The Early Pedigree of Foljambe – Part 2

This second part looks at the descendants of Godfrey Foljambe, second son of Sir Thomas Foljambe II.

1.1.2  Godfrey Foljambe I, ca. 1310 – 29 May 1376.

Godfrey, second son of Sir Thomas Foljambe II and Alice was probably born about the year 1310. In June 1315, Sir Thomas Foljambe, his father, granted him for life, the small manor of Burton near Bakewell, Derbyshire[1]. Little is known about his early career, but he possibly trained in the law. In September 1332, he was one of the mainpermors for his mother Alice who had been indicted for harbouring felons[2]. He was first appointed to a legal commission of enquiry in Derbyshire in December 1332[3], but then little is heard of him until November 1340 when he was on a commission to keep the peace in Derbyshire[4]. After that he appears increasingly in the royal service and was a collector of a subsidy and collector of wool in Derbyshire in 1341 and 1342[5].

In February 1344, he had licence to endow a priest to say prayers at the altar of the Holy Cross, in the parish church of Bakewell[6]. In March 1344, he was going to Ireland on the king’s service and on 28 June was appointed second justice of the pleas following the justiciary of Ireland [7]. On 31 October 1351, he was appointed chief justice of the pleas following the justiciary of Ireland[8]. He appears to have left his position in Ireland sometime in 1356 and returned to Derbyshire. In February 1357, he was appointed as a justice to keep the ordinances of labourers and weights and measures in Derbyshire[9]. Over the next few years he was appointed to numerous commissions of oyer et terminer, wallis et fossatis, etc., not only in Derbyshire, but also in other counties.

In March 1360, he and his son Thomas had a grant for life of land in Pillesley, Derbyshire which they had received from Robert de Ireland[10]. In October 1360, he received a grant for life of the manor of Bakewell, Derbyshire from Sir John Gernon of Essex[11]. In May 1362, he was in the service of John of Gaunt, the king's son, who granted to his bachelor Sir Godfrey Foljambe, for life, the castle and manor of Newcastle-under-Lyme[12]. In November 1362, he and his wife Anne (Avena), and Richard their son had a grant of a moiety of the manor of the manor of Darley in the Peak, held in chief[13]. In October 1363, he was knight of the shire for Derbyshire[14]. In April 1369, he and his heirs had a grant of free warren in their lands in Hassop, Darley and Chaddesden, Derbyshire[15]. In May 1368, Walter Blount granted to him and Avena his wife, the site of his manor of Hazlewood, Derbyshire[16].

From around 1371, Godfrey Foljambe acted as Chief Steward for John of Gaunt's estates in Derbyshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and the Honour of Tutbury[17]. In November 1371, the king committed to him the keeping of the castle, town and honour of High Peak[18]. In June 1373, William Bardolf of Wormegay granted to Geoffrey and his heirs, the manor of Ockbrook, Derbyshire. In September 1375, Sir Godfrey Foljambe and Avena his wife were granted the reversions of the manor of Wormhill; and other property after the death of Elizabeth, wife of William of Aderleye; property from the death of Alfred, son of Godfrey; and the mill at Edensore from the death of Thomas Foljambe, son of Godfrey[19].

The, writ of diem clausit extremum for Godfrey Foljambe, 'chivaler' was issued to the escheators in Nottingham, Derby and Stafford on 12 June 1376[20]. His monumental inscription in the Bakewell church states that he died on 29 May 1376[21].

Most Foljambe pedigrees state that Godfrey married twice, firstly to Anne and secondly to Avena, daughter of Sir Thomas de Ireland of Hartshorne, Derbyshire. Whether Godfrey had two wives or not I have not been able to determine. Avena was almost certainly, on heraldic evidence, of the family of Ireland, but I have been unable to find the slightest trace in any contemporary documents of her supposed father Sir Thomas. Her name appears to have caused difficulties for both medieval and modern transcribers and she appears under a variety of spellings, including Anne, Anina, Avena and Aveva. She married secondly Sir Richard Green who died on 15 August 1386[22]. Avena died on 13 September 1382, when her grandson, Godfrey, son of Godfrey Foljambe aged 15 or 16 was her heir.[23]

Godfrey and Avena had five sons: Godfrey II, son and heir apparent who died about 1375; Thomas who died 7 January 1433[24]; Richard; Alfred who died 20 June 1382; Matthew who died 1 September 1381, and one daughter Avena.

1.1.2.1  Godfrey Foljambe II, ca. 1342 – 1375.

Godfrey, eldest son and heir apparent of Godfrey Foljambe was probably born in the early 1340’s because he was already married in June 1366, when his father granted him and Margaret his wife, the Nottinghamshire manor of Kinoulton[25]. Which brings us to an interesting question; how did the Foljambe family come into possession of Kinoulton? Thoroton assumed it was by inheritance and conceived a marriage between a daughter of Pain de Villers, who was lord of Kinoulton in 1353, and a member of the Ireland family[26].  However, it appears that about 1365, Godfrey Foljambe I purchased Kinoulton from the heiress of Pain de Villers, Joan widow of John de Morestead, daughter and heiress of Robert de Villers[27].

There are few notices of Godfrey III in official records. He was on commissions of peace in Staffordshire in February 1373 and February 1374[28] and in February 1375, he and his father owed £55 to Hugh Malepas[29]. He probably died in 1375, leaving a son, Godfrey III and a daughter Margaret who married Sir Nicholas Montgomery.

1.1.2.1.1  Godfrey Foljambe III, ca. 1367 – 2 September 1388.

Godfrey Foljambe III was heir to his grandfather in 1376 and of his grandmother in 1382. He married in or before 1386, Margaret, daughter of Sir Simon Leek. He died a minor in the king’s wardship on 2 September 1388, leaving a daughter and heiress; Alice, aged just over one, born on 17 June 1387[30]. His widow Margaret married secondly Sir Thomas Rempston. Alice, was married before November 1401 to Robert son of Sir William Plumpton[31].

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[1] Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.G. Preserved at Belvoir Castle, vol. 4, Historical Manuscripts Commission (1905), 50.

[2] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 2, 1330-1333 (1898), 601.

[3] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 2: 1330-1334 (1893), 388.

[4] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 5, 1339-1341 (1901), 647.

[5] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 5: 1343-1345 (1902), 31, 231.

[6] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, Vol. 6: 1343-1346 (1902), 196.

[7] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, Vol. 6: 1343-1346 (1902), 214, 307.

[8] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 9: 1350-1354 (1907), 173.

[9] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 10: 1354-1358 (1909), 551.

[10] Nottinghamshire Archives, Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers, DD/FJ/4/4/1.

[11] Nottinghamshire Archives, Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers, DD/FJ/1/47/1.

[12] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 12: 1361-1364 (1912), 202.

[13] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 12: 1361-1364 (1912), 266.

[14] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 11, 1360-1364 (1909), 558.

[15] Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. 5: 1341-1417 (1916), 216.

[16] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol, 13: 1369-1374 (1911), 93.

[17] Sydney Armitage Smith, ed., John of Gaunt's Register, vol. 1, Camden Third Series, 20 (1911), xiii.

[18] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 8, Edward III: 1368-1377 (1924), 139.

[19] Sheffield City Archives, Bagshawe Collection, Bag C/1007.

[20] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 8, Edward III: 1368-1377 (1924), 377.

[21] Cecil G. S. Foljambe, 'Monumenta Foljambeana', The Reliquary, vol. 14 (London, 1874), 238.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrey_de_Foljambe#/media/File:Foljambe_Monument_in_Bakewell.jpg

[22] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 16, 7-15 Richard II (1974), 262, No. 690.

[23] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 15: 1-7 Richard II (1970), 304, No. 768-9.

[24] For his biography see: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/foljambe-thomas-1433

[25] CP 25/1/185/34, number 405.

[26] John Throsby, ed., Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire, vol. 1 (Nottingham, 1790), 153.

[27] Nottinghamshire Archives, Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers, DD/FJ/1/14/3 & DD/FJ/1/14/4.

[28] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 15: 1370-1374 (1914), 304, 475.

[29] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 14, 1374-1377 (1913), 198.

[30] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 16, 7-15 Richard II (1974), 261, Nos. 685-689.

[31] Calendar of Close Rolls, Henry IV: vol. 1, 1399-1402 (1927), 434.

Complete Peerage Addition: Cromwell and Cressy

Complete Peerage, volume 3, 551, states that the grandparents of Ralph de Cromwell who died in 1398 were Ralph de Cromwell (aged 7 in 1299) and his wife Joan de la Mare, with no indication of Joan’s parentage. 

Complete Peerage, volume 3, 529-30, has a brief account of Sir Hugh de Cressy of Risegate, Claypole, and Braytoft, who died shortly before 16 January 1347, aged 33, His wife’s name is given as Maud, with no further details, except that a footnote explains that she was not the sister of Robert de Paunton as claimed on Raine’s Blyth.

I recently came across a document on the TNA website which enables an identification of Joan and Maud as daughters of Geoffrey de la Mare of Maxey, Northamptonshire.

The document, dated in or about 1345, is a petition to the king by Cecily Gerberge and Geoffrey de la Mare, her son:

“The petition states that Ralph and Joan de Croumbewell, John and Mabel de Folvill, and Hugh and Maud de Crescy brought an assize of novel disseisin against Cecily Gerberge and others concerning lands in Lincolnshire which formerly belonged to Geoffrey de la Mare, father of Joan, Mabel and Maud, although they have no right, as Maud is a bastard and Geoffrey had a son, Geoffrey, by Cecily, who was under age at the time of his death; and because he was under age, and the lands held of the Abbot of Peterborough, the Abbot had wardship of him and his lands, and assigned Thurlby to Cecily in dower. But mention of Geoffrey has deliberately been omitted in the writ for the assize, to bar him from his right; and the plaintiffs have also procured that the writ might be arrayed by the Sheriff of Lincolnshire, although the manor is within the liberty of the Abbot of Peterborough, and the Sheriff had orders from the King to leave the matter to his bailiffs; and they have also procured a jury that is biased and not local. It requests a writ to the justices not to hold an assize arrayed by the Sheriff in this way, but to have it arrayed by the Abbot's bailiffs as the King has commanded.”

TNA: Special Collections: Ancient Petitions, SC 8/193/9645 http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9295531

VCH Northamptonshire, vol. 2, 503, has a somewhat inaccurate account of Geoffrey de la Mare, the father of Joan, Mabel and Maud based on Joseph Sparke’s Peterborough Chronicle published in 1723 (which unfortunately is not online). The chronicle relates that Geoffrey de la Mare “was married three times and having repudiated his third wife Margaret previous to the birth of her infant, a suit was brought after his death by his daughters against the claim of the infant Geoffrey on the grounds of an alleged irregular union between their father and Margaret.”

https://books.google.com/books?id=pK0-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA503

As shown in the 1345 petition to the king, the name of Geoffrey’s third wife, the mother of his son Geoffrey, was Cecily Gerberge, not Margaret.

I have not been able to find much information concerning Sir Geoffrey de la Mare, the father of Joan, Mabel, Maud and Geoffrey, but here’s what I have:

Sir Geoffrey de la Mare, of Maxey, Northborough and Woodcroft, Northamptonshire, and Thurlby, Lincolnshire. He also held property in Tickencote, Rutland and Walden, Essex. He was probably the son of Peter de la Mare who died in Wales in 1280. VCH Northants says he was the son of another Geoffrey, but this is difficult to reconcile with the ages of his first two daughters who were born around 1300.

In April 1294, he had protection going beyond seas on the king's service with Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex [1]. On 1 August 1295, he was granted a weekly market and an annual fair in his manors of Maxey, Northborough and Woodcroft and free warren in his demesne lands [2].  In January 1297, he had letters of respite from debt, going to Brabant with Humphrey de Bohun [3]. He was knighted before October 1302 [4]. In April 1303, he had protection setting out for Scotland with Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford and Essex [5].  On 4 March 1310, he had exemption for life from being made sheriff, coroner or other minister of the king [6]. In November 1318, was pardoned as a supporter of Thomas Earl of Lancaster [7]. In 1320 he was imprisoned in the Tower of London [8]. In March 1321, he was accused of being involved with Gilbert de Middleton at the robbing of the cardinals and the taking of the bishop of Durham [9]. On 20 April 1321 he had exemption for life from being put on assizes, juries or recognitions [10]. In June 1324, he was again imprisoned in the Tower of London [11]. On 18 February 1325, he was pardoned for all homicides, robberies, and of his outlawry provided he served in the king’s army in Gascony [12]. He died shortly before 6 December 1327 when the escheator was ordered to take his lands into the king’s hands [13]. No inquisition appears to have survived.

He is said to have married three times [14]. By his first two wives he had three daughters, Joan, Mabel and Maud and by his third wife Cecily Gerberge, he had a son Geoffrey, born in or before 1324 (of age in 1345) [15]. In 1343-4, his widow Cecily was married to Thomas de Ludlow, when she brought an action of replevin against the Abbot of Peterborough concerning rents in the manor of Thurlby, Lincolnshire [16].

His children:

1.       Joan de la Mare, probably daughter of Geoffrey’s first wife, married Sir Ralph de Cromwell, of Cromwell, Hucknall, etc., born about 1292 (aged 7 in 1299). He died shortly before 15 October 1356.

2.       Mabel de la Mare, probably daughter of Geoffrey’s first wife, married before October 1315 [17], Sir John Folville of Ashby Folville, Leicestershire. In July 1348, John de Folville, knight, quitclaimed to Geoffrey all his rights in lands held by Geoffrey de la Mare, his brother-in-law [18]. He probably died in 1349 and was succeeded by his son, another Sir John Folville who died in 1362 when he was succeeded by his brother Geoffrey.

3.       Maud de la Mare, probably daughter of Geoffrey’s second wife, married, about 1332, Sir Hugh de Cressy, of Risegate, Claypole, and Braytoft. He died shortly before 16 January 1347, aged 33. His widow married Simon Simeon, of Gosberton, Lincolnshire, whom she survived. She died on 9 August 1355 [19].

4.       Geoffrey de la Mare, son of Cecily Gerberge was born in or before 1324. He is said to have married a daughter of Geoffrey le Scrope of Masham, royal justice. 

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[1] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I, vol. 3: 1292-1301 (1895), 69.

[2] Calendar of Charter Rolls, vol. 2, Henry III-Edward I: 1257-1300 (1906), 460.

[3] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 4, 1296-1302 (1906), 80.

[4] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 4, 1296-1302 (1906), 602.

[5] Grant S. Simpson and James D. Galbraith, eds., Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, vol. 5 (Supplementary), 1970, 334.

[6] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 1: 1307-1313 (1894), 212.

[7] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 3: 1317-1321 (1903), 232.

[8] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: vol. 3, 1318-1323 (1895), 268.

[9] Arthur E. Middleton, Sir Gilbert de Middleton: And the Part He Took in the Rebellion in the North of England in 1317 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1918), 71.

[10] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 3: 1317-1321 (1903), 576.

[11] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: vol. 4, 1323-1327 (1898), 125.

[12] Gascon Rolls C61/37

[13] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 4, Edward III: 1327-1337 (1913), 71.

[14] R. M. Serjeantson and R. D. Adkins, eds., Victoria County History of Northamptonshire, vol. 2 (London, 1906), 503.

[15] TNA: Special Collections: Ancient Petitions, SC 8/193/9645.

[16] Luke Owen Pike, ed., Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, Year XVII (London, 1901), 153.

[17] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 2: 1313-1317 (1898), 355.

[18] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 8, 1346-1349 (1905), 521.

[19] Complete Peerage,  Vol. 3, 530.

The Early Pedigree of Foljambe - Part 1

The royal hunting forest of High Peak, established by the early Norman kings, covered most of north western Derbyshire. The administration of the forest was split into three areas; Hopedale, Longdendale and the relatively open south-western part known as Campana. Each area had its own forest officials, some holding their positions from the king by hereditary right. Among the foresters of Campana were the family of Foljambe. There are several pedigrees of the family in print, but most of them contain errors and a few mythical and non-existent people.

I have attempted below to make this brief pedigree showing the main lines of the Foljambe family of Wormhill and Tideswell, Derbyshire from the end of the thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth centuries, based almost entirely on contemporary, dated records.

1.  Thomas Foljambe I, ca. 1235 - 16 Jan 1283.

As Nathaniel Johnston says “This Thomas Foljambe, being the antientest person of the family, which manifestly appears in the original deeds which hitherto I have found, I shall begin with him.”[1] He first appears in dated records in October 1265 when he was one of the collectors of the seized goods of rebels in the wapentake of High Peak[2]. In October 1277 he was one of those who purchased timber from Thomas de Normanville, the king’s steward[3]. He was on various commissions of enquiry in 1279 and 1280[4]. In June 1280, he had a grant for life from Ralph de Eccleshall of the manors of Eccleshall and Aldwark in Yorkshire on the marriage of his daughter Cecily with Robert son of Ralph de Eccleshall[5].  In November 1281 he is named in the Patent Rolls as king’s bailiff of the Peak, Derbyshire; a post he had held for some time before this date[6]. In January 1282, Robert Tybetot and Eve his wife granted the manor of Elton, Derbyshire to Thomas and his heirs[7]. In 11 Edward I, 1282-1283, the Pipe Roll records that Thomas Foljambe gave the king 400 marks for the farm of the Castle and the honour of the Peak, to hold for 9 years[8].

He died on 16 January 1283  and his inquisition post mortem shows that he held land in Wormhill of the king by the serjeantry of keeping the forest of Campana; a mill upon the river Wye; a messuage and sixty acres of land at Tideswell, and the hamlet of Little Hocklow, of Sir John Daniel, by the service of rendering annually six barbed arrows with fleches; the hamlet of Letton, of Margery lady of Beeley; Little Longstone, of Richard Edensor; and Burton (near Bakewell), held of William Gernon; twenty-eight shillings of rent in Middleton of William de Yolgrave and the manor of Elton held of Sir Robert Tybetot doing service at the court of Tutbury. His heir was Thomas his son, aged 17 (born on 24 June 1265). He was survived by his wife Cecily[9].  Cecily had assignment of dower on 23 February 1283[10].

1.1   Sir Thomas Foljambe II, 24 June 1265 – Jan 1322.

Thomas Foljambe, a minor at the death of his father, was according to an enquiry into the rights of the foresters of Peak in 1285, placed in the custody of Thomas de Gretton until he came of age[11]. On 28 June 1286, the escheator beyond Trent was ordered to give him seisin of his father’s lands as he had proved his age[12]. In June 1287 he was in prison at York for disseising Robert de Eccleshall (his brother-in-law) of a tenement in Eccleshall[13]. He was knighted before February 1296 when he owed £17 to William de Hamelton[14].  He is named as bailiff of the Peak in October 1296[15].

He was summoned to perform military service against the Scots in July 1297 and June 1301, and returned as one of the knights of the shire for Derbyshire at the Parliaments of 1302, 1305[16], 1309, and 1311 to 1314[17]. In June 1315 he granted his (younger) son Godfrey, the manor of Burton for life[18].

Thomas Foljambe married Alice whose family name is unknown[19]. He died shortly before 16 January 1322, when the writ of diem clausit extremum was issued to the escheator[20]. His inquisition post mortem found that his heir was Thomas his son, aged 24 years and more[21]. Dower was assigned to Alice on 20 May 1322[22]. She was still living in October 1332, when she was indicted for knowingly receiving felons[23].

1.1.1 Sir Thomas Foljambe III, ca. 1297 – before 18 Mar 1350.

Thomas son of Sir Thomas Foljambe was said to be aged 24 years and more at his father’s inquisition post mortem in 1322. He does not appear very often in the public records. For whatever reason, he gave up his hereditary right to be the king’s forester and thus there are no more inquisitions for this branch of the family. In October 1336, he had licence from the king to grant in fee to John del Hall of Castleton, a messuage and 15 acres in Wormhill, which he held in chief by the service of being forester in the king’s forest of Campana[24]. In October 1349 he acknowledged in chancery that he owed £200 to his brother Godfrey[25]. He presented a priest to the rectory of Weston-under-Lizard, Staffordshire on 4 March 1350[26].  He was dead before 18 March 1350, when his executors; Roger de Paddeley, Hugh his son, and John Foljambe (probably his younger brother) were dealing with a debt owed by Thomas Foljambe, knight, to John de Ashton-under-Lyne[27].

He married firstly the eldest of the five daughters and co-heirs of Sir John de Weston of Weston-under-Lizard and Newton, Staffordshire (died ca. 1349) by his first wife Isabel de Bromley (died 1317)[28]. He married, secondly Ellen who survived him. She is said to have married secondly, Robert de Staveley. She was living in January 1371[29].

1.1.2 Godfrey Foljambe I, ca. 1300 – 29 May 1376.

See Part 2.

1.1.3  John Foljambe, ca. 1300 – before Jun 1365.

John third son of Sir Thomas Foljambe II, lived in Tideswell and is confused in records with his nephew of the same name. In June 1365, he and three others had licence for alienation in mortmain of lands in Tideswell, Litton and Wormhill, to found a chantry with two chaplains to celebrate divine service at the altar of St. Mary in the church of St. John the Baptist, Tideswell. The licence was vacated because John and two of the others had died before the royal licence was granted[30].

1.1.1.1  John Foljambe ca. 1320 – 2 Aug 1383.

John son of Sir Thomas Foljambe III, by his first wife, was of Tideswell. According to the inscription on his tomb he was responsible for re-building the church of Tideswell. On 3 January 1371, John Foljambe of Tideswell granted lands to Thomas de Castleton vicar of Wirksworth and two chaplains, with the reversion of lands held for life by Ellen widow of Thomas Foljambe and the reversion of lands held by Sir Godfrey Foljambe by the grant of his father Sir Thomas Foljambe.[31] In 1371 he was holding one fifth of the manor of Newton (near Blithfield), Staffordshire[32]. On 3 September 1374, John of Gaunt ordered his chief forester of the High Peak to deliver to John Foljambe, three suitable oak trees for the repair of the church of St. John in Tideswell[33].

There is confusion concerning the date of his death, which is shown as 4 August 1358 on his tomb in Tideswell church. This date is most probably incorrect because Cecil Foljambe, Lord Liverpool, had the tomb restored in the 1870’s and replaced the then missing brass inscription with a new one, but apparently got the text wrong. A note published in 1881[34] gives the original text of the brass, probably taken from the 1593 church notes of William Wyrley (d. 1618) showing the date of John’s death as 2 August 1383. The name of his wife is unknown. He was succeeded by his son Roger.

1.1.1.1.1  Sir Roger Foljambe ca. 1340 – ca. 1395.

Roger son of John Foljambe of Tideswell. In October 1383, (Michaelmas 7 Richard II) Roger Foljambe, the administrator of the goods and chattels of John Foljambe of Tideswell, who had died intestate, sued William Page of Lee, and John de Goldeburne the elder, of Bromshill, for a debt of £8[35].

He was living on 29 September 1392, when he is mentioned as Roger Foljambe, knight in the foundation charter of a chantry in Tideswell church[36]. He died some time before 1399, when he was succeeded, it is said, by his grandson Edward, son of his son James.

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[1] Nathaniel Johnston, “Notices of the Family of Foljambe during the Reigns of King Henry III and Edward I, Chiefly from the Private Charters of the Family, by Nathaniel Johnston, M.D. 1701,” Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 1 (1834): 91–111, 333–61.

[2] Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery), vol. 1 (1916), 197.

[3] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I, vol. 1: 1272-1281 (1901), 235.

[4] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I, vol. 1: 1272-1281 (1901), 342, 346, 349, 406, 409.

[5] CP 25/1/266/58, number 8.

[6] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I, vol. 2: 1281-1292 (1893), 43.

[7] Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. 13 (1891), 10.

[8] John Pym Yeatman, Feudal History of the County of Derby, vol. 1 (1876), 244.

[9] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 2, Edward I (1906), 285, No. 475.

[10] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 2, 1279-1288 (1902), 202.

[11] Charles Kerry, "A History of Peak Forest," Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. 15 (1893), 82.

[12] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 2: 1279-1288 (1902), 398.

[13] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 2: 1279-1288 (1902), 458.

[14] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 3: 1288-1296 (1904), 507.

[15] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward I: vol. 3: 1288-1296 (1904), 496.

[16] Francis Palgrave, ed., The Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, vol. 1 (London: Record Commission, 1827), 619.

[17] Francis Palgrave, ed., The Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, vol. 2 (London: Record Commission, 1830), Calendar, xxv.

[18] Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.G. Preserved at Belvoir Castle, vol. 4, Historical Manuscripts Commission (1905), 50.

[19] She definitely was not the daughter of Gerard de Furnivall, who died s.p. in 1260 and whose heir was his brother Thomas. Neither was she the heiress of Darley, because Godfrey Foljambe purchased the manor of (Old Hall) Darley, he did not hold it by inheritance.  

[20] Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 3, Edward II: 1319-1327 (1912), 89.

[21] Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 6, Edward II (1910), 183, No. 317.

[22] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward II: vol. 3, 1318-1323 (1895), 448.

[23] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 2, 1330-1333 (1898), 601.

[24] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 3: 1334-1338 (1895), 333.

[25] Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: vol. 9, 1349-1354 (1906), 144.

[26] George Bridgeman, "History of the Manor and Parish of Weston under Lizard in the County of Stafford," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, New Series, vol. II (1899), 44.

[27] Chancery: Certificates of Statute Merchant and Statute Staple, C 241/128/195.

[28] George Bridgeman, "History of the Manor and Parish of Weston under Lizard in the County of Stafford," Collections for a History of Staffordshire, New Series, vol. II (1899), 44, 52.

[29] Nottinghamshire Archives, Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers, DD/FJ/4/3/1.

[30] Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 13: 1364-1367 (1912), 126.

[31] Nottinghamshire Archives, Foljambe of Osberton: Deeds and Estate Papers, DD/FJ/4/3/1.

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