General Notes

BARONY OF EVERINGHAM (I)

SIR ADAM DE EVERINGHAM, of Laxton, Everingham, &c., son and heir, born 29 August 1279, at Sherburn, and baptised there. Having proved his age before the King, he did homage and had livery of his father's lands, 6 December 1300. He did homage and swore fealty to three successive
Archbishops of York for his lands in Everingham, &c., 4 April 1302, 19 September 1306, and 28 February 1317/8. He was knighted by the Prince of Wales, 22 May 1306, at Westminster. He was summoned for Military Service against the Scots from 16 December 1295 to 22 May 1319 to a Council, May 1324, and to Parliament from 4 March 1308/9 to 16 October 1315 by writs directed Ade de Everingham, whereby he is held to have become LORD EVERINGHAM. He entailed nearly all his estates.

He married, 1stly, before 12 January 1307/8, Clarice. She was living 25 August 1321. He married, 2ndly, before Michaelmas 1326, Margaret, widow of Sir John DEIVILLE, of Egmanton, Notts, and Adlingfleet, co. York, who died 1325-6. She was living in February 1333/4, but died before him. He died shortly before 8 May 1341, aged 61.  [Complete Peerage V:187-8, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Adam de Everingham, in the 31st of Edward I [1303], was in the wars of Scotland, and in three years afterwards was created a knight of the Bath with Prince Edward and other persons of rank when he attended the prince upon the expedition then made into Scotland. After which, in the 2nd of Edward II [1309], he was summoned to parliament as a Baron, and from that period to the 9th inclusive. During those years he was constantly engaged in the wars of Scotland , but afterwards taking up arms with Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, he was made prisoner at the battle of Boroughbridge, and forced to pay a fine of 400 marks to the king to save his life. In the 11th Edward III [1338], his lordship entailed his manor of Lexinton, in Notts, where he principally resided, upon Adam, his eldest son, and so successively in default of male issue upon Robert, Edmund, Alexander, and Nicholas, his younger son. This manor was holden of the archbishop of York, by the service of performing the office of butler in the prelate's house upon the day of his inthronization. Lord Everingham d. in 1341, and was s. by his eldest son, Adam. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 193, Everingham, Barons Everingham]