Joyce Bottetort1

F, b. circa 1348, d. 12 August 1420
FatherSir John Botetourt b. c 1317, d. 1386
MotherJoyce le Zouche de Mortimer b. c 1323
     Joyce was born circa 1348 in Birmingham, Staffordshire, England, at Weoley Castle. Joyce married Sir Baldwin Freville circa 1367 in England. Joyce's husband, Baldwin, died on 30 December 1387 in England, leaving her a widow. Joyce married Sir Adam de Peshale III of Weston-under-Lizeard, son of Sir Adam de Peshale II and Joan de Eyton, before 28 May 1389 in England. They were pardoned for getting married without a license. This had been an arranged marriage.2 She and Adam were blessed with 2 children. In 1407, Joyce was co-heiress of her niece, Joyce Botetourt, wife of Hugh Burnell. She inherited the manors of Bobbington, Staffordshire as well as the reversionary interests in the manors of Newport Pagnell & Linford, Buckinghamshire and various other manors in Stafford, Warwick & Worchester. In 1419, she & her husband sold the reversionary interest in Worchester, Stafford & Warwick properties to Joan Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny, for perhaps as much as one thousand marks.3 Joyce's husband, Adam, died on 26 October 1419 in Weston under Lizard, Staffordshire, England, leaving her a widow.4 Joyce departed this life on Saturday, 12 August 1420 in Weston under Lizard, Staffordshire, England.5

Family 1

Sir Baldwin Freville b. c 1351, d. 30 Dec 1387

Family 2

Sir Adam de Peshale III of Weston-under-Lizeard d. 26 Oct 1419
Children

Citations

  1. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, pp. 572.
  2. [S1022] Edited by The William Salt Archeological Society, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume I: Page 355-356 - In 16 Ric. II. (or thereabouts)* a marriage had been arranged between Sir Adam de Peshale, Knight, and Joice the daughter and coheir of Sir John de Bottetort, Knight, of Weoley; and an indenture was then made between Sir John de Clynton, Knight, Lord of Maxtoke, and Sir Ralph de Bracebrugge, Knight, of the one part, and Sir Adam de Peshale, Knight, of the other part, whereby it is agreed that the said Sir Adam will marry the Lady Joice, late wife of Sir Baldwin Frevfll, Knight, and that within a month after their espousals the said Sir Adam will enfeoff certain persons in a hundred marks of land, that is to say, in all his lands and tenements, rents and services, which he has in the towns of Weston, Blumenhull, Meiston and Newton, in the county of Stafford.
  3. [S1021] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, pages 137-138.
  4. [S1022] Edited by The William Salt Archeological Society, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume I: page 356-358 - The inquisition was held at Penkridge, on Dec. 20, 1419. It states that he held no lauds or tenements of the King, in capite, either in demesne or service, in the county of Stafford, on the day of his death. But he held, conjointly with his wife Joice, who is yet surviving, the manor of Bobyngton, with its appurtenances in the aforesaid county, for term of life, the reversion of which belonged to Richard, son of Reginald Mutton, of Salop, and Margaret his wife, the daughter of the said Adnm and Joice, and to the heirs of their bodies. It was held of Humphrey, son and heir of Edmund, late Earl of Stafford, by Knight's service, and is of the annual value of £10. The said Adam also held on the day of his death, for term of life, twenty acres of land and four acres of meadow, with the appurtenances, in Weston and Blumenhull, and a filth part of the manor of Weston under Luseyord, with the appurtenances, and of the advowson of the church of the same manor, and a fifth part of the advowson of the church of Blumenhull by the demission of Sir Fulke de Pembruge, Knight, which same Fulke de Pembruge, by a certain fine levied in the King's Court at Westminster, on the fifteenth day from the day of the Holy Trinity, 4 Hen. IV. (June, 25, 1403), and afterwards recorded there in the octave of St. Michael, 5 Hen. IV. (Oct. 7,1404), acknowledged the same premises to be the right of William Mosse, parson of the church of Langporde, and conceded, for himself and his heirs, that the aforesaid tenements and fifth part of the manor with the appurtenances, and the fifth part of the advowson of the said churches which the aforesaid Adam held for term of life of the inheritance of the said Fulke, in the said vills, on the day on which the concord in the said fine was made, and which, after the death of the said Adam, should revert to the said Fulke and his heirs, should wholly remain after the death of the said Adam, to the aforesaid William, to Robert Say, parson of the church of Eton Hastyng, and Walter Swan, parson of the church of Ayleston, and the heirs of the same William. The aforesaid Robert afterwards died, and the aforesaid William Mosse and Walter Swan levied another fine in the King's Court, at Westminster, on the morrow of the Ascension, in the 5th year of Henry V. (May 20, 1417), recorded in the octave of St. Michael, 7 Hen. V. (Oct. 7, 1419), by which they recognised the aforesaid tenements, fifth part of the manor with the appurtenances, and fifth part of the aforesaid advowsons to be the right of Richard Brond, and conceded for themselves and for the heirs of William, that the aforesaid tenements, &c., which Adam held for term of life, of the inheritance of the said William Mosse on the day in which the concord in the said fine was made, and which after the decease of the same Adam should revert to the said William, Walter and the heirs of William, should wholly remain, after the death of the said Adam, to the said Richard, John Bentley, clerk, John Aston, clerk, William Galley, chaplain, and William Fitzherberde and the heirs of the same Richard. And so the reversion of the same tenements, fifth part, &c., after the death of the aforesaid Adam, belong to the said Richard, John Bentley, &c. Six acres of land and two acres of meadow, with the appurtenances in Bhimenhull, parcel of the said twenty acres of land and four acres of meadow, and the fifth part of the advowson of the church of Blumenhull, are held of the aforesaid heir of the late Earl of Stafford, by Knight's service, and are of the annual value of three shillings and fourpence. And fourteen acres of land and two acres of meadow, with the appurtenances in Weston, the remainder of the said twenty acres of land and four acres of meadow, and the fifth part of the aforesaid manor and advowson of the church of the same manor are held of Sir John Arundel, Knight, Lord of Arundel, by Knight's service, and are of the annual value of forty-three shillings and fourpence. The said Adam held no other lands or tenements of the said King, or of anyone else in the aforesaid county, on the day of his death. The aforesaid Adam died on the Thursday next before the feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude last past (Oct. 26, 1419); and Joan, wife of Sir William Birmyngham, Knight, and Margaret, who had been the wife of Sir Richard Mutton, Knight, are his daughters and heirs. Joan is 28 years of age and more, and Margaret 26 years and more.1.
  5. [S1022] Edited by The William Salt Archeological Society, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume I: page 358 - The inquisition was taken at Stafford on Sept. 6, 1420, and gives the same account of the manor of Bobyngton as that given in the former inquisition. She held no other lands or tenements in the county of Stafford on the day of her death. Her daughter Margaret and her husband Sir Richard Mutton had both predeceased her, leaving issue a son William, to whom the reversion belonged. The said William was eight years of age and more at the date of the inquisition. The heirs*of Joyce were Elizabeth, wife of Thomas de Ferrers, Esq., Margaret, wife of Hugh Willougby, and Robert, son of Joice, late wife of Sir Roger Aston, Knight, the daughters and coheirs of her son Baldwin Frevill; of whom the said Elizabeth was 26 years of age and more, Margaret 20 and Robert 6."