1444 William Stokes was rector of Staveley; patron, the King, as guardian of Peter Frecheville, then under age. [1]
1447 [27 Hen VI] Peter achieved age 21. "Frechevile, Peter, son and heir of the late Gervase. Proof of age: Derbyshire" [2]
1449 May 17. Westminster. To the escheator in Derbyshire. Order to take the fealty of Peter Frecheville, son and heir of Gervase Frecheville, and to give him seisin of his father's lands; as he has proved his age before the escheator, and for half a mark paid in the hanaper the king has respited his homage until the feast of Allhallows next. [3]
1475 Petrus de Freschevile [Peter Frecheville], Dominus [Lord] of Staveley, devised part of his lands to Raphe and Nicolas, two of his sons, for their lives, by his last will and testament, dated 16 Edw IV, 1475. [4]
1479 "Grant from John Wodde of Staveley to Peter Frecchevile [Frecheville], lord of Staveley, esq., of a tenement in Staveley, near Lanewell, between Potterlane and the lands of the said Peter, which tenement he had acquired from Johanna Innocent, widow. Witn. John Both of Staveley, Richard Whitehed of the same, John Aleyn of the same, etc. Dat. at Staveley, i May, 19 Edw. IV. [1479]. (Add. 40149.)" [5]
1481 "Grant from Thomas Pereson, son and heir of John Pereson, late of Hanley, to Peter Fretchevyle [Frecheville], esq., of a toft and croft named Bramley, in Ekyngton. Witn. Joh. Both of Staveley, Rog. Tumour of the same, Rob. Rogger of Hanley. Dat. at Handley, 16 Feb., 20 Edw. IV. [1481]. (Add. 40, 156.)" [6]
1482-89 Matilda, wife of Peter Frecheville [Frecheville] died. "Obitus Matilde Frechwylle [Frecheville], quond. ux. Petri Frechwylle, Armigeri, que obift x11 [die] Sept. Anno D'ni Mill'mo CCCC lxxxix. l'ra dominical. D. cujas aie propicietur Deus. Amem. Thornton fixes her death to the year 1482, p 43." [7] [8]
1488 "Re-grant from Sir Thos. Wortteley, knt., Nicholas Gausell, John Sanford, esqs., Nicholas Worrteley, brother of Sir Thomas, Nicholas Serleby, jun., Roger Eyre, jun., and John Skyres, gentilmen, and Richard Witehed, chaplain, to Nicholas Fretchevyle [Frecheville], son of Peter Fretchvyle [Frecheville], of Staveley, of houses and lands in Staveley and Chestrefeld, Hannesworth Wodhouse, and Hertell [co. York.], (held by them as feoffees of said Peter), with remainder (i) to Ralph Fretchevyle [Frecheville], brother of the said Nicholas; (2) to Anker his brother; (3) to John, elder brother of the said Nicholas, Ralph, and Anker; and (4) to be sold and disposed of for the souls of the said Peter and his family. With power of attorney to John Bothe of Staveley, sen., and Richard Whitehede of the same, to give seisin. Witn. Thomas Hellgate of Chestrefeld, John Rodes of Nederthorp, Thomas Robyn of the same, etc. Dat. 19 May, 3 Hen. VII. [1488]. (Add. 40151.)" [9]
1489 "Re-grant from the same to Ralph Fretchevyle [Frecheville], son of Peter Fretchvyle [Frecheville] of Staveley, arm., of houses and lands in Staveley, Hyncersell, and West Handeley, and " molendinum falcatum vocatum a sythe mylne," near Holbroke (held by them as feoffees of the said Peter), with remainder (i) to Nicholas his brother; (2) to Anker his brother; (3) to John, elder brother of said Ralph, Nicholas, and Anker; (4) to be sold and disposed of for the souls of said Peter and his family. With power of attorney as above. Witn. Thomas Hellgate of Chestrefeld, Thomas Robyn of Nederthorp, Rogerus Tumour of Staveley, Richard Wryght, rector of Staveley, etc. Dat. 2 Jan., 4 Hen. VII, [1489]. (Add. 40152)" [10]
1493 "An acquittance from Thomas, the Abbott of Welbecke, to Peter Freschevile [Frecheville], Esq. of 6l. being a yeares rent for a farme in Dugmanton, 9 Hen. VII, 1493". [11]
1494 Richard Frecheville was rector of Staveley; patron, Peter Frecheville. [12]
1500 "Peter Frechevile, Esq. enfeoffed Thomas Wortley, knight, Rafe Frechevile, of Darley, gent. and Anker Frechevile, of Hanley, gent. (and others) in divers landes in Hyncursel, neare Staveley, to the use of Perys his bastard Sonne: and he wills that Anker his sonne shall have the governance of ye sayd Perys his bastard sonne. If his bastard son dy, the landes to remayne to Rafe Frechevile, his son, &c. Dat. a0 13 Hen VII." [13]
1503 Peter Frecheville died. [14] "Frecheville Evidences fixes it to 19 Hen VII, 1503 as does the Visitation of 1611, and his tomb at Staveley (25 March 1503)[15]. However, it is set as 27 Hen VI, 1448 in MS. Harl. 1537, f.57" in Ex Cartulis orig. penes Joh. Freschevile de Staveley, 1645, among Holles's Collectan. MS Lansd 207 f. p 141 [16]
1503 June 22. "License of entry without proof of age for John Frechevyle [Frecheville], son and heir of Peter Frechevyle, esquire, deceased." [17]
Research Notes:
The 1569 visitation of Derbyshire reported Peter Frechevill of Staveley, Kt. ob. 19 H. 7., married to Mawld, da. of Thomas Wortley. [18]
A Frecheville pedigree named Peter Frecheville's wife as Matilda, daughter of Thomas Wortley, without providing any documentation. [19] She is named Maude on an effigy on their tomb. [20]
Maude Wortley, daughter of Nicholas Wortley and Elizabeth Waterton was named as married to Peter Frecheville in a Wortley pedigree. [21] This pedigree shows no man named Thomas Wortley who lived in the right era to be the father of Maude Wortley. The subsequent generation, through son Nicholas Wortley, married to Isabel Tustall, names a daughter Muriel Wortley married to Peter Frecheville.
We do not know which ancestry is correct. We have shown the ancestry from the Wortley pedigree at this website. We seek further documentation about the ancestry of the wife of Peter Frecheville.
[1] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [GoogleBooks].
[2] The National Archives of the United Kingdom Catalog, Reference C 139/136/53, [UKNationalArchives].
[3] C.T. Flower, ed., Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI, Vol. 5, 1447-1454 (London: HMSO, 1941, reprinted 1971), 87, [FHLBook].
[4] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 201, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire", [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[5] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 286, Item 2257, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[6] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 139, Item 1128, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[7] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 201, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire", [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[8] Robert Thoroton, History of Nottinghamshire: Republished with Large Additions by John Throsby, Vol. 1 (London: 1797), 86, pedigree reports death year as 1482, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[9] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 286, Item 2259, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] Isaac Herbert Jeayes for Sir Henry Howe Bemrose, Descriptive catalogue of Derbyshire charters in public and private libraries and muniment rooms (London: Bemrose & Sons, 1906), 286, Item 2260, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[11] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 201, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire", [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[12] J Charles Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 4, "the Hundred of Morleston and Litchurch" (1879), 478, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 205, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire", citing Ex Cartulis orig. penes Joh. Freschevile de Staveley, 1645, among Holles's Collectan. MS Lansd 207 f. p 141, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[14] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 201, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[15] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 1 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1834), 38, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[16] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 201, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire", [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[17] Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Henry VII, Vol. 2, 1494-1509, (London, HMSO, 1916), 319, [HathiTrust].
[18] Sir William Dugdale, Derbyshire visitation pedigrees, 1569 and 1611 (London: 1895), 40, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[19] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 3, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire,", [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[20] Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, Vol. 4 (London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1837), 202, F. Madden, "Pedigree of the Frecheville and Musard Families, Lords of Crich and Staveley, in Derbyshire", [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[21] Joseph Foster. Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding (London: 1874), Wortley, [InternetArchive].