Family
Walter de Helyon 1) Son of Hugh de Helyon and N.N.. Died ± 1357 Notes: Of Much Marcle. Buried in Ashperton, where a wooden effigy was installed This was subsequently moved to Much Marcle church in the 16th/17th century. Married/ Related to: Child: 1. Joan de Helyon 1)Notes: Joan is identified as an heiress of Helyons (in Magna Marcle) by most secondary sources. Most of these same sources identify her father as either Walter or John. There is an IPM, for a Walter de Helyon in 1342, which identifies his co-heiresses as: "Rose (Roesia) the wife of John de Raleye, of full age, John, son of Maud Helyon sister of the said Rose, aged 18 years, and Eva, another sister, of full age, are his next heirs." The IPM does not make clear the nature of their relationship but presumably they are either siblings or cousins of Walter. His holdings to not include Hellens Manor. Close Rolls for Henry VI also identify a John de Helyon without male heirs... "Order in presence of the next friends of Philippa and Isabel daughters and heirs of John Helyon esquire, or of their attorneys, to assign dower to John Grene of Gosfeld co. Essex 'gentilman ' and Edith who was wife of John Helyon : as for a fine paid in the hanaper the king has pardoned the trespass of John Grene in taking her to wife, and her trespass in marrying him without licence of the king." But from IPMs these individuals can be discounted: " the said Philippa afterwards died without heir of her body issuing, after whose death the said moiety remained to Roger Wentworth, knight, and Anne his wife, daughter and heir of Isabel, the other of the daughters and heirs of John Helyon the son." http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/series2-vol2/pp1-45 A Walter de Helyon appears in records for 1354 and 1357 so presumably Joan's father . "Collections Towards the History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford" suggests a 1348 deed evidences that: "Walter de Helyon, son of Hugh de Helyon, conveys lands in Marcle, including the Overwood Plantation, which he held under Sir James d'Audley to William Isenard, Vicar of Marcle, in trust, to pay the rents and profits after the death of the grantor to his only child, Johanna". |
Sources
1) Source: The History of Parliament . External Linkhttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/walwyn-thomas-ii-1415. Reference: Walwyn, Thomas II (d.1415), of Hellions in Much Marcle, Herefs. (Questionable reliability of evidence)