De Willelmo de Farndale

c1255 to c1325 

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1255

 

Say age 46 at the time he paid tax in Danby, then he was born about 1265. He might have been one of the sons of Nicholas de Farndale (FAR00006).

1280

 

In 1280, five individuals of Farndale were indicted for poaching and paid bail, or had bail paid for them by their families. From sureties of persons indicted for poaching and for not producing persons so indicted on the first day of the Eyre Court in accordance with the suretieship due to Richard Drye. There follows a long list of names including,…..1s 8d from Roger son of Gilbert of Farndale, bail from Nicholas de Farndale, 2s from William the Smith of Farndale, 3s 4d from John the shepherd of Farndale, and 3s 4d from Alan the son of Nicholas de Farndale.

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This suggests that he lived in Farndale, where he became a smith, and was involved in a poaching offence when he was about 25.

In the same year, 1280, he was indicted for poaching and paid 2s bail - From sureties of persons indicted for poaching and for not producing persons so indicted on the first day of the Eyre Court in accordance with the suretieship due to Richard Drye. There follows a long list of names including,…..1s 8d from Roger son of Gilbert of Farndale (FAR00028), bail from Nicholas de Farndale, (FAR00022), 2s from William the Smith of Farndale, 3s 4d from John the shepherd of Farndale, (FAR00010), and 3s 4d from Alan the son of Nicholas de Farndale. (FAR00011) (Yorkshire Fees). (See FAR0019).

There is a separate page about poaching in Pickering Forest.

 

1285

 

His son may have been William of Farndale (FAR00037), born in about 1285, who later became William, the Smith of Farndale.

1301

 

De Willelmo de Farndale, living at Danby paid a tax of 3s in 1301 (Lay Subsidy)

From the Subsidy: Wapentake of Langbaurgh, Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I (1301). Originally published by Yorkshire Archeological Society, [s.l.], 1897. 'The Subsidy: Wapentake of Langbaurgh', in Yorkshire Lay Subsidy 30 Ed. I (1301), ed. William Brown ([s.l.], 1897), pp. 26-45. See also British History Online.

Wapentagium de Langeberyghe

Daneby

De Willelmo de Farendale   iijs

See more detail about the 1301 Subsidy.

 

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Danby is a Scandinavian place name, meaning “the Dane’s Farm”.

1325

 

If he lived four score years and ten, then he might have lived to 1325.