Thomas Dod of Edge
c
1325 to c 1400 (estimated)
DOD00040
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1325
Thomas Dod was the son of Roger
Dod of Edge (DOD00040) and may have been born in or
about 1325. The inquiry in 1363 suggests
that Thomas Dod was born in or about 1317.
The descent of the family up to
about 1315 remains to be established securely, but with Thomas Dod (and the
name taken as a surname), the history of this numerous tribe
is more certain, and a century later it is beyond question. Very likely the
moat was dug in the earliest period, and at least by about 1400. It was fed by a
reservoir to the north and surrounded by an irregular parallelogram of land of
very modest size, reached from the east by a bridge. It was big enough for the
farmhouse, and for the protection of livestock when necessary, and was only
drained in 1788. (Haslam, Richard (1985), Edge
Hall, Cheshire, The Home of Mr and Mrs Anthony Wolley Dod, in Country Life,
21 November 1985, pages 1612 to 1615).
1339
There
was a Thomas Dod, pardoned for the death of Simon de Arderne
on 30 October 1339 (Patent Rolls of the reign of Edward III, 1338 to 1340,
page 337).
This was probably someone different.
1350
Thomas married Maud, Matilda or
Mary, daughter of David Bird of Broxton.
Thomas, of Edge, married Mary,
daughter of David Bird, of Broxton, Cheshire (see Heralds’ Vision of Cheshire,
1613 and 1663), and had issue (see the Wolley Dods of Edge)(Burke, John and Burke, Sir Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth Edition, 1972), Bellyse Baker of
Highfields in Burke’s Landed Gentry, Volume 3, pages
35 to 38).
1363
In an inquiry into the proof of
age of Fulk, son and heir of Fulk Fitz Waryn, knight, taken on 20 April 1363, Hugh
de Mutteleye, John de Beddesfeld, Hugh Parrok and Thomas Dod, all 46 years of
age, agree and say that they were at Whitinton with a
great number of others about the raising of the belfry of the church, and saw
the said Fulk brought to be baptized with a great following praising God for
his birth. (Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 11, (Edward
III, 1361 to 1365), Folio 375). Whittington is a village about 2 mile seat of Oswestry near the Welsh Border, about 15 kilometres
to the southwest of Malpas.
Sir Fulk FitzWarin, the 4th Lord FitzWarin, born around 1341, was a prominent English
nobleman and Marcher Lord associated with Whittington Castle in Shropshire. He
was the son of Fulk FitzWarin, 3rd Lord FitzWarin, and Margaret de Beaumont.
His son and heir was Sir Fulk FitzWarin, 5th Lord FitzWarin. Whittington Castle is a
historic twelfth century moated medieval fortress located in the heart of Whittington
village near Oswestry in northern Shropshire. The FitzWarin
family rebuilt the fortress in stone during the thirteenth century after
receiving permission from King Henry III. Sitting on the turbulent Welsh
Marches border between England and Wales, it saw plenty of military conflict
and served as a base for border raids. Local
legend claims the castle, sometimes called the White Castle due to its
light-coloured stone, was guarded by Fulke FitzWarin, who supposedly hid the
Holy Grail in the castle chapel. The
site also connects to Shropshire’s Arthurian trails and early warrior
traditions.
1370
Thomas was the father of David Dod
of Edge (DOD00041).
1385
On 6 December 1385 at Westminster
a Commission was granted to a large number of individuals to levy and collect
from all cities, boroughs and towns, all secular lords of towns and other lay
persons having goods and possessios and from various
other sources, the tenth and fifteenth and moiety of a tenth and fifteenth in
taxation. The list included Thomas Dode and Roger de Cloreley for Shropshire
except Shrewsbury (Fine Rolls of the reign of Richard II, 1383 to 1391, page 116). This round of taxation amounting
to one and a half tenths and fifteenths followed a combination of failed
military ventures, intense threats of a French invasion, and deteriorating
domestic politics under the young King Richard II.
1400
Thomas may have lived until about
1400.