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SIR JOHN SAMPSON
- Preferred Name: SIR JOHN SAMPSON[1] [2] [3]
- Gender: M
- FSID: GKNT-6FK
- Birth: 1247 in Holderness, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.83 LONG: E0.42 with note: GEDCOM data
- Death: 1338 in Yorkshire, England with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir with note: Knighted
- Occupation: Mayor of York1280 in York, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.9589 LONG: E1.067 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lord_mayors_of_York#Before_1300
- Notes:
=== NOTE: Lord Mayor of York, 5 times betwe ===
NOTE: Lord Mayor of York, 5 times between 1279-1300 SOUR: @S15@
=== About John ===
attorney of Archbishop of York in 1291.
constable of Scarborough Castle 1292-97.
summoned to serve against the Scots in 1296 (Stirling).
Richard son of Philip Fauconberg granted to Sir John Sampson of York and Mary his wife, his manor called Southwood in Appleton.
****On 6th Sept 1309 Sir John was was given licence to have an oratory within his manor of Appleton and died in 1310, having had four sons - John who died without issue during his father's lifetime, Henry son and heir, Thomas a canon at York d.1349, and William living 1348 when he bought a messuage in York from Robert de Reygate. Sir John also had a daughter Constance, wife of Sir John Sutton [CP XII/1574].****
=== From complete peerage: ===
Sir John Sampson, mayor of York in 1279, 1281-83, 1285, 1299 and 1300, Commissioner of gaol delivery 1286, attorney of Archbishop of York in 1291, Constable of Scarborough Castle 1292-97. Summoned to serve against the Scots in 1296 having £40 lands in Yorkshire. Owed £25 in fees and £60 compensation for lost horses and equipment at Stirling which was eventually paid to him in 1304. Knight of the Shire in 1300 and 1301. The same year he was appointed Constable of Scarborough for life for £10 p.a. but had to relinquish the post in 1308 for £20 [Knights of Edward I, v.3, p.206]. In an undated charter Richard son of Philip Fauconberg granted to Sir John Sampson of York and Mary his wife, his manor called Southwood in Appleton in Ainsty [Kirkby's Inquest, p.218]. Curiously he also seems to be the same who gave his manor of Southwood to the priory of Appleton in 1301 in a charter witnessed by Sir John Sampson. Richard de Fauconberge had also given the nuns two parts of his manor of "Suboys' in 1265 [Monasticon Anglicanum, v.5 p.653]. Mary was John Sampson's wife prior to an inquisition instigated by the heirs of Gilbert Skipton to John and Mary's right in a messuage in Appleton in 1299 [William Brown (ed.), Yorkshire Inquisitions, vol. 3, p.113]. On 6th Sept 1309 Sir John was was given licence to have an oratory within his manor of Appleton and died in 1310, having had four sons - John who died without issue during his father's lifetime, Henry son and heir, Thomas a canon at York d.1349, and William living 1348 when he bought a messuage in York from Robert de Reygate. Sir John also had a daughter Constance, wife of Sir John Sutton [CP XII/1574].
Preferred Parents:
Father: Alan Sampson Baliff of York 1253-1254, b. ABT 1225 in Yorkshire, England d. 1273 in Yorkshire, England
Mother: Elizabeth Constance , b. ABT 1224 in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Family 1: Mary Fawconberg, b. 1247 in Holderness, Yorkshire, England d. in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- m. ABT 1275 in Yorkshire, England
- Thomas de Sampson, b. ABT 1279 in Yorkshire, England d. AUG 1349 in York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Constance Sampson, b. 1273 in Holderness, Yorkshire, England d. AFT 1349 in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
- Henry Sampson Lord Of Appleton, b. 1281 in Yorkshire England d. 1357
Sources:
- Title: Sampson Family Genealogy
Publication: Name: http://www.sampsongenealogy.com/getperson.php?personID=I53334&tree=ONS;
- Title: List of Lord Mayors of York
Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_Lord_Mayors_of_York;
- Title: The Sampson family by Sampson, Lilla E. Briggs Published [1914]
Author: pages 11-12
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/sampsonfamily00samp#page/12/mode/2up;
Note: Gives details of John Sampson and daughter Constance and his heritage...
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