William de St. John de Port

• Preferred Name: William de St. John de Port^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: William Saint John
  
• Gender: M
  
• LdsBaptism: 16 OCT 1992 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: BET 1213 AND 1239 in Portchester Castle, Basing, Hampshire, England at LATI: N1.2714 LONG: E1.0495
  
• Birth: 1175 in Basing, Hampshire, England at LATI: N1.2707 LONG: E1.0495
  
• FSID: LJTK-Q4S
  
• LdsEndowment: 7 NOV 1992 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  William (Port) (took the name of St John)
  s/o Adam Port & Mabel d'Orival
  b- Abt 1173 -Basing, Hampshire, England
  m- Godechild Paynel
  d- 1173 - Basing ,Hampshire, England
  
  heir - Basing, Hampshire - Halnaker , Sussex
  
  Children Marriage
  1 Robert ST. JOHN
  Birth: Abt 1199 Basing, Hampshire, England
  Death: Mar 1266/67
  Agnes CANTILUPE
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#JohnStJohndied1301A as of 9/12/2017
  
  WILLIAM de St John (-1239). A manuscript recording the founding of Boxgrove Priory, Sus
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3P-S.htm#JohnStJohndied1301A as of 9/12/2017
  
  WILLIAM de St John (-1239). A manuscript recording the founding of Boxgrove Priory, Sus
  
  Tudorplace.com
  William De St. JOHN
  
  Born: 1173, Portchester Castle,Hampshire,England
  
  Died: 1239, Portchester Castle,Hampshire,England
  
  Notes: assuming that surname, wrote himself 'Willielmus De Sancto Johanne filiu
  
  === !Name,child,spouse,parents-Visitation FH ===
  !Name,child,spouse,parents-Visitation FHL Bk Q area 942.25 D2b pg 61;Bk Q Area Bk 942.27 D23b pg 232 Name,Title,parents,Spouse(Godchild Paganell),son(Robert)-Peerage & Baronetage by Burke pg 2203 Bd,pla,Bap-SL Bap Rec FHL 183543 pg 1146 End,SP-IGI also states pre 1970 SS-IGI Bd also listed as 1190,1181,1202,1239;Md as 1198,1200;Mpla as Suff
  
  === Notes: assuming that surname, wrote hims ===
  Notes: assuming that surname, wrote himself 'Willielmus De Sancto Johanne filius et h¹res Ad De Port', and in the 15th John [1214-15], gave 500 marks to the King for livery of all the lands of Adam De Port, his father. The two following years he executed the sheriff's office for the co. Southampton, but was subsequently in arms with the other barons against the crown, and did not return to his allegiance until some time after the accession of Henry III. He made his peace, however, effectually, for we find him in the 11th of that King [1227] appointed governor of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. He m. Godchild, dau. of N. Paganell, and was s. by his son, Robert De St. John. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 466, St. John, Barons St. John, of Basing]
  
  === !Cokayne's Peerage: IV: 335. Essex Insti ===
  !Cokayne's Peerage: IV: 335. Essex Institute Proceedings: XVII: 16.Red book 1. Vivian's: Visitations of Cevon: 243-4. Lord Baseing, or Bassing. He inherited from his grandmother,Muriel de St John, assumed the surname of St John: became Baron St John of Bassing.
  
  === William de Aurevale assumed the name of ===
  William de Aurevale assumed the name of St. John and wrote himself Willielmus de Sancto Johanne filius and haeres Adae de Port, and in 15th of King John gave 500 marks to the King for the livery of the lands of his father, Adam de Porte. He inherited the large possessions of his grandmother, Muriel St. John. He was Sheriff of Southampton, but was subsequently in arms with the other barons against the Crown and did not return to his allegiance until some time after the accession of Henry III. He made his peace, however, effectually, for we find him in 11th of Henry III appointed Governor of the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey. He married Godchild, daughter of N. Paganel.
  
  === St. John, de Sancto Johanne.
  
  Saint-Jean ===
  St. John, de Sancto Johanne.
  
  Saint-Jean-le Thomas: Manche, arr. Avranches, cant. Sartilly.
  
  On the conquest of Normandy William de St. John adhered to king John and his lands in Normandy were confiscated by Philip Augustus [King of France]. An entry in the Registers of Philip Augustus makes the place of origin certain. William was the son of Adam de Port of Basing by Mabel, heiress of Oval and through her mother of the St. John honour of Halnaker; and William adopted the name of St. John. Gerville has given a description of the remains of the castle at St-Jean-le-Thomas. [Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families]
  
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  WILLIAM DE PORT, afterwards WILLIAM DE ST JOHN (d), son and heir by 1st wife, made profer in 1202 of 150 li. for the lands in England of his great-uncle William de St John (h1), i.e. the honor of Halnaker. In 1203 he occurs on the Norman Exchequer Rolls as owing 12 li. 10s. for scutage on the service of 21 knights' due on the fees of William d'Orval. On the separation of England and Normandy in 1204 William adhered to King John and his lands in Normandy were confiscated. Southampton castle was committed to him on his father's death, and he was sheriff of Hants, 1214 and 1215. He was with John in his disastrous expedition in Poitou and Anjou, 1214. In February 1214/5 he was one of the King's emissaries to the Earls, Barons and people of Hants, and in November one of those charged to bring men from Angouleme, and stores from Corfe castle, to the King at Rochester; but later he joined the Dauphin, probably at the siege of Winchester, July 1216. However, on 16 March 1216/7 he had a safe-conduct to speak with the Earl Marshal, his lands having been granted on the previous day to John Marshal. In February 1219/20 he was "with the King" at the siege of Bytham; in February 1224/5 he witnessed the Forest Charter and the confirmation of Magna Carta. Bailiff of the Channel Islands, May 1227 to October 1232. In 1230 he served in Henry's abortive expedition into France, and in 1233 was employed in defence of the Southeast coast. He married Godeheut (h2); and died in 1239 (i). By 1242-43 his widow had married Richard de Lucy (j). [Complete Peerage XI:321-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  (d) Ego Willielmus de Sancto Johanne filius et heres Adae de Port. The change of name, of which the first undoubted occurrence is at Trinity 1205, is curious, since the family of Port both in ancestry and landed estate was more important than that of St. John.
  
  (h1) His mother Mabel through whom these lands came to the family being dead, they passed direct to William as his mother's heir and his father Adam took no estate by curtesy.
  
  (h2) She is said, in the Boxgrove "Stemma Funditoris" to have been daughter of ? Paynel. They had younger sons Adam and William. Their daughter Godeheut m., 1stly William de Ros of Kent; 2ndly Hugh de Wyndleshores.
  
  (i) Besides his gifts to Boxgrove, he was a benefactor of Bromholm priory, Norfolk.
  
  (j) They held West Shelford, Berks, of the inheritance of Robert de St. John.
  
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  William de St. John, assuming that surname, wrote himself Willielmus de Sancto Johanne filius et hœres Adæ de Port, and in the 15th John [1214-15], gave 500 marks to the king for livery of all the lands of Adam de Port, his father. The two following years he executed the sheriff's office for the co. Southampton, but was subsequently in arms with the other barons against the crown, and did not return to his allegiance until some time after the accession of Henry III. He made his peace, however, effectmaclly, for we find him in the 11th of that king [1227] appointed governor of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. He m. Godchild, dau. of N. Paganell, and was s. by his son, Robert de St. John. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 466, St. John, Barons St. John, of Basing]
  
  === V M Norr: Some Early English Pedigrees ===
  V M Norr: Some Early English Pedigrees P. 96
  
  === !Sir Bernard Burke's Dormant & Extinct P ===
  !Sir Bernard Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerage p.466;

1. Jane de St. John, b. 1210 in Binghams, Melcombe, Dorset, England    
2. Robert de St. John, b. ABT 1195 in Berkshire, England     d. 7 MAR 1266 in Old Basing, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

1. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
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2. Title: Geneanet.org
   Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/dcb1995?lang=en&n=de+st.+john&oc=0&p=william;
   
3. Title: Geni.com
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/William-de-St-John-de-Port/6000000006376638049?through=6000000000796891869;
   
4. Title: Millennium File
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7249&h=10077564&indiv=try;
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: William de St John Lord of Basing -
   Author: Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families (The), Lewis C Loyd, 1999, Page number: 89
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
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6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: William de St John Lord of Basing -
   Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: XI:321-2
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
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7. Title: Book - The Gentleman's Magazine