The Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin names "Fouke, Willam, Phelip le Rous, Johan e Alayn" as the five sons of "Fouke e Hauwyse". The likely birth date of his mother, the date of his own first marriage, and the limited date range within which Fulk FitzWarin [III] died, suggests that he was born several years after his parents’ marriage. "…Fulcus filius Warini et Alanus frater eius…" subscribed a charter dated to [1198] under which "Robertus Corbet" donated property to Buildwas Abbey. The 1201 Pipe Roll names "Sibil, widow of Hugh de Plugenai and Hawise, mother of Fulk Fitz Warin" as co-parceners in Lamborn, Berkshire. The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Fulco filius Warini" holding one knight’s fee in Shropshire in [1210/12]. The Testa de Nevill lists knights who held land in Gloucestershire, dated to [1211/13]: "Fulco filius Warini" held land "in Alwesten i militis". The king ordered the sheriff of Berkshire to "take into the king’s hands" the lands of "Fulk fitz Warin and Eva de Tracy and her sister on account of the son and heir of Thomas de London, who they detain from the king", dated to [1218/19]. A charter of Henry III King of England dated 12 Dec 1234 confirmed the foundation of Alberbury priory, Shropshire by "Fulconis filii Warini". By order dated 13 Nov 1251 the king confirmed rights of "Fulconi filio Warini seniori" in "foresta de Dene". “Fulco fil Warini et Claric ux eius” made a fine relating to a lawsuit in Kent in [Oct] 1250.
His son Fulk FitzWarin [IV] was named "Fulk son of Warin the younger" in an order dated 13 Aug 1257, suggesting that Fulk FitzWarin [III] was still alive at that date. The Legend of Fulk Fitz Warin records the death "a Blaunchevyle" of Fulk, after seven years of blindness, and his burial "a la Novele Abbeye". It is likely that Fulk FitzWarin [III] died before 5 Aug 1258, the date of a confirmation made by his son of a grant made by his father. 1
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The lands in Shropshire were an area of dispute between the English and the Welsh until the conquest of Wales by Edward I . In the latter part of the 12th cent., ‘English’ Maelor was in the hands of Roger de Powis and his brother Jonas but the area around Whittington was held by FULK FITZWARIN I (d. 1156) and FULK II (d. 1197). FULK III (d. 1256?) regained possession of Whittington in 1204 after having been outlawed. Fulk aided Llywelyn the Great against the English in 1217, but made peace with the government of Henry III by Feb. 1218. Whittington was captured by Llywelyn at the start of 1223 and in 1226 Henry III met the lord of Gwynedd at Shrewsbury to discuss the trouble caused by Fulk Fitz Warin and other border barons. The enmity between Llywelyn and Fulk Fitz Warin resulted in plans, c. 1227, for the marriage of Angharad, daughter of Madog ap Gruffydd, to the son of Fulk, but the wedding did not take place... 2
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25 Oct 1219, Leicestershire
Fulk fitz Warin gives the king a palfrey for having a weekly market on Thursdays at his manor of Narborough...
25 Oct 1219, Berkshire
Fulk fitz Warin gives the king a palfrey for having an annual, two-day fair at his manor of Lambourn on the eve and feast of St. Matthew the Evangelist...
23 Nov 1219, Hereford, Shropshire
Fulk fitz Warin gives the king a palfrey for having a weekly market on Wednesdays at his manor of Whittington and for having an annual two-day fair there on the eve and feast of St. Luke the Evangelist...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 3 Hen. III, 436, 437; 4 Hen. III, 16
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8 May 1220, Shrewsbury
The king has given respite to Fulk fitz Warin from the debts he owes until the octaves of St. John the Baptist. Fulk has mainperned before H. de Burgh, justiciar, that he will satisfy the king for the debt at the Exchequer.
9 Aug 1220, Cambridgeshire
To the sheriff of Cambridgeshire . Fulk fitz Warin has mainperned before the king’s council that he will come to the Exchequer on the morrow of Michaelmas and render 30 m. of the debts he owes the king, and he is to take the terms which the king will give him for the rest of those debts...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 4 Hen. III, 144, 225
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1 Jul 1221, Shrewsbury
Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the fifth year, the demand of 100 m. they make from Fulk fitz Warin for pledging Thomas of Erdington...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 5 Hen. III, 216
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14 Apr 1224, Hatfield
Order to the elect of Chichester, under the seal of the justiciar , to cause Fulk fitz Warin to have letters sealed with the Great Seal directed to the sheriff of Yorkshire , that he is to place in respite the demand of 5 m. that he makes from Fulk by summons of the Exchequer for an amercement of the forest until upon his next account at the Exchequer, having accepted security from him that he will satisfy the king then...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 8 Hen. III, 159
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21 Sep 1228
The king has given respite to Fulk fitz Warin, who is with him in the army of Wales, from the 25 m. that he ought to have rendered at the Exchequer of Michaelmas in the twelfth year, until Hilary in the thirteenth year...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 12 Hen. III, 277
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28 Apr 1230
Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand they make from Fulk fitz Warin for the service of his manor of Alveston , which he holds of the king, for as long as he will be with the king in parts overseas, towards which he has set out with him.
27 Jul 1230, Northampton
To the sheriff of Gloucestershire . William fitz Warin has shown to the king that Fulk fitz Warin rendered at the Exchequer that which he ought to have rendered by summons of the Exchequer from the last term of the fine he made with the king for having the park of Alveston with appurtenances, and, if he did render that which he owed of that fine at the aforesaid term, as aforesaid, then it seems he should have have a tally for it from the Exchequer. Order that if William or anyone else on behalf of the aforesaid Fulk will show him any tally attesting to the aforesaid payment, notwithstanding the prohibition made to him by the Exchequer, he is to permit Fulk to dispose of the aforesaid park freely and by his will...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 14 Hen. III, 320, 423
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15 Sep 1231, Painscastle
The king has granted to Fulk fitz Warin that he may render 50 m., which he ought to have rendered at Easter in the fifteenth year of the fine he made with him for the park of Alveston , at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in 15 days in the same year...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 15 Hen. III, 300
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27 Oct 1232
Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite, until upon the account of the sheriff of Berkshire , the demand they make by summons of the Exchequer from Fulk fitz Warin for the debts that they exact from him.
27 Dec 1232, Tewkesbury
The king has granted to Fulk fitz Warin that, notwithstanding that he has not kept his terms at the Exchequer for the debts he owes to the king, he may render to the king at the Exchequer each year as much as he was accustomed to render there by the king’s grant for the aforesaid debts, and at the same terms...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 16 Hen. III, 311; 17 Hen. III, 69
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12 Feb 1233
Fulk fitz Warin has made fine by 600 m. for having, to himself or to whomsoever he will wish to assign it, the custody of the lands and heirs of William Pantulf , who held of the king in chief, until the legal age of the same heirs, together with their marriages, so that he is to render 50 m. of the aforesaid fine to the king at the Exchequer at Michaelmas in the seventeenth year, and 50 m. at Easter in the eighteenth year, and 100 m. thus from year to year at the same terms until the aforesaid fine is paid. Order to P. de Rivallis to cause Fulk to have full seisin of the aforesaid custody of the lands and heirs with appurtenances, and with the castle of Wem , as aforesaid. Pledges of Fulk for the aforesaid fine: William de Stuteville , present; and Henry de Tracy and William fitz Warin, by their letters.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 17 Hen. III, 108
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13 Jul 1234, Westminster
To the sheriff of Shropshire . The king’s beloved and faithful Fulk fitz Warin has made fine with him by 600 m. for having custody of the land and heirs of William Pantulf until the heirs come of age, with their marriage, concerning which 600 m. the king has granted him that he may render 100 m. each year at the Exchequer, and, afterwards, at the petition of the aforesaid Fulk, the king granted the aforesaid custody and marriage to Master Robert of Stafford to have until the aforesaid heirs come of age in the form in which he had granted it to Fulk, so that he renders 100 m. each year at the Exchequer at the terms previously granted to Fulk, so that, by the king’s grant, Master Robert is to begin to render 50 m. of the aforesaid fine at the Exchequer at Easter in the nineteenth year, 50 m. at Michaelmas in the same year, and 50 m. thus each year at the aforesaid terms until he will have paid the whole fine...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 18 Hen. III, 273
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After 16 Oct 1238
Hugh of Croft and William [of] Hodnet , executors of the testament of William fitz Warin , have given the king surety by themselves and by Fulk fitz Warin and Henry of Pembridge that they will answer the king in the octaves of Hilary in the twenty-third year for debts if he owed him any.
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 22 Hen. III, 94
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9 Sep 1241, Lichfield
The king has given respite to Fulk fitz Warin from all debts that he owes him until 15 days from Easter in the twenty-sixth year...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 25 Hen. III, 636
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10 Apr 1244
The king has given respite to Fulk fitz Warin, until Michaelmas in the twenty-eighth year, from the 30 m. which he ought to have paid to him at Easter in the same year for the debts that [he owes] him at the Exchequer...
6 May 1244
The king has granted to Fulk fitz Warin that, of the debt which he owes him, for which he made fine with him to render 60 m. per annum, he is henceforth to render per annum at the Exchequer 40 m. at the same terms at which he was accustomed to render the aforesaid 60 m. to the king, namely one moiety at the Exchequer of Michaelmas and the other moiety at the Exchequer of Easter...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 28 Hen. III, 169, 210
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After 17 Oct 1250
Fulk fitz Warin and Clarice, his wife, give the king one mark for a writ ad terminum...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 34 Hen. III, 786
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After 17 Aug 1252
Fulk, son of Fulk fitz Warin, gives the king one mark for having a writ ad terminum for a day [before the justices of the Bench] at Westminster...
Calendar of Fine Rolls, 36 Hen. III, 977
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