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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Lord William Fyloll & Joan Frome

950664. Lord William Fyloll & 950665. Joan Frome

1380, William Fyllol born in Dorset, England, heir & s/o 1901328. John Filoll & 1901329. Margaret le Walsh.

~1383, Joan born in England, coheir & d/o 1901330. John Frome & 1901331. ? de Tregoz.

9/20/1390, John Fillol gifted William and his wife Joan the manor of Wynterbourne. (S) William’s IPM, 1/28/1416.

By 1398, William contracted to married Joan.

1398 at Woodlands, Dorset, John Filoll acquired Langton Matravers in Purbeck  the manor, of John Fauntleroy and Joan his wife by a fine, by which they granted it to John Filoll for life, with remainder to William Filoll and Joan his wife and the heirs of their bodies ... (S) IPM, Dorset, 4/23/1403.

9/30/1399, Henry IV succeeded Richard II as King of England.

1399, Pardon to Sir William Fyllol and Joan his wife. (S) UKNA.

3/12/1403, William’s father died.

4/23/1403, IPM, Dorset. John Filoll held Langton Matravers in Purbeck ... annual value £10. Stockley in Bere Regis, 2 virgates, jointly with Alice his wife, who survives. Southcombe, Winterborne Muston, Winterborne Zelston, Mapperton and Morden, £24 rent from the manors, which are held by William Filoll and Joan his wife. His son and heir William age 23 and more.

11/22/1404, William named an executive in his father-in-law’s will. (S) The History and Antiquities of the Town, Hundred, and Deanry of Buckingham, Willis, 1755, P54.

11/24/1404, Writ for IPM of John Frome. Buckingham: He held in his demesne as of fee: Buckingham, the manor, … by the service of 2 knight’s fees, annual value £40. … He died on 22 Nov. 1404. Isabel wife of Bernard Mussenden and Joan wife of William Fillole, his daughters and heirs, are aged 22 years and more and 18 years and more. (S) CIsPM.

6/25/1405, Commitment to William Filoll, by mainprise of John Jurdon and Robert Rempston of the county of Dorset, of the keeping of a messuage with a curtilage in Baggeruggestrete, co. Dorset, which is in the king's hand by the felony of John Cambat. (S) CFRs.

1407 to 7/3/1413, “Court of William Filoll' held at Langton Wallis.” [Dorset] (S) UKNA.

8/1/1408, IPM of John Plecy, who died 8/1/1406: ... William Filoll and John Cheverell have taken the profits since his death in virtue of letters patent. [Hampshire] (S) IsPM, Henry IV, 255.

8/5/1409, Proof of age of John Plecy at Dorchester, Dorset. In the presence of William Filliol and John Cheverell the jurors say that John son of John Plecy was born at Kingsteignton and baptised in St. Nicholas’s chapel there on 24 June 1388, … (S) CIsPM.

5/15/1411, Richard Bannebury and Mary [William’s paternal aunt] his wife granted Warmbrook to William Filoll for £20 yearly. (S) Hist. of Somerset, V4, 1978, Wambrook.

2/27/1412, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Proof of age of Thomas Romesey. ... born 10/28/1398 ... William Fillol, grandfather of the present William Fillol, died on 25 Oct. at Winterborne Zelstone in the year that Thomas was born. (S) IsPM, Henry IV, 997.

1412, William’s estates assessed at £124 6s 8d yearly.

3/20/1413, Henry V succeeded Henry IV as King of England.

5/20/1413, Court of William Filoll' held at Langton Wallis. (S) UKNA. [William held this court 3 times during the year.]

4/1414, William Filoll, MP for Dorset. [Along with Sir Humphrey Stafford.]

1/12/1416, William wrote his will. … bequests: gowns, plate, weapons (including a long sword), horses, armour and cash (totalling over £24) were left to particular individuals, … residue of his goods and chattels was to go to his widow and his children, ‘to be found and governed by her’. …

1/22/1416, William died, requesting burial at St. Wulfhilda in Horton.

3/28/1416, Sherbourne, Dorset. IPM of William Fyloll. He held in his demesne as of fee the manors of Winterborne Herringston and Langton Herring with the advowson of Langton Herring ... jointly with Joan by the grant of John son and heir of William Fillol, ...  his heir his son John, age 7 and more. (S) CIsPM.

3/1416, William’s will proved. (S) UKNA.

[––Joan––]

5/4/1416, To the escheator in Dorset. Order to take the fealty of Joan late the wife of William Fyloll, and to give her livery of the manor of Southcombe … held jointly with her the manor of Langeton Walsshe, 3 messuages in 'Middelbere' … the manors of Wynterborne Turbervylston, Wynterborne Maurewarde, Mapelerton, Southcombe, 'Westmordone' and 'Estmordone,' … (S) CCRs.

9/4/1416 to 5/16/1422, “Court of Johanna wife of William Filoll' held at Langton Wallis. [Dorset]” (S) UKNA.

Bef. 3/1420, Joan married Sir William Cheyne.

3/31/1420, Joan wrote her will, arranging for the feoffees of the Filoll estates to ‘susteyne and do marie’ Filoll’s daughters Avice, Isabel and Eleanor.

8/31/1422, Henry VI (an infant) succeeded Henry V as King of England.

7/1/1434, Joan died.

7/6/1434, IPM: Joan, wife of William Cheyne, knight [Chief Justice, of Sussex], and widow of William Filoll. "Dorset. Winterborne Hudyngton, 3 messuages and 40a land, of Alice who was the wife of Guy de Briene knight junior, of her manor of Sutton Poyntz by service of a pair of gilt spurs or 6d at Easter, annual value 33s 4d. Winterborne Kingston, a messuage and 30a land of the same Alice, annual value 20s.” She married William Cheyne, knight , who survives, and they had issue John and Margaret. John, her son by William Filoll age 26 and more.(S) IsPM, Henry VI, 170. (S) CFRs.

(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P328. (S) Hist. of Parliament, Roskell, 1993.

Family notes:

·         Some genealogies having Joan marrying 2nd Sir Richard de Arches, but the timeline does not fit.

Child of William and Joan: [1 son, 3 daughters]

i. John Fillol (475332), born 1408 in England.


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