Baron Hamon V de Massey

Baron Hamon V de Massey

• Birth: 1212 in Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England
• Death: after 1278 see below land documents
• Father: Hamon [IV] de Massey b: 1163 in Dunham, Massey, England
• Marriage Alice de Whitney b: ABT 1206 in Bowdon, Cheshire, England

Children

• 1. Robert de Massey b: 1251 in Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England
• 2. Hamon VI de Massey b: ABT 1230 in Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England
• 3. William de Massey b: ABT 1232 in Dunham Massey, Bucklow, Cheshire, England

source:

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db...
• http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/19/37768.htm

Hamon Massey alive to 1278: Most of the lands and churches held by the priory at its dissolution had been part of the Massey fee in the 11th century and probably formed the original 12thcentury endowment. Apart from the Birkenhead site the house held lands in the neighbouring manors of Claughton, Moreton, Tranmere, Higher Bebington, and Saughall; the churches of Bidston and Backford were probably also gifts from the founder. (fn. 8) The interest of the prior in the church of Bowdon, the income from which amounted to nearly half of the revenues of the house in 1535, (fn. 9) was more contentious. Half of the manor was probably held by the house from its foundation and in the early 1270s the prior claimed that a predecessor at the beginning of the 13th century had presented to the church. The legal dispute was settled in favour of the Massey family but in 1278 the fifth Hamon de Massey granted the advowson, together with a small holding of land in Dunham, to the priory; in return he and his ancestors and heirs were admitted to all the benefits of the house. (fn. 10) Evidence concerning other benefactors and endowments is extremely scanty. By an unusual arrangement the house shared the tithes of Wallasey church with Chester abbey; that must have been acquired early as St. Werburgh's was granted its share by William de Waley before 1182. The priory also held land in Wallasey and maintained a chapel, 'Lees Kirk', there. (fn. 11) Some of the priory's lands in Lancashire, which were never very considerable, had been acquired before 1200. At the end of the 12th century the prior and convent leased out part of their holding in Burnden in the manor of Great Lever in Middleton and before 1212 Henry de Walton gave the priory 3 a. at Newsham in Walton. The priory also held land in Melling (in Halsall) but the date of the gift and the donor's identity are unknown. (fn. 12) A known benefactor was Hugh Domville of Oxton and Brimstage who granted the priory a house and land in Oxton early in the reign of Henry III; his grant gave rise to litigation between the priory and the Domville family in 1282 and later the prior and Roger Domville settled the bounds between Claughton and Oxton. (fn. 13) By the 1260s the house had acquired a small rent charge on property in Chester, and in 1271 Edmund earl of Lancaster gave it 15 a. more at Newsham. (fn. 14) The earls of Chester apparently showed no interest in the house apart from exempting the priory from the obligation of housing and feeding the serjeants of the peace and any forest officials other than the itinerant serjeants of the master forester of Wirral and freeing the prior from attendance at hundred courts. (fn. 15) Thus, apart from the initial endowment by the Massey family, all the benefactions and privileges for which evidence survives were insubstantial and the house was to remain small and poor throughout its existence.

Altrincham was made a free borough in the reign of Edward I., ( 1274-1296)by charter of Hamon de Massey, lord of the barony of Dunham-Massey, and the burgesses were empowered to have a guild-merchant, and to choose a præpositus, or bailiff; but the only privilege they now possess is that of electing a mayor at a court leet held in autumn, when a jury of burgesses present three of their own body to the steward, who appoints one to the office, which however is merely nominal, the duty extending........ History of Altrincham.

Links

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