Peter "le Clerc" de Thornton

Piers le Clerc

Piers le Clerc, was granted Thornton-le-Moors, which was confirmed by Sir John de Arderne, in a charter attested by Philip de Orreby, Justice of Chester; Roger de Montalt, and others, after the succession of Sir John de Arderne's to the Lordship of Aldford, by grant of Randle de Blundeville, Earl of Chester. Peter was the secretary to this Earl of Chester.

It is stated by Collins, on the authority of the Egerton Pedigree, that Peter was the younger son of David le Clerc, lord of the moiety of the Barony of Malpas. The same decent is frequently given among the Cheshire pedigrees, and in the copy of Booth's Pedigrees, a reference, for confirmation of this fact, is expressly made to an original charter then in the possession of the writer and numbered XXXIII in his collections.

Randle, sixth Earl of Chester, by deed without date, granted to this Peter a boat, and the right of fishing on the Dee from Chester to Eaton; and by another deed, missing the date, granted to Peter, an acquittance from attendance on the court of the shires of hundred and pleas of the forests, from puture of serjeants of the peace, and payment of pannage in the earl's forest. [Harl. MSS. 2131, p. 34] Peter the Clerk has a son and heir, Randle; and a daughter named Agnes, who married William de Blore.

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, p. 15 • Background Information. 924 Sometimes during the reign of King John, Thornton part of the fee of Aldford. Richard de Aldford comfirmed a grant of Thornton to Peter le Clerc, the Secretary of the Earl of Chester. Collin, on the authority of the Egerton Pedigree, states that Peter le Clerc was a younger son of David le Clerc, lord of the moiety of the Barony of Malpas. Peter le Cleric's son, Randle assumed the name le Roter, and was the godson of Randle, Earl of Chester. Peter le Cleric is sometimes called Peter de Thornton, from the place of his residence.

~Notitia Cestriensis: Or Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester, p. 146 footnote 2.

Sources: 1.Author: George Ormerod, Esq. LL.D. F.R.S. & F.S.A. Title: History of the County Palatine and City of Chester Publication: Name: 1882; Note: Source Medium: Book

Full Title Page Text: History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities. By George Ormerod, Esq., LL.D. F.R.S. & F.S.A. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, by Thomas Helsby, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. "EXIMIA NOBILITATIS ALTRIX; NEC ENIM ALIA EST IN ANGLIA PROVINCIA, QUAE PLURES NOBILES IN ACIEM EDUXERIT, ET PLURES EQUESTRES FAMILIAS NUMERARIT." CAMDEN. In Three Volumes.

Page: vol. II, pp. 14 - 17 & 598 Text: Peter Le Clerc. Son of David de Malpas; lord of Thorneton; secretary of Randle de Blundeville, earl of Chester. Ancestor of the Roters of Thornton le Moor.

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• Ormerod's "barons of Malpas" pedigree