M, #22119, b. circa 1437, d. before 20 November 1485
Father Thomas Bernard, Esq.3,5 b. c 1410, d. 1464
Mother Margaret Mountell3,5 b. c 1412
John Bernard, Esq. was born circa 1437 at of Abington, Northamptonshire, England; Age 28 in 1465.2,3 He married Margaret le Scrope, daughter of Sir Henry le Scrope, 4th Baron Scrope of Bolton and Elizabeth le Scrope, circa 1467; They had 5 sons (John, Esq; Thomas; Francis; Eustace, Prior of Ravenstone; & Robert, a cleric). She had married (1) William Plessington, Esq., & (2) Hugh Stafford.2,7,3,4,5,6 John Bernard, Esq. died before 20 November 1485 at of Abington, Northamptonshire, England.2,3,5
Family Margaret le Scrope b. c 1440
Child
John Bernard, Esq.+2,3,5 b. 1469, d. 20 Aug 1508
Citations
[S6791] Unknown author, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 20; Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists, p. 37; The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., p. 56.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 102.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 186.
[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 199.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 343-344.
[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 167.
[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 646.
Two sons only are mentioned as the issue of Thomas and Margaret Bernard — viz. John and Thomas. .... There is some difficulty about the age of John Bernard, who was apparently the elder brother of Thomas, but not necessarily, although he succeeded to Abington. .... John is described as twenty-eight the year after his father died, that is in 1465 ; his brother had then been a vicar sixteen years. Of Thomas nothing more is related ; either he was of too devotional a character to seek for preferment, or else he died too young to have
the pedigree which records this fact does not state whether by accident or design, whether in a public or private feud.
3. His next brother, Francis,1 according to the same account, also went to Gloucestershire ; apparently there must have been property to look after, and he became Thomas's successor there. He is said to have founded a line of Bernards at Upton-on-Severn.
4. Eustace entered into Holy Orders and became a person of some importance.2 .... etc.
JOHN BERNARD, eldest son of Sir John and Margaret Lady Bernard, had the good fortune to marry Margaret Daundelyn,1 who is styled in the 'County History' heir of her father, William, and her grandfather, John Daundelyn, of Doddington and Earl's Barton. In the 'Visitation of Northamptonshire' she is called heir of her father and of William Daundelyn, a cousin. The two accounts probably mean the same thing — namely, that Margaret was the last of her branch of the Daundelyns, and inherited all, or nearly all, the family property. .... etc. _____________________________
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