Sir John de Wurth

 11820034. Sir John de Wurth

9/14/1273, John de Worth born in Lincolnshire, England, s/o §§Sir Sewall de Worth. (S) See Joan, 7/6/1332.

11/16/1272, Edward I succeeded Henry III as King of England. [While on crusade.]

1278, John’s father died.

10/29/1278, Order to Ralph de Sandwico, the king's steward, to take into the king's hand the lands late of Sewall de Worth, deceased, tenant in chief. (S) CFRs.

1282, IPM of Robert de Grelle. Lincoln: Heyngton near Sixel. 1 fee held by John de Worth, who is within age and in the wardship of Henry de Cheveleye … (S) CIsPM.

2/3/1284, Order to deliver to Hawisia, late the wife of Robert Grelle, tenant in chief, the following of Robert's knights' fees, which the king has assigned to her in dower: a fee in Heyngton, which John de Worth holds … (S) CCRs.

By 1304, John de Wurth alias de Worth died.

Family notes:

·         12/3/1278, IPM of Sewall de Worth. Lincoln: Haynton. A capital messuage, 12 bovates land in demesne, 11 bovates in villenage, a watermill and a windmill, …  2a. land … for 14d. rent; 8 bovates land … for 13s. 8d. rent; foreign service pertaining to 1 knight's fee … Haynton and Howton. 23s. rent of assize for many tenements … John his son, aged 6 at the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, 7 E. I. is his next heir. (S) CIsPM.

Children of John and ?:

i. John de Worth, born ? in England.

5/16/1307, IPM of Robert de Barkeworthe. Lincoln: … Barkeworth. A messuage, 84a. arable, and 3a. meadow, held of the heir [John] of John de Worth, a minor and in the king’s wardship, by service of 2s. 4d. yearly and suit at the said John’s court of Barkworth every 3 weeks; 2 bovates of land held of the same heir, as of the barony of Scoteny … (S) CIsPM.

By 1310, John died, his sister Joan his heir.

ii. Joan de Wurth (5910017), born 4/1294 in England.

9/29/1304, Joan’s marriage granted to Richard. (S) Writ of 6/14/1311.

7/6/1332, Writ of certiorari, on the petition of Richard Knyvet and Joan his wife, to enquire whether the said Joan is heir of … lands in Haynton, … Sewall de Worth, grandfather of the said Joan, whose heir she is, … (S) CIsPM.