Sir Gilbert Pecche, Baron of Bourne (Sr., 'I')

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GILBERT5 PECCHE (HAMON4, GILBERT3, HAMON2, GUILLAUME1) died May 25, 1291. He married (1) MAUD DE HASTINGS, daughter of Henry de Hastings and Ada de Huntingdon. He married (2) JOAN DE CREYE, daughter of Simon de Creye. 

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Gilbert Pecche had livery of his inheritance in December of 1241 and was summoned in August of 1260 for the campaign in Wales following the fall of Bulith Castle. He was summoned to be in London with all of his force in 1261, on the king's urgent business; and was summoned again for service in Wales in 1263 and 1264. During the baronial rebellion against King Henry III, he maintained his loyalty to the king or returned to his allegiance after the Battle of Evesham because he obtained a protection in August of 1265 and in 1266.

He was summoned for service in Wales in 1276, but acknowledged the sevice of two knights' fees in Great Thurlow, Suffolk; and Westcliff, Kent; and paid sixty pounds rather than serving. He was summoned for service in Wales in 1282 and 1283; and to the Assembly at Shrewsbury in 1283. In February of 1284, he surrendered all of the lands that he held in chief to King Edward I and Queen Eleanor in exchange for an anual annuity equal to the value of the lands. In January of 1284/85 in return for his lands he recieved land in Westclive, and the farms of Ipswich and Chesterton. In February of the same year he had a grant for life of the manors of LeNeylande, Banstad and Torpel, Northampton; Newton-Harcourt, Leicester; Scothow, Norfolk; and he had Gestingthorpe, Essex for life with reversion to the king.

The reason for Gilbert's surrender of lands is not definitely known, but it may have been due to his hostility to the sons of his first marriage, who he disinherited in favor of his son Gilbert by Joan de Creye. In June of 1271 he conveyed Corby in Lincolnshire by fine to his son Gilbert and later settled other properties on him. However, Gilbert's surrender of lands prejudiced his son Gilbert equally with his half-brothers.

Gilbert Pecche was a benefactor of Sibton Abbey and of the priory of Hinchinbrook. On his death in 1291, the family lost its territorial position and what importance remained was due to the official position of his son and de facto heir, Gilbert.

      Children of Gilbert Pecche and Maud de Hastings are: 

i. JOHN6 PECCHE.
ii. EDMUND PECCHE.

MAUD DE HASTINGS, married (as his 1st wife) GILBERT PECCHE (or PECHE, PECKE), Knt., of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, Bourn, Eversden, Guilden Morden, Haslingfield, Kingston, Lolworth, Long Stanton, Madingley, Rampton, Swaffham Prior, Wimpole, etc., Cambridgeshire, Plechedon (in Henham), Essex, Westcliffe, Kent, High Ercall, Shropshire, etc., son and heir of Hamon Pecche, Knt., of Bourn and Cheveley, Cambridgeshire, by his wife, Eve. They had two sons, John and Edmund, and an unknown number of daughters, including Margery. His wife, Maud, is possibly the Maud de Hastings who held a half a knight’s fee in Leicestershire or Warwickshire of the honour of the Earl of Ferrers in 1235–1236. In December 1241 he gave 200 marks for relief of the lands which Hamon Pecche his late father held in chief when he went to the Holy Land. In 1242–1243 he acquired ½ virgate of land in Birdbrook, Essex from Robert Blaneny, in exchange for 5-½ acres of land in Stambourne, Essex. In 1249–1250 John, Prior of Stokes, conveyed to Gilbert and his mother, Eve, a common of fishery in the water of Birdbrook, Essex. In 1249–1250 William _____ conveyed to him one messuage and 80 acres of land in Birdbrook, Essex. In 1256 he settled the procedure to be observed towards him as patron on a vacancy of the monastery of Barnwell. He was summoned for the campaign in Wales after the fall of Builth Castle in 1260. His wife, Maud, died in London in 1264 or 1265. He married (2nd) Joan de Creye, widow of Richard de Dover (minor in 1261, died shortly before 10 Jan. 1266), of Lesnes, Kent, and daughter of Simon de Creye. They had four sons, Gilbert [1st Lord Pecche], William, Simon, and John. In 1271 he conveyed a messuage and two carucates of land in Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire and a carucate of land in Sarre, Kent to his daughter and son-in-law, Margery and Nicholas de Criol. In 1270 he made a settlement of the manor of Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire on himself and his wife, Joan. In 1272 he was granted a weekly market and annual fair to be held at the manor of Great Thurlow, Suffolk. In 1272–1273 he and his wife, Joan, conveyed the reversion of the manor of Plechedon (in Henham), Essex to his son, John Pecche. In 1273–1274 his son, John, conveyed the manor of Plechedon (in Henham) and Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire to Gilbert and his wife, Joan, and the heirs of her body. In 1275 Gilbert sold land at Bourn, Cambridgeshire to Barnwell Priory. He was summoned for service in Wales, 1276, 1282 and 1283, and to the assembly at Shrewsbury in 1283. In 1277 Berenger le Moyne, Knt. conveyed to Gilbert and his wife, Joan, for £40 one messuage with appurtenances in the vill of Chaterris, Cambridgeshire, which property Berenger recently acquired from Gilbert. In 1278–1279 John de Cokefeld arraigned assizes of mort dancestor against him regarding the manor of and possessions in Podeseye, Essex. In 1280 Aaron son of Vives the Jew gave Queen Eleanor of Castile all debts owed by Gilbert Pecche; the queen then obtained Pecche’s debts to the king at the Exchequer; in consequence, Gilbert conveyed to her his manor of Westcliffe, Kent in June 1280. Gilbert was going overseas in 1281. In 1280–1281 he and his wife, Joan, made a settlement of the manors of Plechedon (in Henham), Essex and Swaffham, Cambridgeshire. In 1280–1281 he conveyed the manor of Great Thurlaw, Suffolk to feoffees. In 1281 he sold one messuage and certain lands and rents in Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire to Robert de Leicester. In 1283, in consideration of £40, he granted his serf, Martin of Tune, of Ufford, together with the advowson of Ufford, Suffolk to Robert de Ufford, Knt. At an unknown date, as “Gilbert son of Sir Hamo Petche,” he likewise conveyed to Robert de Ufford, Knt. for £40 his fish-pond of Hakenhull (in Melton), Suffolk and part of another called Burriches pond in the same place. In 1283–1284 a settlement of the manor of Great Thurlaw, Suffolk was made on him and his wife, Joan. In 1284 he surrendered all of his lands held in chief to the king and queen, including the advowson of Barnwell Priory, in consideration of an annuity equivalent to the yearly value of the lands. In 1285 the king and queen settled on Gilbert for his life lands worth £124 a year, in return for his feoffment to them of his estates. At an unknown date, he translated the remains of his grandparents, Gilbert and Alice Pecche, to Barnwell Priory, of which house he was patron. At an unknown date, he confirmed all the grants and quittances made to Sibton Abbey by himself, his father, Hamon Pecche, and his grandfather, Gilbert Pecche, and others of his fee. SIR GILBERT PECCHE died 25 May 1291. In 1291, his widow, Joan, complained that the escheator seised Plechedon (in Henham), Essex and Great Thurlow, Suffolk for the crown, though she and her late husband were joint- feoffees thereof. Joan was living in 1302.

References:

Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 82. Banks, Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 363–364 (sub Peche). Norfolk Arch. 4 (1855): 11. Eyton, Antiqs. of Shropshire 9 (1859): 62–74. Reliquary 18 (1877–78): 91–92. Turner, Cal. of Charters & Rolls Preserved in the Bodleian Library (1878): 645. Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper 48 (1887): 149. Duchess of Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll 2 (1889): 396 (“ ‘What became of the right heirs of Gilbert Peche II. is,’ says Eyton, ‘a matter of conjecture.’ Edmund, the youngest, occurs in the Parl. Writs as Lord of Felsham, Suffiolk, in 1316: and John must have been the Sir John Peche, ‘descended from Gilbert Lord Peche,’ who acquire Lullingstone in the previous century. His two sons, Sir William and Sir John, accompanied Edward I. to Scotland, and were knighted at Carlaverock.”). East Anglian n.s. 6 (1895–6): 378. Cal. Charters Rolls, 2 (1898): 179. Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 147, 183, 186; 2 (1913–1928): 1, 6. Rye, Cal. of Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900): 81, 83–84, 91. Rigg, Select Pleas, Starrs, etc., of the Jewish Exchequer, 1220–1284 (Selden Soc. 15) (1901): 112–113. Clark, Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle (1907): xxxvii–xli, 48–50 (“Predictus dominus Gilbertus Pecche duas habuit vxores: vnam que uocabatur Matildis de Hastinges, genere quidem claram sed moribus multo clariorem, et habuerunt filios et filias. Que London defuncta est. Sepultum est corpus eius in ecclesia canonicorum beate marie ultra aquam … Post hec accepit dictus Gilbertus aliam uxorem filiam domini Symonis de Creye; que uocabatur Johanna … de hac quidem genuit filios et filias.”). Report on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1907): 273. C.P.R. 1258–1266 (1910): 508 (Richard de Dovorr [Dover] styled “king’s kinsman”), 532. Farrer, Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 159–165. Foster, Final Concords of Lincoln from the Feet of Fines A.D. 1244–1272 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 17) (1920): 239. C.P. 10 (1945): 335–336 (sub Pecche) (cites Liber… de Bernewelle, pg. 50, which calls Maud de Hastings, 1st wife of Gilbert Pecche, “illustrious by birth and still more illustrious by nature.”). VCH Cambridge 2 (1948): 234–249; 10 (2002): 46–49, 278–285. Churchill, Cal. of Kent Feet of Fines (Kent Recs. 15) (1956): 419. Beardwood, Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield, 1307–1312 (Trans. American Philosophical Soc. n.s. 54) (1964): 34. C.R.R. 16 (1979): 399. Brown, Sibton Abbey Cartularies 1 (Suffolk Charters 7) (1985): 82; 2 (Suffolk Charters 8) (1986): 35–38. Parsons, Eleanor of Castile (1997): 134–135, 138, 140– 142, 148, 161–162, 168, 177–179, 183, 192, 194, 308, 314–315. Breay, Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey (1999): 383–384. Mundill, England’s Jewish Solution (2002): 63, 267. Berkeley Castle Muniments: Reference: BCM/D/5/5/1 (abstract of document available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).

Children of Maud de Hastings, by Gilbert Pecche:

i. JOHN PECCHE, son and heir. He married MARGARET LE MOYNE, daughter and co-heiress of Berenger le Moyne, Knt., of Barnwell, Hemingford, Holywell, Thurning, and Woodhurst, Huntingdonshire, by his wife, Emme. They had one son, Gilbert, and allegedly one daughter, Anne (wife of John Wingfield, Knt.). At an unknown date, John’s father appears to have conveyed the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire to him. In 1272–1273 his father, Gilbert Pecche, and his 2nd wife, Joan (John’s step-mother) conveyed the reversion of the manor of Plechedon (in Henham), Essex to him. 1273–1274 John conveyed the manors of Plechedon (in Henham), Essex and Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire to his father, Gilbert Pecche, and his 2nd wife, Joan, and their heirs. In 1285–1286 he conveyed nine messuages and five virgates in Thurning, Huntingdonshire to Richard, Abbot of Crowland. In 1286 John and his wife, Margaret, conveyed the manor of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire to Roger de Loveday, justice itinerant, and his wife Sibyl. In 1289, as “John Pecche son of Gilbert Pecche,” he owed a debt of £10 to Simon de Thorpe; a writ was sent to the Sheriff of Huntingdonshire for collection. John died before 14 May 1296, when the king presented Thomas de Cantebrigge to the church of Clyvele/ Chauele/Chavele [Cheveley, Cambridgeshire], the church being in the king’s gift by reason of his custody of the land and heir of John son of Gilbert Pecche, tenant in chief. Banks, Baronies in Fees 1 (1844): 363–364 (sub Peche). Patrician 1 (1846): 363–364 (re. Wingfield family). Page, Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller (1846): 434–439 (re. Wingfield family). Eyton, Antiqs. of Shropshire 9 (1859): 68–69 (Pecche-Peverel pedigree). Turner, Cal. of Charters & Rolls Preserved in the Bodleian Library (1878): 645. C.P.R. 1292–1301 (1895): 188, 210. Duchess of Cleveland, Battle Abbey Roll 2 (1889): 396. East Anglian n.s. 6 (1895–6): 378, 380. Procs. Suffolk Institute of Arch. & Natural Hist. 11 (1903): 178 (Edward [recte Edmund] Pecche listed as lord of Felsham, Suffolk c.1316). Clark, Liber Memorandorum Ecclesie de Bernewelle (1907): 48–50. Feet of Fines for Essex 2 (1913–1928): 1, 6. Farrer, Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 159–165. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 175–178. DeWindt, Royal Justice & Medieval English Countryside 2 (1981): 525, 629, 637. Geary, Readings in Medieval Hist. 2 (2003): 460. National Archives, C 241/9/210 (abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).

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