Herbert Pecche

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁴
Herbert de Shortecombe died seised of 2 marks rent in Lollingdon at some date prior to 1240, when his nephew and heir Robert de Shortecombe, then a minor, remitted that rent to Bartholomew Peche in exchange for the reversion of land in Sparsholt [Assize R. 37, m. 17 d]. Bartholomew's son and heir Herbert Peche died about 1272 holding the manor of Lollingdon of Robert de Shortecombe in free socage by 1d. yearly [Cal. Inq. p.m. (Hen. III), 285]. The Shortecombe mesne lordship appears to have lapsed very shortly after the death of Herbert Peche, whose son and heir [Ibid] held Lollingdon of the king in chief as one-tenth of a knight's fee [Ibid. 1'9619 Edw. I, 293] He died seised about 1283 [Ibid,] leaving his son, another Bartholomew, a boy of three and a half, as his heir. In 1327 [De Banco R. 270, m. 7] Joan, the widow of Bartholomew Peche, impleaded John Peche concerning an agreement made between them as to the manor of Lollingdon. The younger Bartholomew was knighted and his son John is mentioned in 1349, when the manor of Lollingdon was held for life by Elizabeth Edward, by a certain Joan and by William son of Joan [Feet of F. Berks. 23 Edw. III, no. 50].

~A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume III, 296-302

• Background Information. ¹²¹⁶
After the death of Bartholomew Peche the manor of Whatcombe seems to have passed to Herbert Peche, who was perhaps his son. Herbert died seised of Whatcombe in 1272, leaving a son Bartholomew [Cal. Inq. p.m. (Hen. III), i, 285], but Herbert's widow Lucy held it in dower [Hund. R. (Rec. Com.), i, 10]. Bartholomew predeceased his mother in 1282'963, and his son Bartholomew succeeded on Lucy's death [Cal. Inq. p.m. (Edw. I), ii, 293]. He paid 100s. in 1312 for three years' respite from taking knighthood, but had been knighted before 1316, when he presented to the church of Whatcombe [Cal. Fine R. 1307'9619, p. 156; Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii, 170].

~A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume IV, pp. 174-178

Herbert married Lucy de Edelington.¹²¹⁶ (Lucy de Edelington was born in Edelington, Lincolnshire, England and died after 1283 in Hampshire, England ¹²¹⁶.)