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Birth:          22 Jul 1304 Bonthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          Feb 1345 Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England

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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]


Parents
DE WELLES Adam (ABT 1260 - 1 Sep 1311)
D'ENGAINE Joan (Margaret) (ABT 1270 - 1 Jun 1315)

Siblings
DE WELLES Adam (22 Jul 1304 - Feb 1345)

Marriage To BARDOLPH Margaret (Eleanor) (ABT 1314 - BEF Feb 1345)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
BARDOLF Thomas (4 Oct 1282 - 15 Dec 1328)
DE GRANDSON (GRANDISON) Agnes (ABT 1285 - 11 Dec 1357)

Children by BARDOLPH Margaret (Eleanor) ABT 1314 - BEF Feb 1345
DE WELLES John (23 Aug 1334 - 11 Oct 1361)

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