Sir John de Hedersete, Sir Walter de Norwich and wives

The de Hedersete family...

Look at a recent post HERE which mentioned briefly the 22 great grandparents generation...about whom I was doing some guessing.

Now I am thrilled to add not only a coat of arms... but a castle being restored that belonged to them.

Mettingham Castle, Suffolk, England

Sir John de Hedersete #22 (1253-1282)
These are some of our earlier ancestors, but not directly in the royal lineage.
his wife: Lady Margery (Margaret) de Hedersete #22 (1246-1300 or 1343)

The dates of these people aren't written in stone, and some ancestry families have different ones.

Here's the article about the castle restoration: (You may need to have an ancestry account.)  It's from a blog, Medieval News, published in 2010. 

Their daughter Catherine de Hedersete #21 (1280-after 1304) married  Sir Walter de Norwich #21 (1280-abt. 1340).  Their dates are obviously in a general ballpark.  But working for the king, meant Sir Walter had documentation throughout his life:

WALTER DE NORWICH had a protection February 1297, and, as the King's clerk, in December 1299 licence to inclose a lane adjoining his messuage in Norwich. He was Remembrancer of the Exchequer, March 1307/8, appointed a Baron, August 1311; Chief Baron, March 1311/2; Treasurer (after serving several periods as deputy Treasurer), September 1314 to May 1317. In 1315, for his good services as Treasurer, he had a grant of 1,000 marks, to maintain his state more honourably in the King's service. Keeper of the office of the Treasurer, November 1319 to February following, and again in 1321, 1322, and 1324. He was summoned to Councils at York and Lincoln, January and June 1312, and (among the justices) to Parliaments, July 1312 onwards. As farmer of the custody of the lands of Thomas de Cailly, during the minority of the heir, he was Keeper of Buckenham Castle, August 1316 till September 1325. In July 1322 he was a member of the commission to try the Mortimers, and in 1324 was returned by the sheriff of Norfolk as summoned to attend the Great Council at Westminster.

He m. Catherine, da. of Sir John DE HEDERSETE, and widow of Piers BRAUNCHE. He died between 12 April 1328 and 20 February 1328/9, and was buried in Norwich Cathedral. His widow had writ for dower, and died between January 1340/1 and October 1343. [CP 9:762-3]

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1. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
   Page: 232-32
2. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: XII/1:432
3. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: XII/2:659-60
4. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: IX:762-3
5. Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
   Page: IX:762-3
   Text: no date, 2nd husb.

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As mentioned before, their daughter Margaret de Norwich #20  (1300-1375) married Robert de Ufford #20 (1298-1469), the First Earl of Suffolk.  And their daughter (Margaret de Ufford) married Sir William de Ferrers #19, the great great greaat grandson of King Edward I Plantagenet #23.