Jane Basset

• Joan Basset1
• F, #16180, b. circa 1348
• Father Sir Ralph Basset, 3rd Lord Basset of Sapcote b. c 1315, d. 17 Jul 1378
• Mother Sibyl de Astley2 d. bt 16 Jan 1345 - 1374
• Joan Basset married Sir John Stourton, Escheator of Dorsetshire & Somersetshire, son of Sir William de Stourton and Joan/Jane Vernon. Joan Basset was born circa 1348 at of Sapcote, Leicestershire, England; Age 30 in 1378.2
• Family Sir John Stourton, Escheator of Dorsetshire & Somersetshire d. a 1397
• Children
  • Sir William Stourton+3 d. 18 Sep 1413
  • Sir John (Jenkyn) Stourton+ d. 16 Dec 1438
  • Richard Stourton+ b. c 1395, d. a 14 Mar 1456
• Citations
• 1.[S4566] Unknown author, Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 926.
• 2.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 8, notes.
• 3.[S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 734.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p539.htm#i...
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• John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
• Born: ABT 1340, Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Died: AFT 1364
• Father: William De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Joan De VERNON
• Married 1: Catherine BEAUMONT
• Children:
  • 1. William De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
  • 2. Anastasia STOURTON
  • 3. Anne STOURTON
• Married 2: Jane BASSET
• Children:
  • 4. Roger STOURTON
  • 5. Edmund STOURTON
  • 6. Elizabeth (Edith) STOURTON
  • 7. Mary (Margaret) STOURTON
  • 8. Huskin STOURTON
  • 9. Robert (Rupert) STOURTON
  • 10. Richard STOURTON
  • 11. John STOURTON
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm#John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)1
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From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id...

Many people have Jane as daughter of Ralph of Drayton by Joan de Beauchamp, but he dvp, as indicated by his will (source: CP - see Ralph 3rd Baron Basset, of Drayton's entry in my files). Also indicated by his heirs is that Ralph had only one sister (Isabel, who may have been a full or half sister); so Jane is also not a daughter of the prior generation (Ralph of Drayton & Alice Audley).

I see by the soc.genealogy.medieval that at least one person (Sid Telford) has Jane as daughter of Ralph Basset of Sapcote by Alice Driby. The dates would support such a pedigree; although the Complete Peerage mentions no daughter named Jane for Ralph of Sapcote, who died without male heir, but I find it easier to conceive of "missing" a daughter when one has at least two, than to "miss" a daughter when indications are that you had no heirs/children.

I have found no written source for Jane, although I find a hint that "Magna Charta Barons" and "Burke's Extinct Peerage" might have indicated Jane was daughter of Ralph of Drayton & Joan de Beauchamp (which may be the source of the numerous people who have the pedigree that way). One of the hints is from Dave Utzinger, which has "MCB" as the source for Jane being daughter of Ralph & Joan. Dave sent an e-mail to soc.genalogy.medieval in 1998 indicating Jane was daughter of Ralph & Joan, however he has since removed Jane from that relationship.

Of course Jane could be an illegitimate child; but I will place her as daughter of Ralph of Sapcote until more information arises.

Most people give Jane a birth year of 1378, with a son John b. 1384 (mother at the age of 6!). Some have 1368, which seems reasonable. Also her son John might have been born later than 1384.

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• The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John (1898) By Charles Henry Browning
• http://books.google.com/books?id=hTUfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq...
• https://archive.org/details/magnachartabaro00browgoog
• https://archive.org/stream/magnachartabaro00browgoog#page/n139/mode...
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  • PEDIGREE V
• ROGER BIGOD, a Magna Charta Surety, had:
• HUGH BIGOD, a Magna Charta Surety, who had:
• SIR RALPH BIGOD, Knt., third son, who had:
• ISABEL BIGOD, m. JohnFitz-Geoffrey, Chief Justice of Ireland, 1264, and had:
• JOHN FITZ-JOHN, Chief Justice of Ireland, d. 1258, who had:
• MAUD FITZ-JOHN, m. William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, and had:
• GUY DE BEAUCHAMP, Earl of Warwick, d. 1315, who had:
• THOMAS DE BEAUCHAMP, K.G., Earl of Warwick, d. 1369, who had:
• JOAN DE BEAUCHAMP, m. Ralph Bassett, K.B., of Drayton, and had:
• JANE BASSET, m. John de Stourton, of Preston, d. 1364, and had:
• https://archive.org/stream/magnachartabaro00browgoog#page/n140/mode...
• Pg.364
• Lady Joan d'Arcy and Giles, Lord Daubeney, had :
  • 13. William Daubeney, fifth Baron, lord of South Petherton, b. June 11, 1424, d. January 2, 1460. He m. Lady Alice, daughter of John de Stourton, of Preston (his sister, Edith de Beauchamp, was the mother of Margaret de Beaufort, grandmother of King Henry VII.), son of John de Stourton, of Preston, d. 1364, by his wife, Lady Jane, daughter of Sir Ralph, third Baron Basset, of Drayton, K.B., d. 1343, and his wife, Lady Joan, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, K.G., third Earl of Warwick, d. 1369, aforesaid, a descendant of ROGER BIGOD & HUGH BIGOD, Sureties for the Magna Charta.
• William, fifth Baron Daubeney, and Lady Alice had : .... etc.
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• THIS BIO SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN UPDATED AND NO LONGER LISTS A DAU. JOAN
• Sir Ralph Basset, 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton was born circa 1335.1 He was the son of Ralph Basset and Alice Audley.1 He married, secondly, Joan de Bretagne, daughter of Jean III de Montfort, Duc de Bretagne and Jeanne de Flandre.1 He married, firstly, Joan Beauchamp, daughter of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick and Katherine Mortimer, circa May 1338.1 He died on 10 May 1390, without issue.1 His will (dated 16 January 1389/90) was probated on 13 January 1390/91 at Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England.1 He was buried at Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England.1
• Sir Ralph Basset, 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton [E., 1295] on 25 February 1342/43.1 He fought in the Battle of Bordeaux on 8 January 1355/56, in the army of the Black Prince.1 He distinguished himself in the various wars with France.1 He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.) in 1368.1 On 30 October 1386 he was a deponent in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy.1
• On his death, the Barony Basset of Drayton became dormant, or possibly fell into abeyance between the heirs of his two great-aunts.1
• Child of Sir Ralph Basset, 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton
  • 1.Joan Basset+
• Citations
• 1.[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 II, page 3. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p11698.htm#i116976
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• THIS BIO SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN UPDATED AND NO LONGER IS LISTED AS JOAN DAU. OF SIR RALPH BASSET, NOW LISTED AS LETTICE ?
• Joan Basset was the daughter of Sir Ralph Basset, 3rd Lord Basset of Drayton.
• Child of Joan Basset and Sir John Stourton
  • 1.Edith Stourton+ d. 13 Jun 1441
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p348.htm#i3480
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• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899)
• https://archive.org/details/historyofnobleho01mowb
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/80/mode/1up
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• Sir John Stourton, by Catherine, daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont, had issue an only son and heir : —
  • i. — Sir William Stourton, Lord of the Manor and Advowson of Stourton, held of the Castle of Cary, Co. Somerset, father of Sir John Stourton, created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts., and of whom afterwards.
• Sir John Stourton, by his second wife, Jane or Joan, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset, had issue : —
  • ii. — John Stourton, of Brimpton and Preston, Co. Somerset, of which Manor of Brimpton he was Lord. The Armorial Seals at Wells, Co. Somerset, shew the seal of this John Stourton, to be only a Griffin's head between the letters I. S., as appended to Letters of Attorney, of 26th January, 1432, in which he, and his nephew, Sir John Stourton, knight, afterwards created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts. ; his relative, William Carent ; and his brother. Master Richard Stourton, clerk, had seisen of lands in Melesburgh and Wokey-Hole, in Wells Forum, Co. Somerset, granted to them by John Palton, Esquire, by deed of 5th January, 1432(*). In the agreement, dated at Wells, 29th September, 14 Henry VI., relating to the building of Bishop Bubwith's Almshouses in Wells, this John Stourton, was a party as "senior" and "Esquire," which follows the description in his will, the senior being presumably used to distinguish him from his nephew. Sir John, afterwards Lord Stourton(f), for he had no sons. From two Inquisitions(+), which passed between the 7 and 8 Henry VI. , he, and others, gave and granted to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew's, in Wells, the Manor of Bishop's-Kingsbury, with 14 messuages. Dovecote, 160 acres of land, 12 1/2 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and 5s. rent, in Estlangbroke ; 2 tofts [4 tofts in one Inquisition] 4 gardens, 12 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, and 30 acres of pasture, in Hethorne, Co. Somerset. He was called John or Jenkyn Stourton(§), In 1402 John Stourton witnessed a composition then agreed to between the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and
    • (*) These deeds are also given in the Genealogist, new series, Vol. VIII., from a careful research by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A,, who wrongly identifies him as younger son, instead of uncle of Sir John Stourton, created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts.
    • (f) At this date it is presumed John Stourton, son of Roger Stourton, was dead.
    • (+) Ad. q. d.
    • (§) See Visitation of Warcester as to his third daughter and coheir, and there are many other references thereto. Jenkyn signified the little John. .... etc.
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  • .... All John Stourton's landed property he had previously settled on his daughters, in his lifetime, and when his Inquisition was taken after his death, at Yeovil, in 17 Henry VI., 1439, he was called John Stourton, Esquire, of Preston, not Brimpton, and it was proved and found by the Jurors that he then held no lands, hereditaments and premises within the County of Somerset, his three daughters, (1) Cecily, wife of Thomas Kuriel, knight, aged 34 years ; (2) Johanna, wife of John Sydenham, Esquire, aged 21 years ; and (3) Alice Stourton, aged 7 years ; were his coheirs at law. These daughters were respectively children by each of his three wives, and the Inquisition is important as deciding the priority of their births. In Harleian MS., No. 1074, his first wife was erroneously given as his second one, with her name in blank, and his second wife was consequently placed as his first one, and in a pedigree prepared in 1509, there was also some confusion made in his three wives, although more care was used in ascertaining the child by each marriage, excepting as to their priority of birth. John Stourton's first wife was Joan, daughter of William Banastre, Lord of the Manors of Wheathill, Radstock, &c(*)., widow of Robert Aff'eton, living in 1395(!). He founded an obiit to "Pray for the soul of Joan, sometime the wife of John Stourton(+}." By her he had one daughter and heir, eventually a coheir : — .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/85/mode/1up
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  • John Stourton married, secondly, Alice Dennis or Peny, of Co. Kent, called Alice, daughter and heir of . . . Peny, by Hoare, and confirmed as to the name by Harl. MS., 1074; and as daughter of . . . Dennis, of Kent, by Edmondson. By her he had issue a daughter and coheir : — .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/87/mode/1up
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  • John Stourton married, thirdly, Katherine Payne(f), or Pyne, daughter of Thomas Payne, or Pyne, of Paynshay, Devon, who lived temp. 10 Richard II., by Margery, his wife, daughter and heir of Peter de Yeovilton, or Jenelton, of Speckington, Somerset(+). Edmondson placed all three daughters .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/89/mode/1up
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  • ii. — Roger Stourton is not shewn in the old pedigree of 1509, or Harleian Manuscript 1074, nor by Edmondson. Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree points to him as being prior of Winton, although Collins merely mentions him as third son and having died without issue. It is very possible, as we shew on page 64, there were two Rogers living at this time, both sons of Johns, and if so it is likely that the Roger Stourton, prior of Winton, was really son of John Stourton, whom we have found was son of Roger Stourton, Lord of Horningsham. Therefore we assume Roger Stourton, with whom we are now dealing, not to have been prior of Winton, and identify him as Roger Stourton, of Preston, who married Alice, daughter and one of the three coheirs of John de la Bere, who was Lord of Thornton, in Gillingham, Co. Dorset, by Alice, his wife, afterwards wife of John Winford, from whom John Stourton, of Preston, elder brother of our Roger Stourton, acquired Brimpton Manor, Church, and Chantry, as shewn under his name. In 5 Henry V., Roger Stourton, and Alice, his wife, convened to trustees and their heirs the reversion of a third part of the Manor and Advowson of Thornton, as also in 40 acres of land and 20 acres of pasture in Thornton, as well as in 60 acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, and £12 rent in Great and Little Kington and Weston, which John Wynford, and Alice, his wife, widow of John de la Bere, then held for the life of Alice Wynford, which premises after her death ought to revert to the said .... etc.
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  • iii. — Richard Stourton, is not shewn either by the old pedigree of 1509, Harleian Manuscript 1074, or Edmondson. Hoare and Collins both shew him in their pedigrees of the family and as having died sine prole. He appears to have been in Holy Orders and instituted to the rectory of Gillingham, Co. Dorset, by the Abbess of Shaftesbury, on the 8th Feb., 1405. It is, however, alleged he married Eleanor, daughter and coheir of Richard de Bosco, which appears in part confirmed when we call to mind that the arms of de Bosco were actually blended with those of Daubeney, Stourton, and Moyne on the dexter side of the monument in Little Cheney Church. As Master Richard Stourton, rector of the Prebendary Church of Gillingham, he had grant ad. cum test., as administrator of Morgan Googh, of his brother, Sir William Stourton's will, 23rd Sept., 1413, which had been proved alone
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/91/mode/1up
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  • by his and the testator's brother, Sir John Stourton, of Preston, the preceding day, as Morgan Googh, another executor, had predeceased the testator. He is found in the deeds .... , but Mr. Jewers wrongly described him as a younger son, instead of as uncle of John, 1st Lord Stourton. His death can be fixed somewhere about the 13th May, 1437, on which date the next rector of Gillingham was instituted on his death in his place. This was 11 years before the barony of Stourton was created by patent. His aunt, Mary Stourton, was a nun at Shaftesbury, and his sister, Margaret Stourton, was Abbess there, having been confirmed and received the benediction, 9th December, 1423, and died 30th October, 1441. So she was actually the Patroness of Gillingham during a portion of the time Master Richard Stourton was rector there. His sister, Anastatia Stourton, was, like her aunt, Mary Stourton, also a nun at Shaftesbury. Under their names mention is made of the Stourton arms having been found in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey. See under Sir William Stourton for Morgan Googh.
  • iv. — Huskin Stourton is neither mentioned in the old pedigree of 1509, Harleian Manuscript 1074, Edmondson nor Collins, but only in Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree, and as having died sine prole.
  • v. — Edmund Stourton is not mentioned in any of the above pedigrees, excepting in that of Collins, who says he died without issue. Possibly Collins wrongly identified him, for he might really have been a son of that John Stourton, who was son of Roger Stourton, Lord of Horningsham.
  • vi. — Edith Stourton, whom the Visitation for Co. Beds, erroneously called daughter and heir of John, Lord Stourton, although the Visitation for Co. York leaves his name in blank, but from an inscription(*) it was recorded, "Hie jacet Editha soror' Will'i Storton, quondam uxor' D'ni Joh'is Beau- champ, militis, et post uxor' D'ni Roberti Shottesbroke, militis, qui obiit xiii. die Junii anno domini 1441(!), cui' a'n'e p'pi'etr Deus." Edmondson
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  • erroneously placed her as a child of her father's first marriage, but Haare and Collins both mentioned her as part issue of the second marriage. She and both her husbands were recorded in the Visitation for Co. Beds., and in Harleian MS. 1074, a fuller account is given of her, shewing the inscription to her first husband and that inscribed to her own memory, wherein she was called sister of William Stourton, sometime wife of Sir Thomas Beauchamp, knight, and after wife of Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight. Under her brother, John Stourton, of Preston, it is seen that the heirs of the body of his sister, Edith, called late wife of Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight, had the next remainder in certain of his property, contingent on his three daughters dying without issue, which they did not do. She married (1) Sir John Beauchamp, knight, of Bletsho, Co. Bedford, sometimes called Lord Beauchamp, but he was never summoned to Parliament ; he had livery of his lands in 1406-7, and died in 1412, and (2) Sir Robert Shottesbroke(*), who was shewn to be the then husband of Edith, late wife of John Beauchamp, chivalier, in an Inquisition taken at Sherborne, Co. Dorset, on 30th April, 9 Henry V., after the death of her only son, John, son and heir of John Beauchamp, relating to the Manor of Ashmore in that county. It will have been seen that her issue by her first husband. Sir John Beauchamp, of Bletsho, Co. Bedford, was given in the old pedigree set out on page 74, as : — .... etc.
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  • vii. — Margaret Stourton, Abbess of Shaftesbury, was confirmed and received the Benediction, 9th December, 1423, and died 30th October, 1441. She was succeeded by Edith Bonham, as Abbess, on the 15th November following, and when, in 1817, John Dyneley, the proprietor of the site of Shaftesbury Abbey, permitted Charles Bowles to make searches, it was discovered that the floor of the Conventual Church there, was composed of Roman tiles on which were the arms of Stourton and Bonham in painted shields.
  • viii.— Anastatia Stourton, a Nun at Shaftesbury, who is mentioned in the will of her brother, John Stourton, of Preston and Brimpton. She was living as a Nun at Shaftesbury when Edith Bonham was elected Abbess thereof after the death of her sister, Margaret Stourton, and was living in 1460, when Margaret St. John was elected, as successor to Edith Bonham.
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/97/mode/1up
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  • CHART Pg.97-100
• Sir John Stourton, Lord of Preston, Co. Somerset. Called John, Lord Stourton in the Visitation of Beds., and Constable of Corfe Castle 1st March, 4 Richard II. Witnessed Robert, Lord Fitz Payne's charter of the Manor and Advowson of Stourton, Co. Wilts, 40 Edward III. Described by his son, John Stourton, of Preston, as sometime Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts. Sheriff of Counties Dorset and Wilts., 1377. Buried in the Abby of Stavordale, Co. Somerset. = Catherine, daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree and by Edmonson.; ch: (Pg.98 Sir William (m. Elizabeth Moygne) Stourton); = Jane, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree, by Edmondson, and by Brydes' Collins' Peerage.; ch: (Pg.98 Edith (m. Sir John Beauchamp & Sir Robert Shottesbroke) Stourton.
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  • Sir William Stourton, Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts., son and heir. Speaker of the House of Commons. Steward of the Principality of Wwales. Died on Monday after the feast of St. Lambert, 1 Henry V., 1413, and buried in the Priory of Witham, Co. Somerset. Will proved 22nd Sept., 1413, Ad. cum Test. granted 23rd Sept., 1413. = Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Maygne, of Maddington, Co., Wilts., and Estaines, Co. Essex, knight. Married 22 Richard II. Buried with her husband in the Priory of Witham, Co. Somerset.; ch: Sir John (m. Margery Wadham) Stourton.
  • Edith Stourton. Both Hoare and Collins call her part issue by the second wife, but Edmondson alleged she was daughter by the first wife. She married 2ndly Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight. Died 13th June, 1441. = Sir John Beachamp, knight, of Bletsho, Co. Beds., son and heir of Sir Roger Beauchamp, Chamberlain to Edward III. He was sometimes called Lord Beauchamp, but he was never summoned to Parliament. Had livery of his father's lands in 1406-7 and died in 1412.; ch: Margaret (m. John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset) Beauchamp.
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• Links
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1. D: I7842
2. Name: Joan or Jane Bassett
3. Sex: F
4. _UID: 5A7BDB1A11D7438B8C1DE4EBAE2DFCFAC9F6
5. Change Date: 18 MAR 2002

Father: Ralph Bassett b: 1305

Mother: Joan Beauchamp

Marriage 1 John Stourton b: ABT 1354 in Stourton, Wilts

   * Married: 

Children

  1. Has Children John Stourton b: 1395

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• John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
• Born: ABT 1340, Stourton, Wiltshire, England
• Died: AFT 1364
• Father: William De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Joan De VERNON
• Married 1: Catherine BEAUMONT
• Children:
  • 1. William De STOURTON (Sir Knight)
  • 2. Anastasia STOURTON
  • 3. Anne STOURTON
• Married 2: Jane BASSET
• Children:
  • 4. Roger STOURTON
  • 5. Edmund STOURTON
  • 6. Elizabeth (Edith) STOURTON
  • 7. Mary (Margaret) STOURTON
  • 8. Huskin STOURTON
  • 9. Robert (Rupert) STOURTON
  • 10. Richard STOURTON
  • 11. John STOURTON
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm#John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)1
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• Katherine Beaumont1,2,3,4
• F, #23195, b. July 1354, d. 28 August 1435
• Father Sir John Beaumont3,4 b. c 1340
• Mother Joan Stockhay3,4
• Katherine Beaumont married Sir John Stourton, Escheator of Dorsetshire & Somersetshire, son of Sir William de Stourton and Joan/Jane Vernon. Katherine Beaumont was born in July 1354 at of Sherwell and Saunton, Devonshire, England. She married Sir John Strecche circa 1374.2,3,4 Katherine Beaumont married Sir Hugh Luttrell, Mayor of Bordeaux, Ambassador to France, Seneschal of Normandy, son of Sir Andrew Luttrell and Elizabeth de Courtenay, before 1384; They had 2 sons (Sir John; & William) and 4 daughters (Margaret, wife of John Cotes, Esq; Elizabeth, wife of William Harleston, & of John Stratton, Esq; Anne, wife of William Godwyn; & Joan, a nun at Shaftesbury Abbey).2,3,4 Katherine Beaumont died on 28 August 1435 at age 81; A monument in their memory is erected on the north side of the Chancel of Dunster Church.2,3,4
• Family 1 Sir John Stourton, Escheator of Dorsetshire & Somersetshire d. a 1397
• Family 2 Sir John Strecche b. c 1350, d. b 1384
• Child
  • Cecily Strecche+ b. c 1379, d. 1443
• Family 3 Sir Hugh Luttrell, Mayor of Bordeaux, Ambassador to France, Seneschal of Normandy b. c 1363, d. 24 Mar 1428
• Children
  • Robert Luttrell d. 1437
  • Elizabeth Luttrell+2,5,3,6,4,7 b. c 1388, d. a 4 Oct 1438
  • Sir John Luttrell+8,9,10,2,3,4 b. c 1394, d. 30 Jun 1430
• Citations
• 1.[S7283] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis, p. 141; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 173; Wallop Family, p. 512.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 475.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 60-61.
• 4.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 644.
• 5.[S15] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, p. 536.
• 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 70.
• 7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 661.
• 8.[S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 512.
• 9.[S11572] The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 457.
• 10.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 470.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p772.htm#i...
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• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899)
• https://archive.org/details/historyofnobleho01mowb
• https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/80/mode/1up
• Pg.80
• Sir John Stourton, by Catherine, daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont, had issue an only son and heir : —
  • i. — Sir William Stourton, Lord of the Manor and Advowson of Stourton, held of the Castle of Cary, Co. Somerset, father of Sir John Stourton, created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts., and of whom afterwards.
• Sir John Stourton, by his second wife, Jane or Joan, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset, had issue : —
  • ii. — John Stourton, of Brimpton and Preston, Co. Somerset, of which Manor of Brimpton he was Lord. The Armorial Seals at Wells, Co. Somerset, shew the seal of this John Stourton, to be only a Griffin's head between the letters I. S., as appended to Letters of Attorney, of 26th January, 1432, in which he, and his nephew, Sir John Stourton, knight, afterwards created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts. ; his relative, William Carent ; and his brother. Master Richard Stourton, clerk, had seisen of lands in Melesburgh and Wokey-Hole, in Wells Forum, Co. Somerset, granted to them by John Palton, Esquire, by deed of 5th January, 1432(*). In the agreement, dated at Wells, 29th September, 14 Henry VI., relating to the building of Bishop Bubwith's Almshouses in Wells, this John Stourton, was a party as "senior" and "Esquire," which follows the description in his will, the senior being presumably used to distinguish him from his nephew. Sir John, afterwards Lord Stourton(f), for he had no sons. From two Inquisitions(+), which passed between the 7 and 8 Henry VI. , he, and others, gave and granted to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew's, in Wells, the Manor of Bishop's-Kingsbury, with 14 messuages. Dovecote, 160 acres of land, 12 1/2 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and 5s. rent, in Estlangbroke ; 2 tofts [4 tofts in one Inquisition] 4 gardens, 12 acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, and 30 acres of pasture, in Hethorne, Co. Somerset. He was called John or Jenkyn Stourton(§), In 1402 John Stourton witnessed a composition then agreed to between the Dean and Chapter of Wells, and
    • (*) These deeds are also given in the Genealogist, new series, Vol. VIII., from a careful research by Arthur J. Jewers, F.S.A,, who wrongly identifies him as younger son, instead of uncle of Sir John Stourton, created Baron of Stourton, Co. Wilts.
    • (f) At this date it is presumed John Stourton, son of Roger Stourton, was dead.
    • (+) Ad. q. d.
    • (§) See Visitation of Warcester as to his third daughter and coheir, and there are many other references thereto. Jenkyn signified the little John. .... etc.
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  • .... All John Stourton's landed property he had previously settled on his daughters, in his lifetime, and when his Inquisition was taken after his death, at Yeovil, in 17 Henry VI., 1439, he was called John Stourton, Esquire, of Preston, not Brimpton, and it was proved and found by the Jurors that he then held no lands, hereditaments and premises within the County of Somerset, his three daughters, (1) Cecily, wife of Thomas Kuriel, knight, aged 34 years ; (2) Johanna, wife of John Sydenham, Esquire, aged 21 years ; and (3) Alice Stourton, aged 7 years ; were his coheirs at law. These daughters were respectively children by each of his three wives, and the Inquisition is important as deciding the priority of their births. In Harleian MS., No. 1074, his first wife was erroneously given as his second one, with her name in blank, and his second wife was consequently placed as his first one, and in a pedigree prepared in 1509, there was also some confusion made in his three wives, although more care was used in ascertaining the child by each marriage, excepting as to their priority of birth. John Stourton's first wife was Joan, daughter of William Banastre, Lord of the Manors of Wheathill, Radstock, &c(*)., widow of Robert Aff'eton, living in 1395(!). He founded an obiit to "Pray for the soul of Joan, sometime the wife of John Stourton(+}." By her he had one daughter and heir, eventually a coheir : — .... etc.
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  • John Stourton married, secondly, Alice Dennis or Peny, of Co. Kent, called Alice, daughter and heir of . . . Peny, by Hoare, and confirmed as to the name by Harl. MS., 1074; and as daughter of . . . Dennis, of Kent, by Edmondson. By her he had issue a daughter and coheir : — .... etc.
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  • John Stourton married, thirdly, Katherine Payne(f), or Pyne, daughter of Thomas Payne, or Pyne, of Paynshay, Devon, who lived temp. 10 Richard II., by Margery, his wife, daughter and heir of Peter de Yeovilton, or Jenelton, of Speckington, Somerset(+). Edmondson placed all three daughters .... etc.
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  • ii. — Roger Stourton is not shewn in the old pedigree of 1509, or Harleian Manuscript 1074, nor by Edmondson. Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree points to him as being prior of Winton, although Collins merely mentions him as third son and having died without issue. It is very possible, as we shew on page 64, there were two Rogers living at this time, both sons of Johns, and if so it is likely that the Roger Stourton, prior of Winton, was really son of John Stourton, whom we have found was son of Roger Stourton, Lord of Horningsham. Therefore we assume Roger Stourton, with whom we are now dealing, not to have been prior of Winton, and identify him as Roger Stourton, of Preston, who married Alice, daughter and one of the three coheirs of John de la Bere, who was Lord of Thornton, in Gillingham, Co. Dorset, by Alice, his wife, afterwards wife of John Winford, from whom John Stourton, of Preston, elder brother of our Roger Stourton, acquired Brimpton Manor, Church, and Chantry, as shewn under his name. In 5 Henry V., Roger Stourton, and Alice, his wife, convened to trustees and their heirs the reversion of a third part of the Manor and Advowson of Thornton, as also in 40 acres of land and 20 acres of pasture in Thornton, as well as in 60 acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture, and £12 rent in Great and Little Kington and Weston, which John Wynford, and Alice, his wife, widow of John de la Bere, then held for the life of Alice Wynford, which premises after her death ought to revert to the said .... etc.
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  • iii. — Richard Stourton, is not shewn either by the old pedigree of 1509, Harleian Manuscript 1074, or Edmondson. Hoare and Collins both shew him in their pedigrees of the family and as having died sine prole. He appears to have been in Holy Orders and instituted to the rectory of Gillingham, Co. Dorset, by the Abbess of Shaftesbury, on the 8th Feb., 1405. It is, however, alleged he married Eleanor, daughter and coheir of Richard de Bosco, which appears in part confirmed when we call to mind that the arms of de Bosco were actually blended with those of Daubeney, Stourton, and Moyne on the dexter side of the monument in Little Cheney Church. As Master Richard Stourton, rector of the Prebendary Church of Gillingham, he had grant ad. cum test., as administrator of Morgan Googh, of his brother, Sir William Stourton's will, 23rd Sept., 1413, which had been proved alone
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  • by his and the testator's brother, Sir John Stourton, of Preston, the preceding day, as Morgan Googh, another executor, had predeceased the testator. He is found in the deeds .... , but Mr. Jewers wrongly described him as a younger son, instead of as uncle of John, 1st Lord Stourton. His death can be fixed somewhere about the 13th May, 1437, on which date the next rector of Gillingham was instituted on his death in his place. This was 11 years before the barony of Stourton was created by patent. His aunt, Mary Stourton, was a nun at Shaftesbury, and his sister, Margaret Stourton, was Abbess there, having been confirmed and received the benediction, 9th December, 1423, and died 30th October, 1441. So she was actually the Patroness of Gillingham during a portion of the time Master Richard Stourton was rector there. His sister, Anastatia Stourton, was, like her aunt, Mary Stourton, also a nun at Shaftesbury. Under their names mention is made of the Stourton arms having been found in the ruins of Shaftesbury Abbey. See under Sir William Stourton for Morgan Googh.
  • iv. — Huskin Stourton is neither mentioned in the old pedigree of 1509, Harleian Manuscript 1074, Edmondson nor Collins, but only in Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree, and as having died sine prole.
  • v. — Edmund Stourton is not mentioned in any of the above pedigrees, excepting in that of Collins, who says he died without issue. Possibly Collins wrongly identified him, for he might really have been a son of that John Stourton, who was son of Roger Stourton, Lord of Horningsham.
  • vi. — Edith Stourton, whom the Visitation for Co. Beds, erroneously called daughter and heir of John, Lord Stourton, although the Visitation for Co. York leaves his name in blank, but from an inscription(*) it was recorded, "Hie jacet Editha soror' Will'i Storton, quondam uxor' D'ni Joh'is Beau- champ, militis, et post uxor' D'ni Roberti Shottesbroke, militis, qui obiit xiii. die Junii anno domini 1441(!), cui' a'n'e p'pi'etr Deus." Edmondson
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  • erroneously placed her as a child of her father's first marriage, but Haare and Collins both mentioned her as part issue of the second marriage. She and both her husbands were recorded in the Visitation for Co. Beds., and in Harleian MS. 1074, a fuller account is given of her, shewing the inscription to her first husband and that inscribed to her own memory, wherein she was called sister of William Stourton, sometime wife of Sir Thomas Beauchamp, knight, and after wife of Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight. Under her brother, John Stourton, of Preston, it is seen that the heirs of the body of his sister, Edith, called late wife of Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight, had the next remainder in certain of his property, contingent on his three daughters dying without issue, which they did not do. She married (1) Sir John Beauchamp, knight, of Bletsho, Co. Bedford, sometimes called Lord Beauchamp, but he was never summoned to Parliament ; he had livery of his lands in 1406-7, and died in 1412, and (2) Sir Robert Shottesbroke(*), who was shewn to be the then husband of Edith, late wife of John Beauchamp, chivalier, in an Inquisition taken at Sherborne, Co. Dorset, on 30th April, 9 Henry V., after the death of her only son, John, son and heir of John Beauchamp, relating to the Manor of Ashmore in that county. It will have been seen that her issue by her first husband. Sir John Beauchamp, of Bletsho, Co. Bedford, was given in the old pedigree set out on page 74, as : — .... etc.
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  • vii. — Margaret Stourton, Abbess of Shaftesbury, was confirmed and received the Benediction, 9th December, 1423, and died 30th October, 1441. She was succeeded by Edith Bonham, as Abbess, on the 15th November following, and when, in 1817, John Dyneley, the proprietor of the site of Shaftesbury Abbey, permitted Charles Bowles to make searches, it was discovered that the floor of the Conventual Church there, was composed of Roman tiles on which were the arms of Stourton and Bonham in painted shields.
  • viii.— Anastatia Stourton, a Nun at Shaftesbury, who is mentioned in the will of her brother, John Stourton, of Preston and Brimpton. She was living as a Nun at Shaftesbury when Edith Bonham was elected Abbess thereof after the death of her sister, Margaret Stourton, and was living in 1460, when Margaret St. John was elected, as successor to Edith Bonham.
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• Sir John Stourton, Lord of Preston, Co. Somerset. Called John, Lord Stourton in the Visitation of Beds., and Constable of Corfe Castle 1st March, 4 Richard II. Witnessed Robert, Lord Fitz Payne's charter of the Manor and Advowson of Stourton, Co. Wilts, 40 Edward III. Described by his son, John Stourton, of Preston, as sometime Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts. Sheriff of Counties Dorset and Wilts., 1377. Buried in the Abby of Stavordale, Co. Somerset. = Catherine, daughter of Henry Lord Beaumont, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree and by Edmonson.; ch: (Pg.98 Sir William (m. Elizabeth Moygne) Stourton); = Jane, daughter of Ralph, Lord Basset, confirmed by Hoare's copy of the College of Arms pedigree, by Edmondson, and by Brydes' Collins' Peerage.; ch: (Pg.98 Edith (m. Sir John Beauchamp & Sir Robert Shottesbroke) Stourton.
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  • Sir William Stourton, Lord of Stourton, Co. Wilts., son and heir. Speaker of the House of Commons. Steward of the Principality of Wwales. Died on Monday after the feast of St. Lambert, 1 Henry V., 1413, and buried in the Priory of Witham, Co. Somerset. Will proved 22nd Sept., 1413, Ad. cum Test. granted 23rd Sept., 1413. = Elizabeth, dau. and co-heir of Sir John Maygne, of Maddington, Co., Wilts., and Estaines, Co. Essex, knight. Married 22 Richard II. Buried with her husband in the Priory of Witham, Co. Somerset.; ch: Sir John (m. Margery Wadham) Stourton.
  • Edith Stourton. Both Hoare and Collins call her part issue by the second wife, but Edmondson alleged she was daughter by the first wife. She married 2ndly Sir Robert Shottesbroke, knight. Died 13th June, 1441. = Sir John Beachamp, knight, of Bletsho, Co. Beds., son and heir of Sir Roger Beauchamp, Chamberlain to Edward III. He was sometimes called Lord Beauchamp, but he was never summoned to Parliament. Had livery of his father's lands in 1406-7 and died in 1412.; ch: Margaret (m. John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset) Beauchamp.
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