Walter Holte (abt. 1330 - abt. 1380)

Born about 1330 in Yardley, Warwickshire, England

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Descendants

Died about 1380 at about age 50 in Yardley, Warwickshire, England

Biography

Walter Holte was born in about 1330 in Yardley, near Birmingham, the son of Simon Holte and Albreda Castell. He married Margery Bagott and they had three sons, John, Simon, and William. ^[1]

Walter Holte married Margery, daughter of Sir William Bagot, of Baginton. In 1376-7 he served the office of escheator for the counties of Warwick and Leicester. In the latter year he was also principal commissioner in Warwickshire for levying and collecting the fifteenth and tenth granted by Parliament to the King. By a feoffment to one William Whetele and other persons in trust, he settled the manor of Aston to the use of himself and Margery his wife, and to his own right heirs. His wife survived him, and the better to secure the estate, enfeoffed it to John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Sir William Bagot, of Baginton, and others as trustees.^[2]

In 1366, Agnes, widow of William de Staford, granted to Walter Holt and John his son, all her lands and premises in Aston juxta Bermyngham. Dated at Aston, Monday next after the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, 40 Edw. III.^[3]

Walter Holte had died by 1381. In a Common Pleas lawsuit of 1381, the Prioress of Hynwode/Henwood sued Margery who had been the wife of Walter del Holt, and Simon their son, for trespass. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ https://archive.org/details/visitationofcoun12camd/page/n41/mode/2up?view=theater
2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/historyofholteso00davi/page/n19/mode/2up
3. ↑ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/26730228-4863-4967-bb1c-76a76b143496
4. ↑ http://aalt.law.uh.edu/Indices/CP40Indices/CP40no483/CP40no483.htm

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