Adam Staveley

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, Ranulf Fitz Henry, of Ravensworth married Alice de Staveley, daughter of Adam de Staveley. They were the parents of Agatha of Ravensworth who married Sir Michael le Fleming the third. ¹⁶⁰

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Adam de Staveley and his wife Alice, daughter of William de Percy, of Kildale, were the parents of Alice de Staveley who married Randolf Fitz Henry.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. V, (Fitz Henry), p. 416, footnote (d)

• Background Information. ¹⁰⁶⁸
Thomas son of Swain de Staveley gave land in Airton, retaining the lordship of the vill, late twelfth century. Thomas son of Swain and Adam his son witnessed a Threshfield charter, and with Elias son of Swain and Acaris his son an Arncliffe charter, 1182-c. 1200. Adam de Staveley gave to Bolton priory land in Calton; he confirmed to Fountains abbey all lands held of his fee in Ilton, Swinton, and Warthermarske (in Swinton); and was named with other free tenants, including Simon de Hebden, of count Alan at the Domesday survey by Gospatric, a manor having been previously held there by Archil.

Adam de Staveley gave to St. Clement's priory, York, 2 bovates in Horton in Ribblesdale, which were attached to the church later given to the priory by this daughter Alice in her widowhood; and it was there, as noted above, that Swain son of Dolfin gave a carucate to Jervaulx abbey. In an Assize roll of 1203-4 it is recorded that William de Mowbray and Adam de Staveley made an agreement by which the latter acknowledged to the former all his forest of Lonsdale, receiving several facilities, Adam's men of Ingleton and High and Low Bentham being mentioned, but his claim to gallows in Sedbergh being disallowed. His interest there is shown in his charter to Fountains abbey, addressed to his bailiffs of Lonsdale, by which he granted free transit for the monks' cattle through his land of Lonsdale. He held land of the honour of Knaresborough in Farnham, where in 1211 he held a quarter of a knight's fee together with a knight's fee in Staveley, 3 carucates in Farnham having been confirmed by king John in 1204 to Adam son of Thomas de Staveley for a quarter of a knight's fee.

Adam de Staveley witnessed several charters late in the twelfth and early in the thirteenth century, including two issued by William de Stuteville, who held Knaresborough in 1191-1194 and c. 1201-1203. He married Alice daughter of William de Percy of Kildale, who brought Barwick-on-Tees in frank-marriage, and in 1211 he owed 100 marks and 2 palfreys for a license for the marriage of his daughter with the son and heir of Henry son of Hervy, the heir being Ranulf son of Henry, mentioned above. In as assize held in 1218-19, after Adams's death, Hugh de Maunby complained that Ranulf and Alice his wife and others had disseised him of a tenement in Thoresby, but his case was unsuccessful as although Adam had given the tenement to him on his deathbed there had been no seisin. In 1218-35 Alice and her husband were parties to several final concords, illustrating her inheritance including land in Thoresby, Carperby, Bentham, Barwick-on-Tees, Farnham, Horton in Ribblesdale, Ilton, and Dent. In 1235 they had a quitclaim of all the lands of Thomas son of Swain and Adam de Staveley in Yorkshire. Alice died in 1250-53, when her inheritance passed to her descendants, the family of Fitzhugh of Ravensworth which continued in the male line to early in the sixteenth century."

~ Early Yorkshire Families, pp. 87-90 taken from The First Staveleys

Adam married Alice de Percy, daughter of William de Percy and Agnes de Flamville.¹⁰⁶⁸