Gilbert PECHE

of Great Thurlow, Suffolk, Bourn, Eversden, Guilden Morden, Haslingfield, Kingston, Lolworth, Long Stanton, Madingley, Rampton, Swaffham Prior, Wimpole, etc., Cambridgeshire, Birdbrook and Plechedon (in Henham), Essex, Westcliffe, Kent, High Ercall, Shropshire.

NOTE: m. (1) Matilda de Hastings, (2) Joan, dau. of Simon de Creye.Of Westcliff, Kent and Of Gt Thurlow, Suffolk.Peter Stewart translated a core entry in the Barnwell prioryrecords:"'Pater eius uocabatur Hamon Pecche, et vxor eius Eua detransmarinis partibus oriunda. Ex hijs processerunt sex filij, scilicet:Gilbertus primogenitus, Hamon, Hugo, Robertus,Thomas etWillelmus....Pater uero eorum mortuus est in terra sancta...Predictus dominus GilbertusPecche duas habuit vxores: vnam que uocabaturMatildis de Hastings...ethabuerunt filios et filias. Que London defuncta est....Post hecaccepit dictus Gilbertus aliam uxorem filiam domini Symonis de Creye;que uocabatur Johanna. Hanc quidem dilexit et honorauitmultum, eoquod pulcherima esset et bona; de hac quidem genuit filios et filias,et ob amorem matris magis cepit diligere pueros secunde uxorisquam prime....Johannem uero Pecche primogenitum suum et Eadmundumfratrem suum, filios prime uxoris, quasi fere dimisit inanes, nam nescioquospiritu uel consilio ductus, dominum Regem Eadwardum filiumRegis Henrici et Reginam Alianoram de residuo Baronie sue suos fecitheredes.'"(Hisfather was named Hamon Peche, and his [i.e. the father's]wife Eve camefrom overseas. From them came six sons, to wit: Gilbert thefirstborn, Hamon, Hugo, Robert, Thomas and William....Theirfather died in the HolyLand...The aforesaid Gilbert Peche had two wives:one who was named Matilda de Hastings...and they had sons and daughters.She died in London...After this Gilbert married another wife,daughter of the lord Simon de Creye, who was named Joan. Her indeed he lovedand honoured greatly, because she was beautiful and good; from herhe begot sons and daughters, and from love of their mother he preferredthe children of his second wifeover those of the first....JohnPeche his firstborn and Edmund his brother, sons of the first wife, he setaside altogether as if they were nobodies, but whether guided byimpulse or deliberation I don't know; he made the lord King Edward, son ofKing Henry, and Queen Alienor the heirsof the remainder of hisbarony.)"The death of Gilbert is reported in thenarrative, and not asan item in an obituary list, as follows (p 86):"'Anno regni regis Eadwardi .XIXo. obijt dominus GilbertusPecche die Sancti Vrbani pape, scilicet in fine Maij" (In the 19th year ofKing Edwrad's reign the lord Gilbert Peche died on St Urban's day,that is at the end of May).19 Edward I began in November 1290, and St Urban's day was 25May - included in the calendar kept at Barnwell, op cit p 7."So Joan had to wait eight months, until 20 January 1292 as inthe Close Roll, to gain her full property rights, a small enough price topay for her comeliness and the favouritism shown to her children."By his first marriage to Maud de Hastinges, they had two sons:John and Edward, both disinheried by the strategemof giving hisestates to the king and receiving others back in exchange.

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1 SOUR Book - Ronny O Bodine & Brother Thomas W Spalding Jr - 1 PERI The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz - Bodine & Spalding - No 23526, p. 214

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