Elizabeth Cope

John Cope (d. 1414) married twice, 1) Elizabeth Newenham 2) Joan (d. 1434).

Biography

Elizabeth Newenham, daughter of John Newenham and Elizabeth Hausted, married John Cope, Sheriff of Northampton before 1392 and died, probably in childbirth, by 1396.

Timeline:

6/25/1392 at York, “John Hastyng, the parson of the church of Wykehand, John Purdu, the parson of the church of Wykedyue, William Gillot, chaplain, and John Nuweman, querents; have granted to John Cope and Elizabeth the manor [calle Haustede in Adestoke] and have rendered it to them in the same court, to hold to John Cope and Elizabeth and the heirs of their bodies, of the chief lords for ever. In default of such heirs, remainder to the right heirs of John Cope.” (S) Feet of Fines.

1396, Elizabeth died [probably in childbirth].

1396, John Knight of the Shire, and Sheriff of Northamptonshire.

1397, John granted 2/3 of the manor of Deanshanger by King Richard III, held for life by courtesy. [Through his marriage to Elizabeth.]

Family

1. John Cope, Sheriff of Northampton d. Dec 1414.

Child(ren)

1. unknown. She must have at least one child surviving until at least 1400, when her widower secured the property she brought to the marriage; that property would likely have reverted elsewhere otherwise.

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• Northamptonshire Past and Present (2017) Number 70. John Cope of Deanshanger (c.1355 – 1414)...an eminent person. By William Cope. Page 9-15. < PDF > Presumably the Irish campaign lasted a year or less and John came home to Northamptonshire. He had been married by the end of 1378 to Elizabeth Newenham, daughter and heir of John Newenham and his wife Elizabeth who was the daughter and heir of John de Hausted.6 John Cope’s wife brought with her to the marriage the manors of Deanshanger and Adstock (Buckinghamshire).7 Deanshanger, where they settled and by which John came to be known, was in Passenham parish in the southeastern part of Northamptonshire bounded on the north by Watling Street and on the east by the River Ouse, across from Stony Stratford. Less than two miles away was the manor of Passenham, granted by John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster to his son Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby and the future King Henry IV.Certainly,John knew who his neighbour was but whether he and the Prince crossed paths at this early date is not known. John and Elizabeth were formally granted the manor of Adstock on 25 June 1392 by Elizabeth’s father, John Newenham or Nuweman as it is spelled in this roll, and others, probably trustees-to-be of his estate.8 It was her mother’s to inherit and bequeath but was probably held, at least on paper, by her father after his wife’s death, until settled on John and Elizabeth and their heirs.

John’s first marriage ended with Elizabeth’s death in the mid mid 1390s, certainly before 1397. In that year, John took the ‘unusual step’ of buying the reversion of the manor of Deanshanger for a fee of 100 marks, and a fortieth part of a knight’s fee, because he held the manor ‘by the courtesy’,9 meaning that he and Elizabeth had had a child or children. Since the manor was Elizabeth’s to start with, had he not taken this step, on his death it would have passed back to her family. One third was still held by Anne, widow of William Hausted, his wife’s aunt.

http://sibertancestry.org/Alphabet/P/Palmer/AnneMarbury.htm

John Cope was born about 1355. [271] He died in December 1414. He married Joan, the daughter and heir of John Newenham, by his wife Elizabeth, the daughter and heir of Baron Hausted (Hansted) of Hausted.[272]

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'Parishes : Adstock', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4, ed. William Page (London, 1927), pp. 140-144. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol4/pp140-144 [accessed 13 July 2023].

… William de Hausted died without issue before 1346, and his lands passed to his sister Elizabeth. (fn. 59) Joan de Den, who may possibly be her daughter, held this fee in 1346. (fn. 60) In 1393 John Cope and Elizabeth his wife held Adstock Manor (here called Hausted for the first time), (fn. 61) and it seems likely that it had passed to the Cope family by marriage, for Adstock certainly follows the same descent as Denshanger (Northants), which John Cope held by the courtesy of England in 1397. (fn. 62) …

References

• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1087.htm... cites
  • 1. [S10049] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 404, notes; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 49.
  • 2. [S11568] The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 404.
• https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p517.htm#... cites
  • 1. [S4239] Unknown author, The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 36.
• http://sibertancestry.org/Alphabet/P/Palmer/AnneMarbury.htm cites
  • [272] Howard, Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. 4, 208.
  • [273] Browne Willis, The History and Antiquities of … Buckingham, … (London: printed for the author, 1755), 123.
• http://www.teachergenealogist007.com/2010/05/cox-131920-131921.html
• Northamptonshire Past and Present (2017) Number 70. John Cope of Deanshanger (c.1355 – 1414)...an eminent person. By William Cope. Page 9-15. < PDF >.
  • 6 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Series 3, volume 4, p. 208. < Archive.Org >. Comment: Elizabeth Newenham is confabulated with John Cope’s 2nd wife Joan (unknown).
  • 7 Victoria County History - Buckinghamshire, volume 4, pp 140-144 (British History Online