WYTTENEYE Eustace

Abt 1256 - 1301  (45 years)

• Name	WYTTENEYE Eustace
  Birth	Abt 1256	Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1301	Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England
  Notes	Nothing is known of his wife. In 1277 Eustacius de Whytene presented John de Chaundos to the church of Pencombe. On 8 Dec 12 Edward I (1283) at Leominster, the following was issued "Grant to Eustace de Whyteneye, and his heirs, of free warren in all his demesne lands in Penecumbe, Whyteneye and Caldewell, со. Hereford." He was of Whitney, etc., Knight. About 1280 gave deed to monastery of St. Peter in Gloucester, referring to and confirming deed of his ancestors above mentioned. Lord of Pencombe, Little Cowarn, and Whitney in 1281. Granted Free Warren by Edward I. in 1284. Summoned to military service beyond the seas in 1297. Tenant of a part of the Manor of Huntington in 1299. Summoned to the Scotch War in 1301. Possibly grandson instead of son of Sir Robert. Melville (Melville, Henry, A.M., LL.B., The Ancestry of John Whitney: Who, with His Wife Elinor, and Sons John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas, and Jonathan, Emigrated from London, England, in the Year 1635, and Settled in Watertown, Massachusetts; the First of the Name in America, and the One from Whom a Great Majority of the Whitneys Now Living in the United States Are Descended (New York, NY: The De Vinne Press, 1896) says the following: "Robert appears to have been succeeded by the Sir Eustace who, about 1280, gave the deed of confirmation to the monastery of St. Peter, and in 1277 nominated John de Chaundos, and in 1280 Roger de Wytteneye as rectors of Pencombe. There are no less than five other records relating to him, all of great interest. The first is in a return of the names of lords of manors and townships for the purpose of making up the military levies ordered by the Parliament at Lincoln, in the ninth year of King Edward I. (1281). He is there described as "Eustachius de Wyteney, Lord of Pencumbe, Little Cowarne and Wyteney." [Harleian Manuscript No. 6281, in British Museum.] The second is a grant of "Free Warren" made in the twelfth year of Edward I. (1284), and consists of an abstract of the Royal Patent contained in the Great Charter Roll preserved in the Record Office. A photograph of the original is given, which may be translated as follows: Charter Roll 12 Edward I. (1284), No.58. THE KING to Archbishops, etc., greeting. Know ye that we have granted and by this our Charter do confirm to our dearly beloved & faithful EUSTACE DE WHYTENEYE that he and his heirs have forever Free Warren in all their demesne lands of Pencumbe [Pencombe and Caldewell were in the County of Hereford. Whyteneye, and that neighborhood, in the opinion of the Lords Marchers, was not, and they succeeded in maintaining their views till the statute of Henry VIII.], Whyteneye and Caldewell in the County of Hereford, so that these lands shall not be within the metes of our forest. Nevertheless none shall enter these lands to hunt in them or take any beast pertaining to free warren without license and will of the said Eustace or his heirs upon pain of forfeiting to us ten pounds. Wherefore we will and firmly command that the aforesaid Eustace and his heirs forever have free warren in all their demesne lands aforesaid, so that these lands shall not be within the metes of our forest, and no one shall enter these lands to hunt, etc., without license, etc., of the said Eustace or his heirs on pain of forfeiture to us of ten pounds as aforesaid. These being witnesses. G. Wygorn, R. Bathen & Wellen, Bishops; Galfrido de Geynvill, Ottone de Grandisone, Robto Tibetot, Rico de Brus, Petro de Chaumpuent, Rico de Bosco, Walto de Everest, and others. Given under our hand at Leominster the 8th day of December in the year of our reign the 12th. The third is a summons to him as a knight to perform military service in tho King's behalf "in parts beyond the seas." Muster at London on Sunday next after the Octave of St. John the Baptist (8th July, 1297). [Parliamentary, etc., writs, 12 Edward I., in Record Office.] The destination was probably Flanders, where war was then going on. The fourth is an inquisition, taken in 1299, giving, among other things, the names of the free tenants of the Manor of Huntington, which included the parishes of Huntington, Kington, and Brilley, in the Marches of Wales, near Whitney. Eustachius de Wytteneye is named as holding a, messuage and two hundred acres of land by the service of "one foot-soldier with a bow and arrow, at the Castle of Huntington, in time of war, for forty days at his own expense." This is an excellent illustration of a military tenure. [See Notes on the Early History of the Manor of Huntington, published in the "Archaeologia Cambrensis," 3d series, vol. xv, p. 229. The inquisition was taken on the death of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford.] The fifth and last, for it possibly led to his death, is a summons to the Scottish war. Edward I., who reigned from 1272 to 1307, was among the greatest of the English Kings. It was he who first reduced Wales to anything like subjection by defeating Llewellyn, in 1282, at the fords of the Wye, above Whitney, in a great battle in which Sir Eustace undoubtedly took part, though we can find no record of who composed the forces engaged. In commemoration of this victory the King presented his infant son to the army as the "Prince of Wales," a title ever since borne by the heir apparent. Later he conquered Scotland, in the days of William Wallace, whose exploits form the subject of Jane Porter's famous novel, "The Scottish Chiefs." The following is a translation of the King's Writ, as served upon De Whitney. Close Roll 29, Edward I. (1301), No.123, m13d and 12d THE KING to his beloved & trusty EUSTACE DE WYTENEY, greeting. Because we intend to proceed manfully and mightily, by God's help, against our rebels and traitors the Scots, notoriously persevering in preconceived malice and knavery of ill will, in order to repress their rebellion and insolence, after the feast of Pentecost next to come, in which feast the truce lately granted to the said Scots at the request of the King of France will be ended, we ask you that you do be with us at Berwick on Tweed at the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist next following, decently prepared with horses and arms to depart from thence with us, at our expense, against the Scots our rebels aforesaid, that, by the help of you and of other our trusty subjects, to whom we have commanded the same thing, the unbridled pride and obstinate rebellion of the aforesaid traitors may be suppressed, by such your labors and assistance, that profit and the advantages which we hope for may come to us and to our kingdom and crown of England with the establishment of peace and lasting honor. Witness the King at Northampton the 12th day of March. A reason for supposing that the old knight did not return home is that we find that a young Sir Eustace was knighted, at the same time with his neighbors, De Lacy, Corbet, and Marmyon, in 1306." Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: "I have found a Eustace de Whitney in Bodine and Spalding super- compendium of Dorothea Poyntz' ancestors, p. 215. This Eustace is of the same generation as Henry Willington and Margaret Freville, but it does not show who Eustace's wife was. They reference Gerald Paget's "Official Genealogical and Heraldic Baronage of England", 90. Anyhow this Eustace had a daughter Maud who married Giles de Braose of Knolton, Dorset and they had a daughter Elizabeth who m. Wm. Frome." Sources 26 Oct 2003 posting of Tim Powys-Lybbe re: Marriage of Eustace de Whitney - http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/gen-medieval/2003-10/1067178689 http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Eustace_de_(b1256-a1301) See also: Geni: http://www.geni.com/people/Eustace-de-Wytteneye/6000000006190911621 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ancestorsearch&id=I16905
  Person ID	I60224	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	WYTTENEYE Robert,   b. Abt 1224, England d. Bef 1277, Herefordshire, England (Age < 52 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F347647	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Children	1. WYTTENEYE Eustace,   b. Abt 1287, Whitney, Herefordshire, England d. 1352, Whitney, Herefordshire, England (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]
  Family ID	F347646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026