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Titre	Minshull

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Minshull is the name of parishes and township in Cheshire Country. The Domesday survey of Cheshire, 1086, mentions Church Minshull, now part of Nantwich and Maneshale. Church Minshull, Maneshale and Minshull Vernon were held by one William de Malbanc, Baron of Nantwich. The name was common in Cheshire. In earlier times, 22 Minshull’s to 10,000 population in Cheshire. Both Minshull and Minshall were used in Cheshire. Both manor of Church Minshull and Minshull Veron were in ownership of William de Malbanc, Baron of Nantwich, after the Norman Conquest of 1066. His name also appears as Malbane and Maldeburg. In 1070, Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester and nephew to the King, created a court of 8 barons, which included William Malbanc and his two neighbors, Gilbert de Venables, Baron of Kinderton (the old part of Middlewich) and Richard de Vernon, Baron of Shipbrook. William Malbanc received much of the land of the Nantwich Hundred, including Maneshale as the village was called, making him a powerful Lord. His son, Hugh, founded Combermer Abbey in 1134 and his grandson fought in the crusades, returning in 1194, but in the reign of Edward I, the barony was divided. Minshull Vernon passed to the Vernons of Shipbrook. Malbanc;s principal co-heirs was Philippa Basset and her portion subsequently passed to the Lords Lovell, but in “Munshall”, the mesne manor was in the hand of what seems to have been a Saxon family, under Malbanc lordship. The Doomsday Book mentioned the village had two manors and they were held by Deose and Aregrim and it was the latter whose family held the then single manor of Munshull, when the Malbanc’s can to an end. There is conflicting evidence as to how many sons he had. Ormerod’s History of Cheshire quote then as possible Richard and Augustin, but Gamel could have been Richard’s son or Augustin’s grandson, by Adam. By this time Henry I was on the throne, (1100-1135), and it was common practice for people to take their surnames from the place where they lived. This family was no exception and they adopted the name Minsulfe , or Munsule, as their own. The two sons of Augustin had divided the family into two branches, Adam, (or Richard) fathering the senior side, andWilliam fathering the junior side. The origin of the Minshull Arms is interesting and curious. They were used by the Roman Emperor, Hadrain and were a common device in the Middle East in both the Byzantine and Islamic realms. Throughout history the number of point on the star has varied from 6 to 8 and the crescent has sometimes been vertical rather than the more usual horizontal. A rebel Byzatine Prince, Isaac Comnenus, captured King Richard I’s fiancé’ and sister, after they were shipwrecked on Cyprus in 1191. Richard then conquered the island while on the 3rd Crusade in 1192 and imprisoned Isaac with the Knights of St. John. Isaac had used the Star and Crescent as his arms and as was tradition, Richard took these as his own and used then on the Great Seal of England. The star is believed to be that of Regulus the brightest in the constellation of Leo and known as the heart of the lion. Richard is now better know as Richard the Lion Heart, so this device could not have been more suitable. Any soldier receiving knighthood or any town getting its charter, would get a decree bearing the King’s seal and using the design of that seal for their Coat of Arms would demonstrate their thanks and loyalty. Lord Michael de Minshull was a Crusader and fought for King Richard 1st (The Lion Heart). Because of his bravery King Richard granted him land and created him Lord Michael de Minshull and won the family Coat of Arms - wearing on his armor the Minshull Crescent and Star for Arms in the fight against Sultan Saladin in the Battle of Ascalon. Richard de Munshull, senior, rented a tenement in ‘Churchmunshull’ to John de Stonlegh, chaplain. He also made a bond with King Edward III, for 26/8, for the right to the “Town of Munshull” in the first year of the kings reign, 1327/8. A further bond was made with William Hamelyn to the value of £6, paid to Peter, son of John of Wetenhal, His marriage to Alice, bought him the Manor of Aston in Aston in Mondrun (Aston-juxta-Mondrum) and the itinerary of property inherited by his son, also named Richard, listed it with that of Munshull, which comprised several rents, land and herbage and a watermill. The two brothers, (in the senior Mynshull branch) Randle and Henry, were pardoned by Edward, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester (Edward III) for crimes committed. Randle’s pardon was for various felonies throughout the county along with others. Henry’s was a joint pardon with Richard Neuton, at the request of Sir High Calvylegh, after he and Richard had slayed Thomas Wynnepeny of Chirchemunshull. Joan, sometimes referred to as Johanna, was the last of the senior branch of the family to hold manors of Asten in Mondruem and of Chirchemuchshull, being held from Lord John Lovell by military service. This was the exception of one third of each, which was held in dower by her aunt Margaret, window of Richard. Joan’s son, Peter Dutton, with W. Danyell of Daresbury Robert Donne and Eve, daughter of Venable, successfully claimed back the land that her cousin John had seized. After the death of her husband,Edmund, she remarried her second husband being William de Hoton. The Dutton Family also died out with Thomas Dutton of Dutton. His daughter Elenor, as heir married Richard Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley and after an enquiry had established her as the rightful heir to the Minshull land, they passed in to the Cholmondely estate in 1526. Henry VIII confirmed them as Richard Cholmondeley’s possesions held by military service and later Elizabeth I did the same but on the division of the Cholmondeley family into the Cholmondeley’s of Cholmondeley and the Cholmondelye’s of ValeRoyal, the Minshull lands became part of the latter’s possessions, by family agreement. The junior and continuing branch of the Minshull Family rented Minshull Hall form the senior branch and retained it by military service. They had left the area and some had married well, gaining homes and land in the parish. William de Mynshull went to Cherburg, France in the retinue of John Draundell, captain of the town but Peter Mynshull went to Calais, France twice. The first time was in the train of John de Burely, Captain of Calais and the second time in the retinue of Hugh de Calvyley, captain of the town to aid in its defense. In 1379 Peter was again granted ‘plea rolls’ to travel north, “beyond the seas’ with Admiral Thomas de Percy. He saw further service with John de Cholmundely and others to assemble four lances and forty archers from Nantwich Hundred, to fight Welsh rebels in Broxton Hundred. Edmund de Munshull, father of Peter de Mynshull is recorded in 1425 as holding two messuages and 60 acres of land in Chichemunshull. Held by fee from Sir Peter de Dutton by military service. The King granted protection to William de Mynshull for his travels to Cherbourg, France in the Kings service. Peter also received protection by the King for his travels to Calais, France. Joan, wife of Peter de Mynshull, brought Derby House, Rock Ferry, into Minshull hands until the 17th century. It was a fine house in secluded grounds called Manor Park and it covered all of what is now Rock Ferry near Bebbington. John Mynshull of Mynshull, (born abt 1529 and buried in Church MInshull on 11/8/1574). John purchased the lease from the Rectory Daniel of Daresbury and become thus became the new Rector of Church Minshull. His son John Minshull married Frances Egerton and had a son John Minshull born 1582; he too is buried at Church Minshull and died young on 9/14/1654. John’s only surviving daughter, Elizabeth, on her marriage to Thomas Cholmondeley, took the manor and Minshull Hall into the Cholmondeley’s hands, thus finally reuniting the Minshull Estates under a single ownership! In 1594, an enquiry into the death of Richard Mynshull, noted that he had in his possessing the Hall of Mynshull ten messuages, two water mills, twenty gardens, 207 acres of land and 69 waste, together with the manor of Bebington and several other possessions. The Egerton’s took the profits from the possession and John Savage, from Minshull Vernon, and Hugh Cholmely, become custodians, as Richard’s son, John was ten years old. Sir Richard Minshull, of Bourton House in Buckinghamshire, descended from a junior branch of the family, was created Baron Minshull of Minshull and afterwards, in 1642, Viscount Minshull of Leominster, but patents were never registered and later descendants cancelled the titles in 1657. The Minshull Arms are in St. Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire. The Minshull’s were and are descendants of King’s, Queen’s, Princes’, Countess’, Earl’s, Viscount’s, Colonel’s, Lord’s, Knight’s, Baron’s, Esquire’s, High Sheriff’s, Members of Parliament (MP), Poets (Milton), painters/artist, Rector’s (Clergy) etc. Including historical people like Lady Godiva and Alfred the Great – King of Wessex and Edward Minshull of Erdsewick who was a Captain in the England Civil War of 1643. Sir. Geoffrey Minshull of Cheshire contributed £25 to the Spanish Armanda fund in 1588. Richard Minshull was Mayor of Chester in 1657 and John Minshull in 1711-12. The Minshull’s not only had nobility, wealth and standing within England they also married into the same. With surnames such as: Lord Grosvernor (now The Duke of Westminster), Warren, Poole, Stockport, Eaton (Eyton/Eton), Hough, Egerton, Stanley, Holland,Manwaringe, Bromley, Dutton, FitzAlan, Pulfords and Dean(e). The Minshull name was so highly regarded and coveted that, on occasion, the males took the Minshull surname from their wife so they would have greater standing within the community. Two Minshull families coats of arms, Minshull’s of Erdeswick and Nantwich!

Minshull is the name of parishes and township in Cheshire Country. The Domesday survey of Cheshire, 1086, mentions Church Minshull, now part of Nantwich and Maneshale. Church Minshull, Maneshale and Minshull Vernon were held by one William de Malbanc, Baron of Nantwich. The name was common in Cheshire. In earlier times, 22 Minshull’s to 10,000 population in Cheshire. Both Minshull and Minshall were used in Cheshire.

Both manor of Church Minshull and Minshull Veron were in ownership of William de Malbanc, Baron of Nantwich, after the Norman Conquest of 1066. His name also appears as Malbane and Maldeburg. In 1070, Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester and nephew to the King, created a court of 8 barons, which included William Malbanc and his two neighbors, Gilbert de Venables, Baron of Kinderton (the old part of Middlewich) and Richard de Vernon, Baron of Shipbrook. William Malbanc received much of the land of the Nantwich Hundred, including Maneshale as the village was called, making him a powerful Lord. His son, Hugh, founded Combermer Abbey in 1134 and his grandson fought in the crusades, returning in 1194, but in the reign of Edward I, the barony was divided. Minshull Vernon passed to the Vernons of Shipbrook. Malbanc;s principal co-heirs was Philippa Basset and her portion subsequently passed to the Lords Lovell, but in “Munshall”, the mesne manor was in the hand of what seems to have been a Saxon family, under Malbanc lordship.

The Doomsday Book mentioned the village had two manors and they were held by Deose and Aregrim and it was the latter whose family held the then single manor of Munshull, when the Malbanc’s can to an end. There is conflicting evidence as to how many sons he had. Ormerod’s History of Cheshire quote then as possible Richard and Augustin, but Gamel could have been Richard’s son or Augustin’s grandson, by Adam. By this time Henry I was on the throne, (1100-1135), and it was common practice for people to take their surnames from the place where they lived. This family was no exception and they adopted the name Minsulfe , or Munsule, as their own. The two sons of Augustin had divided the family into two branches, Adam, (or Richard) fathering the senior side, andWilliam fathering the junior side.

The origin of the Minshull Arms is interesting and curious. They were used by the Roman Emperor, Hadrain and were a common device in the Middle East in both the Byzantine and Islamic realms. Throughout history the number of point on the star has varied from 6 to 8 and the crescent has sometimes been vertical rather than the more usual horizontal. A rebel Byzatine Prince, Isaac Comnenus, captured King Richard I’s fiancé’ and sister, after they were shipwrecked on Cyprus in 1191. Richard then conquered the island while on the 3rd Crusade in 1192 and imprisoned Isaac with the Knights of St. John. Isaac had used the Star and Crescent as his arms and as was tradition, Richard took these as his own and used then on the Great Seal of England. The star is believed to be that of Regulus the brightest in the constellation of Leo and known as the heart of the lion. Richard is now better know as Richard the Lion Heart, so this device could not have been more suitable.

Any soldier receiving knighthood or any town getting its charter, would get a decree bearing the King’s seal and using the design of that seal for their Coat of Arms would demonstrate their thanks and loyalty.

Lord Michael de Minshull was a Crusader and fought for King Richard 1st (The Lion Heart). Because of his bravery King Richard granted him land and created him Lord Michael de Minshull and won the family Coat of Arms - wearing on his armor the Minshull Crescent and Star for Arms in the fight against Sultan Saladin in the Battle of Ascalon.

Richard de Munshull, senior, rented a tenement in ‘Churchmunshull’ to John de Stonlegh, chaplain. He also made a bond with King Edward III, for 26/8, for the right to the “Town of Munshull” in the first year of the kings reign, 1327/8. A further bond was made with William Hamelyn to the value of £6, paid to Peter, son of John of Wetenhal, His marriage to Alice, bought him the Manor of Aston in Aston in Mondrun (Aston-juxta-Mondrum) and the itinerary of property inherited by his son, also named Richard, listed it with that of Munshull, which comprised several rents, land and herbage and a watermill.

The two brothers, (in the senior Mynshull branch) Randle and Henry, were pardoned by Edward, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester (Edward III) for crimes committed. Randle’s pardon was for various felonies throughout the county along with others. Henry’s was a joint pardon with Richard Neuton, at the request of Sir High Calvylegh, after he and Richard had slayed Thomas Wynnepeny of Chirchemunshull.

Joan, sometimes referred to as Johanna, was the last of the senior branch of the family to hold manors of Asten in Mondruem and of Chirchemuchshull, being held from Lord John Lovell by military service. This was the exception of one third of each, which was held in dower by her aunt Margaret, window of Richard. Joan’s son, Peter Dutton, with W. Danyell of Daresbury Robert Donne and Eve, daughter of Venable, successfully claimed back the land that her cousin John had seized. After the death of her husband,Edmund, she remarried her second husband being William de Hoton.

The Dutton Family also died out with Thomas Dutton of Dutton. His daughter Elenor, as heir married Richard Cholmondeley of Cholmondeley and after an enquiry had established her as the rightful heir to the Minshull land, they passed in to the Cholmondely estate in 1526. Henry VIII confirmed them as Richard Cholmondeley’s possesions held by military service and later Elizabeth I did the same but on the division of the Cholmondeley family into the Cholmondeley’s of Cholmondeley and the Cholmondelye’s of ValeRoyal, the Minshull lands became part of the latter’s possessions, by family agreement.

The junior and continuing branch of the Minshull Family rented Minshull Hall form the senior branch and retained it by military service. They had left the area and some had married well, gaining homes and land in the parish.

William de Mynshull went to Cherburg, France in the retinue of John Draundell, captain of the town but Peter Mynshull went to Calais, France twice. The first time was in the train of John de Burely, Captain of Calais and the second time in the retinue of Hugh de Calvyley, captain of the town to aid in its defense. In 1379 Peter was again granted ‘plea rolls’ to travel north, “beyond the seas’ with Admiral Thomas de Percy. He saw further service with John de Cholmundely and others to assemble four lances and forty archers from Nantwich Hundred, to fight Welsh rebels in Broxton Hundred. Edmund de Munshull, father of Peter de Mynshull is recorded in 1425 as holding two messuages and 60 acres of land in Chichemunshull. Held by fee from Sir Peter de Dutton by military service.

The King granted protection to William de Mynshull for his travels to Cherbourg, France in the Kings service. Peter also received protection by the King for his travels to Calais, France.

Joan, wife of Peter de Mynshull, brought Derby House, Rock Ferry, into Minshull hands until the 17th century. It was a fine house in secluded grounds called Manor Park and it covered all of what is now Rock Ferry near Bebbington.

John Mynshull of Mynshull, (born abt 1529 and buried in Church MInshull on 11/8/1574). John purchased the lease from the Rectory Daniel of Daresbury and become thus became the new Rector of Church Minshull. His son John Minshull married Frances Egerton and had a son John Minshull born 1582; he too is buried at Church Minshull and died young on 9/14/1654. John’s only surviving daughter, Elizabeth, on her marriage to Thomas Cholmondeley, took the manor and Minshull Hall into the Cholmondeley’s hands, thus finally reuniting the Minshull Estates under a single ownership!

In 1594, an enquiry into the death of Richard Mynshull, noted that he had in his possessing the Hall of Mynshull ten messuages, two water mills, twenty gardens, 207 acres of land and 69 waste, together with the manor of Bebington and several other possessions. The Egerton’s took the profits from the possession and John Savage, from Minshull Vernon, and Hugh Cholmely, become custodians, as Richard’s son, John was ten years old.

Sir Richard Minshull, of Bourton House in Buckinghamshire, descended from a junior branch of the family, was created Baron Minshull of Minshull and afterwards, in 1642, Viscount Minshull of Leominster, but patents were never registered and later descendants cancelled the titles in 1657. The Minshull Arms are in St. Michael and All Angels Church, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire.

The Minshull’s were and are descendants of King’s, Queen’s, Princes’, Countess’, Earl’s, Viscount’s, Colonel’s, Lord’s, Knight’s, Baron’s, Esquire’s, High Sheriff’s, Members of Parliament (MP), Poets (Milton), painters/artist, Rector’s (Clergy) etc. Including historical people like Lady Godiva and Alfred the Great – King of Wessex and Edward Minshull of Erdsewick who was a Captain in the England Civil War of 1643. Sir. Geoffrey Minshull of Cheshire contributed £25 to the Spanish Armanda fund in 1588. Richard Minshull was Mayor of Chester in 1657 and John Minshull in 1711-12.

The Minshull’s not only had nobility, wealth and standing within England they also married into the same. With surnames such as: Lord Grosvernor (now The Duke of Westminster), Warren, Poole, Stockport, Eaton (Eyton/Eton), Hough, Egerton, Stanley, Holland,Manwaringe, Bromley, Dutton, FitzAlan, Pulfords and Dean(e). The Minshull name was so highly regarded and coveted that, on occasion, the males took the Minshull surname from their wife so they would have greater standing within the community.

Two Minshull families coats of arms, Minshull’s of Erdeswick and Nantwich!