Katherine (St Pierre) Venables (abt. 1266 - aft. 1314)

Born about 1266 in Peckfont, Nantwich, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Died after 1314 after about age 48 in Bradwell, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Katherine de St Pierre was born about 1266 at Peckfont, Nantwich, Cheshire, England.

Katherine was the daughter of Urian de St Pierre.^[1]

Katherine was married twice, to:

1. Randal de Thornton,^[2] alias le Roter, the son and heir of Peter le Roter de Thorneton;^[1] Katherine and Randle had children:
   1. Sir Peter de Thorneton, knt, underage and ward of the king of England in 24 Edward I [1296], living in 1351, died before 1358, married 1) Lucy, the daughter and coheir of Sir William de Hellesby, knt, and 2) Philippa, who married as her second husband, sir Thomas de Dutton, knt;^[3]
   2. Ranulph de Thorneton, living in 9 and 10 Edward II;^[3]
2. William de Venables of Bradewall,^[2] they married before 1296;^[1]

Katherine was living in 1312-14, married to her second husband, William.^[2]

Evidences from Contemporaneous Records

In Trinity Term in 24 Edward I, Katherine and her second husband, Sir William, contested the Crown for the right of presentation to the vacant church at Thornton during the minority of her son Peter. John de Stowe, Counsel for the king, said that Peter, ancestor of Peter the minor, was seised of the Manor of Thornton to which the Advowson of the Church belonged, in the time of Henry III, father of King Edward I, and from Peter the Advowson descended to Rano as son and heir and from Rano was descended the present Peter, son and heir and a minor in the ward of the king as was Peter's tenements in Kyngesley because they were held by knight's service. A jury found that the king had no right according to the custom of Cheshire and the presentation belonged to William and Katherine because of their custody of the manor of Thornton which they held in socage of John de Arderne, knight. In or before 1301, the King presented, so the jury's decision was reversed.^[1] Peter presented Adam de Kelsale to the church on 3 id December 1304.^[4] so presumably he had reached his majority by then.

In 1 Edward II [8 July 1307-7 July 1308], a fine was enrolled at Chester between William de Venables and his wife, Katherine, and John de Legh and his wife, Ellen, for a moiety of the manor of Ashton.^[5]

In 6 & 7 Edward II [8 July 1312-7 July 1314] at Chester, William de Venables of Bradewall and Katherine his wife, formerly the wife of Randal de Thornton, sued Peter son of Randal de Thorneton for dower of one messuage and one bovate of land in Kyngeslegh.^[2] Kingsley, a settlement located in the parish of Frodsham, was in Eddisbury hundred, Cheshire, England.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), II:15.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 4. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Edward 2", The Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [14 February 1866], (London: Printed by George E Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1866), 104, Digital Image HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450500?urlappend=%3Bseq=540 accessed 24 December 2017).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, II:17.
4. ↑ The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, II:19.
5. ↑ Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 4. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester.—Edward 2—(Continued from the 26th Report, Appendix No. 4.)" The Twenty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [14 February 1866], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1866), 94, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450500?urlappend=%3Bseq=530%3Bownerid=34524627-529 : accessed 8 October, 2022). [1 & 2 Edw. 2. m. 11 d.]
6. ↑ English Place-Name Society. "Kingsley: Major Settlement in the Parish of Frodsham", in Survey of English Place-Names. (Online: University of Nottingham). Accessed 16 December 2023.

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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile DeStPierre-1 created through the import of Briscoe Family Tree.ged on Aug 8, 2011 by K Bris.
• This person was created through the import of Acrossthepond.ged on 21 February 2011.
• import of LJ Pellman Consolidated Family_2011-03-21.ged on 21 March 2011