15211312. Sir Richard de Plaiz &
15211313. Margaret de St. Philibert
9/21/1323,
Richard de Playce born in England, s/o 30422624.
Richard de Plays & 30422625. Margaret de Lancaster.
~1323,
Margaret born in England, d/o 2110866.
Sir John de Saint Philibert & 2110867. Ada Botetourt.
2/1/1327 at
Westminster, Edward III, age 14, crowned king of England.
1327,
Richard’s father died, his brother Giles succeeding. (S) CPRs. [Richard’s
mother Margaret surviving.]
1/20/1331,
Gilbert Talbot, king’s chamberlain, granted the marriage of the heir of Richard
de Plaiz.
7/16/1334,
Richard’s brother Giles died, Richard his heir.
1334,
Richard de Plaiz cousin and heir of John de Lancaster. (S) History of the
Parish of Wraysbury, Willoughby, 1862, P5.
11/12/1337,
Richard still a minor. (S) CPRs.
11/17/1339,
Essex. The manor of Wythermundeford held of the heir of Sir Richard de Plays,
knight, a minor in the king’s wardship, by service. (S) CIsPM.
By 1340, Richard
married Margaret.
1340,
Richard de Plays. Request for assistance in a dispute over the right to lands.
Other people mentioned: Giles de Plays; Hugh Despenser the younger; Eleanor [of
Castile], Queen of England; Edward [I], King of England; Edmund [Plantagenet,
Earl of Lancaster]; Aveline [Plantagenet, Countess of Lancaster]. . (S) UKNA.
9/22/1344, Writ
of certiorari, on the petition of Richard, son of Richard de Plaiz, asserting
that he is brother and next heir of the said Giles, son and heir of Richard de
Plaiz, deceased, who held of the king in chief, which said Giles died whilst a
minor and in the king’s wardship, and that he is of full age, and seeking livery
of the lands &c. which are of his inheritance and are in the wardship of
Gilbert Talebot. … Sussex: The said Giles died on 16 July, 8 Edward III, a
minor and in the king’s wardship. Richard, his brother, aged 21 years on the
day of St. Matthew last, is his next heir. (S) CCRs.
1346,
Richard de Plays held 1 fee of the earl of Warren.
9/4/1346, The English began the year-long siege of
the port of Calais. Richard de
Plaiz in the retinue of John de Veer, earl of Oxford at the siege of Calais.
(S) Crecy and Calais, P90.
8/1347, Calais fell when King Philip failed to
support their siege and retreated.
1348, The
Black Death entered the west countryside of England.
4/7/1348, Richard,
son of Richard de Plays, states that in the course of a series of minorities in
the reign of Edward I, the manors of Langley Marish and Wraysbury became
detached from his inheritance. … He requests grace and a remedy … (S) UKNA.
[See 1340.]
7/28/1348,
Commission to … John Dengayne … on complaint by Richard de Plays, ‘chivaler,’
that … and others, at Foulmere, co. Cambridge, broke his close and houses … (S)
CPRs.
1349,
Richard de Plays presented Robert de Tachewell to the church of Knapton.
7/14/1349,
Sir Richard Playz presented Thomas Mabylione to the church of St. Mary at
Weting.
1349, Sir
Richard de Playz gave the rectory of Croxton to Bromehill priory. (S) Topo.
Hist. of the Co. of Norfolk, V2, 1805.
1351, Sir
John de St. Philibert, the son, released to Sir Richard de Plays and his right
in the manor of Chelsworth.
1352,
Richard, by paying £10 yearly, settled Knapton on his son John and his wife
Margaret.
7/25/1352,
Richard Plays gave the advowson of Croxton to the Bromhull priory. (S) CPRs.
4/30/1353,
Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Richard Playce to the abbot and
convent of St. Edmonds of the advowson of the church of Foulmere, co.
Cambridge. (S) CPRs.
6/20/1353,
Licence for the alienation in mortmain by Richard Plays, knight, to the abbot
and convent Stratford, … (S) CPRs.
1353, Sir
Richard and Margery held the manor Cheslworth.
6/1353, Sir
Richard gave the manor of Playz to the abbot and convent of
Stratford-Langthorne. (S) The Environs of London, Lysons, 1796. (S) CCRs, 6/26/1353.
6/22/1358,
Sir Richard le Plaiz presented John Reynold to the church of Weting. (S) Ess. Tow’s
a Topo. Hist. of the Co. of Norfolk, 1739, P483. [Richard’s grandmother Joan
had last presented in 1333.]
1359,
Richard and his son John traveled to France in the expedition of King Edward.
10/1359,
King Edward, sailing from Sandwich to Calais with 1,100 ships, invaded France.
10/7/1359,
Richard de Plays died shortly after arrival in France. [Assuming a Julian
calendar.]
[––Margaret––]
1/4/1360,
IPM of Richard de Plays, knight. Cambridge: Foulmere. The manor … He died on
Wednesday before All Saints last. John de Plays his son, aged 18 years, is his
heir. Sussex: Yford, Wanynggore and Warpesbourne. The manors, with the
advowsons of the churches … He died in parts beyond the seas as is said on the morrow of St. Faith last. … Suffolk: Chelesworthe. The manor held
jointly by the said Richard and Margaret his wife, who survives, … rendering
yearly 24qrs. of wheat, 74qrs. of barley malt, 2qrs. of white peas, a carcase
of a pig worth 5s., 5 geese, 6lb. candles, 6 hens, 2,500 faggots and a load of
hay. … Norfolk: Wetyngg and Toftes. The manors, with the advowsons of the
churches … Feltewell. 8 messuages, 300a. land, … the said Richard, long before
his death, granted to John de Plays and Margaret, daughter of Walter de
Norwyco, now wife of the said John, and the heirs of their bodies, by service
of 10 marks yearly to him during his life and a penny yearly to his heirs after
his death: the said wood he gave to the same John and Margaret for their lives
by service of a rose yearly. Essex: Great Okele. The manor … [over 23 knights’
fees] (S) CIsPM.
1360,
Margaret died.
(S) Hist.
& Antiq’s of Suffolk, Thingoe Hundred, 1838, P43. (S) Peerages of England,
Burke, 1831, P433. (S) Ess. Tow’s a Topo. Hist. of the Co. of Norfolk, 1808,
P133. (S) The History of an East Anglian Soke, Hood, 1918, P32.
Child
of Richard and Margret:
i. John Plaiz (7605656), born 1/14/1341 in Suffolk,
England.
