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John de Burgh
- Preferred Name: John de Burgh[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Gender: M
- FSID: GHFS-WTQ
- Death: BEF 1 DEC 1274 in Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, England at LATI: N2.0187 LONG: E0.6292
- Birth: 1210 in Burgh, Cawston, & Newton, Norfolk, England at LATI: N2.706 LONG: E0.2806
- Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/John-de-Burgh/6000000059147341995?through=6000000059147274976
- Burial: 1275 in Lewes St Thomas at Cliffe, Lewes, Sussex, England at LATI: N0.8742 LONG: E0.0211
- knighted: 3 JUN 1229 with note: knighted June 3 1229
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir Knight
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN DE BURGH, Knt., of Burgh, Cawston, and Newton, Norfolk, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, Soharn, Cambridgeshire, Hornby and Melling, Lancashire, Sotherton, Suffolk, Banstead, Surrey, Portslade, Sussex, Long Compton, Warwickshire, etc., Constable of the Tower of London and Colchester Castle, Essex, and, in right of his wife, of Walkern and Datchworth, Hertfordshire, Blagrave (in Lambourn), Berkshire, Little Abington, Cambridgeshire, Great Bromley, Lexden, and Stanway, Essex, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Chalk, Kent, Wakerley, Northamptonshire, Camel and Kingsbury (in Milbome Port), Somerset, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born in 1210.
He married before 1227 HAWISE DE LANVALLAY, daughter and heiress of William de Lanvallay, of Walkern and Datchworth, Hertfordshire, Blagrave (in Lambourn), Berkshire, etc., by Maud, daughter of Gilbert Pecche [see LANVALLAY 3 for her ancestry],
They had one son,
1. John, Knt.
In 1234 the king forgave John and his wife, Hawise, a debt of £125 8d which was formerly owed by Hawise de Lanvallay, late grandmother of Hawise de Burgh. Sometime in or after 1234 he sold the manor of Westley (in Wesdey Waterless), Cambridgeshire to Walter de Crek. About 1235 Adam, Abbot of Colchester quitclaimed to John and his wife Hawise five shillings of rent in a mill called Northmelne. In 1238-9 he and his wife, Hawise, sued Alice de Vipont for land in Eton, Bedfordshire. In 1239-40 he and his wife, Hawise, subinfeudated the manor and advowson of Little Abington, Cambridgeshire to Hugh de Vaux. In 1240 he and his wife, Hawise, claimed land in Sandy, Bedfordshire, as part of her inheritance from her great-grandmother, Gunnor de Saint Clare, wife of William de Lanvallay. The same year he and his wife, Hawise, conveyed the manor of Datchworth, Hertfordshire to Gilbert de W/Hauton for the rent of a pair of gilt spurs or 6d. at Easter. In 1241 he owed relief for the manor of Portslade, Sussex, which his half-sister, Margaret, held of the Earl de Warenne. In 1241 Richard de Cheveley essoined Adam de Saint Martins, attorney of Hawise wife of John de Burgh, in a plea of land in Cambridgeshire. Sometime in the period, 1242-59, he granted 52 1/2 acres assart within the hedge of his park at Cawston, Norfolk to Baldwin de Cankwell. In 1243 Joan wife of William de Bonville sued John and his wife, Hawise, in a plea regarding land in Somerset and in a plea of customs and service. His wife, Hawise, died in 1249, and was buried in the Chapter House at St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex. In 1253 he granted to Baldwin de Cankwell a messuage with a croft and 30 acres of land in Cawston, Norfolk, including the fields of Oulton and Moretoft. In 1260 he was granted free warren in his estates in Milbome Port, Somerset. In 1262 John de Burgh the elder leased lands in Soham, Fordham, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400l. in hand. In 1269 he presented to the church of Wakerley, Northamptonshire. In 1270 he gave the manor of East Chalk, Kent and the advowson of Chartre (in Little Hallingbury), Essex to Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey. In 1272-3 the king ordered the sheriff of Surrey to take into the king's hands the manor of Barnstead, Surrey, which John de Burgh, senior, sold without license to William de Apuldrefield. In 1272-3 Peter de Huntingfeld arraigned a jury against him touching a tenement in Lexden and Stanway, Essex. In 1272-3 he arraigned a jury against Joan de Huntingfeud touching a tenement in Hatfield Peverel, Essex. In Dec. 1273 he granted the king the manors of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, Eastwood and Rayleigh, Essex, Cawston, Norfolk, Wheatley, Nottinghamshire, Camel and Kingsbury, Somerset, Nayland, Suffolk, Barnstead, Surrey, and Long Compton, Warwickshire, he retaining a life interest in the said manors, plus the grant of lands by the king to the value of £300 a year to hold for life. In 1273 it he conveyed the manor of Stanway, Essex to Thomas de Belhous and his wife, Floria. In Jan. 1274 he was appointed to the farm of the dty of London. SIR JOHN DE BURGH died testate shortly before 7 Jan. 1274/5.
=== !Sir Bernard Burkes Dormant & Extinct Pe ===
!Sir Bernard Burkes Dormant & Extinct Peerage p.160,great grand son ofHubert Earl of Kent;
=== Sir John De Burgh was knighted in 1220. ===
Sir John De Burgh was knighted in 1220. 94-29. Weis.
=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 3/2009:
Sir John de Burgh1
M, #107905, d. circa 1274
Sir John de Burgh|d. c 1274|p10791.htm#i107905|Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent|b. c 1170\nd. 12 May 1243|p10487.htm#i104864|Beatrice de Warenne|d. c 12 Dec 1214|p463.htm#i4621|unknown de Burgh||p463.htm#i4622|Alice (?)||p463.htm#i4623|William de Warenne|b. b 1193\nd. c 1208/9|p463.htm#i4624|Beatrix de Pierrepont||p463.htm#i4625|
Last Edited=22 Feb 2009
Sir John de Burgh was the son of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and Beatrice de Warenne . He married Hawise de Lanvaley , daughter of William III de Lanvaley and Maud Peche , circa 1227. He died circa 1274.
Sir John de Burgh lived at Lanvaley .2
Child of Sir John de Burgh and Hawise de Lanvaley
Margaret de Burgh + d. 13041,2
Citations
[S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 209. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
[S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 170. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
=== Son of Hubert De BURGH, Justicar of Engl ===
Son of Hubert De BURGH, Justicar of England and Earl of Kent. Defender of Dover Castle, his father was guardian of King Henry III and an advisor on castle building. Hubert died in 1234.
=== Biography ===
“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“JOHN DE BURGH, Knt., of Burgh, Cawston, and Newton, Norfolk, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, Soharn, Cambridgeshire, Hornby and Melling, Lancashire, Sotherton, Suffolk, Banstead, Surrey, Portslade, Sussex, Long Compton, Warwickshire, etc., Constable of the Tower of London and Colchester Castle, Essex, and, in right of his wife, of Walkern and Datchworth, Hertfordshire, Blagrave (in Lambourn), Berkshire, Little Abington, Cambridgeshire, Great Bromley, Lexden, and Stanway, Essex, Hamerton, Huntingdonshire, Chalk, Kent, Wakerley, Northamptonshire, Camel and Kingsbury (in Milbome Port), Somerset, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born in 1210. He married before 1227 HAWISE DE LANVALLAY, daughter and heiress of William de Lanvallay, of Walkern and Datchworth, Hertfordshire, Blagrave (in Lambourn), Berkshire, etc., by Maud, daughter of Gilbert Pecche [see LANVALLAY 3 for her ancestry], They had one son, John, Knt. In 1234 the king forgave John and his wife, Hawise, a debt of £125 8d which was formerly owed by Hawise de Lanvallay, late grandmother of Hawise de Burgh. Sometime in or after 1234 he sold the manor of Westley (in Wesdey Waterless), Cambridgeshire to Walter de Crek. About 1235 Adam, Abbot of Colchester quitclaimed to John and his wife Hawise five shillings of rent in a mill called Northmelne. In 1238-9 he and his wife, Hawise, sued Alice de Vipont for land in Eton, Bedfordshire. In 1239-40 he and his wife, Hawise, subinfeudated the manor and advowson of Little Abington, Cambridgeshire to Hugh de Vaux. In 1240 he and his wife, Hawise, claimed land in Sandy, Bedfordshire, as part of her inheritance from her great-grandmother, Gunnor de Saint Clare, wife of William de Lanvallay. The same year he and his wife, Hawise, conveyed the manor of Datchworth, Hertfordshire to Gilbert de Wauton for the rent of a pair of gilt spurs or 6d. at Easter. In 1241 he owed relief for the manor of Portslade, Sussex, which his half-sister, Margaret, held of the Earl de Warenne. In 1241 Richard de Cheveley essoined Adam de Saint Martins, attorney of Hawise wife of John de Burgh, in a plea of land in Cambridgeshire. Sometime in the period, 1242-59, he granted 52 1/2 acres assart within the hedge of his park at Cawston, Norfolk to Baldwin de Cankwell. In 1243 Joan wife of William de Bonville sued John and his wife, Hawise, in a plea regarding land in Somerset and in a plea of customs and service. His wife, Hawise, died in 1249, and was buried in the Chapter House at St. John's Abbey, Colchester, Essex. In 1253 he granted to Baldwin de Cankwell a messuage with a croft and 30 acres of land in Cawston, Norfolk, including the fields of Oulton and Moretoft. In 1260 he was granted free warren in his estates in Milbome Port, Somerset. In 1262 John de Burgh the elder leased lands in Soham, Fordham, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400l. in hand. In 1269 he presented to the church of Wakerley, Northamptonshire. In 1270 he gave the manor of East Chalk, Kent and the advowson of Chartre (in Little Hallingbury), Essex to Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey. In 1272-3 the king ordered the sheriff of Surrey to take into the king's hands the manor of Banstead, Surrey, which John de Burgh, senior, sold without license to William de Apuldrefield. In 1272-3 Peter de Huntingfend arraigned a jury against him touching a tenement in Lexden and Stanway, Essex. In 1272-3 he arraigned a jury against Joan de Huntingfeud touching a tenement in Hatfield Peverel, Essex. In Dec. 1273 he granted the king the manors of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Winfrith Newburgh, Dorset, Eastwood and Rayleigh, Essex, Cawston, Norfolk, Wheatley, Nottinghamshire, Camel and Kingsbury, Somerset, Nayland, Suffolk, Banstead, Surrey, and Long Compton, Warwickshire, he retaining a life interest in the said manors, plus the grant of lands by the king to the value of £300 a year to hold for life. In 1273 it he conveyed the manor of Stanway, Essex to Thomas de Belhous and his wife, Floria. In Jan. 1274 he was appointed to the farm of the dty of London. SIR JOHN DE BURGH died testate shortly before 7 Jan. 1274/5.
Brooke Discoverie of Certaine Errours (1724): 36-37. Morant Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex 1 (1768): 268, 440-441; 2 (1768): 190, 511-512. Leland Collectanea 2 (1770): 414. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 341-344. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 2 (1821): 461-467 (Lanvallei ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5(1825): 88, 90. Chauncy Hist. Antiqs. of Hertfordshire 2 (1826): 85-88. Ireland Hist. of the Count of Kent 4 (1830): 209. Roberts Excerpta é rotulis finium in Turd Londinensi 1 (1835): 269, 406. Palgrave Antient Kalendars & Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer 1 (1836): 45-46. ColL Top. et Gen. 7 (1841): 273-278. Arch. Aeliana n.s. 1 (1857): 23-24. Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 1858 (1858): 282-284 (undated deed of John de Burgh, with reproduction of his appended seal taken from a collection of drawings of seals in the Herald's College; seal displays masculy armes, with a label of five points, and the legend "Sigillum Johannis de Burgo."). Top. & Gen. 3 (1858): 187. Herald & Genealogist 4 (1867): 337-340. Watson Tendring Hundred in the Olden Time (1877): 161-164. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 572, 599; 43 (1882): 408-409. Wrottesley Feet of Fines: Henry III (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 4) (1883): 238-259. Doyle Official Baronage of England 2 (1886): 271-274 (sub Kent). Walter Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 21, 40. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 259 (seal of John de Burgh dated 1269 - Obverse. To the right In armour; hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield of arms slung by a band over the night shoulder. Horse caparisoned. Arms: lozengy, [gu.] and vaire [BURGH]. Reverse. Small round counterseaL A shield of arms, as described in the obverse), 581 (seal of John de Burgh dated 1261 - A shield of arms: lozengy [gu. and] vaire [BURGH]). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 74, 163, 370, 378-380. Moore Cartularium Monasterii Sancti Johannis Baptiste de Colcestria 2 (1897): 204 (undated charter of John de Burgh), 205 (undated charter of John de Burgh and his wife, Hawise; charter mentions Maud de Lanvaley mother of Hawise his wife; charter witnessed by William de Say and Geoffrey de Say), 403-405 (undated charter of John de Burgh son of Hubert de Burgh), 472-473, 518-519 (final concord dated 1235 between John de Burgh and Hawise his wife and Adam Abbot of Colchester), 599. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 144. Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 109. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 130, 159-160; 4 (1902): 21. Gerard Particular Desc. of Somerset (Somerset Rec. Soc. 15) (1900): 90-91. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 41, 53, 145. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 1 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 2) (1902): 118. Parker Cal. of Lancashire Assize Rolls 1 (Lancs. & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 47) (1904): 124. Rigg et al. Cal. Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews 1 (1905): 65, 80, 85, 203. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 387-388, 486. CCh.R 2 (1906): 27. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 224-225. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 254. VCH Bedford 3 (1912): 190, 339 (Burgh arms: Gules, seven lozenges vair). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 78-79, 152, 154. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 6-7. VCH Lancaster 8 (1914): 192. Book of Fees 1 (1920): 269. Farrer Feudal Cambridgeshire (1920): 55-56, 212-215. Fowler Cal. IPM 1 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 5) (1920): 225-226. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 256. Fowler Justices in Eyre at Bedford 1240 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 9) (1925): 78, 85, 89, 92, 124-125, 127, 135. English Hist. Rev. 50 (1935): 418-432. VCH Huntingdon 3 (1936): 66-69. Taylor Recs, of the Barony & Honour of the Rape of Lewis (Sussex Rec. Soc. 44) (1939): 73. VCH Sussex 7 (1940): 229, 275, 283. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 26-35. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 52-58. Ellis Hubert de Burgh (1952). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 106: 1 (chart only), 314: 3. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 92. Barnes & Slade Medieval Misc. for Doris Mary Stenton (Pipe Roll Soc. as. 36) (1962): 78,80. Rigg et al. Cal. Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews 4 (1972): 60-62, 70-71, 78, 82. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 204-205; 7 (1999): 141-143. Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1219 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 42) (1976): 173. VCH Cambridge 6 (1978): 6-7, 14, 177-182; 10 (2002): 500. Ancient Deeds - Ser. A 1 (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 102-103. VCH Essex 9 (1994): 242, 394; 10 (2001): 263-266. Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 15. Norfolk Rec. Office: Bulwer of Heydon, Add’l, MC 341/8,706 x 4A (grants by John de Burgh son of Hubert de Burgh formerly Earl of Kent to Baldwin de Cankwell) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).”
=== Knighted by Henry III. ===
Knighted by Henry III.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Hubert de Burgh 1st Earl of Kent, b. ABT 1169 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England d. 5 MAY 1243 in Banstead, Surrey, England
Mother: Beatrice Warenne, b. ABT 1174 in Norfolk, England d. ABT 12 DEC 1214 in Surrey, England
Family 1: Hawise de Lanvallei, b. AFT 1212 in Walkern & Datchworth, Hertfordshire, England d. 1249 in Chapter house, Colchester, Essex, England
- John de Burgh, b. ABT 1235 in Walkern, Hertfordshire, England d. BEF 3 MAR 1280 in Walkern, Hertfordshire, England
Sources:
- Title: Some members of the St. Clair and Lanvallei families in British History Online ~www.british-history.ac.uk [See document in the Memories section]
Author: British History Online ~www.british-history.ac.uk
Note: Some members of the St. Clair and Lanvallei families in British History Online ~www.british-history.ac.uk [See document in the Memories section]
Page: Some members of the St. Clair and Lanvallei families in British History Online ~www.british-history.ac.uk [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: William I, William II and William III de Lanvallei in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. VII, pgs. 123, 128-129 [See document in the Memories section]
Author: Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. VII, pgs. 123, 128-129
Note: William I, William II and William III de Lanvallei in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. VII, pgs. 123, 128-129 [See document in the Memories section]
Page: William I, William II and William III de Lanvallei in Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vol. VII, pgs. 123, 128-129 [See document in the Memories section]
- Title: Hubert de Burgh in The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 3, pg. 371
Author: The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 3, pg. 371
Note: John de Burgh, son of Hubert de Burgh in The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 3, pg. 371
Page: John de Burgh, son of Hubert de Burgh in The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. 3, pg. 371
- Title: Hubert de St. Clair and descendants in St. Clair - Sinclair [See document in the memories section]
Author: St. Clair - Sinclair
Note: Hubert de St. Clair and descendants in St. Clair - Sinclair [See document in the memories section]
Page: Hubert de St. Clair and descendants in St. Clair - Sinclair [See document in the memories section]
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