Adam de Hartley

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Hartley Family of England.
Early records indicate that the surname Hartley is pre-Norman [ie Germanic Anglo-Saxon] as it appears after the Norman conquest of 1066, from the place-names already in existence before the Normans settled.

Adam de Hartley b.c.1188 of Hartley Manor in Dorset was married to Cecilia b.c.1192, m.c. 1217 at Great Minterne, Dorset. They had a third daughter named Claricia b.c.1223.

Their children were:

[1] Robert b.c.1218 d.1244
[2] Isabella b.c.1220 who m. William St. Leodger
[3] Claricia b.c.1223 who m.c. 1245 Jean de la Lynde; d.after 1283
[4] Christiana b.c.1223 who m. William Tilly
[5] Agnes b.c.1227
[6] Isolda b.c.1230
[7] Johanna b.c.1232

Adam's son, [1] Robert Hartley b.c.1218, inherited the Manor in 1244 but died shortly after. Robert's six sisters then inherited, but three sold their shares to Claricia.

[3] Claricia Hartley b.c.1223 married Jean de la Lynde b.c.1215 Winterborn, Clenstone, Dorestshire, England; m.c.1245 Winterborn, Clenstone, Dorestshire, England; later knighted; famous for negotiating the execution of the Treaty of Paris 1259 between King Richard III of England and King Louis IX of France, a Treaty that gave former Norseland, Normany, back to the French.

Their children were:

Sir Walter de la Lynde b:1248 in Winterborn, Clenstone, Dorsetshire m.Joan [Isabel] de Nevill
Geoffrey De la Lynde b:abt.1250 in Winterborn, Clenstone, Dorsetshire [his son was named William de Hartley, possibly after his mother's surname]
Alexander De la Lynde b: ABT 1252 in Winterborn, Clenstone, Dorsetshire

Claricia d.after 1283

Adam married Cecilia.