Joan de Chetwynd

Citations

1. [S103] Clarence E. Pearsall, History of the Pearsall Family, Volume II: Chapter 18 - Richard de Peshall, section 2 - Ancestry of Joan Chetwynd, page 571 - JOAN. This Lady took the great inheritance of the Chetwynds to her husband Richard, son of Adam de Peshale. The Lady Joan must have lived to a great age and after Sir Richard Peshale's death, in 1387, she was married so many times that even the clerk of records became confused. She was married to John Bate and Sir John de Gresley before 1397, as witness the following from the Plea Rolls. Coram Rege 20 Richard II. Derbyshire. It had been presented before the custodians of the King's peace, that Adam Pesale, the son of Joan, the wife of John de Grisele, (Gresley) knight, Nicholas Pesale, the son of the same Joan and John Bate, of Horseley, in co. Stafford, had been indicted for breaking into the house of the said John de Gresley, knight, at Draklowe, and for feloniously taking goods and chattels of the said John, viz., in money, £200, and silver vessels to the value of £200 on the Monday in Easter week, 18 Richard II. and that Nicholas atte Stretehende, the prior of St. Thomas, and Thomas Swyneshed, a fellow monk of the said prior had aided and abetted them in the felony, and the King for certain causes had commanded the said indictment to be heard in this Court. And Nicholas atte Stretehende and the said Thomas surrendered at this term. [Ibid. vol. 16, page 31.]
   And because the said Adam and Nicholas Pesale and John who had been indicted as principals had been outlawed, the said Nicholas atte Stretehende and Thomas were put on their trial and pleaded not guilty and appealed to a jury, and the Sheriff was ordered to summon a jury for the Octaves of St. Martin, and the said Nicholas and Thomas were released on bail. A postscript shows that the suit was transferred by writ of nisi pries to be heard at Cronsale in co. Stafford before Hugh Huls the Justice with whom was associated Robert Mauvesyne, chivaler, when a jury returned that the defendants were not guilty. m. 17, Rex. [Staff. Hist. Col. vol. 16, page 31.]uld seem likely to be the record
   The records disclose also the following other marriages of Joan Chetwynd :1. Sir Richard de Peshall. 2. To William. Lippe in 1399. 3. To Robert de Heywode in 1404. 4. To Robert Tiptoft in 1409-10, making together with her marriage to John Bate and Sir John de Bresley, six marriages, which would likely to be the record for marital ventures by any lady.
2. [S1018] Edited by The William Salt Archeological Society, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, Volume II: page 103 - John de Chetewynde, chivaler, of the manors of Weston near Assheleye and Chetewynde, by virtue of which a settlement was made upon his granddaughter Joan and her husband Richard son of Adam de Peshale.' The last mentioned Richard was undoubtedly the Sheriff of 1374 to 1376, son of Adam de Peshale Sheriff in 1341, and elder brother of Adam de Peshale Sheriff in 1398 and 1418.