Joan

  Events

• Manorial Estate, 1199, Kinwarton Manor, Kinwarton, Alcester, Warwickshire, B49, GB. ¹ At the Domesday Survey the abbey owned 3 hides there which were held by Ralph, most probably the brother of the reigning abbot Walter. These lands were probably held by military service, for it is recorded that Abbot Reynold (1122\endash 49) 'removed the houses of the knights of Kinwarton and Coughton and others from the place where the garden of the monastery and the croft of St. Kenelm now are, with which the abbey was, as it were, besieged'. Ralph of Kinwarton held 3 hides of the abbey in 1166 by service of finding one fully-armed knight to serve the king, his expenses being paid by his overlord. In 1199 Ralph recognized the right of Joan wife of Richard de Brusle to certain lands in Kinwarton which had been settled on her in dower by his son Robert, but in 1214 these lands were again in dispute between Joan de Brusle and Ralph's son Alexander. In 1251 Robert de Bruily sued the Abbot of Evesham for these lands, but in 1282 the abbot recovered them, and in 1290 he successfully claimed view of frank-pledge in Kinwarton. About this time Ralph de Hengham was the tenant of the manor, doing military service with the king on behalf of the abbot.

Joan married Robert de Kinewarton, son of Ralph de Cocton of Coughton, Warwickshire and Christian. (Robert de Kinewarton died before 1199 ¹.)