2110870.
Sir Henry Gernet & 2110871. Joan ?
1274, Henry Gernett born in England.
~1300, Joan born in England.
9/1301, John de Gernet to deliver to Henry Gernet seisin of
a messuage, land and woodland, in the vill of Bernestone, to hold the same in
fee. (S) Ancient Deeds, V1, 1890, B.915.
11/9/1307 at London, Debtor: Henry Gernet, of Essex [family
held High Easter in Dunmow Hundred]. Creditor: John de Tany, knight. [Family
held Stapleford Tany in Ongar Hundred, Essex.] Amount: 100s. (S) UKNA. [This
John de Tany (d.1308) is the father of the John de Tany that married Joan,
future wife of Henry.]
2/24/1308 at Westminster, Edward II crowned king of England.
5/1311 at Wenynton, William de Dunmawe … to receive seisin
of a messuage, … and a rent of 8 marks in Ashewelle, Henxteworthe, and
Waulyngton from Henry Gernet. (S) Ancient Deeds, V6, 1915, C.6200.
[––Joan & John––]
Joan 1st married to Sir John de Tany, s/o John de
Toeni & Joan de la Warre.
[––Henry &
Margery––].
Henry 1st married Margery ?
1312, Master William de Donemawe conveyed to Henry Gernet
and Margery his wife and Henry's heirs, a messuage, a mill, 180a. land, 12a.
meadow and 8 marks rent in Asshewell, Henxsteworth, and Waulyngton. (S) Ancient
Deeds, V6, 1915, C.6398.
6/24/1313, John de Tany enfeoffed lands of the manor of
Wennington [including Alvethele – see 5/1345] to Henry Garnet and his wife
Margery.
10/24/1313, Henry Gernet on a commission de “walliis et
fossatis” [to take care of a water way] for the river Thames.
5/26/1314, To the sheriff of Essex. Order to supersede … mainpernors
in chancery to appear on the day named … Henry Gernet, of the sheriff's county
… (S) CCRs.
12/15/1315, Joan’s husband, John de Tany died a natural
death in the hospital of St. Mary without Bisshoppesgate, London. (S) IPM of
John, 12/1325.
[––Joan––]
4/8/1316, Henry Gernet on a commission de “walliis et
fossatis” for the seacoast and adjacent parts of the county of Essex, … (S)
CPRs.
7/1316 at Wenynton, Release by Margery, daughter of the late
Richard le Spenser, of Berneston, to Henry Gernet and Margery his wife, of all
her right in lands and tenements which formerly belonged to her father in Berneston.
(S) CCRs.
1317, Henry a king’s coroner in the county of Essex.
[Removed by the king the same year due to charges brought against him.] (S)
CPRs.
6/16/1317, Henry charged with contempt in ill treating and
not receiving the king's men and horses billeted in the county by the marshal
of the Household. (S) CPRs.
2/3/1319, IPM of William Goldyngton. Essex: … Little Badewe.
A manor called Le Gras , held for the life of Joan sometime the wife of John de
Tany, knight, rendering 10 marks yearly; … Renggers in Terling. The manor ,
held for the life of Joan late the wife of John de Taney, rendering 5 marks
yearly; … (S) CIsPM.
1320 in London, Thomas Coke, pl., appears v. Henry Gernet, …
executors of the will of Nicholas Frembaud, in a plea of debt. (S) London
Sheriffs’ Court Roll, 2010, Membrane 8.
5/21/1321, Henry Gernet on a commission de walliis et
fossatis for the river Thames. (S) CPRs.
11/20/1321, Henry’s
lands seized by the crown. [King Edward II was seizing lands and giving them to
his favorites, particularly the Despencers. ] (S) UKNA.
3/10/1322, Edward defeated the forces of Earl Thomas of
Lancaster [his cousin, grandson of Henry III] at the river Trent.
9/13/1322, To John le Porter, keeper of certain of the
rebels' lands in co. Essex. … Joan, late the wife of John de Tany … (S) CCRs.
10/25/1322, To John le Porter, keeper of certain lands in
the king's hands, in co. Essex. Order to deliver to Richard de Norton his lands
and goods … lands were taken into the king's hands because he was with Henry
Gernet at his robes and of his household. (S) CCRs.
12/4/1322, To John le Porter, keeper of the lands of certain
rebels in co. Essex. Order to deliver to William Gernet his lands and goods in
Haveryng … William's lands and goods were taken into the king's hands because
William is the brother of Henry Gernet, who adhered to John Joce, knight, an
adherent of Bartholomew de Badelesmere. (S) CCRs. [Bartholomew (5909950), as an
opponent of the Despensers, joined the revolt of the Marcher lords.]
[––Henry &
Joan––]
Henry married 2nd Joan, widow of John de Tany.
1323, Henry and Joan held lands in Hinxworth.
11/10/1325, Henry imprisoned in Berkhampsted castle.
1325, … lands in Rainham, Aveley and Stifford were given by
John de Taney during his life to Henry Gernet, and now taken into the king's
hands by reason of the latter's imprisonment …
12/1325, IPM of John de Tany. Petition to the king and
council from Joan, late the wife of the said John for her dower of lands in
Wenyngton, Alvethele, Reynham, Stifford, and Little Thurrok, co. Essex, which
the said John gave to Henry Garnet, and are now in the king’s hand. Essex: The
said John after he married the said Joan was seised of the manor of Wenyngton,
… By his charter of 24 June, 6 Edward II., he enfeoffed Henry Gernet and
Margery his wife and the heirs of the said Henry of all the aforesaid lands,
but there is no cause why the said Joan ought not to be dowered of them, and
she has never remitted her right. … [John’s death] … Writ of ulterius
certiorari to the constable of the castle of Berkhampstede to examine Henry Garnet
who is in prison there, whether he has anything to say, why the said Joan ought
not to have her dower of the above lands. … he [Henry] answers that he has
enough (to allege) for himself why she ought not to have her dower there. … the
whole process must come before the great council. … (S) CIsPM.
1/10/1327, Henry given protection, with clause nolumnus, for
1 year. [“nolumnus” – “we are unwilling” – protection from seizure by the
crown.]
2/1/1327, Edward III crowned king of England.
2/3/1327, Protection, with clause volumus, for Henry Gernet,
for 1 year. (S) CPRs.
10/20/1327, Henry on a commission to investigate the manor
of Westhorndon.
1327-29, Oliver Plokenet states that when he was in the
king’s protection at Stanhope Park, Henry Gernet, a known malefactor, entered
his lands in Essex and robbed him. (S) UKNA.
10/14/1329 at Brackley, … release by Eustace, son and heir
of John de Walheugtone, to Henry Gernet and Joan his wife of his right in the lands
that Eustace had in Hengsteworthe … (S) CCRs.
6/24/1330, Henry a mainpernor for William de Clayton,
another adjherent of the Marcher Lords. (S) CCRs.
9/26/1331, Henry given protection, with “clause nolumnus,”
for 1 year.
4/25/1332, Henry Gernet, keeper of the land and of the heir
of William de Clayton.
9/15/1334, Proof of age of John de Briaunzoun. Essex: Henry
Gernet (b.1274), aged 60 years and more, says that the said John was 21 years
of age on Friday the feast of the Annunciation last, for he was born at
Westhurrok on the said feast, 6 Edward II, and was baptized on the morrow in
the church there; and this he knows because he lifted the said John from the
sacred font. (S) CIsPM.
1334, Letter of attorney by Willaim Trycket, of Bernestone (Barnston),
for John de Gernet to deliver to Henry Gernet, seisin of a messuage, land and
woodland, in the vill of Bernestone, …
1334-37, Henry knighted.
12/1/1337 at London, Grant by David de Tillebury, citizen
and spicer of London, … Witnesses: Sir Henry Gernet, knight, …, Richard de
Norton, …, John de Cherleton, … (S) CCRs.
1338, Henry and Joan hold land in the parish of Ashwell.
6/26/1339, Exemplification, at the request of the prioress
of Stratford, of the tenor of the process before Henry Gernet and his fellows,
commissioners de walliis et fossatis along the coast of the water of Thames and
parts adjoining co. Essex, …
5/12/1341, Henry Gernet, knight, acknowledges that he owes
to William Box, citizen of London, £12.
1341-42, Henry, High Sheriff of Essex.
7/29/1342, Henry constable of Colchester castle in Essex.
9/19/1342, Henry Gernet, escheator in the county of Middlesex.
(S) CPRs.
11/26/1342, Henry Gernet, escheator in the counties of Essex
and Hertford. (S) CPRs.
6/28/1343, Henry Gernet, knight, pardoned for “touching
oppressions” in an office he held for a fine of £40. (S) CPRs.
1/24/1344, Debtor: Henry Gernet, knight, of Essex [family
held High Easter in Dunmow Hundred]. Creditor: Philip de Bardi, and his
partners, merchants of the Society of the Bardi [Alien merchants in London].
Amount: £100. (S) UKNA.
4/10/1345, John
Darcy the son (le fitz), knight, querent, and Henry Gernet', knight, and
[Joan], his wife, deforciants. The manors of Asshewell' and
Henkstworth'. Henry has acknowledged the manors to be the right of John, as
those which John has of [his] gift. John has granted to Henry and Joan the
manors and [has rendered them to them in] the court, to hold to Henry and Joan,
of the chief lords [for the lives] of Henry and Joan. And after the decease of
Henry and Joan the manors shall remain to John de Sautre and Margery, his wife,
and the heirs of the body of Margery, to hold of the chief lords for ever. In
default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to Thomas de Charnels (1055434),
knight, and Maud, his wife, and the heirs of the body of Maud, (2) to Margaret,
sister of the same Maud, and the heirs of her body and (3) to the right heirs
of the aforesaid Henry. (S) Feet of Fines, Hertfordshire.
4/28/1345, Henry died; held, jointly with his wife Joanna,
one messuage, 120 acres of arable, 15 acres of meadow, and 6s. 8d. rent, in
Alvethele, of the Prior of Prittlewell, by the service of 3s. per annum. [Digswell
manor.]
[––Joan––]
6/1/1345, Writ for IPM of Henry Gernet. Essex: Wenyngton.
The manor held jointly with Joan his wife, who still survives, … Alvythele. A
messuage, 120a. land, … Alvythele and Reynham. 20a. land … High Estre and.
Bernston. A messuage, … Asshindon. A messuage, … He died on 28 April last. His
daughters, Maud aged 14 years, Margery aged 13 years, and Margaret aged 4
years, are his next heirs. Hertford: Hyngsteworth. The manor held jointly with
Joan his wife, … Asshwell. Certain lands and tenements … (S) CIsPM.
6/3/1345, Joan late the wife of Henry Gernet, knight, tenant
of the land which belonged to Henry, puts in her place Thomas de la More, to
defend the execution of a recognisance for £100 made by Henry in chancery
to William de Dersham of Offeton.
7/12/1345 at Southwick, Commission of oyer and terminer to
John Hamond, mayor of London, Roger de Depham and Geoffrey Tableter and Thomas
Leggy, sheriffs of the same city, touching the persons who ravished and
abducted Joan, late the wife of Henry Gernet, ‘chivaler’, at the suburb of
London, and plundered her of goods, and those by whose procurement that felony
was committed. (S) CPRs.
1345, Joan received a quitclaim of the manor from Thomas de
la Haye and Elizabeth his wife. (S) Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire,
Chauncy, 1826, P71.
4/15/1346, Wheras Robert Ledet arramed an assize of novel
disseisin against Joan late the wife of Henry Garnet and others of tenements in
Asshewell, … (S) CPRs.
6/18/1362, Whereas Robert de Rameseye of London,
‘freishfisshemonger’ was indicted of having with others, on Monday after the
feast of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr in the nineteenth year,
ravished Joan late wife of Henry Gernet on the water of Thames between Wolewych
and the marsh of Esthamme and robbed her of goods to the value of 40 marks and
her men and servants of goods to the value of 10 marks, in the county of Essex,
and was afterwards acquitted before the king by the inquisition upon which he
put himself, … (S) CPRs.
(S) Hist. of Hertford, V3, 1912, Ashwell.
Family notes:
·
Henry likely s/o William Gernet: 1391, Lawrence
Trussell and his wife Matilda sued for a moiety of the manor of Weynton and
lands and rents in Alvythele, co. Essex which William Gernet had given to Henry
Gernet and his wife Joan and the heirs of their bodies.
Children of Henry and Joan:
i. Maud Garnet (1055435),
born 1331 in England.
ii. Margery Garnet,
born 1332 in England.
Margery married John Darcy ‘le fitz’, s/o John Darcy ‘le
piere’ & Emeline Heron.
1345,
The manor of Ashwell settled upon Henry Gernet and Joan his wife, to hold for
life with reversion to John Darcy le Fitz and his wife Margery, to Thomas de
Charnels and his wife Maud, and to Margaret sister of Maud, successively,
Margery, Maud and Margaret being daughters of Henry and Joan. (S) Hist. of
Hertford, V3, 1912, Ashwell.
Margery married John Sawtre.
By 1361, Margery married Sir John Gildesburgh [Speaker of
the House of Commons in 1380].
(S) Hist. of Essex, V7, 1978, Wennington.
iii. Margaret Garnet,
born 1341 in England.
[By deed records Margaret appears to have died young.]
