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Birth:          ABT 1370 Stinton, Norfolk, England
Death:          1424 Fressingfield, Suffolk, England
Burial:         Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk, England

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SIR ROBERT BREWES, of Stinton, Akenham, &C., son and heir. He married Ela, 
daughter of Sir Miles STAPLETON, of Bedale, co. York, and Ingham, Norfolk by Ela, 
daughter of Sir Edmund D'UFFORD le cosyn. He died in 1424. Admon 30 September 
1424 to his widow. Her will was dated 16 October 1456. They were buried in 
Woodbridge Priory. [Complete Peerage II:306, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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STINTON,

The ancient family of Le Rus or Rufus, was enfeoft of this soon after the reign of the 
Conqueror: King Stephen, when Earl of Morton, granted to Ernald Rufus, son of 
Roger, the whole manor of Stradbroke in Suffolk, part of the honour of Eye, with the 
soke and advowson of the church, &c. and King John confirmed the said grant to 
Ernald Rufus (to hold as his grandfather held it) on May 17, in his first year.

King Henry III. in his 11th year granted to Hugh Rufus, son and heir of Ernald, a 
weekly mercate here, on Friday, with one at Wodebridge, on Wednesday, and the said 
Ernald, son of Ernard the second, in the 3d of King John, gave by deed for his soul's 
health and that of his wife Isabel, and his ancestors, and all the faithful deceased, in 
pure alms, to God, St. Mary, and the church of Wodebryge, and the canons thereof, 
all the tithe of Northaghe and Hunteswyk, in the village of Stadbrook, saving a 
pension of 4s. per ann. to be paid to the prior and convent of Eye; dated at 
Wytingham, in 1201; and this Ernald is called in the register of the priory of Eye, 
patron of Wodebrigge.

Hugh Rufus, his son, in the 10th of Henry III. was one of the collectors of the fifteenth 
in Norfolk, and in the following year had the grant of a mercate in the manor of 
Stradbroke and in Wodebridge, as above observed. In the 31st of that King, Maud, 
widow of Roger de Clere, demanded of John Le Rus, the 3d part of certain lands in 
Stinton, Salle, and Heydon; and in the 37th of that King, William Le Rus was found to 
die seized of the advowsons of Sall and Heydon, with the lordships of Stradbroke and 
Hasketon in Suffolk, and Alice was his daughter and heir, aged 6 years.

This Alice married Richard de Breose or Brews, (second son of Sir William, and Maud 
his wife,) and was a retainer of the Earl-Marshal, custos of the peace of Norfolk and 
Suffolk, in the 50th of Henry III. lord of Stinton-hall, and many other manors in right of 
his wife; and in the 52d year, Richard and Alice grant to the prior of Wodebrigge 10 
marks rent per ann. to find a canon to celebrate for ever in the priory church for their 
souls, and in the 55th they conveyed by fine to the Bishop of Ely and his successours 
the patronage of the church of Whitinton.

In the 56th of the said King, William de Breous granted by fine to Richard and Alice, 
the manor of Akenham and advowson, with those of Cleydon and Hemengeston, they 
granting to William and Mary his wife the manor of Bromley in Surry, &c.

In the 5th of Edward I. Sir Richard de Breuse and Alice his wife gave lands in 
Thurleston, in Suffolk, to the canons of St. Peter and St.Paul of Ipswich, and in the 
15th he claimed view of frankpledge, assise of bread and beer in Salle; and died as 
appears from the eschaetrolls, in 25th of the said King; Alice his wife survived him, 
and died in the 29th, and Gyles was her son and heir, aged 28: this manor was then 
valued at 18l. 10s. per ann. and was held of William de Say, by the service of one 
fee. This Gyles was lord of Akenham, Whitinton, Clopton, and Hasketon, held of 
Edmund, the King's brother, of the honour of Lancaster: he married Catherine, 
daughter of Sir Laurence de Huntingfeld of Suffolk, by whom he had no issue: his 2d 
wife was Joan, daughter of - - - - - - - - - -, by whom he had 3 sons.

Sir Gyles died in 1310; Joan was then living, and Richard their eldest son was aged 9 
years, and it was found that the view of frankpledge was held of William Marshall, lord 
of the hundred, by the payment of 18d. and that the mercate in Heydon was held of 
the manor of Causton. Sir Gyles is said to bear these arms, argent, alion rampant, 
gules, crowned or, and crusily of crosses pattee, fitchée of the second, but in the roll 
of knights in King Edward the First's reign, Sir Richard bore ermine, a lion rampant, 
gules.

Sir Richard Brews, eldest son of Sir Gyles, married Eleanor, daughter of Sir John 
Shelton, by whom he had 2 daughters; Mary, who married Sir John Weyland, and 
Catherine, married Sir John Howard: Sir Richard died in 1323, and was buried in the 
priory of Woodbridge,and succeeded by Robert his second brother, who being under 
age, his custody was granted by the King to Robert Fitz-Pain; he assigned it to 
Edmund Bacon, then in the king's service in Gascoin; this Robert dying sans issue, in 
1325, John de Brews, his brother and heir, inherited this lordship, &c.

Sir John de Brews was lord in the 20th of Edward III.; he married Agnes, daughter of 
Sir Robert Ufford, and sister of Robert Ufford Earl of Suffolk, by whom the 
genealogists say he had Sir John de Breause, his son and heir; but it appears that a 
fine was levied in 1355, Ao. 29 Edward III. between Sir William de Thorp and Sir John 
de Breuse and Eva his wife, of the manor of Lutheburgh in Lincolnshire, conveyed to 
William; and in 1370, mention is made in the will of William de Luthborow, rector of 
Salle, of Sir John de Brews and Eva his wife, and Sir John de Brews, junior, and Gyles 
his brother; he was lord of Topcroft, and resided there.

Sir John de Brews, his son, in the 4th of Richard II. was one of the gentlemen seized 
by the Norfolk rebels and sent by them with Sir William Morley and three of their own 
party to the King, to obtain a charter of manumission and pardon, with a great sum of 
money, the better to obtain it, which had been received of the citizens of Norwich, to 
preserve their city from fire, and plunder; but were released by Henry Spencer Bishop 
of Norwich, who routed them, and cut off the heads of three of the rebels. He was lord 
of this manor, and of Heydon, Witlingham, Witnesham, and Hasketon, patron of 
Woodbridge priory, &c. and married Joan, daughter of Sir John Shardelow, and was 
father of Sir Robert Brewse, who was lord in 1406, who by Ela his wife, daughter of Sir 
Miles Stapleton, of Ingham, had Sir Thomas, his son and heir: he died in 1424, and 
Ela his wife, in 1456, and were buried in Woodbridge priory; some make Elizabeth, 
daughter of the Lord Willoughby of Eresby, to be his wife.

Ela, relict of Sir Robert, by her will dated at Wodebrig in Suffolk, October 16, 1456, 
requires to be buried in the chancel of the conventual church there, near to her 
husband; bequeaths to Thomas her son, her husband's signet; to Elizabeth his wife a 
gold ring, to William, son of Thomas, a broche of gold, and was a benefactor to 
Ingham priory and the chapel of St. Gyles of Walsingham: to the wife of William, a 
girdle of gold, to William Yelverton, the King's justice, a silver chalice cup with a 
cover, and to Ela his wife, an agnus Dei of gold, with relicks, and a fillet of gold. Sir 
Robert, her husband, is called of Freesing feld, and died there, as I find, intestate, 
and administration was granted to Ela, September 30, 1424.

From: 'Eynford Hundred: Stinton', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the 
County of Norfolk: volume 8, pp. 266-269. URL: http://www.british-
history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78463&strquery=witnesham richard Date accessed: 
27 April 2012.

Parents
DE BRAOSE John (ABT 1332 - ABT 1397)
DE SHARDELOW Joan (Agnes) (ABT 1336 - AFT 1 Apr 1376)

Siblings
DE BRAOSE Robert (ABT 1370 - 1424)

Marriage To STAPLETON Ela (ABT 1377 - AFT 16 Oct 1456)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
STAPLETON Miles (23 Jun 1357 - 10 Apr 1419)
DE UFFORD Ela (ABT 1357 - BEF 1425)

Children by STAPLETON Ela ABT 1377 - AFT 16 Oct 1456
DE BRAOSE Thomas (ABT 1422 - 17 Jun 1482)

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