Adam de Welles

[15 Oct 2026, Complete Peerage XII/2 pp.436-441: son of Robert de Welle (d.1265) x Isabel de Periton (I101064 x I101065); m. in or before 1296 Joan Engaine (I101060); d. 1 Sep 1311, bur. Greenfield Priory; GRANDFATHER, not father, of John 4th Lord - the 3rd Lord Adam (I101058) inserted between them.] Adam de Welles was summoned to Parliament in 1299 as the first Baron Welles, founding the Lincolnshire barony that ran unbroken to the drowned and beheaded Welleses of the Wars of the Roses - though this line branches off before those disasters, through the fourth lord's Irish-bound daughter.