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Birth:          BEF 1294 Rous Lench, Evesham, Worcestershire, England
Death:          BEF 1346 

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I38626
Manor of Rous Lench, Worcestershire:

The manor of ROUS LENCH is probably to be identified with the 'Lenc' which was 
acquired by Alfstan the prior, brother of Bishop Wulfstan, for the church of Worcester 
about 1062. This estate became annexed to the manor of Fladbury, and in the time of 
Edward the Confessor the bishop held 2 hides in demesne, while the rest of the manor, 
5 hides, was held by France, who did all the services due for it. By 1086 the whole 
manor had passed into the hands of Urse the Sheriff, under whom it was held by 
Alvred. It was, however, still held under the manor of Fladbury, and continued to be so 
held until the end of the 13th century.

Urse's interest in the manor passed with his other possessions to the Beauchamps 
(see Elmley Castle), and was held by them and their descendants until the end of the 
15th century, when the overlordship of Rous Lench passed with most of their other 
possessions into the hands of Henry VII.

The tenants of the manor under the lords of Elmley adopted the name Lench. Randolf 
son of Roger de Lench held the manor in the time of Henry II, and is probably to be 
identified with Randolf de Lench, who paid 40 marks in 1175–6 for pardon for trespass 
in the forest. Roger de Lench was the representative of this family early in the 13th 
century. It was probably he who with Stephen de Lench resisted the claim of the 
Abbot of Halesowen to common pasture at 'Hale Lench' in 1230. Two years later he 
obtained from the king a grant of protection against Jews who held his lands as 
security for debt. Peter de Lench paid a subsidy of 4s. at Lench Randolf in 1280, and 
a Peter de Lench held land in Worcestershire in 1290. Thomas de Lench was holding 
the manor in 1315, and still seems to have been in possession in 1329, as he 
presented to the church at that date. In 1346 it was returned that William son of John 
de Lench, Sir John de Hampton, Richard de Lench, John de Chester of Lench and 
Henry Norreys held the manor, but Richard de Lench presented to the church three 
years later. In 1366–7 Robert de Derlaston settled the manor of Rous Lench on 
Thomas Snodhull of Rous Lench and Lucy his wife and their issue, with remainder in 
default to Henry Bruyn and his heirs.

['Parishes: Rous Lench', A History of the County of Worcester: volume 3 (1913), pp. 
497-500. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk]

Parents
DE LENCH Peter (BEF 1259 - )
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Siblings
DE LENCH Thomas (BEF 1294 - BEF 1346)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
LENCH ----- (coheiress of Rous) (ABT 1340 - )

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