 Abt 1374 - 1438 (~ 64 years)
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| Name |
Stourton, John |
| Born |
Abt 1374 |
Of Brimpton, Somerset, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
Y [1] |
| Buried |
16 Dec 1438 |
Staverdale, Somerset, England |
| Person ID |
I04891 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
16 Jun 2015 |
| Family 2 |
Denys, Alice, b. Abt 1400, Of Kent, England , d. Abt 1420, England (Age ~ 20 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1410 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Stourton, Jane, b. Abt 1418, Of Somerset, England , d. 21 Apr 1472, Of Brimpton, Somerset, England (Age ~ 54 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01531 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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- Description Will of John Stourton of Preston, Somerset
Date 27 January 1439
Catalogue reference PROB 11/3
Dept Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Somerset Medieval Wills, Somerset Rec. Soc. Vol. 16:
1438. John Stourton (25 Luffenam. Fo. 195)
I, John Stourton of Preston, the elder, son of ("Sir" inserted in pen) John Stourton, formerly Lord de Stourton, brother of William Stourton, son and heir of the said John Stourton de Stourton...10 Nov 1438, make my will in this manner:...burial in ch. of Staverdale...wife Katherine...
John Stourton, of Preston, Senior, son of John Stourton, sometime Lord of Stourton, and brother of William, Son and heir of the said John, November 10, 1438. My body to be buried in the Church of Staverdale. To Katherine, my wife; to Sir John Stourton my good psalter; to Anastatia, my sister; to Cecilia, my daughter, one silver cup, which I had of Nicholas d'Ortes. If Sir John Stourton my nephew, shall contest with my executors about any thing which did belong to William, his father, I will, &c. Proved January 27, 1438-9
From the will of John Stourton, there is very clear evidence of his identity, it is dated loth November, 1438, and proved 27th January, 1438-9, the translation of the commencement of which reads : - I John Stourton, of Preston, senior, son of John Stourton, sometime Lord of Stourton^, and (half) brother of William Stourton, son and heir of the said John (Stourton). He directed his body to be buried in the Church of Stavordale||, and mentions his third wife, Katherine, his nephew. Sir John Stourton, knight, afterwards created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts. ; his sister, Anastasia, a nun at Shaftesbury, and his daughter Cecily.
Somerset Feet of Fines, 8H6 (1429-1430):
58. John Passeware and William Bochell querents; John Wynford and Alice his wife deforciants; manor of Brympton and advowson of the church and chantry of St. Mary. John W. and Alice acknowledged the right of John P. and his heirs; for this John P. gr. same to John W. and Alice to hold to them and the heirs of the body of John begotten, and of John W. die w/o such heirs then after Alice dies all to remain to John Stourton of Preston Plokenet, Master Richard Stourton, William Carent, William Powlet, John Hody, John Fauntleroy, John Welle, John Smyth and John Dyker, and to the heirs of John Stourton.
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Somerset Feet of Fines, 13H6 (1433-1434):
14. John Sydenham and Joan his wife querents; John Stourton, of Preston Plokenet, John Hody, and John Smyth deforciants; for manor of Brympton and advowsons of the church and chantry of St. Mary which William Lamboke cleric, William Alisaundre, Robert Peny, Thomas Beaushen, William Forde, Nicholas Coker, Ralph Brytt, Robert Hymerford, Thomas Forde cleric, William Levedon cleric, John Knakeston cleric, John Passeware, John Lymbury, Walter Burcy, Walter Tanner, Thomas Germyn and William Germyn held for the life of Alice who was wife of John Wynford esquire. John Sydenham acknowledged the manor and advowsons to be the right of John Stourton; for this John Stourton granted that the same, after the decease of Alice, shall remain to John Sydenham and Joan and their issue rendering per annum a rose at midsummer, and if John and Joan die without issue then all to revert to John Stourton and his heirs.
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25 Feb 1410--
Commission of oyer and terminer to Robert Hill, Humphrey Stafford 'chivaler', William Stourton, John Wyke of Nyenhyde and John Jewe, on complaint by John Denebaud that Thomas Bolour and John his son and other evildoers at Chafcombe, Somerset, drove...oxen...across a ... field...assaulted John Purye...at Northcryket...threatened John Denebaud...at Chafcombe.
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1410--
Commission to John Wadham, 'chivaler', Thomas Beauchamp, John Stourton, John Jewe, John Warre and John Sparowe to enquire into the report that certain evildoers went to the manor of Mersshwood and the hundreds of Whitchurche and Mersshwode, Dorset, in the king's hads by reason of the minority of Edmund son and heir of Roger, late earl of March, and committed divers trespasses in the parks and stews there.
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Somerset Feet of Fines, 8H6 (1429-1430):
104 sr john sturton wilts
1 S OX AB bend betw 6 roundels barry wavy
John Stourton of Brimpton & Preston (Som), d.1438, MP 1420-35. His brother William was Speaker in 1413 and Steward of the Prince of Wales 1402-1414. T/b is unifinished.
Burke EP; Roskell C 3:490-499;
Somerset Feet of Fines, 8H6 (1429-1430):
58. John Passeware and William Bochell querents; John Wynford and Alice his wife deforciants; manor of Brympton and advowson of the church and chantry of St. Mary. John W. and Alice acknowledged the right of John P. and his heirs; for this John P. gr. same to John W. and Alice to hold to them and the heirs of the body of John begotten, and of John W. die w/o such heirs then after Alice dies all to remain to John Stourton of Preston Plokenet, Master Richard Stourton, William Carent, William Powlet, John Hody, John Fauntleroy, John Welle, John Smyth and John Dyker, and to the heirs of John Stourton.
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Will In his will, dated November 10 1428, he lists
Himself, John Stourton of Preston Senior
His father John Stourton sometime Lord of Stourton
William his brother and son and heir of their father John
Katherine his wife
Anastasia his sister
Cecilia his daughter
Sir John Stourton, his nephew, son of William.
All John Stourton's landed property he had previously settled on his daughters, in his lifetime, and when his Inquisition was taken after his death, at Yeovil, in 17 Henry VI., 1439, he was called John Stourton, Esquire, of Preston, not Brimpton, and it was proved and found by the Jurors that he then held no lands, hereditaments and premises within the County of Somerset, his three daughters,
(i) Cecily, wife of Thomas Kuriel, knight, aged 34 years ; (2) Johanna, wife of John Sydenham, Esquire, aged 21 years ; and (3) Alice Stourton, aged 7 years ; were his coheirs at law. These daughters were respectively children by each of his three wives, and the Inquisition is important as deciding the priority of their births. In Harleian MS., No. 1074, his first wife was erroneously given as his second one, with her name in blank, and his second wife was consequently placed as his first one, and in a pedigree prepared in
1509, there was also some confusion made in his three wives, although more care was used in ascertaining the child by each marriage, excepting as to their priority of birth. John Stourton's first wife was Joan, daughter of William Banastre, Lord of the Manors of Wheathill, Radstock, &c*., widow of Robert Aff'eton, living in 1395. He founded an obiit to " Pray for the soul of Joany sometime the wife of John Stourton;};." By her he had one daughter and heir, eventually a coheir : -
Cecily Stourton, aged 34 years in 1439, she married (i) John Hill,
of Spakton, aged 21 years on his father's death, on Sunday the Feast
of St. Mark, I424§, who himself died on Thursday next after the Feast
. of St. Calixtus in 1435II, with whom she claimed a house in Wells, as
heir of her maternal grandfather, William Banastre, called Lord of
Wellesleigh, who had, by deed in 12 Richard II., given a messuage in
Wells to a Canon thereof, which John and Cecily Hill alleged they had
been dispossessed ofH. She married (2) Sir Wjtiiam? Kuriel, knight, of
Westhangre, Kent**, whose wife she was at her father's death, and under
- Coll. Soms. III., 450. t Esch. 19 Ric. II., No. 6. \ Inq. Ad, Q. D. 3 H. V., No. 14.
i; Esch. I Hen. VI., No. 31. |1 Esch. 13 Hen. VI., No. 31.
*y Assize Rolls, Somerset, Div. Co., 2-7 Hen. VI., No. 2, 40-1.
- It was found in 20 Edward III., that Sir John de Criel, or Keriel, paid aid for one fourth of a knight's
fee, which Benjamin and John de Stourton, had held in Westhangre, in Stanford, Co. Kent, of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, which comprised certain lands, which were subsequently imparked in the
Park of Westhangre, called Baynams alias Berharas,
CHILDREN OF JOHN STOURTON, OF PRESTON. 85
thelatter's will she had one silver cup which had belono-ed to one Nicliolas
d'Ortes. On her death, iSth April, 1472, Preston Pluckenet passed to
her son and heir by John^Hill*.
John Stourton married, secondly, Alice Dennis or Peny, of Co. Kent,
called Alice, daughter and heir of . . . Peny, by Hoare, and confirmed as to
the name by Had, MS., 1074; and as dauorhter of . . . Dennis, of Kent, by
Edmondson. By her he had issue a daughter and coheir : - -
Jane Stourton, aged 21 years in 1439, wrongly called Alice in the
Visitation for Co. Somerset, but corrected to Jane in the old pedigree of
1509, who married John Sydenham!, Esquire, M.P. for Co. Somerset,
and which marriage is confirmed subject to Alice for Jane, by the
Visitation for Co. Somerset, as well as being confirmed by Hoare and
Edmondson, and supported by legal records. John Sydenham pre-
deceased his wife, on the 4th April, 1460, leaving Walter, his son and
heir, aged 25J, and in his Inquisition taken in 8 Edward IV., he was
called John Sydenham, senior. Esquire, and Preston Manor was then
said to be held of the Honor of Trowbridge. His son and heir, Walter
Sydenham, also predeceased his mother, Jane Sydenham, on the ist
May, 1469, leaving John Sydenham, his son and next heir, who was the
next heir of his grandmother, Mrs. Joan Sydenham, who was seised in fee,
by survivorship, of Brimpton Manor, Church, Chantry, &c., and of which
she had enfeoffed certain trustees, viz: - John Chayney, John Byconyll,
Robert Hymerford, and others, of the Manors of Brimpton and Alving-
ton, with the Advowson of the Church of Brimpton, and Chantry of the
blesssed Virgin Mary of Brimpton, to perform the trusts of her will. It
is admitted that her husband acquired Brimpton in her right by marriage
ionp. Henry VI., and that the fair Manor of Brimpton, according to Mr.
Batten, came down to Sir Philip Sidenham, Baronet, whose portrait
is in the British Museum, from his ancestor, John Stourton, of Preston,
who flourished in the reign of Henry VI. She died 21st April, 1472,
and her Inquisition was taken after her death, 31st October following,
at Crewkerne, before Thomas Phelipp, Escheator, when she was said to
- Esch. 12 Edw. IV., No. 51.
i Mr. Jewers says, his a.rms- Argent, a cJievrnii hdvcen three Rams passant sable, impaling the Stonrtoii"
Arms- remain in contemporary glass in the old chapel of Bishop Bubwith's Almshouses in Wells.
t Esch. S Edward IV.
86 HISTORY OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF STOURTON.
have been wife of John Sydenham, armiger, and it was found she had
died seised of Brimpton Manor, with the Advowson of that Church, and
the said Chantry of the blessed, Virgin Mary therein ; as well as of the
Manors of Preston, Combe-Sydenham*, Stoke-Gomere, Bosington,
Ronnyngton, and Ashbrittle, with considerable lands, tenements, and
the Advowson of the Church at Ashbrittle, besides lands and tenements
in Lukeyerd, Hoo, Timberscombe, Ketenor Quaram, Ketenor, Mouncez,
Sydenham, Cobbehay, Smitheney, Mauworth, Ronington, Thorn St.
Margaret, Rammesyate, Langford Buddeville, Chiltern Dunmere, and
Mulverton ; also two tenements, a fulling mill, and one carucate or
ploughland in Streme, parish of St. Decumans ; i messuage, 60 acres
of arable land, 70 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, and 4 acres of
wood, in East and West Chescombe, leaving her grandson, John
Sydenham, (son and next heir of her then late son, Walter Sydenham,
Esquire,) as her next heir, then aged 3 years. The old manorial house
of Brimpton was standing temp. Edward II's reign, still used and
occupied by the owners, from that period as the Lords of Brimpton, down to that of Henry VI., when Mr. Batten thought the old Manorial
residence was not destroyed but perhaps discarded, on Mrs. Sydenham's grandson, the above John Sydenham, building on or near the site thereof
John Stourton, of Preston, Senior, son of John Stourton, sometime Lord of Stourton, and brother of William, Sod and heir of the said John, November 10, 1438. My body to be buried in the Church of Staverdale. To Katherine, my wife; to Sir John Stourton my good psalter; to Anastatia, my sister; to Cecilia, my daughter, one silver cup, which I had of Nicholas d'Ortes. If Sir John Stourton my nephew, shall contest with my executors about any thing which did belong to William, his father, I will, &c. Proved January 27, 1438-9
John Stourton, of Brimpton and Preston, Co. Somerset, of which
Manor of Brimpton he was Lord. The Armorial Seals at Wells, Co. Somer-
set, shew the seal of this John Stourton, to be only a Griffin's head between
the letters L S., as appended to Letters of Attorney, of 26th January, 1432,
in which he, and his nephew, Sir John Stourton, knight, afterwards created
Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts. ; his relative, William Carent ; and his
brother. Master Richard Stourton, clerk, had seisen of lands in Melesburgh
and Wokey-Hole, in Wells Forum, Co. Somerset, granted to them by John
Palton, Esquire, by deed of 5th January, 1432*. In the agreement, dated
at Wells, 29th September, 14 Henry VL, relating to the building of Bishop
Bubwith's Almshouses in Wells, this John Stourton, was a party as " senior"
and " Esquire," which follows the description in his will, the senior being
presumably used to distinguish him from his nephew. Sir John, afterwards
Lord Stourtonf, for he had no sons. From two Inquisitions^, which passed
between the 7 and 8 Henry VI. , he, and others, gave and granted to the
Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew's, in Wells, the
Manor of Bishop's-Kingsbury, with 14 messuages. Dovecote, 160 acres of
land, 12^ acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and 5s. rent, in Estlang-
broke ; 2 tofts [4 tofts in one Inquisition] 4 gardens, 12 acres of land, 4 acres
of meadow, and 30 acres of pasture, in Hethorne, Co. Somerset. He was
called John or Jenkyn Stourton§, In 1402 John Stourton witnessed a
composition then agreed to between the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and William Beauchanip, Lord oi' the Manor of Lillesdonc and Slalho, Co.
Somerset, concerning- the fishery rights in the Tone, &c. This John
Stourton's sister, Kdith, had married, as evidenced from the Visitations for
Counties York and Beds., Sir John Beauchamp, of Bletsho, Co, Beds, knig-ht,
and from the Visitation for Co. Beds.
Possibility??
Will of John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire and Somerset June 1493 PROB 11/9
SIR JOHN STOURTON, KNT. John Stourton, Knight', August 18, 1484. My body to be buried in the Chapel of the Chantry of the Virgin in the parish of Mere. And I will that my obit, and the obit of my wife Katherine, be kept in the said Chantry. To Katherine, my wife, my manor of Over-moigne, in the County of Dorset. Proved 1st July, 1493.
Wiltshire Archives
Reference No.9/1/26 Title Copy inquisition post mortem of 1463 concerning the lands held by John Stourton. Date 17th cent Description Including property in Stourton, Mere, Maiden Bradley, Poulshot, Potterne, Great Cheverell, Little Langford, West Ashton, Great Hinton, Bulkington, Salisbury, Stratford-sub-Castle, Beckhampton, Wilton, Stoford, South Newton, Quidhampton, Chisenbury, Winterbourne, Maddington, Ablington and Alton in Figheldean
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- Citation Text: Somerset Medieval Wills, Somerset Rec. Soc. Vol. 16: 1438. John Stourton (25 Luffenam. Fo. 195) I, John Stourton of Preston, the elder, son of ("Sir" inserted in pen) John Stourton, formerly Lord de Stourton, brother of William Stourton, son and heir of the said John Stourton de Stourton...10 Nov 1438, make my will in this manner:...burial in ch. of Staverdale...wife Katherine...
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