Engaine Lineage Notes
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Surnames/tags: pre-1500 Engaine
Background
Name Variants
Engaine, Engayne, Engaigne, d’Engaine, De Engaine, De Engayne, de Engeyne, Engaing’, Dengaine, den Gayne, Dengayn.
The names are often used interchangeably but Engaine is the most common form so those set up with any of the alternative forms should be rationalised unless there is a clear line that evolves consistently into one of the alternative forms.
Related Family Names
FitzUrse To review.
Overview
Records indicate that Castle Hymel belonged to the Engayne family and that the castle was demolished in about 1200 to allow the building of the Augustinian Priory of St Mary in Fineshade Northamptonshire which was founded by Richard Engaine Fineshade motte and bailey castle and abbey. Historic England. Uploaded 20 Dec 2019
John Leland Itineraries c1538-43 Almost yn the Middle Way I cam by Finshed lately a Priory of Blak Chanons, leving it hard by on the right hond. it is a 4 Miles from Stanford. Here in the very place wher the Priory stoode was yn tymes past a Castel caullid Hely. it longgid to the Engaynes: and tney dwellid yn it, ontylle such tyme that one of them for lak of Childern of his owne began a Priory ther, gyving them Landes even thereabout: wherby after the Castelle was pullid downe to make up the Priory, so that now there remaynith almost no token that ever ther was any Castel there.The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary In Nine Volumes. Vol 1 Second edition Printed 1745
Engaine : from Engen or Ingen, near Boulogne: a baronial name, that has travelled down to our own times under an English disguise as Ingham. "There are many places in England," says Morant, "named Gaynes, Engaines, D'Engains: one, for instance, near St. Neots in Huntingdonshire: another at Taversham in Cambridgeshire:" two, I may add, in Essex, Colne-Engaine and Gaines, held by Sir John Engaine in 1271 by the service of keeping the King's greyhounds; and one in Herefordshire, Aston Engen, now Aston Ingham. The original seat of the family was, however, at Senelai now Shenley in Buckinghamshire, held in capite by Richard de Engen or Ingaine in 1086, with Redinges in Hunts (now Great Gidding) (Domesday). Another Richard, his descendant, Baron of Blatherwick in Northamptonshire, is entered in the Liber Niger as the tenant of Paganus de Dudley in Bucks, and held Pytchley by the sergeantry of destroying all "wolves, foxes, martrons and other vermin, in the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Buckingham, Essex, and Huntingdon." He was the founder of Finshed Priory, and married a daughter of the Earl of Oxford, Sara de Vere (Sarah Chesney), by whom he left at his death, in 1208, two sons, both of which were engaged with the insurgent barons. Richard, the eldest, who died single in 1215, had thus forfeited his barony; but Vitalis, the other brother, received back his inheritance at the accession of Henry III. and obtained a rich wife, Rose, one of the three co-heiresses that divided the great Welsh Honour of Montgomery. He was the father of Vitalis, Henry, William, and John. Vitalis died young; Henry, who succeeded him in 1244, and fought on the barons' side at Evesham (Battle of Evesham 1265), was never married; William had no children; and thus the whole inheritance devolved on John. John's successor and namesake, was summoned to Parliament from 1299 to 1321, but again had no heir, and was followed in 1322 by his brother Nicholas, who died two months after him, leaving two sons. The elder (Henry) according to the strange fatality that persistently attended the first-born of this house, again was without posterity. The second, another John, seated at Dyllington in Huntingdonshire, was a baron by writ in 1342, and the father of the two last male heirs that bore the name, John and Thomas. Both died without issue, John in his life-time, and Thomas, second Lord Engaine, in 1367. His great estates, lying in the counties of Huntingdon, Northants, Buckingham, Rutland, Oxon, Leicester, and Bedford, fell to their three sisters, Joyce de Goldington, Elizabeth de Pabenham, and Mary Bernak.
In addition to this baronial house, there were other families of the name. Ansfrid de Cormeilles, who held Aston in Herefordshire in 1086, was succeeded there by the Engaines, or Inghams, who continued in possession till the latter years of the fourteenth century. William de Inghayn presented to the rectory in 1306; and his son Simon, who adopted the name of his manor, was the father of Thomas, High Sheriff of the county in 1351. With Thomas's son Roger the line was brought to a close.—Duncomb's Herefordshire. In Cumberland Ralph de Engayne obtained the manor of Isal from Alan, the son of Earl Waltheoff, and married a great heiress, Ibria de Estrivers (see Travers), who brought him the barony of Burgh-upon-Sands, and the hereditary Forestership of Cumberland. Both passed to his only child Ada, who had two husbands, Sir Simon de Morville, and Lord Vaux of Gillesland. Sir Simon, we are told, was well stricken in years when he married her; and Ada's wanton fancy strayed to one of his squires, a comely Saxon youth, named Lyulph. But Lyulph, like another Joseph, was a loyal servant, deaf to the blandishments of his amorous mistress; and Ada, infuriated at finding herself scorned and rejected, played the part of Potiphar's wife, and charged him with attempting the very crime she had vainly solicited him to commit. Her husband, as credulous as Potiphar, implicitly believed her story; but here the analogy ends, for the Christian knight proved far crueller than his heathen prototype had been. Not content with a mere sentence of imprisonment, he ordered the unhappy squire to be thrown into a "leadful of scalding water," and actually boiled alive. Hutchinson, who retails this shocking story, bids us, however, remember, in justice to Ada de Engayne and her old husband, that it is borrowed from a monkish chronicler, who would assuredly endeavour to blacken their characters, for no better reason than that they were the parents of Sir Hugh de Morville, abominated by the Church for the murder of Thomas a. Beckett (see Morville).
The name of Engayne had not died out with Ada's father; for his grandson Sir Hugh granted to Gilbert de Engayne—evidently a kinsman—the manor of Clifton in Westmorland, where his posterity continued till the reign of Edward III. The daughter of the last male heir, another Gilbert, married William de Wybergh.
Though the Engaines became Inghams in Herefordshire, they had no connection with the Norfolk family of that name, which also attained baronial rank. Their arms were entirely different. The Engaines bore Gules a fesse indented between seven cross-crosslets, four in chief and three in base Or.
Chalmers, in his Caledonia, states that "Berengarius de Engain, a noble Anglo-Norman, was one of the followers of Earl David, to whom he gave lands in Scotland after his accession to the throne." Berengarius was a benefactor of Jedburgh Abbey.
The above directly from The Battle Abbey roll, with some account of the Norman lineages by Battle Abbey; Cleveland, Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett published 1899 Vol 2 P 9 Corrections indicated with strikethough and brackets.
People
Richard Engaine c1025-1085
William Engaine before c1045-1086
Richard Engaine c1065-1100
Vitalis (Viel) Engaine 1086-1130
Fulk Engaine Lisours After 1130-1185
Richard Engaine 1119-1177
The following not included in the profile
RICHARD [II] Engaine (-before 1177). The Liber niger monasterii S. Petri de Burgo records "Ricardus Engaine ii hidæ in Hamtonascira...i milite..." among the “Descriptio militum de abbatia de Burgo”, marginal notes reading “iste fuit filius Viel et pater Ricardi qui modo est”.
Richard Engaine 1167-1209
Not used for profile but kept as background notes :- Ralph de Caineto, or Cheyney, was lord of West Lexham, as was John his son, whose sister and coheir, Sibil, was married to William Fitz Robert (Robert FitzWalter?), brother of John Fitz-Robert, to whom Bishop Eborard, in the reign of Henry I. granted the lordship of Blickling in Norfolk; which William left 3 daughters and coheirs; Margaret, the wife first of Hugh de Cressi, after of Robert Fitz-Roger; Clementia, of Jordan de Sackvile; and Sarah, of Richard Engaine, who in 1191 gave King Richard I 200 marks to have possession of his wife's inheritance; but in 1217 Jordan de Sackvile and Vitalis Engaine, son of Richard, released their rights herein to Margaret de Cressi, and so it came entirely into that family.[1]
Richard Engaine c1188 - bef1216
Vitalis (Viel) Engaine c1195-1248
Henry Engaine c1223-1272
Sir John Engaine 1230-1302
Sir John Engaine First Lord Engaine 1268-1322
Sir Nicholas Engaine 1270-1322
Sir John Engaine 1302-1358
Henry Engaine c1304 - aft. 1339
John Engaine
Sir Thomas Engaine 1336-1367
Plea Rolls
1219
Somerset - Vitalis Engaine and Roger Gurnet sued William de Cantilupe and Mabel his wife for a carucate and a half of land in in Wurle, and they sued Elias de Bellocampo (possible profile) for a carucate and a half of land the same vill. The pleadings give :-
Richard FitzUrse father of
- Reginald = Matilda parents of William de Curtenay, died siesed of the land temp, John and lent no issue.
- Margery, (grandmother) of Vitalis Engaine the plaintiff
- Mabel mother of Roger Gurnet the plaintiff
P 478 Curia Regis Roll No 72. 4. Hen. 3. m. 4.
See also Notes on William de Courtenay
1223
Vitalis Engaine sued Margaret de Crescy for the third of two carucates of land in Bilburg. p525 De Banco Roll. Mich. 7-8 Hen. 3.
The pleadings give this pedigree .
William de Chesney temp Henry 2
- Hugh de Crescy= Margaret (Chesney)de Crescy
- Clemence.
- Sarra= Richard Engaine
- Vitalis the plaintiff
1240
A long suit in which Vitalis Engaine, William de Cantilupe and Roger Gurnet claimed The Honor of Montgomery in Wales, which had been granted to Baldwin de Bollers by Henry I on his marriage with Sibil de la Faleyse, the Kings niece (nepotem). P489 Curia Regis Roll. Hillary and Easter 25. Hen. 3. m. 12
The pedigree from this plea yielded.
Baldwin de Bollers= Sibil de la Faleyse.
- Hillaria ob. s.p.
- Matilda= Richard FitzUrse
- 1 Reginald FitzUrse
- Matilda=Robert de Curtenay
- William de Curtenay ob. s.p.
- Matilda=Robert de Curtenay
- 2 Margaret
- Richard Engaine
- 3 Mabel
- Roger Gurnet who sold his purparity to William de Cantilupe.
- 1 Reginald FitzUrse
A Verdict was given for Vitalis Engaine and William de Cantilupe.
Supplement to above. In another suit Vitalis Engaine, William de Cantilupe and Roger Gurnet sued the King for the manor of Badmundefeld, co. Suffolk, Hillaria Trussebut, Who had held the manor in dower, having died. In this suit it is stated that a Robert de Bollers had died seised of the Honor of Montgomery and had died s.p. And had been succeeded by his brother Baldwin who had also died s.p. and that Stephen de Stanton the nepos of Baldwin de Bullers had enfeoffed Thomas de Erdington in the manor in the reign of King John. p490
1372
John de Goldyngton and Joyce his wife, Lawrence de Pabenham, Chivaler and Elizabeth his wife and William Bernak Chivaler and Mary his wife sued Katrine formerly wife of Thomas Engayne for the manor of Colne Engaine P108 De Banco. Mich. 46. E.3 m 631.
Inquisitions Post Mortem
Vitalis Engaine c1195-1248
Vol 1 No166. Writ 5 Nov. 33 (Hen. Ill), (defective.) 5 Nov 1248
Henry de Engayne, his son, age variously stated as 30, 30 and more, and 35, is his heir.
- Huntingdon. Inq. (undated.)
- Great Gidding, 100s. land held of the king in chief by service of hunting the wolf, the fox, and the hare in cos. Huntingdon, Northampton, Oxford and Buckingham.
- Dilintune, 100s. and held of the abbot of Romesheye, service unspecified.
- Cambridge. Inq. (undated.)
- Cotes town, 1/2 hide land (extent given) held of the heirs of William de Fenes of the honour of Boulogne by service of 1/4 knight's fee.
- Cambridge borough, 2 marks rent which pertains to Cotes.
- [Northampton.] Inq. (undated.)
- Laxton and Pictesle, parts held of the king by serjeanty of hunting the wolf at the king's command in 3 1/2 counties.
- Blatherwic, Henewic, Multon, Braddetr' and Riston, 1 knight's fee held of Sir Ralph Basset.
- Neuton and Bulwic, parts held of Reginald son of Urse, by service of 1/2 knight's fee.
- Hertford. Inq. (undated.)
- Hunesdone town, 2 carucates land (extent given) held of William de Bello Campo of Bedeford.
- [Essex.] Extent (undated).
- Upmenistre , land and advowson (extent given) which does no service, because the manor of Worthe (co. Somerset) and Upmenistre defend themselves against the king by service of 1 1/2 knights' fee.
- Somerset., Extent {undated.)
- Worth, a moiety of the manor (extent given) held, together with other lands in co. Essex, of the king in chief by service of 1 1/2 knights' fee.
- [Suffolk.] Inq. (undated and defective.)
- Badmundefeld, a moiety of the manor (extent given) held of the honour of Mungumeri without service, because King Henry, the king's great-great-grandfather, gave the manor in free marriage to Baldwin de Bulers, ancestor of the said Vitalis, with Sibyl de [Falaise] his niece.
- Essex Inq (Undated)
- Coln manor and avowson (extent given) held of Sir Hugh de Cresy by service of 3/4 knight.
Henry Engaine
Vol1 809. Writ, 31 Jan. 56 Hen. III (31st Jan 1271/2)
John en Gayne alias den Gayne his brother, age variously stated as 40 and more, and 44 and more, is his heir.
- Northampton. Inq.
- Laxton, held of the king in chief by serjeanty of chasing the wolf with his dogs through four counties.
- Pittesle. (Land) worth 10L. held of the king in chief by the aforesaid service.
- Bolewyk. 5 virgates land, held of the king in chief by hauberk fee.
- Blatherwyk manor, held of Richard Basset, (check) in chief by hauberk fee.
- Suffolk. Inq.
- Badmundesfeld manor (extent given), held of the king in chief without service, because King Henry, son of King William the bastard, gave the manor to Baldwin de Buleres in free marriage with Sibyl de Faleyse.
- Huntingdon Inq
- Great Gidding. 80a. land in demesne, 8 virgates in villenage containing 24a. each, 2 marks rent, and a mill, held of the king in chief by service of chasing the wolf, fox, hare, and cat.
- Cambridge. Inq.
- Kotis manor with the advowson of the chapel (extent given), held of Ingram (Hinger') de Fenis of the honour of Boulogne for 1/4 knight's fee.
- Essex. Extent and Inq.
- White Notheleg manor in the hundred of Wyham (extent given), held of the earl Marshal by service of 59s. 8d. yearly.
- Hertford. Extent and Inq.
- Honesdon manor in the hundred of Brackyng. (extent given), held of the earl of Hereford, rendering 1/2 mark yearly.
- Huntingdon. Inq.
- Dilintone manor (extent given), with parks called Litlehey and Estpark, and a foreign wood called Westwode, held of the abbot of Rameseye in chief for 5 hides land, for which he does two suits yearly at the abbot's court of Brouton, and answers for them for foreign (service) to the abbot.
- Perye. 100a. arable, 2a. meadow and 15s. rent, held for 1 hide land of Roger de Lovetot, answering for foreign (service) for the same.
John Engaine c1230-1302
Vol 4. 128. 30 Oct. 30 Edw. I. (1302)
Writ to the escheator to enquire and certify the treasurer and the barons of the exchequer, what lands &c. John, father of John de Engayne, held of the king in chief on the day he died, 30 Oct. 30 Edw. I. (1302)
- Essex. Inq.
- White Notelee. The manor held of the earl Marshal by service of 60s, yearly.
- Uppe Ministre. He at one time held the manor of the king in chief by a knight’s fee of the honour of Mongomeri, but he did not die seised thereof : Simon de Haverynge now holds it.
- Coln Engayne. Seven years before his death he held the manor of Robert son of Roger by service of a pair of spurs, but did not die seised thereof : John de Engayne his son now holds it.
- The jurors know of no other lands or fees which he held on the day he died.
- Leicester. Inq.
- Halugton in the hundred of Gertre. The manor held of the inheritance of Joan his wife, who is still living and holds the manor. He held nothing of the king in chief there.
- Northampton. Inq.
- Pihteslee. A messuage, and 14 1/4 virgates of land held [of the king in chief] by serjeanty of finding sustenance for his dogs, viz. greyhounds and brachets for chasing and taking wolves, foxes, cats, badgers and hares in the forests of the four counties, Northampton, Huntingdon, Oxford and Buckingham : Joan late his wife holds the same in dower, and they are in the hands of certain villeins there.
- Laxton and Henewyk. Ten virgates of land in Laxton, which are in the hands of villeins, and a messuage and 2 virgates of land in Henewyk held of the king in chief by the service aforesaid.
- Blatherwik. The manor with the hamlet of Bolewik (extent given) held of the king in chief by service of 1/2 knight’s fee. The said Joan holds the tenements aforesaid in dower, except a messuage and 2 virgates in Henewyk which John Lovet holds.
- Warwick. Inq.
- Merton. 100s. of land were held by the said John and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Gilbert de Greyvile, of her inheritance, of Nicholas de Charneles by service of 1/4 knight’s fee ; which they sold to William de Hamelton long before the said John died.
- Huntingdon. Inq.
- Great Geddinge. The manor, containing 4 hides of land, whereof one hide is in the hands of the prior etc. of Huntingdon, and the residue in the hand of Sir John that now is, held of the king in chief by the same serjeanty as abovesaid.
Nicholas Engaine
Vol 6 383. 14 April, 16 Edward II. (1323)
- Cambridge Inq
- Cotes. The manor (extent given), held jointly by the said Nicholas and Amice his wife to them and their heirs, by the grant of Joan late the wife of John Dengayne , mother of the said Nicholas, of John de Haudloo by service of 1/4 knight's fee. John, son of the said Nicholas and Amice, aged 21 and more, is next heir.
- Essex. Inq.
- Persted. The manor (extent given) acquired of Sir John son of Vitalis Engayne and Joan his wife, to the said Nicholas and the heirs of his body, by charter dated 2 nones of April, viz. the day of St. Ambrose, 22 Edward I, and held of John son and heir of Emery Peche, who is of full age, by service of 1/4 knight's fee. Heir as above.
- Essex. Inq.
- Colne Engayne. The manor (extent given), jointly acquired by the said Nicholas and Amice, who survives, of Thomas de Arderne and Henry de Stradebrok, by fine levied in the king's court in the term of St. Martin, 12 Edward II., to hold for their lives, with successive remainders to John Engayne and Helen his wife for their lives, to [[Engaine-13| John] ] son of the said Nicholas and the heirs of his body, and to the right heirs of the said John Engayne, and held of John de Claveryng by service of 1/4 knight's fee. Heir as above.
John Engaine 1268-1322
Vol 6 427. Writ, 28 September, 16 Edward II. (1323)
- Huntingdon. Inq.
- Great Giddyngg. The manor (extent given), held of the king in chief by serjeanty of destroying vermin in the king's forests in cos. Huntingdon, Northampton, Oxford, Essex and Rutland ; and 40a. land held of the king by service of 7 1/2d. yearly.
- Dillyngton. The manor (extent given), held jointly with Helen his wife [to them] and the heirs of the said John, of the abbot of Rameseye by service of a knight's fee. ::Grafham. 200a. arable held of the heirs of the earl of Gloucester by service of making one attendance at the court of Wolle, and 3d. yearly.
- Est Perye. 140a. arable in the field (campo) called Gerarde Stockyng in the parish of Grafham, held of John de Lovetot by service of 1/4 knight's fee. John, son of Nicholas Dengayne, aged 20 and more, is his next heir.
- Essex. Inq.
- White Nottele. The manor (extent given), held jointly as abovesaid, by the gift of Nicholas de Amberden and Nicholas de Langestok by fine levied in the king's court, of the earl Marshal by service of 59s. yearly. John, son of Nicholas Dengayne brother of the said John, aged 20 1/2, is his next heir.
- Northampton. Extent.
- Blatherwyk. The manor (extent given), held jointly for life by the said John and Helen with remainder to John, son of Nicholas Dengayne, by the enfeoffment of Roger de Stokes and Thomas de Ardern by fine levied in the king's court, of Ralph Basset of Weldon by service of 1/2 knight’s fee.
- Laxton. Thirty four bovates of land. 40a. wood in the king's forest, a windmill &c., held of the king in chief by grand serjeanty, by service of finding running dogs for destroying wolves, foxes, cats and other vermin, at his own charges, as well within parks as without, in cos. Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Essex, Huntingdon and Buckingham ; and a messuage and 16 bovates of land, held jointly as above, for life, by the enfeoffment of Thomas de Ardern and Henry de Stradbrok, with the king's licence, with remainders to Nicholas brother and heir of the said John, and to John his son, by grand serjeanty, viz — by the service aforesaid.
- Pitchesle. Eleven bovates of land, held of the king in chief by the grand serjeanty aforesaid ; a messuage and 16 bovates of land, held jointly for life, as above, by the enfeoffment of Thomas de Ardern and Henry de Stradbrok ; and 33s. 6d. and 1lb. pepper rent, similarly held of the abbey of Peterborough by knight's service.
- Bollewyk [alias Bulwyk]. Eleven bovates of land, held of the king in chief of the fee of Montgomery by service of a pair gilt spurs ; and 9 bovates of land held jointly as above, for life, by the enfeoffment of Thomas de Ardern and Henry de Stradbrok, of the king in chief by knight's service.
- Harryngworth. 7a. meadow held of William la Zouch by service of 2s. yearly. Heir as above, aged 20 at Whitsunday last.
Extent or summary of the above lands of the said John, held of the king in chief &c. of which the said Helen ought to have dower. Writ of certiorari de feodis, &c., 4 November, 16 Edward II. Similar ivrit, 6 December, 16 Edward II
- Huntingdon. Inq.
- Weresle. A manor with the advowson of the church, held by Petronilla Dengayne by service of a knight's fee.
- Grafham. The advowson of the church, held jointly by the said John and Helen.
- Giddynge Salne [alias Salen] and Lullyngton. 1/4 knight's fee called Embertone fee held by William Salne [alias de Salne], William Est of Lullyngton, Helen his sister, and Robert Bouetoun of Gyddynge ; which 1/4 fee the said John Dengayne held of Ralph Basset of Weldon.
- Weresle. A manor with the advowson of the church, held by Petronilla Dengayne by service of a knight's fee.
- Huntingdon. Inq. (defective.)
To the same effect as above.
- Northampton. Inq.
- Bradden. 1/4 knight's fee pertaining to the manor of Blatherwyk, held by Geoffrey de Bradden.
- Multon. 1/2 knight's fee pertaining to the said manor, held by John de Crumbwell.
- Rischton. 1/7 knight's fee pertaining to the said manor, held by Robert Lovet ; which manor of Blatherwyk was held jointly by the said John and Helen of Ralph Basset of Weldone for 1 1/2 knight's fee.
- Blatherwyk. The advowson of the church of the Holy Trinity pertains to the aforesaid manor. All the fees aforesaid are held by homage and scutage when it runs.
- Finnisheved. The advowson of the priory.
Writ of certiorari de jeodis &c., 6 June, 16 Edward II.
- Essex.
- Smalelonde. A messuage and 30a. land held by a tenant by service of 1/10 knight's fee.
- Slamondesheye hamlet. 60a. arable held by a tenant by service of 1/4 knight's fee.
- Colne Engayne. The advowson of the church.
- Cambridge. Inq.
- Cotes. The manor with the advowson of the church, held by the said John Dengayne of the heirs of Ingram de Feens by service of 1 1/4 knight's fee.
- Estowe. 2 1/2 hides of land with the advowson of the church, held by William de Engayne by service of 1 1/4 knight's fee.
Helen (Clavering) Engaine 1280-1339
Vol 8 219 Writ, 2 June, 13 Edward III. (1339)
- Northampton. Inq.
- Laxton. A third part of the manor, and a third part of the manor of Pyghtesle, held in dower after the death of the said John, sometime her husband, of his inheritance ; which manors are held of the king in chief by service of hunting the cat, fox, and badger in certain counties.
- Blatherwyk. The manor held for her life jointly with the said John, sometime her husband, by fine levied in the court of King Edward II, to hold to them and the heirs of the body of the said John, with remainder to Nicholas, his brother, and the heirs male of his body, and further remainders successively to John, son of the said Nicholas, and the heirs male of his body, to Henry, brother of the said John, and the heirs male of his body, and to the right heirs of the said John Engayne , as appears more fully in the said fine ; which manor is held of Ralph Basset of Weldon, by knight's service. The said John died without heir of his body the said Nicholas is dead ; and the said John and Henry, sons of the said Nicholas, survive. The said John, son of Nicholas, aged 30 years, is kinsman and heir of the said John Engayne of the third part of the said manors of Laxton and Pyghtesle, and to him pertains, by virtue of the said fine, the reversion of the said manor of Blatherwyk, after the death of the said Helen.
- Huntingdon. Inq.
- Geddyngg. A third part of the manor held in dower of the inheritance of the said John ; which manor is held of the king in chief by service of hunting the cat, fox, and badger in certain counties.
- Grafham. The manor similarly held of the earl of Gloucester by knight's service. John Engayne, kinsman of the said John, aged 30 years and more, is his next heir of the above.
- Dillyngton. The manor, held for her life, jointly with the said John and Nicholas Engayne his brother, of the gift and enfeoffment of Henry de Stradbroke and Thomas de Arderne, to hold to them for their lives, by fine levied in the court of King Edward II, with successive remainders to the said Nicholas for life, and to John son of the said Nicholas, and Joan daughter of Robert Peverel, and the heirs of the said John by the said Joan, and to the right heirs of the said John Engayne ; which manor is held of the abbot of Rameseye, by knight's service. The said Nicholas is dead, and the said John his son, is his next heir.
John Engaine 1302-1358
Vol 10 433 Writ, 14 February, 32 Edward III. (1357/8) John Dengaine, of Dylyngton, knight.
- Leicester. He died on Friday after St. Valentine, 32 Edward III. (16th Feb 1357/8)
- Halghton. The manor, whereof he was enfeoffed jointly with Joan his wife, held of the king as of the honour of Peverel, by service of a third part of a knight’s fee. Thomas Dengayne his son, aged 22 years and more, is his heir.
- Essex.Inq.
- Nottele. The manor held jointly with Joan his wife, who survives, to them and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder in default of such heir to the right heirs of the said John, by a fine levied in 12 Edward II, of the countess Marshal by knight’s service. He died on Friday after St. Valentine last. Thomas Dengayne, son of the said John and Joan, aged 22 years and more, is his heir.
- Hertford. Inq.
- Honysdon. The manor held jointly, as last above, of Sir John Mounbray by knight’s service. He held no other lands &c. in the county. Date of death and heir as last above.
- Bedford.
- Eton. The manor (extent given, including two water-mills) held of the king in chief by service of one knight’s fee. Long ago Roger de Bello Campo enfeoffed John Dengayne, knight, of the manor. John Dengayne gave it to Thomas de Stratton, parson of the church of Cotes, and William atte Church of Great Stoghton, who restored it to John Engayne for his life, with remainder to John Engayne, knight, his son, and Joan his wife and the heirs of their bodies and, fading such heirs, to the heirs of John Dengayne. He died on Friday, 18 February (sic), 32 Edward III. John Dengayne, the son, being dead, William Colvile, knight, has married Joan, who survives. Thomas Dengayne, son of John Dengayne the elder, is his heir and of full age.
- Saundeye.' The manor (extent given) held of the king in chief there and elsewhere (tenetur ….. ibi et alibi) for one knight’s fee. The deceased held it for life, with remainder to Thomas Dengayne, his son, and Katherine his wife and the heirs of their bodies and reversion to the heirs of John Dengayne. John Dengayne died on Friday after St. Valentine, 32 Edward III. Thomas Dengayne his son, aged 22 years and more, is his heir.II.
- Huntingdon.
- Gidding. The manor (extent given) held for life of the king in chief, with remainders as in the last inquisition (manor of Saundeye), by serjeanty, viz. of taking the king’s foxes and other vermin in certain counties, but what counties the jury do not know.
- Dilington. The manor (extent given) held jointly with Joan his wife, who survives, to them and the heirs of their bodies by a fine levied in the king’s court, of the abbot of Rameseye by knight’s service.
- Grafham. A messuage, 100a. arable, 3a. meadow and 40s. rent of free tenants held of the earl of Gloucester by a sixth part of a knight’s fee. Date of death and heir as above.
- Northampton.
- Laxton. The manor (extent given), including a wood in the forest of Clyve, held for his life, with remainder to Thomas his son and Katherine his wife and the heirs of their bodies and, failing such heirs, to the right heirs of the deceased, by a fine levied before the justices of the Bench, of the king in chief as of the crown, by serjeanty, viz. of hunting and taking wolves, foxes, cats and other vermin.
- Pyghtesle. Fourteen virgates held in demesne as of fee of the king as of the crown, as parcel of the aforesaid serjeanty of Laxton; ten virgates held by free tenants held of the abbot of Peterborough by knight’s service for a fourth part of a knight’s fee and rendering for each virgate 2s. 4d., which the abbot pays yearly to the king for ward of Rokyngham Castle, the deceased receiving nothing therefrom except two attendances yearly from each tenant at his court held there twice a year, the profits of which court are worth nothing. He held no other lands &c. in the said county or in Rutland. Date of death and heir as above.
Thomas Engaine. 1336-1367
Vol 12 139. Thomas Engaine knight. Writ, 13 October, 41 Edward III. (1367)
- Cambridge. Inq
- Cotees. The manor, with the advowson of the church, which some time before his death he alienated to John Knyvet, Nicholas Stutle, John de Engeyne, the elder, and Walter Lasselus, and their heirs, in 36 Edward III. The premises are held of the King, as of the honor of Boulogne, by knight's service. Date of death not given. Joyce wife of John de Goldyngton, aged 30 years, Elizabeth wife of Laurence de Pabenham, knight, aged 26 years, and Mary wife of William Bemak, knight, aged 24 years, are the sisters and heirs of the deceased.
- Bedford. Inq. (indented)
- Sandeye. The manor, with the advowson of a chantry in the church, held jointly with Katharine his wife, who survives, by gift of Thomas de Stratton, parson of the church of Blatherwyk, and Thomas de Stanes, parson of the church of Upmynstre, to them and the heirs begotten between them, with the king's licence and by a fine levied in the king's court. He held it of the king in chief, service not known. He held no other lands &c. in the county. He died on Tuesday the feast of SS. Peter and Paul, 41 Edward III. Heirs as above.
- 'Huntingdon,. Inq. (indented)
- Giddyng. The manor, held jointly with Katharine his wife, who survives, by gift as above, of the king in chief by the grand serjeanty of being the king's huntsman to chace and destroy all vermin, to wit, wolves, foxes and cats (catos) &c.
- Groffham. The manor, with the advowson of the church.
- Dilyngton. The manor.
- In 38 Edward III he alienated these two manors and the advowson to John Knyvet, Nicholas de Stutle, WIlliam Belle, clerk, Walter Lasselus and Robert Wareyn, and their heirs. The manor of Dilington is held of the abbot of Rameseye, except one part which is held of the fee of Lovetot by knight's service. The manor of Groffham is held of the earl of Stafford, as of the honor of Gloucester, by knight's service. Date of death and heirs as above.
- Leicester. Inq. (indented)
- Halughton. He held no lands &c. in the county, but long before his death, by his charter dated at Dilyngton, Tuesday in Easter week, 36 Edward III, he enfeoffed John Knyvet, Nicholas de Stukeley, John Engayne, the elder, and Walter Lasselles of (inter alia) his manor of Halughton (extent given, including an enclosed wood called ’Asshawe ', held of the king, as of the honor of Peverel, service not known. There are also tolls of a market there, a moiety of which pertains to the said [manor]. He died outside [the realm] of England on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul last. Heirs as above.
Writ to the escheator to enquire as to the lands and heir of the said Thomas, and who has been in possession of his lands since his death and received the issues. 8 March, 42 Edward III.
- Leicester.
- Halughton. The manor called ' Engaynesmaner,' held of the king, as of the honor of Peverell, in fee-tail, as appears by a fine (recited) levied at Westminster on the morrow of St. Martin, 12 Edward II, between John Engayn, querent, and Thomas de Arderne and Henry de Stradebrok, deforciants, concerning the manor of Halughton and the advowson of the church, whereby the said John acknowledged that Thomas and Henry had the premises by his gift, and they in return granted them to him for life, with remainder to John son of Nicholas Engayn and Joan daughter of Robert Peverell and the heirs of their bodies, and with remainder over to the right heirs of the querent. John son of Nicholas continued his estate in the premises all his life, and had issue Thomas Engayn, knight, now deceased, and Joyce, Elizabeth and Mary, the heirs mentioned in the first inquisition. After his father's death Thomas continued his estate in the premises all his life, and after his death, since he died without heir of his body, they ought to descend to his said sisters as his heirs. He held no other lands &c. in the county. Date of death and heirs as above. Katharine, late his wife, has been in possession of the manor since his death, by what title the jurors know not.
Writ, 13 October, 41 Edward III.
- Essex. Inq. [indented)
- Colne Engaigne. The manor, with the advowson of the church, held jointly with Katharine his wife, who survives, to them and the heirs of their bodies, by gift of Thomas de Straton, parson of the church of Blatherwyk, and Thomas de Stanes, parson of the church of Upmenstre. The manor is held of William de la Souche, service not known.
- White Nottele.He lately held the manor ; but four years and more before his death he enfeoffed John Knevet, knight, Nicholas de Stucle and Walter Lassels of the same, and afterwards the said John and Nicholas quitclaimed all their right therein to the said Walter and his heirs, so that Walter is sole tenant thereof in fee. The manor is held of Sir William de Ufford, knight, by service of a moiety of a knight's fee and 69s. id. rent yearly.
- Upmenstre. A rent of a pair of gilt spurs yearly, price 6d., and the advowson of the church, the said rent to be received from the manor formerly belonging to John de Haveringge in Upmenstre. Of whom the rent with the advowson is held the jurors know not. Date of death not given. Heirs as above.
- Hertford. inq. (indented)
- Hunsdon. The manor, whereof some time before his death he enfeoffed John Knevet, Nicholas Stukele, Wilham Belle, clerk, Walter Lassels and Robert Waryn, who are still in seisin. The manor is held of the earl of Hertford and John Mounbray, knight, by knight's service. Date of death and heirs as in the Bedford inquisition.
- Northampton. Inq. (indented)
- Blatherwyk and Laxton. The manors (extents given), with the advowson of the church of Blatherwyk, held in fee tail jointly with Katharine his wife, who survives, by the king's licence. The extent of Blatherwyk includes a wood called ' le Hallestede,' an enclosed park of 12a., yearly rents of 100s. in Blatherwyk and Bolewyk, and 6a. meadow called ' Welond.' There are no views of frankpledge in the manor because the king holds them in his hundred of Corby. The extent of Laxton includes a manor now in ruins, a wood called ' Laxtonwod,' and a view of frankpledge at Michaelmas.
- Pixtesley. 14 virgates of land and meadow let at farm for 10 marks yearly, rents of assise of 14s. 4d. from free tenants by charter, and a rent of 1lb. pepper. The view of frankpledge there is worth 3s. 4d. yearly. The manor of Blatherwyk, with the appurtenances in Bolewyk, is held of Ralph Basset of Weldon by service of a third part of a knight's fee ; and the manor of Laxton, with the appurtenances in Laxton and Pixtesley, is held of the king, as of the crown, by serjeanty and service of finding running dogs at his own costs to destroy wolves, foxes, cats (mireligos, catos) and other vermin in the counties of Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Essex, Huntingdon and Buckingham, as well within the parks as without. Pyxteslee is parcel of the said serjeanty of Laxton. He held no other lands &c. in the county. Date of death and heirs as above.
Writ to the escheator in co. Northampton to make a partition of the premises in Pightesle into three equal parts, and to deliver to Laurence and Elizabeth and WiIlliam and Mary their respective pourparties thereof. Shene, 14 March, 42 Edward III. [Calendar of Fine Rolls, 1356-1368, pp. 377-8.]
Joan (St Quintin) Colville c1330-1391
Writ, 15 October, 14 Richard II (1391)
- Bedford. Inq.
- Thomas de Stratton, parson of the church of Cotes, and William atte Churche of Great Stokton were formerly seised of the under-mentioned manor of Eton and granted it to John Dengayne, knight, for life, with remainder to John his son and Joan the latter’s wife, and the heirs of their bodies, and remainder over to the right heirs of the said John Dengayne, the father. John the son died without heir begotten between him and the said Joan. John the father had a son named Thomas and three daughters, to wit, Joyce, Elizabeth and Mary, and died seised of the above estate in the manor. After his death the said Joan occupied the manor all her life, and took to husband William Colvyll. The aforesaid Thomas son of John died seised of divers manors &c. in the county of Bedford and elsewhere without heir of himself, whereupon the said manors &c. descended to Joyce, Elizabeth and Mary as his sisters and heirs, and the reversion of the above-mentioned manor of Eton after the death of the said Joan also fell to them as such sisters and heirs. The said Joyce married John Goldyngton of Esex; and they, by a fine levied in the king’s court at Westminster in the quinzaine of Hilary, 45 Edward III (recited), and with the king’s licence, granted the reversion of the third part of the said manor which would fall to them after the death of the said Joan to John de Hemyngford, William Castelacre and Robert de Huntyngdon, who are still living, and Nicholas de Steuecle and Thomas Walton of Upwode, now deceased, and the heirs of Nicholas. So the said third part ought now to remain to the said John, William and Robert. The aforesaid Elizabeth and Mary married Laurence Pabenham, knight, and William Bernak, knight, respectively. Afterwards, a fine was levied between John Goldyngton and Joyce, querents, and Elizabeth and Mary and their husbands, deforciants, whereby the deforciants acknowledged the said third part to be the right of Joyce, and between Laurence Pabenham and Elizabeth, querents, and Joyce and Mary and their husbands, deforciants, whereby the deforciants acknowledged two-thirds of the manor to be the right of Elizabeth, and granted that the said two-thirds should remain to her and the said Laurence and her heirs for ever. She and Laurence had a son named Laurence. She is now dead, and the said Laurence her son, aged 17 years and more, is her next heir. So it belongs to the said Laurence the father to have the said two-thirds of the manor after the death of the said Joan, now deceased.
- Eton by St. Neots. The manor, held of the king in chief by knight’s service. The said Joan died on Tuesday after St. Matthew, 14 Richard II. John Seynt Quyntyn, knight, her brother, aged 30 years and more, is her next heir.
Calendar of inquisitions post mortem, Public Record Office
- Volume 1 Published 1904
- Volume 4 Published 1904
- Volume 6 Published 1904
- Volume 8 Published 1913
- Volume 10 Published 1921 A. E. Stamp, E. Salisbury, E. G. Atkinson and J. J. O'Reilly, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 139', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 10, Edward III (London, 1921), pp. 331-343. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol10/pp331-343 [accessed 23 December 2019].
- Volume 12 Published 1938
- Volume 16 Published 1974 M. C. B. Dawes, M. R. Devine, H. E. Jones and M. J. Post, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 66', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 16, Richard II (London, 1974), pp. 390-407. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol16/pp390-407 [accessed 23 December 2019].
Places with Engaine connection
Abingdon
Only one holder of land in Abingdon was recorded in the Domesday Book: this was Richard Engaine who accounted for 4 hides. This estate was held of the Crown in chief for the fourth part of a knight's fee until 1509, after which date the overlordship lapsed. The manor evidently passed to Richard's grandson Richard, whose son and heir Vital married Alice de Lisors. After his death she married as her second husband Humphrey Bassingburn; the latter held the 4 hides in the reign of Henry II, in right of his wife. The estate was probably settled on Fulk, second son of Vital Engaine and Alice, who took his mother's maiden name, for in 1191 William de Lisors, Fulk's son, alienated the mill appurtenant to the manor with the consent of his mother Alice, or Adeline, d'Auberville, who confirmed the grant in the same year. William died before 1199, his brother Hugh being his heir, but Abington was settled on Isabel, William's widow, who married as her second husband Ralph Berners, with reversion probably to Alice, William's mother, who had married as her second husband Nicholas Bassingburn son of Humphrey before mentioned (See note in the profile of Alice, this connection seems incorrect. Isabel Berners, a widow again by 1227, was in 1242 holding Abington of Nicholas Bassingburn, and in 1253 Humphrey Bassingburn, Nicholas's son, was in possession of the manor. Humphrey joined Simon de Montfort against Henry III, and after Evesham in 1266 his manor of Abington was forfeited to the Crown and granted to Robert de Turbeville. In 1268, 'BHO 'Parishes: Abington', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 65-69. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp65-69 [accessed 26 December 2019].
Benefield
Richard de Engaine was tenant of Benefield at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086) and in the 12th century it had passed to the Lisurs. According to a charter of 1166 R[ichard] de Lisurs describes Richard de Engaine as his grandfather. It would appear that Richard de Engaine married more than once and the last of his wives was the widow of Richard Fitz Urse. His son, Viel or Vitalis, apparently married the daughter and heir of William de Lisurs and had two sons, Richard and Fulk, the former of whom occasionally and the latter regularly used their mother's surname. Fulk de Lisurs, who succeeded to Benefield, was the King's forester in fee and attended the King with his horn hanging from his neck. He married Alice or Adelis, sister of William de Auberville, and died before 1185. His son, William de Lisurs, married Isabel, daughter of Simon Fitz Simon, and died without issue in 1194. He left two brothers, Hugh and Fulk, and was succeeded by Hugh, who died about 1207, leaving two daughters, Alice, who married Nicholas de Bassingbourne, and Eleanor, the wife of William de Ayshe.
'Parishes: Benefield', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1930), pp. 76-80. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol3/pp76-80 [accessed 16 December 2019].
Coton
By the 1190s the manor was held under Phacramus's heirs for ¼ knight's fee by the Engaine family. Richard Engaine, who had succeeded his father Richard in 1177, probably died c. 1216 and was succeeded by his younger son Viel (d. 1248). Viel's eldest son Henry died without issue in 1272. His heir was his brother John (d. 1297), who with his wife Joan settled Coton on their younger son Nicholas Engaine (d. 1322). Nicholas's son and heir John succeeded also to the lands of his Uncle John, Lord Engaine (d. 1322), and died in 1358. Thomas, his eldest surviving son and successor, died in 1368, having granted Coton to feoffees. His coheirs, his three sisters and their husbands, divided his lands among themselves in 1372. Coton, however, they assigned not to any of the coheirs, but to John Hemingford (d. by 1396) of Grafham (Hunts.) and his heirs. Diane K Bolton, G R Duncombe, R W Dunning, Jennifer I Kermode, A M Rowland, W B Stephens and A P M Wright, 'Parishes: Coton', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 5, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1973), pp. 189-198. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol5/pp189-198 [accessed 16 December 2019].
Great Gidding
Redinges, Gedelinge (xi cent.); Gydding, Geddinge (xiii cent.); High Gyddyng, Gidding Prior (xv cent.); Much Gyddyng, Great Gidding (xvi cent.).
At the time of the Domesday Survey (1086) the land of Gidding seems to have consisted of two parts—(1) 10 hides, now comprising Great and Little Gidding, held by William Engaine (4½ hides), Eustace the Sheriff (4½ hides) and the Abbot of Ramsey (1 hide), and (2) 7½ hides, now constituting Steeple Gidding , held by the Abbot of Ramsey.(Alsi Abbot from 1080-1087)
The 4½ hides held by William Engaine had been held in the time of King Edward by Britheue. William Engaine also held, amongst other property, Laxton and Pytchley, in Northants, and a certain Richard Engaine held Abington and Benefield, Northants, and Stibbington, Hunts. It is generally supposed that William and Richard were brothers, but Viel son of Richard Engaine, always considered as the grandson of William, seems to have held all the above-named properties, which suggests that William and Richard may have been father and son. Viel married Alice, daughter and heir of William de Lisures, and had two sons, Richard Engaine and Fulk, who took the name of Lisures. He probably had a third son, Warner, to whom he appears to have given a part of the manor of Gidding, to be held in chief of the king. This portion became the separate manor and parish of Little Gidding.
The remaining part, known as Engaine Manor in Great Gidding, went to his eldest son, Richard, who died about 1177, leaving by his wife Margery (daughter of Richard FitzUrse), and in 1185 wife of Geoffrey le Breton, who had married her without the king's leave a son, Richard, who in 1198 was holding Gidding by serjeanty of hunting wolves, and died in 1209. By his wife Sara, daughter and co-heir of William de Chesney, he had two sons, Richard and Viel. The former died unmarried and is said to have been buried in Huntingdon Priory. Viel married Rohesia, whose surname does not seem to be known, and had four sons: Viel, who died young; Henry, who succeeded his father; William, who died childless after 1244; and John, who succeeded his brother Henry. Viel himself died in October 1248, and in 1261 his son Henry was holding two carucates in Gidding by the serjeanty of hunting. Henry died childless in 1272, when his brother John succeeded to the estates. John, who held Great Gidding by the service of taking the hare, fox, cat, wolf and badger in Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Rutland, married Joan, daughter and heir of Gilbert de Greinville, of Hallaton, Leicestershire, and died in 1297. He was succeeded by his son John, who married Elena, daughter of Robert FitzRoger of Clavering. John, who had summons to Parliament as a baron from 1299 to 1322, died, without issue, on 28 September 1322, and his brother Nicholas died in December of the same year, before receiving livery of the estates, which passed to John the son of Nicholas. (This John married Joan, daughter of Sir Robert Peverel of Castle Ashby, Northants; he had summons to Councils from 1324 to 1350, and to Parliament from 1355 to 1357, and died in 1358. His elder son John had predeceased him, leaving a widow, Joan, daughter of Sir William de St. Quintin, who married secondly Sir William Colville; and he was succeeded by his second son Thomas, who married Katharine, daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Earl of Devon.
'Parishes: Great Gidding', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1936), pp. 48-53. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol3/pp48-53 [accessed 15 December 2019].
Little Gidding
The manor of LIttle Gidding is not mentioned by name in the Domesday Survey, but at that time it presumably formed part of the manor of Gidding held by William Engaine, and it was probably granted by his grandson, Viel, to the latter's younger son, Warner Engaine, to hold directly of the king. Warner Engaine held it as half a knight's fee in 1166. In 1285 it was stated that he had given a toft and three acres of land in Gidding to the Knights Templars for 12d., while Maud Engaine (perhaps his widow) had given them the church. At this early date the manor is generally called 'Gidding Warner'; later it became known as 'Gidding Engaine' and 'Little Gidding.'
Warner Engaine had at least three sons, Richard, William, and Henry. Richard, who is always carefully described as 'Richard son of Warner Engaine,' probably married Sara de Vere, daughter of the Earl of Oxford. This lady is often given as the wife of Richard son of Viel Engaine, but it is clear that the latter's wife was the daughter of William de Chesney. Richard was holding half a knight's fee in Huntingdonshire in 1186 and 1190, but in 1201 the assessment of his property seems to have been reduced to a quarter of a fee. He evidently died before 1208, in which year his brother William Engaine granted half a virgate of land in Gidding to William son of Richard and Maud his wife. William held a quarter of a fee in 1210–12; in 1219 his holding is described as half a fee, but this was probably a mistake, for afterwards it was still held as a quarter of a fee. He died in 1228, when the guardianship of his land and heir, and the marriage of the heir, were granted by the king to William de Raleigh, clerk. The heir was his son Ralph, who, in 1236, granted the manor as two hides of land to Warner Engaine, probably his cousin, and from this time Ralph and his heirs held the manor from Warner and his heirs for the rent of a silver mark and foreign service. This agreement was made between them in the presence of the king, from whom Ralph held the manor and from whom Warner was to hold it in future. A Warner Engaine of Lincolnshire died in 1250, when his brother Thomas answered for his debts; but it is not clear how Warner's mesne lordship of Little Gidding went. Ralph was succeeded, before 1276, by his son William, who had two wives, the first Cecily, and the second Amice. Cecily was, apparently, daughter and co-heir of Simon de Copmanford, and in her right William obtained, by agreement with Silvio de l'Enveyse and Isabel his wife, the other co-heir, half the manor of Copmanford with half the advowson of the church. William Engaine was alive in 1298, but in 1307 Little Gidding was owned by his son Ralph, parson of Copmanford, who, in that year, settled it, together with the reversion of the third part held by William's widow, Amice, upon his brother William, with remainder to William son of William and Agnes and contingent remainder to Warner, son of William Engaine the elder. William the son of William and Agnes must have died young, and this couple were apparently succeeded by a daughter who married Richard de Eye, but was dead by 1361, when her husband was holding her moiety of the advowson of Copmanford by 'the courtesy.' This unnamed daughter was succeeded by her daughter Amy or Amice, who had three husbands, firstly Adam de Morewyk, secondly Gilbert de Haysand, and thirdly Robert de Stokes. In 1361 she settled the manor of Little Gidding on herself and Gilbert, with the remainder to her children, and with a contingent remainder to Gilbert's brother William. William de Morewyk, son of Adam and Amice, in 1377, sold the reversion of the manor of Little Gidding and half the manor of Copmanford to Nicholas de Stukeley the elder. Amice, however, with her third husband, Sir Robert de Stokes, was holding the property for life, and they still held it in 1388 and 1390. 'Parishes: Little Gidding', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 3, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1936), pp. 53-57. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol3/pp53-57 [accessed 16 December 2019].
Moulton
In the Northampton Geld Roll, dated before 1075, a William Engaine is mentioned where land at Moulton was in default, and in the Survey of 1086 this William was under-tenant of Robert de Buci, of whom he held 2 hides, 1½ virgates. His descendants continued to hold this estate, Richard Engaine being in possession in the middle of the 12th century; he was succeeded by his son [Engaine-23|Vital]], (who died c. 1248, leaving two sons, Henry who died without issue in 1271 and John. The Engaines subinfeudated the Fitz Johns, who already held the other manor in Moulton; for in 1296 John Fitz John died holding his manor of Moulton partly, as ⅓ fee, of John Engaine. This estate thus became amalgamated with Moulton Manor, whose descent has been traced, the last mention of the Engaine overlordship being in 1323, when John Engaine died seised of part of a knight's fee in Moulton, held as of his manor of Blatherwyke.
Other lands in Moulton held by Fineshade Priory were granted to it by Richard Engaine the elder who founded the priory at the beginning of John's reign. His descendants augmented his benefactions, and the value of the priory's property here in 1291 was £2 2s. a year.
There is a mill mentioned in the Survey of 1086 on the estate held by William Engaine, which rendered 8d. yearly.
'Parishes: Moulton', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 88-94. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp88-94 [accessed 16 December 2019].
Stanway
Aelfflaed devised to King Ethelred an estate at 'Byraetune', probably the ½-hide manor which Ulwin Hapra held in 1066 and Roger the Marshal in 1086. About 1200 William son of Ralph Haville gave his land in Berton, Lexden, and Colchester to his younger son Geoffrey who before 1216 gave it to Waltham abbey. Before 1292 the abbey acquired a further 30 a. or more from other lords, including John Engaine, and the estate formed its manor of Abbots. In 1540-1 the last abbot, Robert Fuller, was given a life tenancy, but in 1544 the manor was granted to Sir Francis Jobson. In 1546 Jobson sold it, with Braiswick manor in Colchester, to George Sayer, later of Bourchiers Hall, Aldham. (Abbots then descended with Bourchiers, and later Aldham, Hall in the Sayer, White, and Western families until 1917 or later.
St. Osyth's abbey began to build up a small estate in Stanway in the early 12th century. The abbey's interest passed to the Crown at the Dissolution, its rents being surrendered by Princess, later Queen, Mary to Edward VI c. 1550. The main part of the estate, called Bastards from its 13th- and 14th-century tenants, was held of John Engaine's successors, the lords of the manor of Colne Engaine, until 1602 or later. 'Stanway: Manors and other estates', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (Part) Including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe, ed. Janet Cooper (London, 2001), pp. 263-266. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol10/pp263-266 [accessed 16 December 2019].
Great Staunton
To the north-east of the village is the hamlet of Dillington, and about a mile and a half from the village is Gaynes Hall, which takes its name from the family of Engayne, by whom the original house was probably built as the hall of their manor of Dillington. Viel de Engayne was evidently living here in 1238 when he had licence to have his private chapel at his manor of Dillington. References to St. Mary's Way and the road leading to St. Mary's Chapel indicate perhaps the dedication of the chapel. The park, now comprising some 300 acres, existed in the 13th century under the names of Littlehey and East Park. All that remain of the Engaynes' dwelling are the fragments of the moat.
The manor of DIllington, Dellingtune, Dilincthon (xi cent.), Dylington (xiii cent.), was granted, with the manor of Great Staughton, to the abbey of Ramsey, which retained the overlordship as late as 1518. The 6 hides there entered in the Domesday Survey among the lands of the abbot had fallen in value from £6 in 1066 to £4 in 1086. Between 1091 and 1100 Ralph, 'dapifer regis,' brother of Ilger, received a grant from Abbot Aldwin and the abbey of the vill of Dillington for life at £3 rent. This manor, which pertained to the barony of the abbey, was for over two centuries and a half held of the abbey by the Engaynes, Dengaynes (Gaynes). The first member of the family whom we find holding Dillington was Richard de Engayne, who in 1166, as one of the knights of the abbey, was holding 6 hides there. He married Sarah, daughter of William de Chesney, and died in 1208. His elder son Richard died without issue and was succeeded by his brother, Vitalis or Viel, who in 1238 had licence to have a chapel in his manor of Dillington. (He assarted his woods at Dillington, and gave leave for assarting his wood between St. Mary Way and Wepetes towards Grafham, and his wood of Dudenhey, and common of pasture in his foreign wood called Westwood as far as the road leading from the chapel of St. Mary to Perry. In 1244 he acknowledged the abbot's claim to the service of one knight and suit of court at Broughton from his lands at Dillington. He died in 1248, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son Henry, who died without issue in 1271, seised of the manor of Dillington and the parks called Littlehey and Est Park. He was succeeded by his brother John, who was returned in 1279 as holding 300 acres in demesne and a windmill. John was succeeded by his son John in 1296, who married Ellen, daughter of Robert FitzRoger, and in 1303 received a grant of free warren. He complained in 1316 that John de Littlebury and others had broken into his park and carried off his deer. In 1318 he settled the manor on his wife Ellen. After his death without issue in 1322, the manor was held as dower by his widow Ellen, who died in 1339. John's heir was his nephew John, son of his brother Nicholas, who married Joan, daughter of Robert Peverel, and died in 1358. His eldest son John, a minor, died in his father's lifetime; his widow, another Joan, married before 1358 William de Colville. Thomas, second son of John the elder, settled the manor on his wife Katherine, daughter of the Earl of Devon, and died without issue in 1367. He was succeeded by his three sisters and coheirs: Joyce, married to John de Goldington; Elizabeth, married to Laurence de Pabenham; and Mary, married to William de Bernak, who were also the heirs of John de Offord through their mother Joan. John de Goldington and his wife Joyce were dealing, in 1369, with a part of the manor. A partition of the property of Thomas Engayne made in 1372 between his coheirs comprised this manor, and they were dealing with a portion of it in 1374. The whole manor was in the hands of Sir William Bernak and his wife Mary in 1376, when a settlement of it in tail was made upon them. Mary, having married secondly Thomas de la Zouche, died in 1401. Her son, Sir John de Bernak, who succeeded, died in 1408, leaving a nine-year-old son and heir John, who died while a minor in 1421, a few days before a younger brother Edmund, their two sisters, Joan and Mary, being the coheirs of the brothers. Mary, who survived her sister, married Robert Stonham, and they were dealing with the manor in 1427, when it was held for half a knight's fee. Mary died a widow in 1464, when her trustees granted an annuity out of the manor. Mary Stonham had a son Robert, whose daughter and heir Elizabeth married John Broughton of Toddington (co. Bed.). They had a son John, who married Anne Denston (d. 1481). It would appear that John and Anne had two sons, John, who died a minor, and Sir Robert, who succeeded to the estates and made a settlement of the manors of Gaynes or Gaynes Hall and Dillington, as the property was then called, on his marriage with Dorothy, sister of Richard Wentworth, and died in 1506. His heir was his son John, who died in 1518, leaving a son and heir John, aged six at his father's death. A settlement was made for the proposed marriage of John Broughton, the son, with Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, with remainder to John's (the father's) brother Robert (d. 1521). (John, son of John, died in 1529 while still a minor, leaving two sisters, Katherine and Anne, as his coheirs. They had livery of their lands in that year. The wardship of Katherine was delivered to Agnes Duchess of Norfolk, and that of Anne apparently to Sir Thomas Cheyne, to whom she was married. Katherine was married to Agnes's son William, Lord Howard, before 1531, and their only child married William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester, with whom in 1592 she conveyed the site of the manor of Gaynes Hall to William Wallopp and Richard Beckenshaw. The marquis died in 1598, and in 1599 his widow was dealing with the manor. Later in the same year, with Sir Giles Broughton, kt., and his wife Katherine, her daughter, she conveyed to Oliver Williams, alias Cromwell, the uncle of the future Protector, the manors of Gaynes Hall, alias Gaynes Perry and Dillington. In 1600 Oliver Cromwell, as of Godmanchester, assigned to Richard Cromwell of the same, his brother, a lease of Gaynes Park made to him in 1599 for 21 years by Agnes, Marchioness of Winchester, widow; and in 1601 he, with his second wife Anne, conveyed the manors of Gaynes Hall, alias Gaynes Perry, alias Dillington, to Sir Thomas Lake, kt.
'Parishes: Great Staughton', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1932), pp. 354-369. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol2/pp354-369 [accessed 22 December 2019].
Stow cum Quy
Details of Northamptonshire Engaines. A F Wareham and A P M Wright, 'Stow cum Quy: Manors', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire) (London, 2002), pp. 233-238. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp233-238 [accessed 16 December 2019].
Upminster
The author recounts eminent families in the Manor of Gains with tradition of a little ‘Isle or Chappell, standing on the north side of the Chancell’ and appended to the Manor of Gains, appropriated to the Lords of the same for the burial of family members.
The earliest family, was that most ancient surname of Engain and it is warranted by a long tradition that Sir John Engain Knight, the sonne of Vitalis Engayn being Lord of the said mannor, did build the before mentioned Chappell. This familie ended in the male line, when Sir Thomas Engayne Knight, sonne of John Engayne Esquire, and grandchilde to the former Sir John, left his three daughters [1], his coheirs, of whom Jocosa the eldest was wife of John de Goldington. Elizabeth the second, was married to Sir Lawrence de Pakenham knight: & Mary the third daughter & coheire, was wife of Sir William de Barnake knight. There is no Tombe or grauestone left of this familie, but onely their Coatarmour in the East win∣dow of the aforesaid Chappell. [AFM P650-651]
[1] The three sisters were Thomases siblings rather than daughters and he was the great grandchild of Sir John
Waresley
Gaynes or Engeynes Manor was held in the reign of Edward the Confessor by two men named Magne and Lene. In 1086 it had been granted to William son of Ansculf, and the overlordship was held by the Paganells and de Somerys till the death of John de Somery in 1322. On the partition of his lands between his sisters it was assigned to Joan, widow of Thomas Botetourt, when this overlordship seems to have ceased. There seems, however, to have been another mesne lordship in the elder branch of the Engaine family (see Great Staughton), which appears in 1303 when Richard Engaine held half a fee in Waresley of John Engaine. John died in 1322 seised of the manor and advowson of Waresley held in dower by his widow Helen. He was succeeded by his nephew John son of his brother Nicholas, who with his wife Joan settled the manor and advowson in 1339. On the death of Thomas son of John in 1367 his estates were partitioned among his three sisters and coheirs, but this overlordship then appears to have lapsed.
In 1086 the sub-tenant was Ralph, brother of Ilger, probably the ancestor of the family of Engaine, a younger branch of which held the manor of the elder branch as of the honour of Beauchamp and gave its name to it. Richard Engaine of Great Staughton gave the manor and advowson to Robert Engaine (living 1199, 1206 ), said to be his younger son. Before 1224 Robert was succeeded by his son William. It was probably this William who was holding in 1239 and 1243, but in 1249 Robert his son presented to the church. (Robert died before 1271, leaving a son under age whose wardship was in dispute between Ida de Beauchamp, late the wife of Ralph de Somery, and Henry Engaine. This son was probably William Engaine who was the tenant in 1272 and 1291, and in 1301 and 1303 Richard Engaine held of John Engaine as mentioned above. In 1316 the manor had passed to Petronilla Engaine who was succeeded between 1322 and 1330 by John Engaine who presented to the church in 1341 and 1349. He or his successor of the same name held the manor in 1351, when the reversion was settled on William Engaine, son of John, and his wife Alice and their heirs. In 1423 Thomas Engaine and his wife Margaret sold it to William Druell or Drewell, who also obtained possession of Earl's Manor. Joan Druell, alias Burne, in 1489 settled it, excepting Gayne's Wood, on her daughter-in-law, Mary, the widow of John Druell, but after Mary's death, between 1510 and 1528, the two manors followed the same descent.
A small holding of half a hide was in the hands of Summerled in the reign of Edward the Confessor. In 1086 it formed part of the fee of Eustace the Sheriff and was held of him by an under-tenant named Roger. Its latter history does not appear.
No licence to impark appears to have been granted to the tenants of either manor in Waresley. Underwood to the extent of 21 acres is mentioned in Domesday Book and the damage done to the woods of both manors by the afforestation carried out by Henry III is mentioned in 1300. In 1206 Robert Engaine obtained a grant from his tenant Reinfrid de Brueria of the latter's land called Reddich in Waresley, in order that he might enclose it, but the Park is not apparently mentioned till 1698–9. The rights of free warren, a sheep-walk, and free foldage are mentioned in 1724.
In 1279 John de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, held a view of frankpledge in Waresley. Presumably the lords of Earl's Manor held it, but it is not mentioned in the conveyances of the manor until 1724.
'Parishes: Waresley', in A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, ed. William Page, Granville Proby and S Inskip Ladds (London, 1932), pp. 376-379. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hunts/vol2/pp376-379 [accessed 15 December 2019].
Uncertain Connections
Warner Engaine c1200-1253
Warner Engayn and Walter de Burgo were, in 1236, appointed to take charge of all the King's lands and to make enquiry as to their value. 1 The former was dead in 1253, when his brother, James Engayn, arranged to discharge his debt to the Exchequer in half-yearly instalments of 5/. 2 The latest year mentioned in the rough notes is 1242. Liber feodorum. The book of fees, commonly called Testa de Nevill, reformed from the earliest MSS Page 625
The relationship between Warner and the other members of the Engaine family has not been ascertained. The fact that his son’s name follows Vitalis Engaine in the record quoted below suggests that they were closely related, maybe first cousins.] m ---. The name of Warner’s wife is not known. Warner & his wife had one child: a) WILLIAM Engaine (-[29 Sep 1223/25 Nov 1228]). The Pipe Roll 1223 records “Vitalis Engainne” followed immediately by “Willelmus f Garnerii Engainne” owing in Huntingdonshire[82]. m ---. The name of William’s wife is not known. William & his wife had one child: i) --- Engaine . Henry III King of England granted "custodiam terre et heredis Willelmi Engayne" to "Willelmo de Ralegh clerico", and ordered the sheriff of Huntingdonshire to transfer the land and heir to him, dated 25 Nov 1228[83]. ML
See also notes under Little Gidding.
Gilbert Engaine
IPM No 61 vol 8 Gilbert Engayne, aged 48 years, says the like, and knows it because in the same year he had a son named William professed as a brother of the order of Mount Carmel {Sanrli Kdrnidi), Appelby, and from that time 18 Years have elapsed.
John Engaine
IPM 47 Vol 10 John Engayne of Stylton, aged 50 years and more, agrees and says that on the feast of St. Laurence after the birth of the said heir he purchased 20a. of land in the fields of Stylton of Simon Balhorn.
Source Material
Unreferenced notes derived from Cokayne, G. E. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 5 p71-81 Pub 1926
Additional References
- MCA = Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition 2011 Douglas Richardson
- TNA= The National Archives UK
- AFM=Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent, with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and buriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations, by Weever, John, 1576-1632; Cecil, Thomas, active 1630 Published 1631
- BHO = British History on Line
- ML = Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). uploaded 22 Dec 2019 See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands.
- TCB= The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England: Or, An Historical and Genealogical Account of the Lives, Public Employments, and Most Memorable Actions of the English Nobility who Have Flourished from the Norman Conquest, Volume 1 TC Banks 1807
- NHN = A synopsis of the peerage of England : exhibiting, ... v.1. Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799-1848. p 217-218
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