John Deincourt, of Park Hall

Biography

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John Deyncourt, was the son of Roger Deyncourt (Roger IV) and his wife Alice de Harthill.[1] Foulds, in his definitive history of the Deyncourts, notes that Thoroton and Yeatman proposed that Roger Deyncourt IV was followed by a Roger Deyncourt V who married Joan de Thorpe. However, Foulds concluded that there was no evidence for that proposition and that Roger IV was succeeded by this profile's John Deyncourt.[1]

John was a minor at the time of his father's death, sometime in 1263-1272. John Deyncourt's patrimony was held by his uncle (also named John Deyncourt) until a final settlement was made in April 1283, at which time John must have been at least 21.[2][1] Based on these facts, John was born no earlier than 1242 (or else he would have not been a minor at the time of his father's death) and no later than 1262 (or else he would not have been 21 at the time he received property from his uncle in 1283).

John held lands in Morton, Hasland, Gildeford and Knapthorpe.[1]

John acted in various capacities for the king's government in Derbyshire, including serving as one of the local gentry for the observance of the Magna Carta and the forest charters in 1300, keeper of the peach in Derbyshire in 1314, a commissioner of the array in 1315, an assessor for Derbyshire in 1316, and member of parliament for Derbyshire in 1320.[1]

The identity of John's wife is unknown.[1]

John had the following children (as perhaps others):

1. Roger, b. about 1286, m. before 1325 Maud Bugge, d. 1351
2. (probably) William, m. Millicent la Zouche, apparently succeeded Edmund Deyncourt as the 9th baron.[1] (Foulds' argument that William the 9th baron was the son of this profile's John Deincourt, is presented in Parentage of William Deincourt 9th Baron.)
3. Helena/Elana[1]

John Deyncourt died shortly before June 18, 1322, when the writ for his post mortem inquisition was issued. His post mortem inquisition, held on July 20, 1322, declared that he had held the manors of Morton and Knapthorpe for the service of one knight's fee of Edmund Deyncourt, the 8th baron, and held in Hasland, a capital messuage, ten bovates and pasture and 12s rent of John of Orby, by service of 13s, 4d per annum. His son Roger was determined to be his next heir.[3][1]

Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons, 'General history: Nobility', in Magna Britannia: Volume 5, Derbyshire (London, 1817), pp. xlviii-lxii. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/magna-britannia/vol5/xlviii-lxii [accessed 17 October 2020].

Deincourt. — Walter Deincourt possessed several manors in this county by gift of the Conqueror. Edmund Deincourt, the last of the elder branch died in the early part of the reign of Edward III. The chief remaining branch had their principal residence at Park-hall or Park-house, in the parish of Morton. John Deincourt, who died 7 Hen. IV., married the heiress of Grey of Rotherfield. His elder son, William, dying without issue in 1422, and a younger son Robert, in 1442, the male line of the family became extinct. The sisters and coheiresses married Ralph, Lord Cromwell and William Lord Lovell. The heiress of a branch of this family married Barton, about the year 1370.

Sources

• Foulds, Trevor. The Thurgarton Cartulary. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1994. pp cxiii-cxv, cxvii.
• '"A Calendar of the Fines for the County of Derby, from their commencement in the reign of Richard I." Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Vol. XIII, January, 1891. p 11. Link to page at archive.org.
• J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward II, File 72', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 6, Edward II (London, 1910), pp. 203-213, #351. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp203-213 (accessed 14 March 2017).
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Parentage_of_William_Deincourt
• Foulds, Trevor. The Thurgarton Cartulary. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1994. p. cxvii. Table 2: Deyncourt Secondary Branch. link