Adam 1st Baron de Welles , Sir 
Adam 1st Baron de was born in 1260 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. Adam 1st Baron de's father was Robert de Welle , Escheator of Lindsey and his mother was Isabel de Periton. His paternal grandparents were William de Welle and Emma de Grainsby; his maternal grandparents were Adam de Periton and Sarah. He had two brothers named Philip de and William de. He was the youngest of the three children. He died at the age of 51 on September 1st, 1311 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England.General Notes
BARONY OF WELLES (I)
ADAM DE WELLE, brother and heir, was sued concerning the new market at Alford in Michaelmas term 1290. He accompanied Hugh le Despenser on his mission to the King of the Romans, June 1294; was appointed, 1 March 1296/7, to receive clergy in Lincolnshire into the King's peace; was summoned for service beyond seas, 1297, and continually against the Scots, 1299-1310; fought in the King's division at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298; Constable of Rockingham Castle and Keeper of the forest between Stamford and Oxford, 17 January 1298/9-August 107. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 February 1298/9 to 16 June 1311, by writs directed Ade de Welles, whereby he is held to have become LORD WELLES or WELLE. He was at the siege of Carlaverock, July 1300; joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1; was granted free warren in his demesne lands, 28 January 1301/2; served again in Scotland, 1303-04 and 1310; was summoned to attend the Coronation of Edward II, 18 January 1307/8; a Commissioner de walliis et fossatis, co. Lincoln, 18 July 1310. He married, in or before 1296, Joan, widow of Walter FITZROBERT (died 1293; 1st son and heir apparent of Robert (FITZWALTER), 1st LORD FITZWALTER), 1st daughter of Sir John ENGAINE, of Laxton and Blatherwycke, Northants, by Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Gilbert DE GREINVILLE, of Hallaton, co. Leicester. He died 1 September 1311 and was buried in Greenfield Priory. Joan died 1 June 1315 and was buried with him. [Complete Peerage XII/2:439-40, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Adam de Welles, who in the 22nd Edward I [1294] was in the wars of Gascony, and was summoned to parliament, as a Baron, 6 February, 1299, in which year he was made constable of Rockingham Castle and warden of the forest. The next year he was in the wars of Scotland, and again in 1301 and 1302, and had regular summonses to parliament to the year of his decease, 1311. He m. Joane, dau. and heir of John d'Engayne, and had a son, Robert de Welles. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 572, Welles, Barons Welles]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1087 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1118
- b.~ 1116 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.< 1198 in Claxby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1150 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.<Oct 1206 in Haughley, Stow, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1080 in Fordington, Lincolnshire, England d.1139
- b.~ 1117 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1090 in Brittany, France
- b.~ 1187 in Haughley, Stow, Suffolk, England d.BET 1241 AND 1242 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1165 in Lincolnshire, England d.> 1206
- b.~ 1226 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.<24 Sep 1265 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1087 in Grainsby, Lincolnshire, England d.< 1166
- b.~ 1117 in Grainsby, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1150
- b.~ 1147 in Grainsby, Lincolnshire, England d.< 1207
- b.~ 1190 in Grainsby, Lincolnshire, England d.>30 Sep 1226
- b.1260 in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England d.01 Sep 1311 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1146 in Purton, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1175 in Ellington, Northamptonshire, England d.1227
- b.~ 1145 in Oxhill, Warwickshire, England d.< 1219
- b.~ 1115 in Oxhill, Warwickshire, England d.1211
- b.~ 1205 in Ellington, Northamptonshire, England d.BEF 24 FEB 1265/66
- b.~ 1115 in Bayworth, Berkshire, England d.< 1175
- b.~ 1145 in Bayworth, Berkshire, England d.1217
- b.~ 1175 in Bayworth, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1235 in Faxton, Northamptonshire, England d.BEF 5 JAN 1314/15 in Malton Priory, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1205 in Northamptonshire, England
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Adam 1st Baron de and Joan d' were married in a religious ceremony before 1296 in 2nd husband. They had two sons and a daughter, named Adam 3rd Baron de, Robert 2nd Baron de and Joan.
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Children
Adam 3rd Baron de Welles , Sir
Adam 3rd Baron de was born on July 22nd, 1304 in Bonthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He died in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England.
Robert 2nd Baron de Welles , Sir
Robert 2nd Baron de was born in Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. He died before August 29th, 1320 in (dsp).
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