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Birth:          ABT 1260 Well, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          1 Sep 1311 Greenfield Priory, Lincolnshire, England

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BARONY OF WELLES (I)

ADAM DE WELLE, brother and heir, was sued concerning the new market at Alford in 
Michaelmas term 1290. He accompanied Hugh le Despenser on his mission to the King 
of the Romans, June 1294; was appointed, 1 March 1296/7, to receive clergy in 
Lincolnshire into the King's peace; was summoned for service beyond seas, 1297, and 
continually against the Scots, 1299-1310; fought in the King's division at the battle of 
Falkirk, 22 July 1298; Constable of Rockingham Castle and Keeper of the forest 
between Stamford and Oxford, 17 January 1298/9-August 107. He was summoned to 
Parliament from 6 February 1298/9 to 16 June 1311, by writs directed Ade de Welles, 
whereby he is held to have become LORD WELLES or WELLE. He was at the siege of 
Carlaverock, July 1300; joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1; 
was granted free warren in his demesne lands, 28 January 1301/2; served again in 
Scotland, 1303-04 and 1310; was summoned to attend the Coronation of Edward II, 18 
January 1307/8; a Commissioner de walliis et fossatis, co. Lincoln, 18 July 1310. He 
married, in or before 1296, Joan, widow of Walter FITZROBERT (died 1293; 1st son 
and heir apparent of Robert (FITZWALTER), 1st LORD FITZWALTER), 1st daughter 
of Sir John ENGAINE, of Laxton and Blatherwycke, Northants, by Joan, daughter and 
heir of Sir Gilbert DE GREINVILLE, of Hallaton, co. Leicester. He died 1 September 
1311 and was buried in Greenfield Priory. Joan died 1 June 1315 and was buried with 
him. [Complete Peerage XII/2:439-40, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Adam de Welles, who in the 22nd Edward I [1294] was in the wars of Gascony, and 
was summoned to parliament, as a Baron, 6 February, 1299, in which year he was 
made constable of Rockingham Castle and warden of the forest. The next year he was 
in the wars of Scotland, and again in 1301 and 1302, and had regular summonses to 
parliament to the year of his decease, 1311. He m. Joane, dau. and heir of John 
d'Engayne, and had a son, Robert de Welles. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, 
Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 
572, Welles, Barons Welles]

Parents
DE WELLE Robert (ABT 1226 - BEF 24 Sep 1265)
DE PERITON Isabel (ABT 1235 - BEF 5 Jan 1315)

Siblings
DE WELLES Adam (ABT 1260 - 1 Sep 1311)

Marriage To D'ENGAINE Joan (Margaret) (ABT 1270 - 1 Jun 1315)
    m.  

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Parents
DE ENGAINE John (BEF 1229 - 5 Jan 1297)
DE GREINVILLE Joan (1236 - AFT 2 Nov 1305)

Children by D'ENGAINE Joan (Margaret) ABT 1270 - 1 Jun 1315
DE WELLES Adam (22 Jul 1304 - Feb 1345)

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