General Notes

Father: William MANNING b: 1310 in ,Codham,Kent,England
Mother: Miss CHYRFOLD b: 1315 in ,Codham,Kent,England
Marriage 1 Catherine CHAUCER b: 1345 in ,Codham,Kent,England
Married: 1360 in ,London,Middlesex,England
Children
John MANNING b: 1365 in ,Codham,Kent,England
In 1365/6 he and his wife Katherine conveyed to Robert att
e Wode property in Greenwich which was the inheritance of K
atherine from John Fisher upon the death of Alice, John Fis
her's wife (full text on file). One or both may have been K
atherine's parents.
Simon Manning was a witness to a grant in fee simple date
d 22 Sept 1367. In 1375, Robert atte Wode assigned to Infor
mation copied from Red MacDougall,
Simon Manning certain rents of 5 marks per year.
In 1367, William Newport sued Manning (then described as o
f East Greenwich) for cutting down his trees at Cudham, als
o for an account for the time when Manning had been Newport
's receiver. Robert Atwood, Manning's fellow defendant, app
ears to have been the principal debtor in the case. In 1375
, Newport sued Robert Atwood and Simon Manning, both then o
f East Greenwich, for a debt of 60 pounds each.
He witnessed a deed relating to land in Downe parish in 138
2.
On 13 Nov 1386 Chaucer undertook a plea of debt, Simon Man
ning of Kent being one of the defendants to appear in the c
ourt of Common Pleas on 27 Jan 1386/7.
"Simon Manning, de Codham. Su'pstes 46 Edward 3rd, et 5 Ric
hard 2nd, married Catherina, soror Galfridi Chawcer, militi
s, et Celeberrimi Poetae Anglicani."