Sir Adam Chetwynde Knight

  General Notes:

~ The Visitations of Staffordshire, 1614 & 1663/4, p.76, Adam de Chetwynd, father of Johannes de Chewynd, William de Chewynd and Adam de Chetwynd. ⁸⁴⁰

The pedigree given in The Chetwynd Chartulary, p. 266 is given as:

Thurold de Veri, record in 1086 & 1121, Lord of Chetwynd and 12 other manors in Shropshire
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Robert Fitz Turold
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Adam de Chetwynde, living 1180
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Sir John de Chetwynd, recorded in 1221 & 1256
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Sir John de Chetwynd, recorded 1263-1281

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ²⁴⁰
The first record Adam de Chetwynd, first lord of Chetwynd, [Forest Roll. Mt. Gilbert, Eyton, viii. p. 82] appears in 1180 when he was fine three shillings for an encroachment in the King's Forest. In 1 John (1199), the same Adam de Chetwynd and six others who have been jurors in a case of novel disseinsin tried at Shewsbury, were summoned to Westminster to show how that assize terminated. Chetwynd was a night at this time. We know this since at the same time he was summoned to Westminster, he was a visor in a case of "Essogin," which was business that, at that time, was always entrusted to knights. [Abb. Plac. Term Mich. 1 Joh. Rot. So. Eyton, viii. p. 106, 82] Sir Adam died in 1210. He is said to have married Agnes, daughter of John Lord Lovel of Tichmersh and minster-Lovel, Oxon, which is confirmed by the fact that his grandson, Sir John Chetwyn, inherited property at Baxterley in North Warwickshire "from his kinsman John, the son of William Lovell." [Blacstone's Commentaries, Ed. 1791, iii. p. 278]

~The Chetwynds of Ingestre, pp. 8-9

• Background Information. ¹¹³³
Adam de Chetwynd occurs on the Forest-Roll of 1180 as compounding for a pourpresture by payment of three sillings. In June 1200, he occurs as Visor in a case of Essoign, a business always at that time entrusted to knights. At the County Assize of October 1203, Adam de Chetwind essoigned his attendance at the common summons, his Essoign or being Nicholas Crrasset.

~ Eyton's Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. VIII, p. 82

Adam married Agnes Lovel, daughter of William de Lovel and Isabella, in 1194 in Chetwynd, Shropshire, England.²⁴⁰ (Agnes Lovel was born in 1170 in Minster Lovel, Oxfordshire, England.)