The Red Book of the Exchequer, listing scutage payments in [1194/95], records "Petrus filius Herberti" paying "xv s, iii partes [militis]" in Berkshire. The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Petrus filius Herberti" holding one knight’s fee "Manekeford" in Wiltshire, and three in Yorkshire, in [1210/12]. The Red Book of the Exchequer records "Petrus filius Herberti et Willelmus de Boterellis" holding "tres partes" in Warwickshire in [1210/12]. Matthew Paris names “...Petrus filius Hereberti...” among the "consiliarios iniquissimos” of King John. Henry III King of England granted "terris Petri filii Herberti" to "fratri nostro Olivero filio Regis" dated 20 Mar 1217. The Testa de Nevill includes a list of landholdings in Oxfordshire, dated 1219, which includes "Petrus filius Herberti" holding land "in Walinton…hundredo de Puritona". A letter of Henry III King of England to the bishop of Rochester, dated 13 Jun 1230, appointing him to make an assize of arms in Kent, names "Petrus filius Hereberti…Matthæus filius Hereberti" as those charged with a similar exercise in Berkshire and Wiltshire respectively.
The Annals of Tewkesbury record the death "Kal Jul" in 1235 of “Petrus filius Hereberti” and his burial at Reading. 1
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8 Apr 1222, Berkshire
Peter fitz Herbert gives the king 40 marks for having custody of the land and heir of John son of Hugh , with the marriage of the same heir, of which he is to render a moiety to the king at St. John the Baptist in the sixth year and the other moiety at Michaelmas in the same year. Falkes de Bréauté is his pledge. Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to cause Peter to have full seisin without delay of all land of the same John in his bailiwick.
Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Peter fitz Herbert by summons of the Exchequer, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 6 Hen. III, 154, 153
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[22 Mar] 1224, Berkshire
Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite the demand he makes from Peter fitz Herbert by summons of the Exchequer for the last scutage of Poitou from the time of King John, until upon his next account at the Exchequer.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 8 Hen. III, 113
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4 Jan 1225, Rutland
Order to the sheriff of Rutland to place in respite the demand of 15 marks that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Peter fitz Herbert for the debt of Henry de Ferrers , until upon his next account at the Exchequer.
12 Apr 1225
Order to the barons of the Exchequer to place in respite the demand for 15 marks that they make from Peter fitz Herbert and Isabella, his wife, for the debt of Henry de Ferrers, brother of the same Isabella, until the octaves of Trinity in the ninth year.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 9 Hen. III, 53, 154
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24 Jan 1226
The king has given respite to Peter fitz Herbert from rendering his account for the time that he was sheriff in the county of Yorkshire until 15 days from Easter in the tenth year.
5 Oct 1226
Peter fitz Herbert has respite from rendering his account for the time that he was sheriff of Yorkshire until the octaves of Hilary in the eleventh year, and order thus to the barons of the Exchequer.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 10 Hen. III, 76, 337
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17 Nov 1227, Oundle
Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite, until the octaves of Hilary in the twelfth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Peter fitz Herbert for a certain scutage from the manor of Okehampton , formerly of Matilda de Courtenay , in Devon.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 12 Hen. III, 19
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[8 Apr] 1228
Order to the sheriff of Gloucestershire to place in respite, until Michaelmas in the twelfth year, the demand he makes from Peter fitz Herbert by summons of the Exchequer for the scutage of Okehampton.
28 Sep 1228, Kerry
Order to the sheriff of Rutland to place in respite, until Hilary in the thirteenth year, the demand of 15 marks that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Peter fitz Herbert for Henry de Ferrers , and the demand of 45s. that he makes by summons of the Exchequer from the same Peter for his soke of Oakham for certain assarts made in the soke, which money Peter ought not to pay, as he says, so that it may then be inquired at the Exchequer whether Peter ought to render those monies or not.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 12 Hen. III, 151, 289
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12 Apr 1229, Guildford
Order to the sheriff of Rutland to place in respite, until one month from Easter in the thirteenth year, the demand of 15 marks that he makes from Peter fitz Herbert for Henry de Ferrers , and the demand of 45s. that he makes from the same by summons of the Exchequer for a certain assart, and to cause the livestock of the same taken for this reason to be delivered to him without delay.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 13 Hen. III, 177
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11 Jun 1230
Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the demand of 8 marks that he makes from Peter fitz Herbert for the prest made to him in Ireland in the time of King John, until three weeks from St. John the Baptist in the fourteenth year.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 14 Hen. III, 374
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4 Jan 1231, Windsor
Order to the sheriff of Wiltshire that notwithstanding the king’s order made to him to distrain all fees held from the king in chief for rendering the scutage of Poitou etc. to the king, he is not to distrain the knights or free tenants of Peter fitz Herbert to render the aforesaid scutage, but [to distrain] the same Peter for the knights’ fees he holds of the king in chief, for which he ought and is accustomed to answer the king at the Exchequer, and to permit him to have all of the rest.
It is written in the same manner to the sheriffs of Worcestershire , Gloucestershire , Oxfordshire , Warwickshire and Leicestershire , Herefordshire , Hampshire , Rutland , Yorkshire , Berkshire and Shropshire .
28 Jun 1231
Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to place in respite the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from Peter fitz Herbert for several debts, until Michaelmas in the fifteenth year.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 15 Hen. III, 87, 88, 208
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12 Mar 1232
Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to place in respite, until three weeks from Easter in the sixteenth year, the distraint which the king ordered to be made upon Peter fitz Herbert to render his scutage to the abbot of Abingdon , which the abbot exacts from him for the army of Painscastle, and concerning which dispute has arisen before the barons of the Exchequer, and to cause the aforesaid abbot and Peter to know that they are then to be before the same barons at Westminster to hear and receive their judgement there whether the said P. ought to be quit of the aforesaid scutage or ought to render it to the abbot.
24 Jul 1232, Reading
The king has given respite to Peter fitz Herbert, until one month from Michaelmas in the sixteenth year, from the demand he makes from him by summons of the Exchequer for the prest of Poitou and elsewhere from the time of King John etc. , and for the scutage he owes the king for the army of Poitou.
20 Oct 1232
Order to the sheriff of Warwickshire to place in respite, until the octaves of Hilary in the seventeenth year, the demand he makes by summons of the Exchequer from W. bishop of Worcester for the scutage of Kerry from the two knights’ fees that Peter fitz Herbert holds of the aforesaid bishop in his bailiwick.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 16 Hen. III, 72, 186, 300
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6 Jun 1235, Westminster
The king has taken the homage of Herbert, son of Peter fitz Herbert , and heir of the same, for all lands and tenements which Peter fitz Herbert held in chief and which fall to Herbert by hereditary right. Order to the sheriff of Hampshire that, having accepted security from Herbert for rendering his relief to the king, he is to cause him to have full seisin of all lands and tenements of which Peter fitz Herbert died seised in his bailiwick and which fall to Herbert by hereditary right.
1 Aug 1235, Wells
Order to the sheriff of Berkshire to cause the corn that Peter fitz Herbert caused to be sown in his demesne lands within his bailiwick to be collected by four trustworthy and law-worthy men of each manor formerly of the same Peter and to be stored in the same manors, so that nothing is removed from the aforesaid corn excepting those things necessary for collecting and stacking it, until the king will be certain by what right it ought to be answered to him for the debts that Peter owed him and until the king orders otherwise.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, 19 Hen. III, 306, 368
Orthographic variation: Peter