John de Pabenham

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁰
John Pabenham held a knight's fee in Bedfordshire in 1201 - 12, [Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), i, 136] and John Pabenham, a descendant, died seised in 1269 of this manor, then consisting of one messuage, 7 virgates, 21 acres of meadow, a fishery, 12s. 11½d. rent and common of pasture, held for half a knight's fee. [Chan. Inq. p.m. 53 Hen. III, no. 5] He left a son John, of full age at the time of his father's death, who held this manor till his own death in 1322, when his son John succeeded. [Feud. Aids, i, 11, 17; Chan. Inq. p.m. 15 Edw. II, no. 27] Pavenham Manor is mentioned as part of the possessions of John Pabenham on his decease in 1330, [Chan. Inq. p.m. 5 Edw. III (1st nos.), no. 73] and in 1340 his son John alienated it to his uncle Thomas Pabenham, [Feet of F. Beds. Mich. 14 Edw. III] whose death took place in 1345, [Chan. Inq. p.m. 19 Edw. III (1st nos.), no. 58] in which year William Croyser (who held another manor in Pavenham) received the guardianship of this estate. [Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 180] An inquisition taken the following year on the possessions of his mother Elizabeth Pabenham sets out in detail the alienation by John Pabenham to Thomas, and expressly states that, after the surrender to Thomas, Elizabeth had no further interest in the manor. [Chan. Inq. p.m. 20 Edw. III (2nd nos.), no. 4]

Thomas left a son Laurence, who was under age, as a guardian was appointed, and who survived his father until 1399. [Ibid. 22 Ric. II, no. 37] Laurence made a settlement during his lifetime of the manor on his son Laurence and his wife Joan; the former died before his father without heirs, but his widow Joan, afterwards wife of John Waleys, held the manor till her death in 1414. [Ibid. 9 Hen. V, no. 3] Laurence Pabenham, senior, left as heir a son John, who died without issue some time previous to Joan Waleys, so that at her death Pavenham Manor reverted to Eleanor wife of John Tyringham and Katherine wife of Thomas Aylesbury as daughters and co-heirs of Laurence. [Ibid. 9 Hen. V, no. 3] The descent of that moiety of Pavenham Manor which passed to Katherine Pabenham, and later became known as Cheneys Manor. Katherine married Thomas de Aylesbury, and on his death William Cheyne, by whom she had a son Laurence Cheyne. [Harl. Soc. Publ. xli, 118]

~ A History of the County of Bedford, Volume III. pp. 76-80

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From: alden@mindspring.com (Doug Smith)
Subject: Re: Margery Pecche or Clifford, wife of Nicholas de Criol
Date: 27 Apr 2002 16:39:31 -0700

17. Elizabeth⁶ CRIOL (Nicholas5, Bertram de4, John de3, Bertram de2, Robert de1), born bef 1273; died 1345. She married in 1313 John PABENHAM, born bef 1269 in Pabenham, Cambridgeshire; died 1331, son of John de PABENHAM and nn de MORIN.

Children of Elizabeth CRIOL and John PABENHAM were as follows:
+27i Thoma^s7 PABENHAM.
28ii Margaret⁷ PABENHAM.
29iii Elizabeth de⁷ PABENHAM nun at Shaftesbury.

27. Thomas⁷ PABENHAM (Elizabeth⁶ CRIOL, Nicholas⁵, Bertram de⁴, John de³, Bertram de², Robert de¹), born abt 1313 in Pabenham, Cambridgeshire; died 26 Aug 1344. He married abt 1333 Alice d'UFFORD, born abt 1310, daughter of Sir Robert de UFFORD , Baron Ufford and Cecily de VALOINES.

Children of Thomas PABENHAM and Alice d' UFFORD were as follows:
+41i Sir Lawrence de⁸ PABENHAM

41. Sir Lawrence de⁸ PABENHAM (Thomas⁷, Elizabeth⁶ CRIOL, Nicholas⁵, Bertram de⁴, John de³, Bertram de², Robert de1), born abt 1335 in Pabenham, Cambridgeshire; died 18 Jun 1399. He married abt 1360 Elizabeth d' ENGAINE, born 1342 in Cambridgeshire; died abt 1387, daughter of John III d' ENGAINE and Joan PEVEREL.

Children of Sir Lawrence de PABENHAM and Elizabeth d' ENGAINE were as follows:
+57i Katharine⁹ PABENHAM.
+58ii Alianor⁹ PABENHAM

John married Lady de Morin ¹⁹³.