The Wannerville family of Hemsworth, Yorkshire

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The Wannerville family of Hemsworth, Yorkshire

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The Wortley family are said to have inherited their estates at
Hemsworth by virtue of a marriage to an heiress of the Wannerville
family.

The received pedigree (eg Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical
Journal, vol XI, 1891, p 437) is thus:

1. William de Wannerville, died 1244
2. Adam de Wannerville
3. Adam de Wannerville
4. Elizabeth Wannerville, married Sir Nicholas de Wortley.

However, various chronological factors make this pedigree seem most
unlikely, and a review of primary material indicates that a
generational gap has crept in.

(A) William de Wannerville, lord of Hemsworth

Starting with William de Wannerville, we see from his IPM that he died
in about 1244 (Yorks Arch & Top J, ibid, citing Esc 29 Henry III m
38). This IPM states that his heir was his son, Adam de Wannerville,
aged 14 "at the feast of St Giles next".

(B) Adam de Wannerville I

From his father's IPM, we can assign a date of birth to Adam of 'circa
1230'. Various references in the primary record show that one of this
name held at Hemsworth into the 1270s and 1280s, eg:

"1272: The King granted to Adam de Wanrevile free warren in all his
demesne lands of Hymlesworth" (Yorks Arch & Top J XI, 1891, p 54)

"18 November 1279: Adam de Wanerville, knight, presented to the church
at Hemsworth" (Register of William Wickwame, Archbishop of York, p 18)

"24 May 1282: ditto (ibid, pp 44-45)

The difficulty is showing whether this is the same man as the heir of
1244. Some sources have gone so far as to assert that all references
up to 1324 are he - assigning an age at death of 94!

It seems clear, however, that there is an intermediate Adam, although
it is not clear at which stage the records cease to refer to the one
man, and begin to relate to the next.

One final, undated reference may provide further details:

"Henry, son of Robert de Shelvelay [Shelley] quitclaims to Adam de
Wannervile, son of Adam, all right in the town of Kynnersley,
belonging to the town [sic: ?manor] of Hemsworth, and also all lands
which he demanded against the aforesaid Adam and Nichola mother of
Adam in the said town of Hemsworth"; this is said to date from the
latter part of Henry III's reign - ie before 1273 (History and
Topography of the Parish of Kirkburton, H.J. Morehouse, Huddersfield,
1861, p 85).

This is problematic, as we shall see from the following, since it
seems to give this pedigree:

1. Adam de Wannerville, married Nicola; issue:
2. Adam de Wannerville, ff Henry III

(C) Adam de Wannerville II

According to the entry in 'The Knights of Edward I', p 152, Sir Adam
de Wanervill alias Wandervill was aged 40 when he was found to be the
heir of Alice de Scapwyk, the sister of his mother Margaret (PRO C
133/117/12, dated 33 Edward I). This would give him an approximate
birth-year of 1265.

While this would be in keeping with his being the son of Adam I, we
have the apparent contradiction that the IPM states his mother was
named Margaret, whereas the quitclaim quoted above refers to an Adam,
son of Adam and Nicola.

I do not presently know what to make of this.

Adam II is like to be the Adam de Wannerville made a Knight of the
Bath at the coronation of King Edward II - 22 May 1306 ['Knights of
England', Shaw, vol 1, p 121].

We have some contemporary details of his own family:

"Adam de Wannervill and his sons Adam and Robert", named in a petition
of 1320 (PRO SC 8/87/4333).

His IPM dates from 1324 (PRO C 134/86/12 17 Edward II) and states that
his son and heir, Adam, is aged 30.

(D) Adam de Wannerville III

Born in about 1294, Adam succeeded his father in 1324.

The Patent Rolls adds some information:

"Licence for Adam de Wannervyll to enfeoff Hugh de Flete, chaplain, of
two parts of the manor of Hymmesworth and of the advowson of the
church of the said manor, which are held in chief as of the honour of
Pontefract, and of the reversion of the third part of the said manor
after the death of Agnes late the wife of Adam de Wannervyll, knight,
and for the said High to regrant the same to him and Alice his wife
and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to John son of Adam de
Wannervyll, knight, and the rights heirs of Adam" (CPR, 20 January
1326).

Thus we know that Adam married Alice; that his father's widow was
named Agnes, and that he had two brothers, Robert (ff 1320) and John
(ff 1326).

John is doubtless the clergyman who was incumbent at Hemsworth during
the mid-14th century, named as brother of Adam de Wannerville ('The
Ecclesiologist', vol XXVIII, 1867, p 266).

Robert in turn had at least two daughters, John and Eleanor, living in
1361 (Ga 9229, Nottingham University Library, Dept of MSS and Special
Collections).

It is likely that this Adam died in about 1361, and was the subject of
the IPM of 35 Edward III for that name. Perhaps sight of that IPM
will confirm whether he was the father of Elizabeth Wortley.

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