Edmund (Pierrepont) de Pierrepont (abt. 1325 - 1370)

Born about 1325 in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire, England

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Descendants

Died 1370 at about age 45 in Gascoigne, France

Biography

• Edmund was Sixth Lord (possible Baron) of Holme Pierrepont.
• Also acquired manor of Bughton by fine in 1355/6.
• Was Knight in 1360, warred under Henry, Duke of Lancaster.

Sources

• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (H.M. Stationery Office, 1913) Vol. 8, Pt. 2
  • Page 423: "The said Geoffrey (Louterel) held... six bovates of land of Sir Edmund le Perpoinet, knight, by homage and fealty and by service to 12d. and 1lb. cummin yearly."
• Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous (Chancery) Preserved in the Public Record Office (London, 1916)
  • Vol. II, page 443 "...and 4 bovates of Edmund Perpount by homage and fealty and the yearly service of 36s., the same being of no value beyond the services."
• Marshall, George William. The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 (London, 1871) Page 45, Page 48, Page 44:

Latin: Obitus D'ni Edm' Perpoint militis apud Leybourne in Vasconia cuius ossa iacent in eccl'ia de Holme Anno Domini 1370 L'ra Dominicali C.

English: Edmund Pierrepont soldier, from Leybourne (Kent, England), whose bones lie in the Church at Holme, died in Gascoigne, France in the year 1370 L'ra Dominicali C.

• Priestland, Pamela From Domesday to Dukedom and Beyond (Ashbracken, 2010) Page 24: Shows Edmund (husband of Joan Monboucher) as being a son of Robert and Roberts 2nd wife Cecily. Is this an error? Both The University of Nottingham and The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 show him to be the son of Henry.
• Orange, James History and Antiquities of Nottingham (London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 33 Paternoster Row: and J. Howitt, Nottingham, 1840) Page 178
• Collins, Arthur. Collins' Peerage of England (1812) Vol. 5, Page 626: says that Edmund was the brother of Henry, and both were the son of Robert.
• Moffat, R. Burnham. Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman times to 1913 (L. Middleditch Company, 1913) Page 21
• The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (London: J. Hinton, Nov. 1767) Page 250
• Bailey, Thomas. Annals of Nottinghamshire (Simpkin, Nottinghamshire, England, 1853) Vol. 1, Page 251
• Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees From The Plea Rolls (Public Record Office, Great Britain, c.1905) Page 221, Page 373
• Harleian Society:Visitation Series. The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614., The Publications of The Harleian Society (The Society, London, 1871) Vol. 4, Page 55
• Ellis, William Smith. Hurstpierpoint: Its Lords and Families, Ancient and Modern (1866) Page 17
  • "in 33 Edw. III. was in the wars of France, serving in the retinue of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, who being joined by the King, they marched into Champaigne, and laid seige to Rheims, and in these wars he was taken prisoner. He was knighted, and died in Gascoigne 1370, being buried at Holme."
• Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland (H. M. Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, London, 1897) Papal Letters Vol. 3: 1342-1362.
  • Page 554: 1355. 2 Kal. March. Edmund de Perpount, knight, and Joan his wife, of the diocese of York.
• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (G. Burbage, 1790) Vol. 1, Page 176
• Thoroton, Robert. The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) Page 87
• Collections for a History of Staffordshire (Staffordshire Record Society, 1897) Vol. 18, Page 128