Alexander St. John Knights Templar of Instow and East Luccombe

• Preferred Name: Alexander St. John Knights Templar of Instow and East Luccombe
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GKH6-6JV
  
• Knights+Templar+1333: with note: Description: 1333 Tawstock, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location Alexander de Sancto Johanne, Knights Templar: Most curious of all just outside of Barnstaple lies a Chapel of St John, very near the interestingly named village of Templeton, the parish records of which list one Alexander de Sancto Johanne as being a regular attendee at the chapel and describes him as a Knight Templar, which is odd because the records are dated 1333, 20 years after the Templars were supposed to have been forced to leave the order or imprisoned.
  
• Birth: ABT 1286 in Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.7827 LONG: E1.168
  
• Death: AFT 1351 in Instow, Devon, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.0541 LONG: E4.1768
  
• Notes:

  === Land, marriage and families from original documentation ===
  13 Nov 2 1339, Kennington;
  • Licence for Alexander de Sancto Johanne and Elizabeth (widow of Hugh Luccombe) his wife and Oliver De Sancto Johanne and Elizabeth (Luccombe) his wife to Enfeoff Richard de Morcastre, parson of the church of Luccombe, of the manor of East Luccombe co Somerset, and the advowsons of the churches of Luccombe and Selworthy, held in chief as of the honour of Pynkeneye, and for him to re-grant the same to the said Alexander and Elizabeth his wife for life, with successive remainders in tail to Oliver and Elizabeth his wife, to John, Theobald and Henry, sons of the said Alexander, and reversion to the right heirs of the said John.
  
  === Marriage ===
  1323 East Luccombe, Devon, England
  Death of Hugh Luccombe of East Luccombe (Alexander marries his widow and his son Oliver marries Hugh's daughter in 1339) Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward II. Hugh de Luccombe: Somerset.
  
  === More Proof of information on him ===
  24 Sep 1345 East Luccombe, Somerset, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location
  To Thomas Cary, escheator in cos. Somerset and Dorset. Order to deliver to Oliver de Sancto Johanne and Elizabeth his wife the manor of Estlokcombe and the advowson of the church of that town, with the advowson of Seleworthy church, as the king has learned by inquisition taken by the escheator that Elizabeth late the wife of Alexander de Sancto Johanne, at her death, held no lands in chief or of any other in her demesne as of fee or in service in that bailiwick, but that she held the said manor and advowsons for life with remainder to Oliver and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies, by a fine levied in the king's court, by his licence, and that the manor is held in chief as of the honour of Pynkenye by the service of 2½ knights' fees, and the king has taken Oliver's homage and has rendered the manor and advowsons to him and Elizabeth.
  By p.s. [17088.]
  
  https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/edw3/vol7/pp606-611
  
  === 1339 land granted ===
  2 Nov 1339 East Luccombe, Devon, England
  Granted East Luccombe
  1339 2 Nov ? Age: 53
  probably upon marriage to the Luccombe widow and of is son, Oliver St. John to Elizabeth Luccombe, the daughter, during their minority. Alexandra St. John may also have been betrothed to John Luccombe the son.
  
  === Information on Alexander ===
  21Sep 1318 Instow, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location
  THE REGISTER OF BISHOP GRANDISSON (Instow): Alexander de Sancto Johannne presents to Instow (R 834)

• m. ABT 1320

1. Henry St John, b. ABT 1330 in England     d. 24 SEP 1406

• m. ABT 1339 in Devon, England