Sir Adam Bostock Knight

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. III, p. 259, Adam de Bostok, lord of Bostok, heir to his mother, recorded 6, 43 Edward III, and 10 Richard II. He fought at the battle of Shrewsbury & Inq. P.M. was 2 Henry V. Adam married Jonet, daughter of Sir Henry de Bradshaw, lord of Bradshaw.

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. II, p. 195, Adam de Bostok, ord of a moiety of Wettenhall, &c., son and heir, choheir to his uncle, richard de Wetenhale, and was age 21 in 43 Edward III. ⁷¹³

  Information about this person:

• Web Reference: Adam III Bostock from Bostock: The Ancient Family & Township.
Adam was eight years old in Febuary 1372 at the time of his father's inquisition. Adam was a ward of Sir William Legh and lived with Randle Legh. Later he was under the wardship of Henry Bradshaw of Bradshaw, Lancashire, who arranged for the marriage of Adam with his daughter Jonet. Children of Adam and his wife were: Henry, who married Alice de Mylton; Margaret, who married as her first husband, Hugh Davenport of Henbury, and as her second husband, Thomas de Staveley; Agnes who married Thomas Brett of Davenham; and Elizabeth who is said to have died unmarried.

• Web Reference: Sir Adam de Bostock from Bostock.net the Bostock Family Genealogy.
Sir Adam was one of Richard II's bodyguards at the battle of Shrewsbury on 21 Jul 1402, for which he was knighted.

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁸¹
Adam, Lord of Bostok, born 15 Aug 1363 and died in 1415. He fought at the battle of Shrewsbury and married Jonet, daughter of Sir Henry de Bradshaw, Lord of Bradshaw.

~ Genealogy of the Bostwick Family in America, p. 32

Adam married Jonet de Bradshaw, daughter of Sir Henry Bradshaw Knight and Unknown ^{713,1081,1082,1083}. (Jonet de Bradshaw was born in Bradshaw, Cheshire, England.)