Joan (Engaine) Welles (1280 - 1315)

Born 1280 in Laxton, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Walter FitzRobert — married 1286 in Woodham, Essex, England

Descendants

Died 1 Jun 1315 at about age 35 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England

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Biography

Joan d'Engaine, daughter of Sir John d'Engaine of Colne, Engaine, Essex and Laxton, Northamptonshire, by Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Greinville, married (1) Walter Fitz Robert, son of Sir Robert Fitz Walter by Devorguille de Burgh, (2) Sir Adam de Welles (or Welle).^[1]

Joan and Walter, married at Woodham, Essex, in 1286, had one son, Robert, who died young. Walter died in 1293.^[1]

Joan and Adam de Welles, married in or before 1296, had three sons and three daughters:^[1]

• Robert, 2nd Lord Welles^[1]
• Sir Adam, 3rd Lord Welles^[1]
• Sir John^[1]
• Margaret (nun)^[1]
• Cecily (nun)^[1]
• ___, married ___ Mablethorpe^[1]

Sir Adam de Welles died September 1, 1311 and was buried in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire. His widow Joan died June 1, 1315. She was also buried in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire.^[1]

Inquisitions Post Mortem

Joan, late wife of Adam de Welle

"Writ of certiorari on the complaint of Robert, Adam and John, sons of the said Adam de Welle, that the escheator had taken into the king’s hand the manor of Wyberton, which according to the custom thereof, ought to be parted amongst them, 16 November, 12 Edward II." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol II, pp 653-654, FITZ WALTER #8i Robert Fitz Walter, Knt.
2. ↑ J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 61," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 6, Edward II, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910), 86-98. British History Online, accessed April 21, 2017, [1].