Edmund Talbot

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹³⁴
Sir Edmund Talbot, Knight of Bashall was born about 1260, and he succeeded his father to the family estates. In 31 Edward I (1303), he served in the great expedition against Scotland for which he received, 25 Jul 1304, the grant of free warren in Bashall and Hapton [Vist. Yorks. 1666, p. 238; Charter Rolls 32 Edw I, no. 31, History of Whalley, Vol. II, p. 497] In 1306, he received the honor of knighthood by bathing and other ceremonies along with Prince Edward, later to be King Edward II [Vist. Yorks. p.243, note n.]. His name and arms appear on a roll of the time of Edward I as "Sire Edmund Talbot, de argent, 111 lioncels de pourpre." On 22 Oct 1309, he was summoned for service against the Scots [Rot. Scotiæ, I, 78]. He was a witness to a deed dated the day before the feast of St. Margaret the Virgin, 19 Jul 1210 [Coucher book of Wahlley, Chetham Soc. Vol. XVI, p. 925]. He died soon after, as in 4 Edward II (1311), his widow, Joane is recorded as holding as a dower, two carucates of land in Rishton. [Baine, History of Lancashire, 1870, Vol. II p. 84]

His wife was Joane Holand, who was born about 1285. She was the sister of Sir Robert Holand, Knight and first Baron of Holand. She married a second time in abt 1312, to Sir Hugh Dutton, Knight who died in 1326. For her third husband, she married Sir John Radclyffe, Knight of Ordsall, holding with him in rishton in 1349, one carucate of land as dower from her first husband, Sir Edmond Talbot, Knight.

The known sons of Edmund and Joanne were John, eldest son and heir of Bashall. He died soon after his father without issue. Thomas, b. abt 1307, heir to his brother and Richard.

~Lineage of the Talbot Family, pp. 13-14

Edmund married Joanna de Holand, daughter of Sir Robert de Holand Knight and Elizabeth de Samlesbury. ⁹³⁴(Joanna de Holand was born about 1285 and died after 1347.)