Sir John Giffard

• Birth 1301, Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
• Death 25 Jan 1368, Toppesfield, Essex, England
• Father Sir John Giffard le Boef (~1270-~1330)
• Mother Alexandra de Gardinis (->1328)

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Misc. Notes

He fought at Crecy 1346, served as Commissioner of Array in 1360 & 1368.

also of Somerston, Fringford and Cogges, Oxfordshire, England. Fought at battle of Crecy (1346).

Sir John Giffard inherited large estates in Somerton and Fringsford and the Coggs lands in Oxfordshire from his maternal grandfather, SirThomas de Gardinis. When his father died (ca. 1330), he inherited theGiffard lands.Sir John Giffard accompanied Edward III to France, and he was in the King's division at the Battle of Crecy.Sir John Giffard was one of the commissioners of array in Bucks Co. for the French War.

Spouses

1Lucy de Morteyn Birth 1304, Tilsworth, Bedford Co., England Death aft 8 Mar 1360, Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England Father Sir John de Morteyn (~1270-1346) Mother Joan de Rothwell Marriage 1323, Twyford, Buckinghamshire Children Thomas (~1345-1394) Last Modified 11 Jan 2003

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• Sir John Giffard1
• M, b. 1301, d. 25 January 1369
• Father Sir John Giffard b. c 1270, d. c 30 Mar 1328
• Mother Alexandra de Gardinis b. c 1279, d. b 1328
• Sir John Giffard 2nd wife is illegitimate daughter of Lora Astley and Peter de Montfort, 3rd Baron Montfort. He married Lucy de Morteyn, daughter of Sir John Morteyn and Joan de Rothwell. Sir John Giffard married Alice de Montfort, daughter of Sir Peter de Montfort, 3rd Lord Montfort and Lora de Astley. Sir John Giffard was born in 1301 at of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on 25 January 1369.
• Family 1 Lucy de Morteyn b. c 1305, d. a 8 Mar 1361
• Children
  • John Giffard+ b. c 1327
  • Sir Thomas Giffard+ b. c 1345, d. 25 Sep 1394
• Family 2 Alice de Montfort
• Child
  • Alice Giffard+ b. c 1368
• Citations
• 1.[S7561] Unknown author, Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 73; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 118.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p798.htm#i... _____________________________ The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 75 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Pg.130-136.

11. SIR JOHN GIFFORD LE BOEF (Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osberne de Bolebec), of Twyford, co. Bucks, Knight,

• born about 1270,
• was living 30 Mr. 1328, when his son was called John Giffard the Younger of Twyford in the inquisition post mortem of Sir Thomas de Gardinis, but appears to have died shortly thereafter (Calendar of Inquisitions port Mortem, vol. 7, Edward III, page 107). He married about 1300-1 ALEXANDRA DE GARDINIS, daughter of Sir Thomas of Oxfordshire, a descendant of the baronial house of Arsic. She was dead in 1328, when her son John was the heir of his grandfather, Sir Thomas de Gardinis.
• On 24 June 1301 John, son of John Giffard le Boef, was summond from Devonshire to the muster at Berwick on Tweed, to perform military service against the Scots (Parliamentary Writs, vol. 1, page 632). His lands at Helidon are mentioned 23 Aug. 1312 (Calendar of Close Rolls, 1307-1313, page 548). He was imprisoned at Aylesbury, 7 June 1314, for a trespass of vert and venison in the Royal Forest (ib., 1313-1318, page 58). On 28 Sept. 1315 he was knight of the shire for co. Bucks (Parliamentary Writs, vol. 2, page 918), and in 1316 he was certified as lord of the vills of Twyford, Charndon, and Pounden in co. Bucks (ib.). He held the Twyford lands (i.e., two part) of Ralph Pipard (Feudal Aids, vol. 1, page 109). In Oxfordshire he held lands in Begbrooke (ib., vol. 4, page 30) and also lands in Astwell. On 26 Mar. 1316 he appears as commissioner to raise soldiers for the Scotch War (Parliamentary Writs, vol. 2, page 918), and on 5 Aug 1316 his orders to select footmen in co. Bucks for the Scotch War were countermanded (Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 2, page 297). On 30 May 1322 John Giffard of Tywford, Knight, was summond from Oxfordshire to the Great Council at Westminster (Parliamentary Writs, Vol. 2, page 918). On 20 June 1322 John Gifford, a knight or baneret of co. Beds and co. Bucks, was returned as ill and unable to serve in person against the Scots (ib.), and on 24 June 1322 John Gifford le Boef, man at arms, was summoned from Northamptonshire to serve against the Scots (ib.). On 31 Oct. 1322 he was returned as a man at arms between the ages of 16 and 60 years, and was called a knight accustomed to arms but gouty and incapable of acting (ib.). In 1325 John, son of Osbert Giffard (9, i), sued him to recover lands in Accott, Devonshire, which Osbert formerly held.
• Children:
  • 12. i. JOHN, b. in 1301 (Calendar of Inquisitions port Mortem, vol. 6).
  • ii. EDMUND (?), a knight, who, with John Giffard of Twyford, comitted trespass at Grendon, 4 Nov. 1347 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1345-1348), and was probably of Stanlak in Oxfordshire in 1361 (Calendar of Close Rolls, 1360-1364, p. 194).

12. SIR JOHN GIFFARD, (Sir John le Boef, Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osberne de Bolebec), of Twyford, co. Bucks, Knight,

• born in 1301, died on the Sunday next after the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul,(*) 43 Edward III [1368/9] (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 232).
• Marriages:
  • He married first LUCY DE MORTEYN,
    • who was living 8 Mar. 1361,
    • daughter of Sir John and sister of Master Edmund de Morteyn, D. C. L., the King's excheator for Ireland, canon of York, and King's clerk; and
  • secondly ALICE ---- ,
    • who was living 30 July 1379 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1377-1381, page 323.
• From his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas de Gardinis, he inherited large estates, namely, the manorial estates at Somerton and Fringsford and the Coggs lands in Oxfordshire, which, with the messuage at Leisdon, co Kent, came down from the Arsic family, and the manor of Ixning, which came from the De la Haye family. His father died about 1330, and he inherited the Giffard lands. On 22 July 1334 he was styled Sir John Giffard, when he witnessed an enrollment grant (Calendar Close Rolls, 1333-1337, page 326). On 26 Mar. 1338 he was to array in co. Bucks 10 men at arms, 20 armed men, and 40 archers for the French War (ib., 1334-1341, p. 55). In 1340 he had licence to build an oratory in his house at Twyford (Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire), in the same year he was assessor of taxes in Oxfordshire (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1340-1343, pag 25), and he served frequently on commissions of ayer and terminer with William de Shreshull, the famous judge (ib., 1340-1343, pages 87, 554, 582, 583). He was one of the knights who accompanied Edward III to France, and he was in the King's division at the Battle of Crecy, 1346 (Wrottesley's Crecy and Calais). He appears to have had a brother Edmund, with whom he committed a trespass at Grendon, 4 Nov. 1347 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1345-1348). In 1349, 1351, and 1361 he was commissioner of the peace in co. Bucks (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1350-1354), on 14 Mar. 1360 he was one of the commissioners of array in co. Bucks, for the French War, and in 1368, with Reynold de Grey of Ruthyn, he was again commissioner of array (ib., 1364-1367, page 431).
• Children by first wife: (LUCY DE MORTEYN)
  • i. JOHN, living 23 Dec. 1360; d. s.p. before 11 Mar. 1368/9. (Vide infra, 13.)
  • 13. ii. THOMAS, b. about 1345 (REGISTER, Vol. 74, p. 232).
  • iii. RICHARD (probably son of No. 12), m. JOAN ---- , and with her levied a fine on the manor of Helidon, 7 Richard II [1383-4].
• 13. SIR THOMAS GIFFARD (Sir John, Sir John le Boef, Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osberne de Bolebec), of Twyford, co. Bucks, Knight, born about 1345, died 25 Sept. 1394 (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 233). He married first, about 1361, ELIZABETH DE MISSENDEN, who died about 1367; secondly, before 4 Jan. 1367/8, MARGERY ---- (ib., vol. 74, page 231), who was living 22 Aug. 1374; and thirdly, before 6 July 1383, SYBIL ---- , who married again, had a daughter Eleanor (born about 1406) by her second husband, and died 26 Feb. 1428/9.
• From an inquisition taken at Oxford 23 Dec., 34 Edward III [1360] (ib.), it appears that Thomas Giffard had an elder brother, John, who was living at that date, but who must had died s.p. before 11 Mar., 43 Edward III [1368/9], as Thomas Giffard, aged twenty-five years and more, was then found to be the heir of his father (ib., vol. 74, page 232). On 23 Dec. 1360 Thomas's father, John settled upon himself and his wife Lucy, for the term of their lives, his manors of Somerton and Feringford, in Oxfordshire, with 30s. rent in Cogges, Oxfordshire, with remainder to their son Thomas and his issue, and then rent to Thomas and Elizabeth de Missenden and their issue, which otherwise ought to revert to John eldest son of the said John (ib., vol. 74, page 231). On 22 Aug. 1374 Sir Thomas Giffard, with his wife Margery, enfeoffed Nicholas Twyford of London, goldsmith, with a moiety of the manor of Ixning, co. Suffolk (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1370-1374, page 477). Two inquisitions post mortem show
• Pg.133
• holdings of Sir Thomas Giffard, Knight, at the time of his death, in Kent and in Oxfordshire respectively, and give Roger Giffard, aged twenty-six (or twenty-seven) years and more as his son and heir (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 232.) Child by first wife: .... etc. ________

From his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Gardinis, he inherited large estates, namely the manorial estates at Somerton and Fringsford and the Coggs lands in Oxfordshire, which with the messuage at Leisdon, co Kent, came down from the Arsic family, and the manor of Ixning from the De la Haye family. He inherited the Giffard lands from his father about 1630.

He was one of the knights to accompany Edward III to France, and was in the King’s division at the Battle of Crecy, 1346. [NEHGR 75:129 Geneal Res in England, by Moriarty]

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Fought at Crecy 1346, served as commisioner of Array 1360-1368. Sir John Giffard inherited large estates in Somerton & Fringeford & the Coggs land in Oxfordshire from his maternal grandfather Sir Thomas De Gardinis. When his father died ( c1330 ) he inherited the Giffard lands. Sir John Giffard accompanied Edward III to France & was in the Kings division at the battle of Crecy

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