Adam de Reresby was the younger son of
Ralph de Reresby and
Margery de Normanville.
From
Barons1
SIR ADAM DE RERESBY, lord of Thribergh and Ashover; captured at Boroughbridge; a benefactor Beauchief.
[Adam] was given by his mother the New Hall manor in Ashover, and the advowson of the church, upon his marriage in 1302 with an heiress of the name of Deugye or Thethegne, whose surname is unknown, but who arms were - Gules, three bendlets Argent. Sir Simon de Reresby, the eldest brother died without issue, and in 1316 his uncle, Sir Adam de Normanville, presented him with the manor of Thrybergh, the lordships of Brinsford, great and little Dalton and Bolton, and all their appurtenances (including the families and chattels of the villeins); an estate which continued to be the chief seat of his family until it was alienated
by Sir William Reresby in 1705. We have a glimpse of Sir Adam's military career in the battle roll of Boroughbridge, which gives amongst the rebels "Sire Adam de Reresby," bearing "De Gules, ove I. bende d'Argent, ove iii croix pate de Sable," but the loyal service which he probably rendered in the Scotch campaigns of the first two Edwards is without record. He was forgiven for his offence and received again into favour, for in 1324 he was summoned to Westminster, and on two occasions in 1336 to the King's great council at York, he must have been about ninety years of age when he died soon after the year 1349.
In 1316 Adam was made lord of
Thribergh (known today as Thrybergh, in South Yorkshire) by a grant from his uncle Adam de Normanville. The full name of his wife is not known, but they had at least two children:
- Ralph son and heir
- Joan/Jean, who married Sir John FitzWilliam of Sprotborough
Footnotes
[1]
The Barons of Pulford in the Eleventh & Twelth Centuries, and their Descendants by Sir George R Sitwell, Scarborough, 1889
- Abt 1349