men on the highway to ambush and murder him as he was riding home after attending the King’s coronation, and that he had so intimidated Peshale’s tenants at Shifnal that merchants were afraid to come to trade at the fair. Wrottesley filed a counter-petition alleging that the Peshales had broken their agreement over Talgarth, that their men had viciously attacked his servants at the fair at Albrighton, and that Adam, with the assistance of his two brothers, had assembled a gang of 300 armed men, forcing Sir Hugh to protect himself with a similarly large retinue. The quarrel ended only with Wrottesley’s death in January 1381, whereupon his share of the ap Rees estates passed to the Peshales. Adam also enjoyed possession of his wife’s Mortimer dower, consolidating his tenure by obtaining from the Exchequer the farm of the rest of her former husband’s holdings, at Chelmarsh and elsewhere, for 50 marks a year. This he apparently retained until the death in 1391 of his elder stepson, who was an idiot, and his subsequent characteristic refusal to hand it over to his younger stepson, (Sir) Hugh Mortimer, led to violence between them, too.[7]

Sir Adam’s third marriage (which had taken place by May 1389, when he was fined £5 for marrying without the King’s licence, and involved the participation of John, Lord Clinton, in the sealing of the contract) was to Joyce, one of the daughters of the last Lord Botetourt. At Botetourt’s death (four years previously), his heir had been his grand daughter, another Joyce, wife of Hugh, Lord Burnell. When she died childless in 1407, leaving three aunts or their representatives as her heirs, the barony fell into abeyance, while her very considerable estates were retained for life by her husband.

Burnell settled on the Peshales their third of the manors of Newport Pagnell and Linford (Buckinghamshire) in 1408 and Bobbington (Staffordshire) in 1415, and although Sir Adam made an attempt to disseise him of Weobley castle they seem later to have been on fairly amicable terms. On Burnell’s death Joyce Peshale stood to inherit a third part of three manors and an advowson in Worcestershire, three manors and advowsons in Staffordshire, and two manors and a view of frankpledge in Warwickshire, but in 1419 she and her husband decided to sell their reversionary interest in these Botetourt estates to Joan Beauchamp, Lady Abergavenny, for perhaps as much as 1,000 marks. Lady Abergavenny also apparently purchased certain valuables from them, including the ‘grete Maser, covered’, which she later mentioned in her will.[8] Thus, few of the Botetourt properties ever came into Sir Adam’s possession.

He did, however, hold for the rest of his life his wife’s dower and jointure on the Freville estates, consisting of some nine manors in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Warwickshire and worth over £65 a year. As always, he became involved in litigation over these properties, first quarrelling with his stepson, Baldwin Freville, who alleged that he had squandered his inheritance, and then, over the wardship of the Freville heir, with the King’s half-brother, Sir Thomas Beaufort.9 Besides the estates brought to him by marriage and, for the most part held only for his own lifetime, Sir Adam acquired by purchase the reversion of the manors of Tamhorn and Rugeley in Staffordshire, which he passed on to his heirs.[10]

Peshale’s third wife was a member of the fraternities of Lilleshall abbey in Shropshire and the Holy Trinity guild at Coventry, both of which Sir Adam also joined. He is last recorded on 23 Sept. 1419 when, as sheriff, he conducted the Shropshire elections at Shrewsbury. He died on 26 Oct. following and was buried at Weston-under-Lizard.

The ap Rees estates belonging to his second wife then passed to Maud, wife of John Talbot, Lord Furnival, and Joan, wife of Sir Hugh Cokesey, the daughters and heirs of Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival, to whom Henry IV had granted them in reversion. When Sir Adam’s widow died in the following year his other landed holdings (apart, of course, from the Freville estates) were divided between his daughter, Joan, wife of (Sir) William Birmingham*, and a young grandson, William, son of his other daughter, Margaret, by Sir Richard Mytton.[11]

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Author: L. S. Woodger

Notes

• There were not, as suggested in Trans. Salop Arch. Soc. (ser. 4), x. 184-5 and xi. 1-2, two MPs of this name.
• 1. PPC, i. 344.
• 2. CPR, 1345-8, pp. 30, 33, 35-37, 123, 153, 181; 1348-50, pp. 158, 162, 586; 1350-4, p. 364; 1370-4, p. 180; CIMisc. iii. 72; C131/36/5; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xiii. 9, 51, 105.
• 3. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xii. 157; xiv. 239; xvi. 25-26; CPR, 1370-4, p. 310; 1381-5, pp. 440, 482; 1388-92, p. 316; Staffs. RO, D641/1/2/36, 42, 44, 49; CCR, 1374-7, pp. 526, 538; 1385-9, p. 343; CIMisc. vi. 235-6; Kalendars and Inventories ed. Palgrave, iii. 303.
• 4. CPR, 1396-9, p. 540; PPC, i. 162, 344.
• 5. Reg. Stretton (Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. ser. 2, viii), 62.
• 6. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. i. 335-60; (ser. 2), ii. 50-110; xi. 227; xiii. 20, 58, 77, 79, 142, 148, 155, 157, 203; xv. 56; VCH Staffs. iv. 166-7, 171-2, 175; v. 124; CIPM, xiv. 212; CCR, 1374-7, p. 161; C143/402/3.
• 7. CFR, viii. 46-47, 100-1, 180-1; ix. 245; CIPM, xii. 313; xiii. 8; xv. 446; CCR, 1369-74, pp. 162-3; 1388-92, p. 531; CPR, 1370-4, pp. 65-66, 68; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. i. 352-4; (ser. 2), vi. 141, 144-9; xiii. 106, 140; SC8/146/7269-71.
• 8. CP, ii. 233-5, 435; CPR, 1388-92, p. 37; 1416-22, pp. 305-6; VCH Staffs. iv. 105; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xvii. 78-79; CAD, ii. C2398; Warws. Feet of Fines (Dugdale Soc. xviii), 137; W. Dugdale, Baronage, 731.
• 9. CCR, 1385-9, p. 587; 1399-1402, pp. 346-7, 381, 539; 1402-5, pp. 39-40; C138/49/79; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xv. 65; Warws. Feet of Fines, 86-87, 107.
• 10. Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xi. 204, 215; VCH Staffs. v. 155-6.
• 11. VCH Salop, ii. 76; C219/12/3; Reg. Holy Trinity Guild Coventry (Dugdale Soc. xiii), 4, 6, 101; C138/41/64, 49/79; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. i. 359; CCR, 1419-22, p. 32; 1422-9, p. 81; 1435-41, p. 85; CFR, xiv. 322, 356, 373.

From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/pe...

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• Sir Adam de Peshall, Sheriff of Staffordshire & Shropshire1,2,3,4,5,6
• M, #2736, b. circa 1340, d. 26 October 1419
• Father Adam de Peshall2,3,5 b. c 1277, d. 8 Jan 1346
• Mother Joan de Eyton2,3,5
• Sir Adam de Peshall, Sheriff of Staffordshire & Shropshire was born circa 1340 at of Weston under Liziard, Blymhill, Hagley in Rugeley, & Tamhorn in Fisherwick, Staffordshire, England.2 He married Elizabeth de Weston, daughter of Sir John de Weston and Margaret de Wigton, circa 1362; His 1st marriage; her 2nd marriage.2,3,5 Sir Adam de Peshall, Sheriff of Staffordshire & Shropshire married Joyce Botetourt, daughter of Sir John Botetourt, 2nd Lord Botetourt and Joyce la Zouche, before 11 November 1388; His 3rd wife. Her 2nd husband. They had 2 daughters (Joan, wife of William de Birmingham; & Margaret, wife of Sir Richard Mytton).3,4,5,6 Sir Adam de Peshall, Sheriff of Staffordshire & Shropshire and Joyce Botetourt obtained a marriage license on 28 May 1389; Date of pardon for marrying without a license. They had 2 daughters (Joan & Margaret). This was his 3rd marriage.2,7 Sir Adam de Peshall, Sheriff of Staffordshire & Shropshire died on 26 October 1419; d.s.p.m. He had married (2) Elizabeth ferch Philip ap Rees (d. abt 1384), widow of Sir Henry de Mortimer of Chelmarsh, Shropshire, daughter of Sir Philip ap Rees of Talgarth English, Breconshire.1,8,2,7,3,4,5,6
• Family 1 Elizabeth de Weston b. c 1338, d. c 1366
• Child
  • Robert de Peshall+9 b. c 1363
• Family 2 Joyce Botetourt b. c 1348, d. 12 Aug 1420
• Child
  • Margaret Peshall+10,11,3,12,5 b. c 1393, d. 5 Aug 1420
• Citations
• 1.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 234.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 137.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 273-274.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 229-230.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 462-463.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 37-38.
• 7.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 343.
• 8.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. XIV, p. 102.
• 9.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• 10.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 138.
• 11.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 496.
• 12.[S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 509.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p91.htm#i2736 ______________________
• Sir Adam Peshall1
• M, #118863
• Last Edited=1 Jun 2009
• Sir Adam Peshall married Joyce de Botetourt, daughter of John de Botetourt, 2nd Lord Botetourt and Joyce la Zouche.1 He died, without male issue.1
• Children of Sir Adam Peshall and Joyce de Botetourt
  • 1.Joan Peshall2
  • 2.Margaret Peshall2
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 234. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 102. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p11887.htm#i118863 ____________________
  • LISTS ADAM AS HUSBAND OF THE DAU.S OF JOHN WESTON, & JOHN COVERSALL
• The history of the Parshall family (1903)
• https://archive.org/details/historyofparshal00pars
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofparshal00pars#page/n15/mode/1up
• Pg.2
• SIR RICHARD DE PERSHALL, son of Sir Richard Pershall, by Alice Swinnerton, his wife. He was a Knight and a person of great power in Staffordshire, having been high sheriff, an office in those days of great authority, 7 Edward III (1333) and from the 11th to the 15th (1337-1341) of the same King. He m. Margaret dau. and heiress of Hugh, Lord of Knighton, and thus added that manor to his possessions. He was succeeded by his son
• SIR ADAM DE PERSHALL, who was sheriff 15 Edward III (1341), and who made a similar accession to his estate by marriage with two heiresses, the daus. of John Weston, Lord of Weston Lizard, in the County of Salop
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofparshal00pars#page/n16/mode/1up
• Pg.3
• and John de Coverswall, of Bishop's Offley. By the former he had a son and heir
  • SIR ADAM DE PERSHALL, of Weston Lizard, whose grandson and heir another
    • SIR ADAM PERSHALL, left two daus. his co-heiresses, viz.:
      • MARGARET PERSHALL, who married Sir Richard Mytton and conveyed to him the estate of Weston Lizard.
      • JOHANNA PERSHALL, m. to W. de Birmingham.
• By the latter he had a son
• SIR RICHARD PERSHALL, who acquired a considerable fortune with his wife, Johanna, dau. and heiress of Reginald Chetwynde, of Chetwynde, and left a son and heir .... etc. ____________________
• The Parshall family, A.D. 870-1913 : a collection of historical records and notes to accompany the Parshall pedigree (1915)
• https://archive.org/details/parshallfamilyad00pars
• https://archive.org/stream/parshallfamilyad00pars#page/n98/mode/1up
• Pg.65
  • SIR RICHARD DE PESHALE AND THE PESHALES OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY - CHART
• Sir Richard de Peshale nee de Swynnerton, d. circa 1300; ch: Richard, Adam (m. Anne _ ) de Peshale alias de Whethale.
• Adam de Peshale, alias de Whethale, oc. 1285 and 1314 = Anne __; ch: Sir Richard (m. Margery Knighton), Adam (m. Joan de Eyton), John de Peshale.
• Adam de Peshale, Sheriff of Staff. 1341, killed, 1346. = Joan, dau. of John de Eyton and relict of Sir H. de Cresswelle.; ch: Sir Richard (m. Joan Chetwynd), Sir Adam (m. Eliz. Weston), John, Hamond (m. Alice Harley), Isabelle (m. Gech), Roger (m. Joane de Knightley) de Peshale.
• https://archive.org/stream/parshallfamilyad00pars#page/n106/mode/1up
• Pg.70a
  • COPY OF PEDIGREE OF THE FAMILY OF PESHALL FROM THE VISITATION OF ST. GEORGE - CHART
• SEE Collections for a history of Staffordshire Vol. 5 pt.2 - The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire Made by Sir Richard St. George
• https://archive.org/stream/parshallfamilyad00pars#page/n145/mode/1up
• Pg.95
  • PEDIGREE OF PESHALE OF WESTON. GIVEN IN 'STAFFORDSHIRE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS,' New Series, Vol. ii. p. 98
• Sir Richard de Swynnerton, Kt, had lands in Pershal, Co. Staff., living 1271.; ch: Richard, Adam (m. Anne __) de Peshale or de Whethale
• Adam de Peshale [qu. same as Adam de Whethale, def. 1315]. = Anne, relict of Adam de Whethale; ch: Sir Richard (m. Margery Knighton), Adam (m. Margery Knighton & Joan Eyton) de Peshale
• Adam de Peshale of Horseley and Eccleshall and juri uxor of Bishops Offley. Bailiff of Liberty of Coventry and Lichfield, 1340. Sheriff of Staff., 1341, decollatur 1346. [Qu. same as Adam, son of Adam de Peshale, 1323, and Adam son of Adam de Whethale, 1320]. = (1st) Margery, dau. of Hugh Knighton (also m. Richard de Peshale).; ch: Sir Richard (m. Joan Chetwynd), John, Sir Hamond (m. Alice Harley & Thomasine of Wasteney); = (2nd) Joan, dau. of John de Eyton and relict of Henry, de Cresswelle of Bishops Offley.; ch: Sir Adam (m. Eliz. Weston & Eliz. v. Philip & Joyce d. of Sir John Bart), Isabelle (m. Gech) de Peshale.
• Sir Adam de Peshale, Kt. of Weston under Liziard. Kt., 1379. Sheriff of Salop, 1398. Sheriff of Staff, 1418. d. Oct. 1419. m. (1) Eliz. dau. of John de Weston, 1362. m. (2) Eliz. dau. of Philip ap Rees, 1369. m. (3) Joyce, cau. of Sir John Bart, 1388, leaving two daughters only, Margaret & Joan. _____________________
• Joyce La ZOUCHE (B. Bottetourt)
• Father: William La ZOUCHE (1º B. Zouche of Harryngworth)
• Mother: Maud LOVELL (B. Zouche of Harryngworth)
• Married: John BOTTETOURT (1º B. Botetourt) (b. 1320 - d. 1385) (son of Edward I "Longshanks" Plantagenet, King of England and Maud De Lusignan) (m.2 Maud De Grey) BEF 31 May 1347
• Children:
  • 1. Joyce BOTTETOURT (d. 12 Aug 1420) (m.1 Baldwin Freville - m.2 Hugh Burnell - m.3 Adam Peshall)
  • 2. Catherine BOTTETOURT (d. 1362) (m. Thomas Berkeley)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/ZOUCHE.htm#Joyce La ZOUCHE (B. Bottetourt) ____________________
• THE VISITATION LISTS SEPARATE ADAM'S AS HUSBANDS OF __ WESTON, AND JOCOSA BOTETORT, THE ELDEST m. AGNES CAVERSWELL & DAU. OF JOHN WESTON
• Collections for a history of Staffordshire Vol. 5 pt.2
• The Heraldic Visitations of Staffordshire Made by Sir Richard St. George ... By Sir Richard Saint-George, Sir William Dugdale
• https://archive.org/details/collectionsfora10socigoog
• https://archive.org/stream/collectionsfora10socigoog#page/n260/mode...
• Pg.239
• Joh'es Swinnerton, miles, D'n's Manerii de Peshall, 55 H. 3. = ch: Ricardus (m. Margeria Knighton) Peshall.
• Ricardus Peshall, miles, a0 55 H. 3. = Margeria, filia et haeres Hugonis Knighton, D'ni de Knighton.; ch: Adam (m. Agnes Caverswell & .... Weston), Ricardus Peshall.
• Adam Peshall, Dominus de Peshall. = Agnes, filia et haeres Jo. Caverswell.; ch: Ricardus (m. Johanna Chetwynd) Peshall; = .... filia et haeres Jo'is Weston, D'ni de Weston sup. Lizard.; ch: Adam Peshall
• Adam Peshall de Weston sup. Lizard. = ; ch: Robertus Peshall
• Robertus Peshall de Weston. = ; ch: Adamus (m. Jocosa Botetort) Peshall.
• Adamus Peshall, miles, D'n's de Weston, 19 R. 2; obijt 1439. = Jocosa, filia et haeres Jo. D'ni Botetort de Weley, ob. 1455.; ch: Margareta (m. Willi'i Mitton), Johanna (m. __ Bermingham) Peshall _____________
• A Survey of Staffordshire: Containing the Antiquities of that County (1820)
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• Pg.136
• And not far from thence, southward, lieth Weston-under-Lizard ; of which was lord, 20 Conq. Rainald de Balgiole aforenamed ; and from him it descended to, or was received by, one Hugo de Weston, who had issue Hugo, who had issue John, who had issue Thomas, who had issue sir John Weston, knt. 19 Edw. II who had issue a daughter and heir, married to Adam Peshall, who had issue Adam, who had issue Robert, who had issue sir Robert Peshall, knt. who had issue Margaret, married to sir Richard Mitton, knt.(1) who had issue William, who had issue William, who had issue William, who had issue John, who had issue John Mitton, who had issue Joan, married to John Harpesfield, who had issue Edward, who called himself Mitton, after his mother's father, who had issue John Mitton, now living A. D. 1596. ____________________________________
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• Pg.101
• 32. JOYCE LA ZOUCHE (DE MORTIMER), by (3), liv. 4 May 1372; m. (1) 31 May 1347, as 2nd wife, JOHN DE BOTETOURT (216-31), Lord Botetourte of Weobley Castle, b. 1318, d. 1386, M.P. 1342-1385. (CP II: 234-235, XII (2): 962-963).
• 33. JOYCE DE BOTETOURTE (216-32), b. 1367/8, d. 13 Aug. 1420; m. (1) as 2nd wife, SIR BALDWIN III FREVILLE (230A-33), of Tamworth Castle, co. Warwick, b. 1350/1, d. 30 Dec. 1387; m. (2) 1388, Sir Adam Peshall, d.s.p.m. 1419, son of Adam de Peshale and Joan de Eyton. (Inq.p.m. Sir Adam Peshale, 20 Dec. 1419, mentions wife Joyce, and dau. Margaret, wife of Richard Mytton (Mitton); Wm. Salt Soc. XV: 312; Mis. Gen. Her. n.s. III: 273; History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America II 572; Gen. Mag. 21; 187-188).
• 34. MARGARET DE PESHALE, d. 5 Aug. 1420; m. Sir Richard Mytton (Mitton), Knt., d. bef. 26 Oct. 1419. (Wm. Salt Soc. I; 167; CP XIV; 102; Visit. of Shropshire, 360). ________________________________
• 'Peshall1'
• Families covered: Peshall of Chetwynd, Peshall (Pershall) of Horsley, Peshall of Peshall, Peshall of Weston Lizard
• It is not known if, whether by the following Richard or his wife's mother (Elenor de Peshall) or by one of their descendants, this family is connected to the family of Pateshall on Pateshall1 or that of Pateshulle on PZmisc01.
• Sir Richard de Peshall
• m. Alice Swinnerton (dau of Sir John Swinnerton of Peshall)
  • 1. Sir Richard de Peshall or Pershall, Sheriff of Staffordshire (a 1271, 1340)
  • m. Margaret or Margery (dau of Hugh de Knighton of Knighton)
    • A. Sir Adam de Peshall, Sheriff
    • m1. _ Weston (dau of John Weston of Weston Lizard)
      • i. Sir Adam Peshall of Weston Lizard, Salop
        • a. Robert Peshall of Weston Lizard
          • (1) Sir Adam Peshall of Weston Lizard (d 1439)
          • m. Joyce Botetort (d 1455, dau of John Botetort of Weley)
            • (A) Margaret Peshall
            • m. Sir Richard Mitton of Weston under Lizard
            • (B) Johanna Peshall
            • m. W. de Bermingham
    • m2. Agnes Caverswell (dau of John Caverswell of Bishop's Offley)
      • ii. Sir Richard Peshall, 'Sheriff of Shropshire' (a 1350, 1375)
      • m. Johanna Chetwynde (dau of Reginald Chetwynde of Chetwynde)
        • a. .... etc.
• Main source(s): Visitation (Staffordshire, 1614 & 1663-4, Peshall of Horsley), BEB1841 (Peshall of Horsley) with a little support/input from King's Staffordshire Pedigrees (1664-1700, Pershall or Peshall)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/pp/peshall1.php#con2 ________________________________

Who are correct the parents for Adam who married Elizabeth Weston? references list - Richard Peshall & Margeria Knighton of which he would then also have m. to Agnes Caverswall & be the parent of Richard (m. Johanna Chetwynd), & by Weston of Adam Peshall of Super-Lizard, or parents, Adam Peshall & Joan Eyton of which then he is also listed as m2. Elizabeth ferch Philip ap Rees m3. to Joyce Botetourt, parent by Weston of Robert & by Botetourt of Margaret (m. Richard Mitton) (Another reference lists a different Adam (son of Robert son of Adam of Super-Lizard) Peshall as the husband of Jocosa/Joyce Bottetourt parents of Margarita (m. Willi Mitton)

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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.www.findagrave.com

Adam Peshale
BIRTH unknown
DEATH 26 Oct 1419
BURIAL
St Andrew Church
Weston-under-Lizard, South Staffordshire Borough, Staffordshire, England
MEMORIAL ID 177102137

Family Members
Spouse
Joyce Botetourt Peshale
unknown–1420

Children
Margaret Peshale Mitton
1393–1420