Person:James Echingham (1)

Sir James Etchingham
b.Abt 1310
d.22 Aug 1349
Facts and Events
Name[1][3] Sir James Etchingham
Gender Male
Birth[2] Abt 1310
Marriage to Joan _____
Property[5] Abt 1332 manor of Glettyngham, Sussex; manor of Hempstede; lands in Lyde, Promhelle, Holewest, and Demecherche in Kent
Property[4] Padbury, Buckinghamshire, Englandmanor
Death[1] 22 Aug 1349
Reference Number Q76220869 (Wikidata)
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Saul, Nigel. Scenes from provincial life : knightly families in Sussex, 1280-1400. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986)
    Page 5 fn.23.

    "He died, according to the inquisition post mortem, on 22 Aug. 1349 (CIPM ix, no. 601) and not in 1350 as the VCH says (VCH Sussex, ix. 212). His son was said to be aged '16 and more.'

  2. Saul, Nigel. Scenes from provincial life : knightly families in Sussex, 1280-1400. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986)
    Page 170.

    Saul states that James could have scarcely have been out of his teens in 1331.

  3. Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-)
    Volume 9, page 212.

    "Sir James was holding 5 fees of the Earl of Richmond in 1342, but on his death in August 1350 Etchingham was said to be held as 3 fees."

  4. Page, William. The Victoria history of the county of Buckingham. (London: A. Constable, 1905-1968)
    Volume 4, page 211.
  5. 'Sussex Fines: 1-5 Edward III', in Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916)
    no. 1788.

    5 Edward III.
    1788. John de Ore v. James de Echyngham and Joan his wife (by Ralph le Speek, guardian of Joan); manor of Glettyngham in Sussex, manor of Hempstede and a messuage, 103 acres of land, 38s. 8d. rent and rent of 12 larks and 20 herrings in Lyde, Promhelle, Holewest and Demecherche in Kent; to James and Joan and heirs of their bodies, with contingent remainder to heirs of James, for 100 marks. (D.C.: File 36. No. 100.)

  6.   'Sussex Fines: 21-25 Edward III', in Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, and Louis Francis Salzman. An abstract of feet of fines relating to the county of Sussex. (Lewes, England: Sussex Record Society, 1903, 1908, 1916)
    no. 2076.

    22 Edward III.
    2076. John son of (Sir) Thomas Colepeper, Knight, v. Simon de Hechynghamme and Alice his wife; manor of Wyggeselle and 4 messuages, 400 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 300 acres of wood, 60s. rent in Salherst, Westefelde, Pesemersshe and Setlescombe; the premises, including homage and services of the Master of the Hospital of St. Bartholomew of la Rye and his successors, James de Echynghamme, Knight, John Cressy, John Alard and Simon Brabon and their heirs, to John for 200 marks. (File 62. No. 30.)

  7.   15 Richard II Membrane 38, in Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the close rolls preserved in the Public Record Office : Richard II. (London: H.M.S.O., 1914-)
    Volume 4, page 383.