Edmund (Kendale) de Kendale (abt. 1290 - abt. 1371)

Born about 1290 in England

Descendants

Died about 1371 at about age 81 in England

Biography

Edmund was born about 1290.

Early Life

c1310 He married Aubrey Unknown. The date could not be much later as their daughter Agnes was married by 1325. An earlier date would have Edmund undertaking a Normandy expedition in his 70s.

Banks suggests that Edward de Kendale and Edmund de Kendale are related, without being specific. ^[1]

Before 1316 he was in peril in Scotland, probably Bannockburn 1314 (See career)

1316 the manor and advowson of Lyndon were leased to Edmund de Kendale by Edward II and in the following March he received a grant for 6 years, for his sustenance during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Edward III on his accession confirmed Edmund's custody of the land but Edmund failed to make payments and lost it.^[2]

Family

Most probably after the pilgrimage (If it happened) he and Aubrey his wife held tenements in Linwood, a moiety of which was settled in 1325 on his daughter Agnes and her husband John le Waleys, with reversion to his daughter Felicia. The second moiety passed to Margaret, another of his daughters who married William de Mours. [Felicia afterwards married John Norton, and in 1370 their son John de Norton died seised of her moiety, leaving a son and heir John, who was 3 years old. It passed from father to son and was termed ' half the manor of Linwood' on the death of Richard Norton in February 1537]^[3]

1371 Southampton, IPM John de Norton Lyndewode, Rokeford and Iwode in the New Forest. A moiety of a messuage, held as of the right and inheritance of Felicia his mother, a daughter and heir of Edmund de Kendale, knight. ^[4]

According to Denholm-Young, he was a relative of Hugh de Kendale, wardrobe clerk, Vice-Chancellor and perhaps clerk of the council. ^[5]

Career

1314 He was injured, probably at Bannockburn ^[6]

1317 He was Kings Bachelor when the King (Edward II) gave him leave for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to accomplish a vow he made when he was in peril in Scotland. (Bannockburn) ^[7]

1318 He was appointed keeper of the peace in the county of Southampton (Hampshire). Calendar of chancery warrants i P536 (25 Jan 1318).

1337 By letters patent he was appointed by the King to the custody of lands late of James de Norton and Margaret his wife to hold John, their son in his minority. Edmund by supplication mentioned that he was taken prisoner by the Scots at Strivelyn (Stirling)and had to pay a heavy ransom for his release. He was acquitted of his debts. ^[8]

By Sept 1340, Edmund became bachelor and steward to Edward the Black Prince. ^[9] It was though him that Edward ordered the lifetime lease of his properties in Cornwall ^[10]

In 1346 the Black Prince ordered his serjeant-at-arms, William de Welham, to join with Sir Edmund de Kendale in guarding Chamberlain de Tancarville, the prince’s prisoner, ‘not suffering him to go anywhere outside Wallingford Castle’. ^[11][12]

Also in 1346/7 he was Steward of Cornwall. A position in which he was granted £20 a year for life.^[13] It was through Edmund and others that the prince facilitated the lifetime lease of his properties in Cornwall in 1347^[14] Some of these ended up in the hands of John de Kendale, probably his son or other close relative.

On 23 June 1350 he was pardoned, for good service to the king and his son, of a sum of £20 11s., which he owed at the exchequer.^[9]

1351 In records of the expedition of Edward III to Normandy in 1346, Sir Edmund de Kendale, served in the retinue of Edward, Prince of Wales, until incapacitated by illness. ^[15] [Note that in this same book Edward de Kendale, of the retinue of Hugh le Despencer is also mentioned, a different individual].

1352 He may have remained in the prince's administration until around this time as there is no record of another steward (Edmund Wauncy) until March 1352. ^[9]

Death

An inquisition post mortern was held at Winchester on 18 June 1371 revealing that he held land at Rokeford and Heywood of Oliver Punchardoun. He had granted these before his death to his son Philip and Alice Belowe his servant for life with reversion to himself and his heirs so that he held nothing in his demesne as of fee at the time of his death. ^[16]

Links to Other Wikitree Documents

Medieval England: Kendale

Sources

1. ↑ Baronia anglica concentra, or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly called baronies in fee : deriving their origin from writ of summons by Banks, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1765-1854
2. ↑ 'Parishes: Lyndon', in A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1935), pp. 72-77. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/rutland/vol2/pp72-77 [accessed 9 October 2020].
3. ↑ 'Parishes: Linwood', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page (London, 1911), pp. 629-630. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp629-630 [accessed 10 October 2020].
4. ↑ A. E. Stamp, J. B. W. Chapman, M. C. B. Dawes and D. B. Wardle, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 217', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 13, Edward III (London, 1954), pp. 31-44. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol13/pp31-44 [accessed 9 October 2020].
5. ↑ Country Gentry in the Fourteenth Century Noel Denholm-Young. 1969
6. ↑ The National Archives SC 8/120/5961
7. ↑ Calendar of chancery warrants i P462 (7 Feb 1317). [Hathitrust https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015066345177&view=1up&seq=478]
8. ↑ Calendar of the patent rolls 1334-1338 Edward III v.3. p420
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} The household and military retinue of Edward the Black Prince Davis S Green Thesis 1998 http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10912/2/298952_VOL2.pdf
10. ↑ https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000000340150?urlappend=%3Bseq=31
11. ↑ Wallingford: The Castle and the Town in Context (pp.34-115) Chapter: 5 Publisher: Archaeopress Editors: K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Neil Christie, David Roffe P82
12. ↑ Register of Edward, the Black Prince Vol 1 Page 33
13. ↑ Register of Edward, the Black Prince Vol 1 Page 19, 131
14. ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000000340150&view=1up&seq=76&q1=kendale Register of Edward, the Black Prince Vol 1 Page 64
15. ↑ [https://archive.org/details/CrecyAndCalais/page/n7/mode/1up?q=kendale Crécy And Calais by Wrottesley, George, 1827-1909
16. ↑ A. E. Stamp, J. B. W. Chapman, M. C. B. Dawes and D. B. Wardle, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 221', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 13, Edward III (London, 1954), pp. 82-92. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol13/pp82-92 [accessed 10 October 2020].