Trussell of Flore,
Nuthurst and Peatling
1.2 Edmund Trussell
Nothing much is known about Edmund, second son of Sir
Richard Trussell and Roese Pantulf. He was probably born about 1264. He seems
to have held some position in Ireland. In 1311, his wife Alice was abducted and
robbed at Wardley, Rutland and Stockerston (Stoke Faston), Leicestershire. [1]
In February 1316, August 1318 and July 1320, his brother William son of Richard
Trussell appointed Edmund as his attorney in Ireland. [2]
Dugdale says that Edmund died in Ireland in 15 Edward II, 1322. [3]
Edmund and Alice had two sons, Sir William, and Sir
Edmund who married Margery daughter of Walter de Oseville and died s.p. about
1349.
1.2.1 Sir William Trussell
(c. 1285 – 1347)
William son of Edmund Trussell held land in Flore, and Gayton,
Northamptonshire, Nuthurst, Warwickshire, and in Peatling Magna, Fleckney and
Littlethorpe (Thorpe by Narborough) in Leicestershire. Whether he inherited
these lands from his mother or was holding them through an advantageous
marriage is unclear. He was probably born about 1285.
He first appears in records in June 1306, when he had
protection going to Scotland. He also had protection, as William Trussell of
Peatling, in September 1310. [4]
In September 1314, he was returned to parliament as knight of the shire for
Leicester. [5] He
was appointed as sheriff of Warwick and Leicester from November 1314 to
November 1316. [6] In
October 1315, as William Trussell of Nuthurst, he was on a commission of oyer
and terminer in Staffordshire. [7]
In November 1318, William son of Edmund Trussell, knight,
received a pardon as an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. [8]
In On 28 February 1322, the sheriff of Leicester was ordered to pursue, arrest
and cause to be kept safely in prison until further order, William Trussell,
knight, Edmund his brother, and William son of William Trussell (his son?). [9]
On 20 September 1322, the king ordered a writ of aid for Robert de Digby,
appointed to arrest William Trussell and Edmund his brother. [10]
On 10 March 1323, the sheriff of Northampton was ordered to take into the
king's hand all the lands, goods, and chattels of William Trussell. [11]
William apparently fled abroad and returned to England with Queen Isabella in
December 1326. It is said that he was the person who was part of a delegation
sent to Edward II to demand his abdication in January 1327. [12]
On 26 February 1327, he was appointed escheator south of
Trent, but was removed from office on 13 December. [13]
On 3 March 1327, commissions of oyer and terminer were ordered regarding the
persons who had taken the goods of William Trussell at Flore, Peatling Magna,
Fleckney and Littlethorpe. [14] In March 1327, he was part of a delegation
sent to Rome to seek the canonization of Thomas of Lancaster. [15]
In March 1328, he was going abroad on a diplomatic mission. [16]
In June 1328, he was among the adherents of Henry, earl of Lancaster in their
dispute with Roger Mortimer and his lands and goods were ordered to be seised
into the king’s hand. [17]
On 21 March 1330, William son of Edmund Trussell, knight, was pardoned after he
submitted to the king in the parliament at Winchester. [18]
In May 1330, he and his heirs had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands
of Flore, Nuthurst, Peatling, Littlethorpe and Fleckney. [19]
In May 1330, he was appointed to secure an alliance with the kings of Aragon,
Portugal, and Majorca, [20]
and in September 1330, as the king’s secretary, to arrange a marriage between
Pedro, the infante of Aragon, and Edward III's sister, Eleanor, but this did
not materialize. [21]
In January 1331, he was again appointed escheator south of Trent, until July
1332. [22]
In February 1333, he and his heirs were granted a weekly market and an annual
fair at their manor of Flore. [23]
In December 1335, he was again appointed as escheator south of Trent until May
1340. [24]
In 1338, he was appointed as admiral of the fleet from the mouth of the Thames
towards the west. [25]
In February 1343, he was admiral of the fleet towards the North. [26]
In September 1344, he was an envoy to the king of Aragon to seek a marriage
between the king’s son and Joan, daughter of Edward III. [27]
On 21 April 1347, he was said to be too weak and feeble to be able to render
his accounts at the Exchequer. [28]
He appears to have died shortly after this.
Sir William Trussell’s wife’s name is unknown. He appears
to have had three sons, William, who was living in 1345 but predeceased his
father, Theobald, and Edmund, a priest, canon of St. Paul’s, London.
1.2.1.1 Theobald Trussell
(c. 1310 - 1368)
Theobald son and heir of Sir William Trussell was
probably born about 1310. On 7 October 1330, Theobald son of William Trussell
had permission to cross overseas from Southampton in the diplomatic mission of his
father to Aragon. [29]
In October 1333, Theobald, son of William Trussell, knight, of the diocese of
Poitiers, had a papal indulgence to choose a confessor. [30]
He became a retainer of Henry, duke of Lancaster and in June 1335, William Trussell
junior and Theobald Trussell had protection going to Scotland with Henry of
Lancaster. [31] He
had protection going oversea in April 1337. [32]
He was compensated £20 and 10 marks for horses lost on campaigns with Henry in
the Low Countries in 1338 and Brittany in 1342. [33] In September 1339, he was a deputy for his
father William as admiral of the fleet towards the West. [34]
In March 1343, Theobald Trussell son of William Trussell the elder released to William
Trussell, his father, all his right and claim in 2 messuages and 2 carucates of
land in Solihull. [35]
In November 1344, Theobald son of William Trussell of Flore, 'chivaler,' was
pardoned for trespasses of vert and venison in Rockingham forest. [36]
In April 1345, Ralph, son of Edmund de St. Maur, released all right for
himself, and his heirs, in the manor of Egginton, Derbyshire, to William, son
of William Trussell, of Flore, knight, and to Theobald Trussell, knight, and
the heirs of Theobald. [37]
In 1346-7, Theobald fought in the Crecy and Calais campaigns in the retinue of
Henry of Lancaster. [38]
In September 1347, after the death of his father, he was granted a moiety of
the manor of Gayton and the advowson of the church. [39]
In March 1352, he received a pardon for all felonies and trespasses done by him
in England. [40]
In July 1355, he received a pardon of all debts due at the Exchequer and for “for
all oppressions and extortions, unlawful assemblies of men at arms,
conspiracies, grievances and trespasses of vert and venison as well as all
other trespasses, disseisins by force, whereof he has been convicted.” [41]
He was knight of the shire for Northamptonshire in February 1365, May 1366, and
May 1368. [42]
Theobald Trussell, by his mistress Katherine had a son
named Alfred, born before 1349. He later married Katherine and had another son,
John, born about 1349, who was his legitimate heir. He died shortly before 30
October 1368. [43]
Alfred Trussell:
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/Trussell-sir-alfred-(or-avery)-1349
John Trussell:
[1] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 1: 1307-1313 (1894}, 426.
[2] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 2, 388; vol. 3, 205, 490.
[3]
William Dugdale, The Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656), 537.
[4] Grant
G. Simpson and James D. Galbraith, eds., Calendar of Documents Relating to
Scotland, vol. 5 (Supplementary) (1970), 440, 451.
[5] Francis
Palgrave, ed., The Parliamentary Writs and Writs of Military Summons, vol. 2,
Record Commission (1830), lxx.
[6] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 2, Edward II: 1307-1319 (1912), 220, 302.
[7] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 2: 1313-1317 (1898), 416.
[8] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 3: 1317-1321 (1908), 229.
[9] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 3, Edward II: 1319-1327 (1912), 102.
[10] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward II, vol. 4: 1321-1324 (1904), 205.
[11] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 3, Edward II: 1319-1327 (1912), 104.
[12] J.
S. Roskell, The Commons and Their Speakers in English Parliaments, 1376-1523
(1965), 5-6.
[13] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 4, Edward III: 1327-1337 (1913), 22, 73.
[14] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 1: 1327-1330 (1891), 75.
[15] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 1: 1327-1330 (1891), 26, 51.
[16] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 1: 1327-1330 (1891), 250.
[17] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 4, Edward III: 1327-1337 (1913), 116.
[18] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 1: 1327-1330 (1891), 500, 516.
[19] Calendar
of Charter Rolls, vol. 4, 1-14 Edward III: 1327-1341 (1912), 172.
[20] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 1: 1327-1330 (1891), 525.
[21] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 2: 1330-1334 (1893), 11.
[22] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 4, Edward III: 1327-1337 (1913), 222, 317.
[23] Calendar
of Charter Rolls, vol. 4, 1-14 Edward III: 1327-1341 (1912), 298.
[24] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 4, Edward III: 1327-1337 (1913), 465. vol. 5, 181.
[25] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 5: 1339-1341 (1901), 288.
[26] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 7: 1343-1346 (1904), 15.
[27] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 7: 1343-1346 (1904), 465.
[28] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 6: 1346-1349 (1905), 256.
[29] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 2: 1330-1333 (1898), 158.
[30] Calendar
of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 2: 1305-1342
(1895), 404.
[31] Grant
G. Simpson and James D. Galbraith, eds., Calendar of Documents Relating to
Scotland, vol. 5 (Supplementary) (1970), 501.
[32] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 3: 1334-1338 (1895), 421.
[33] Nicholas
A. Gribit, Henry of Lancaster's Expedition to Aquitaine, 1345-46 (2016), 329.
[34] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 5: 1339-1341 (1901), 262.
[35] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 7: 1343-1346 (1904), 104.
[36] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 6: 1343-1345 (1902, 378.
[37] Staffordshire
Historical Collections, vol. 12 (1891), 39.
[38] George
Wrottesley, Crecy and Calais (1898), 131.
[39] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 7: 1345-1348 (1903), 458.
[40] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 9: 1350-1354 (1907), 244.
[41] Calendar
of Patent Rolls, Edward III, vol. 10: 1354-1358 (1909), 260.
[42] Calendar
of Close Rolls, Edward III, vol. 12: 1364-1369 (1910), 168, 273, 480.
[43] Calendar
of Fine Rolls, vol. 7, Edward III: 1356-1368 (1923), 397.
