Sir John Davenport

• A history and genealogy of the Davenport family, in England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850 .. (1851)
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• Sir Thomas Davenport, of Davenport, knight, son of Roger, and grandson of Vivian de Davenport, married for his first wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas de Macclesfield, in 1287. She was the mother of his issue. His second wife was Roesia, daughter of Ralph de Vernon, and widow of Sir William de Brereton.
• In 1309, he grants a lease of the office of sergeancy for two years to his son Thomas, and his pledges for two years, at an annual rent of sixteen marks of silver.
• This Thomas, second son of Sir Thomas, was male ancestor of the Davenports of Whetrough, Bromhall, Henbury, Coventiy, and Woodford (now of Capesthorne).*
• Sir John Davenport, knight, eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas, married his father's step-daughter, Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton, by Roesia Vernon ; to his second wife he had Agnes de Bradford.
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• The first of these marriages took place in 1301, when "Thomas, son of Roger de Davenport," grants to Sir William Brereton, knight, the marriage of his eldest son John, (to marry him to Margery, daughter of the said William,) for 60 marks. Witnesses, Hugh Massey, Ralph Vernon, Hugh de Venables, knights, &c.; dated at Brereton. Harl. MSS. 2074 : 148. Four years after this, a sentence was procured from the Court of Chester, declaring the marriage null, having been celebrated without the consent of the parties, both being under age. The pedigrees, however, make Margery Brereton the mother of Sir John's children, which must of course suppose them to have been re-united ; which fact seems further proved by a settlement, in 12th year of Edward II., (1319,) when Thomas de Davenport obtained from Richard, Chaplain, of Prestbury, the manors of Davenport and Marton, remainder to John his son and Margery his wife ; remainder to the heirs of Thomas.
• The issue of Sir John were as follows : 1st, Thomas ; 2d, John, who became rector of the Church in Swettenham, (a village on the side of the Dane, opposite to Davenport,) in 1335, of which Church his father and several of the
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• succeeding Johns were patrons;* 3d, Ralph, the continuer of the direct male line ; 4th, Richard ; 5th, Roger ; 6th, Urian, who was distinguished for his great stature and military achievements ; 7th, Arthur, ancestor of the Davenports of Calveley, who was slain on the part of the Percies in the battle of Shrewsbury, in 1403.f
  • f Sir John's daughters were Margaret, who married Sir John Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, Lord of Norbury, and Isabella, who married Robert Eaton, baron of Stockport, and re-married to John de Stafford. ________________
• Sir John Davenport
• M, d. after 1343
• Father Sir Thomas Davenport d. c 1320
• Mother Agnes de Macclesfield d. a 1287
• Sir John Davenport married Margery Brereton, daughter of Sir William Brereton and Roesia Vernon. Sir John Davenport was born at of Davenport, Cheshire, England. He died after 1343.
• Family Margery Brereton
• Children
  • Sir Ralph Davenport+ d. 11 Jan 1383
  • John Davenport1
  • Isabel Davenport2 b. c 1321, d. 1381
• Citations
• 1.[S10297] Unknown author, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Omerod, 1819., p. 268.
• 2.[S10297] Unknown author, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Omerod, 1819., p. 388.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1824.htm#... __________________________
• Rohese De VERNON
• Born: ABT 1248
• Died: AFT 1321
• Father: Ralph De VERNON (B. Vernon of Shipbrook)
• Mother: Mary DACRE (B. Vernon of Shipbrook)
• Married: William De BRERETON (Sir) (son of William De Brereton and Cecily De Sandbach)
• Children:
  • 1. Margery De BRERETON (m. Sir John Davenport)
  • 2. Maud De BRERETON (m. Sir John Domville)
  • 3. William De BRERETON (m. Margaret Bosley)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/VERNON.htm#Rohese De VERNON1 __________________

(Dav. Supplement) In 1343 he founded a chantry in the Chapel of Marton, which was dissolved at the Reformation, or after 1500.  The Chapel was about ¼ mile from the Marton Hall in 1876.  After the dissolution, the site of the Chapel was granted to the Davenports of Davenport, which has continued in the family to at least 1876.  Two monuments south of the Chapel representing armed knights are supposed to be Sir John and his son Urian.

(Ormerod) Fl. 1301, 16 and 21 Edward III (1343, 1348).  His 1st marriage was contracted in 1301 (Harl. mss. 2074); they were divorced in 1305, both being within age.  (KBS: It seems a short time for them to be married and produce so many (9) children!)

(Dav. Geneal.) His marriages are given in Dav. Geneal., but no children are named.

He married (2) Agnes de Bradford,

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Birth: 1285 Davenport Cheshire, England Death: 1360 Davenport Cheshire, England

Sir John was the son of Thomas de Davenport and Agnes Macclesfield. Sir John Davenport, knight, married for his first wife, Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton, by Rosesia, the daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon. She was the mother of his issue. His second wife was Agnes de Bradford. Sir John founded a chantry in the Chapel of Marton, in 1343, which was dissolved after the Reformation. His second wife survived him, and was remarried to Robert Massey, senior of Sale, in 1358.

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Parents:

 Thomas de Davenport (1261 - 1320)

Children:

 Vivian de Davenport*

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Note: According to Effigies and Brasses his effigy is in the Church

Burial: St James and St Paul Churchyard Marton Cheshire East Unitary Authority Cheshire, England