General Notes

TYEYS

Observations.-The origin of this family is obscure. Henry Tyeys, who held Great Moulton, Norfolk, at the time of his death, is mentioned as dead in 1212, and another man of the same name was granted the
manor of South Mimms, Middlesex, in 1216. On 9 August in that year Henry Tyeys and others were granted protection for themselves and their followers, and he may have been one of King John's mercenary captains.

HENRY TYEYS in 1221 was granted lands in Tywarnhaile, Cornwall, to sustain him in the King's service, and he probably acquired lands in Devon at the same time, for in 1223 the sheriff of that co. was ordered to seize Henry's lands. In 1224 he was given 10 marks to help him to buy a horse; and the appearance of his name among those who were granted writs of protection in March 1225, for going to Gascony with Richard of Cornwall, marks the beginning of a close association of this family with the Earls of Cornwall. In 1230 he was given the manor of Grendon Underwood, Bucks, in lieu of the fee of £10 per annum which he was receiving from the Crown; and more royal gifts were made to him in 1234 and 1240. The name of his wife (d) and the date of his death are not known (e). [Complete Peerage XII/2:100-1, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(d) She may have been called Isabel, for in 1221, Henry le Tyeis and Isabel his wife appear in a lawsuit in London.

(e) Probably he d. long before 1276, when his son Henry held the family lands. On 26 Jan 1272/3 Gunnor, widow of a Henry Tyeys, was granted the arrears of her husband's wages for the time when he had been in the late King's service. This Henry is, however, probably the man who appears in the years 1256-61 as the maker of the King's cross-bows, receiving a wage of 4 1/2 pence daily. A Henry le Tyeis appears in 1241 as a messenger from Otto, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, and a man of the same name paid 1/2 mark fine in 1250.