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 Abt 1450 - 1504 (~ 54 years)
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| Name |
Morduant, John |
| Born |
Abt 1450 |
Of Turvey, Bedfordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
11 Sep 1504 |
Turvey, Bedfordshire, England |
| Person ID |
I07079 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
2 Jun 2015 |
| Family |
Latimer, Edith, b. Abt 1450, Dorset, England , d. Abt 1518, Turvey, Bedfordshire, England (Age ~ 68 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1480 |
England |
| Children |
| + | 1. Mordaunt, Joan, b. Abt 1487, Of Copley, Bedfordshire, England , d. Of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, England |
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| Family ID |
F02107 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Bedfordshire Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1383-1548, Pubs. Bedford Hist. Record Soc., vol. 58, 1979, DA670 B29 B4 v.58, pages 68-71:
53. (Prob. 11/14 f.22 pg. 172)
Will of Jn. Mordaunt, kt. Thursday 5 Sep, pr. 6 Dec 1504 (Latin)
Body to be bur. in the chapel of the Blessed Mary in Turvey parish church wherever he happens to die; ....Feoffees and exors. to erect and estab. a certain chantry in the said chapel in Turvey ch...for the souls of the testator, his father Wm. Mordaunt and mother Margaret and all his ancestors and for the soul of his wife Edith daughter and one of the heirs of Nicholas Latymer kt. of Duntish in Dorset and the souls of Anne late Countess of Warwick and all testator’s benefactors...To wife Edith for life lands and tenements to the value of L100 p.a. in Turvey and Stotfold ...After the said 10 years have elapsed testator’s son Wm. Mordaunt and heirs of his body are to have the reversion of the manor at Lyford and all lands and tenements with appurtenances in Lyford and elsewhere in Berks., remainder to testator’s son Jn. and heir apparent and heirs of his body, remainder to daughter Joan and heirs of her body, remainder to testator’s brother Wm. Mordaunt and heirs of his body, remainder to testator’s sister Eliz. wife of Wistan Broun and heirs of her body, remainder to right heirs of testator Jn. Mordaunt the father for ever. To son Wm. a certain annual rent ... to remain to the same marriage for Wm. when he comes to full age. Eldest son Jn. to have during said 10 years 40 marks p.a. from manor of Moulsoe and feoffees of said manor and lands.... to use of testator’s son Jn. and heirs of his body, remainder to testator’s son Wm. and heirs of his body, remainder to testator’s said daughter Joan Strangways and heirs of her body, remainder to testator’s brother Wm. and heirs of his body, remainder to said Eliz. Broun and heirs of her body, remainder to right heirs of Jn. Mordaunt the son for ever... Testator’s brother Wm. Mordaunt....To daughter Joan, wife of Giles Strangways, 20 pounds of silver, not in money but in 1 basin and ewer of silver and in 1 cup with a gilt cover, to the value of L20. L7 are to be disposed for the soul of said lady Agnes Pekke whose exor. testator is. ...Exrs. brother Wm. Mordaunt, Jn. Vynter’ and Wm. Gascoign’ to whom L 20 each beyond their expenses; witn. said Wm. Mordaunt, Wm. Gascoign’, Jn. Vynter, Jn. Mordaunt testator’s son, Wistan Broun’ and others.
[footnote] Jn. Mordaunt, kt. Born 1455, son of Wm. Mordaunt and wife Margaret, daughter of Jn. Pekke of Cople. He succeeded to his father’s estates in 1481.
He was wounded on the Lancastrian side at the battle of Barnet, was a commander at the battle of Stoke 1487 and was chosen speaker of the House of Commons in the same year. He became a serjeant-at-law 10 Sep 1495, one of the King’s serjeants 25 Nov following and was M.P. for the county of Bedford. He was attorney to Prince Arthur and Chief Justice of Chester, c1499. He was knighted 1502/3 and in 1504 was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for life and on 28 Aug was granted special privileges by the Pope. He was for many years a member of the Privy Council.
He married Edith daughter and heiress of Sir Nich. Latimer of Duntish, Dorset and wid. of Jn. Grene of Stotfold, who outlived him. His son and heir J., ages 21 at his father’s death, was afterwards Ld. Mordaunt of Turvey who married Eliz. Veer, sister of Ethelreda Veer mentioned in this will.
He d. 11 Sep 1504. There is an altar tomb to him in Turvey church. The chantry and school described in his will appear never to have been founded.
“A Bedfordshire Bibliography,” L. R. Conisbee; “DNB, History of the Duchy of Lancaster,” R. Somerville, vol. I pg. 392; Nicolas, “Testamenta Vetusta”
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