General Notes

SIMON TUCHET, son and heir, was fined 1 m. in Nottinghamshire in 1178. In 1187, when the Honor of Chester was in the King's hands, Simon collected scutage and other moneys due to the Crown therefrom, being for his service excused his own scutage of 60 s. from that Honor. He also answered for the rent of Tackley, co. Oxon., and was custodian of the lands of Robert FitzNeel, a tenant of the Honor in that year. At some time within the years 1188-97 Abbot Nicholas of Burton Abbey confirmed him in the tenure of the Abbey's manor of Willington, co. Derby, which John de Cumbrai had granted to Simon. He witnessed a charter of Richard de Curzon concerning Kedleston, co. Derby, 1198-99, and essoined himself at the Lichfield assizes in 1203. Simon was a benefactor of Darley Abbey. He married Pernel (Pelronilla), probably daughter of Roger de CUMBRAI and coheir of another Roger of that name (b). He appears to have died circa 1203-05. His widow was living in 1218.  [Complete Peerage XII/2:54-5, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(b) This latter Roger, son and heir, d. c 1213-14, when he was a minor.  His heirs were Pernel and Agnes de Cumbrai, whose ancestry is not clear.  It was from the de Cumbrai family that the Tuchets inherited the manor of Lee Gomery, Salop.  The facts that Simon Tuchet m. Pernel, that John de Cumbrai granted him the manor of Willington, co. Derby; that Pernel de Cumbrai was eventually heir of Roger de Cumbrai, and that the Tuchets inherited lands from the de Cumbrai family, suggest that Simon's wife was Pernel de Cumbrai.