Sir Gilbert Pecche Knight

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Gilbert Pecche, son and heir, had order for livery of his inheritance 11 December 1241. He was summoned, August 1260, for the campaign in Wales after the fall of Builth Castle; to be in London 29 October 1261, with all his available force, upon the King's urgent business; and, 25 May 1263 and 6 March 1263/4, for service in Wales. In 1264 Simon de Montfort was acting in alliance with Llewelyn; Gilbert Pecche seems either to have maintained his allegiance or to have returned to it immediately after Evesham, for he obtained a protection on 24 August 1265, and again in 1266. He was summoned again for service in Wales, 1276, 1282 and 1283, and to the Assembly at Shrewsbury, 1283. He was going overseas in 1281. In February 1283/4 he surrendered to the King and Queen Eleanor all his lands held in chief in consideration of an annuity equivalent to the yearly value of such lands.

Gilbert Pecche married, 1stly, Maud de Hastinges. .She died 1264 or 1265. She was probably an older daughter of Henry de Hastinges (grandfather of the first Lord Hastinges of Abergavenny), who, at his death, 1250, left 3 unmarried daughters. In 1254 it was Gilbert Pecche who undertook, to the King's Council, that Ada de Hastinges, sister of Henry de Hastinges, should not marry before the King's return from abroad.

Gilbert Pecche married, 2^ndly, Joan, daughter of Simon de Creye, and widow of Richard de Dover,lord of Chilham, Kent. He died 25 May 1291. His widow was living in 1302.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, pp. 335-356

Gilbert married Maud de Hastings, daughter of Sir Henry Hastings Knight and Ada de Huntingdon.¹⁴¹ (Maud de Hastings was born about 1232 in Ashill, Swaffham, Norfolk, England and died 1264 or 1265 in Corby, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England ¹⁴¹.)