Adam 3rd Baron de Welles , Sir 
Adam 3rd Baron de was born on July 22nd, 1304 in Bonthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Adam 3rd Baron de's father was Adam 1st Baron de Welles , Sir and his mother was Joan d' Engaine. His paternal grandparents were Robert de Welle , Escheator of Lindsey and Isabel de Periton; his maternal grandparents were John d' Engaine , of Colne Engaine& Laxton, Sir and Joan de Greinville. He had a brother and a sister, named Robert 2nd Baron de and Joan. He died in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England.General Notes
BARONY OF WELLES (III)
ADAM (DE WELLE), LORD WELLES, brother and heir, was born 22 July 1304 and given seisin of his lands, 22 August 1326. He served on many commissions of the peace, of array, &c., in Lincolnshire, 1332-44, and was summoned for service against the Scots, 1333-40, and in France and Brittany, 1342-43. He was summoned to Parliament from 27 January 1332 to 20 April 1344, by writs directed Ade de Welle. He married, before 1334, Margaret. She died before him and was buried in the Lady Chapel at Greenfield Priory.[a] He died 24-28 February 1344/5, aged 40, and was buried with her. Will dated 24 Feb 1344/5, probated in Lincoln Cathedral, 4 Apr 1345 (c). [Complete Peerage XII/2:440-1, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
[a] Margaret may have been a daughter of Thomas (Bardolf), 2nd Lord Bardolf.
(c) Details in Gibbons, "Early Lincoln Wills", p. 21. "To be buried in the Lady Chapel at Greenfield, which my father built, near my wife, Margaret; my son and heir John; my daughters Joan de Cauntelo and her son Nicholas, Elizabeth la Warre and Margaret Deincourt; my sisters Margaret and Cecilia, nuns of Greenfield; my brother John; my nephews Robert de Malberthrop".
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Adam de Welles, 3rd baron, summoned to parliament from 20 July, 1332, to 20 April, 1343. This nobleman, at the period of his brother's death, was only sixteen years of age: he attained his majority in the 20th Edward II [1327], and doing his homage had livery of his lands. In the 7th Edward III [1334], his lordship was in the wars of Scotland, and again in two years afterwards, at which latter period he was a knight. In the 16th of the same reign [1343] he was charged with ten men-at-arms and ten archers for the king's service in France, and the like number in the next year. He m. Margaret, dau. of John, Lord Bardolf, and dying 1345, left a dau. Margaret, who m. William, son of William, Lord Deincourt, a son, John de Welles, 4th baron. [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.~ 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.~ 1117 in Folkingham, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England
- 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.~ 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.~ 1205 in Ellington, Northamptonshire, England d.BEF 24 FEB 1265/66
- 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
- b.22 Jul 1304 in Bonthorpe, Lincolnshire, England d.BET 24 AND 28 FEB 1344/45 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.< 1177
- b.~ 1170 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.23 Apr 1209
- b.~ 1142 in Yorkshire, England d.>21 May 1196
- b.~ 1200 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.22 Oct 1248 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1125 in Horsford, Norfolk, England d.1174
- b.< 1175 in Horsford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1140 in Poynings, Sussex, England
- b.1232 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.5 JAN 1296/97 in Colne Engaine, Essex, England
- b.~ 1158 in Cubley, Uttoxeter, Derbyshire, England
- b.~ 1184 in Cubley, Uttoxeter, Derbyshire, England
- b.~ 1205 in Cubley, Uttoxeter, Derbyshire, England d.< 1248
- b.~ 1270 in Laxton, Uppingham, Northamptonshire, England d.01 Jun 1315 in Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1210 in Halton, Leicestershire, England
- b.1236 in Halton, Leicestershire, England d.>02 Nov 1305 in Colne Engaine, Essex, England
- b.~ 1215
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Adam 3rd Baron de and Margaret (Eleanor) were married in a religious ceremony before 1334 in Wormegay, Norfolk, England. They had a son and two daughters, named John 4th Baron de Welles, Elizabeth de and Margaret de.
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