John Il Markham, of Cotham

John, son of Sir John Markham, of Cotham, MP and Anne Neville. Husband of Katherine Babington. Father of Robert Markham.

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• SIR JOHN MARKHAM married the daughter and heir of Sir George Neville, who on the female side was of royal descent. Her mother, the daughter of Sir Humphrey FitzLewes, was a grand-daughter and coheir of Edmund Beaufort, Marquess and Earl of Somerset (slain at the battle of St. Alban's), the grandson of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster (third son of King Edward III.) and Catherine Swynford, daughter of Sir Payn Roet, Guyenne King at Arms. Independent of the brilliancy of this alliance, considerable property also accrued to the family in consequence of it, for the lady herself was her father's heir, as was her mother of Sir Humphrey FitzLewes. ....
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• .... Besides the large possessions which devolved upon Sir John, on the demise of his father, who appears by his son's will to have died outlawed,t and those which came by his marriage with the heiress of Sir George Neville, who succeeded to the estates of Sir Humphrey Lewes, whose wife was daughter and coheiress of Edmund Beaufort Earl of Somerset ; he had grants of several others, among which is one bearing date 28 Hen, VIII, "The house and site of the Abbey of Rufforth, with large manorial possessions attached, were, under the great seal of the Court of Augmentations, demised to Sir John Markham, Knight, and his assigns for twenty-one years, for the yearly rent of twenty-two pounds eight shillings, which, with a vast deal of other property, was by reason of a certain act for dissolving certain religious houses." ....
• .... He was thrice married ; first to Anne, daughter of Sir George Neville, by whom he had two sons, John and Henry. " This latter was in holy orders, and was installed Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral, March, 26, 1550. He died without issue.
• JOHN MARKHAM, the eldest, was seated at Sireston in the
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• county of Nottingham, and died in his father's life time, leaving issue by Katharine his wife, daughter of Sir Anthony Babington, one son, Robert, who succeeded him, and two daughters: Sanchia, who married William de Hardwicke, and Anne, who died unmarried.*
• Sir John's second wife was Margery, daughter of Sir Ralf Langford of Langford, who bore him many children.
• His last wife was Anne, relict of Sir Richard Stanhope, daughter and coheir of Sir John Strelly, who was descended from Walter de Stradlegh in the time of Henry I. By her he had William Markham of Okely, who served as Member for the Borough of Nottingham in parliament held at Westminster, in the 1st and 2nd of Philip and Mary. Thomas was the second son of Sir John by his third wile, and founder of the Ollerton branch of Markhams, of whom hereafter. Frances, the eldest daughter, married Henry Babington, and was mother .....
• Isabella Markham, the youngest, was maid of honour to Elizabeth, and one of the devoted ladies who, at the instigation of Bishop Gardiner, in Mary's reign, were seized and confined in the Tower. She seems to have been in high favour with ... etc. _________________
• MARKHAM, Robert (1536-1606), of Cotham, Notts.
• b. 1536, 1st s. of John Markham of Cotham by Catherine, da. of Sir Anthony Babington† of Dethick. m. (1) in 1562, Mary, da. of Francis Leck of Sutton in the Dale, Derbys., 5s. 3da.; (2) in 1597, Jane, da. of William Burnell of Winkburn, s.p. suc. gd.-fa. 1559.
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• MARKHAM, Sir John (by 1486-1559), of Cotham, Notts.
• b. by 1486, s. of Sir John Markham of Cotham by Alice, da. of Sir William Skipwith of Ormsby, Lincs. m. (1) Anne, da. and h. of Sir George Neville, 2s.; (2) Margery, da. of Sir Ralph Longford, 1s. 3da.; (3) Anne (d. 12 Oct. 1554), da. and coh. of Sir John Strelley of Strelley, wid. of Richard Stanhope of Rampton, 2s. Thomas and William 3da. suc. fa. 1508. Kntd. 25 Sept. 1513.
• Offices Held
  • Sheriff, Notts. and Derbys. 1518-19, 1526-7, 1534-5, 1538-9, 1545-6, Lincs. 1532-3; j.p. Notts. 1521, q. 1559.
  • Chamberlain and receiver of court of general surveyors 1545; lt. of Tower of London 1549-Oct. 1551.1
• Markham was the descendant of a family long established in Nottinghamshire. His father had fought beside Henry VII at the battle of Stoke and afterwards was much at court, while Markham himself served Henry VIII both as soldier and courtier, continuing a member of the royal household until the Duke of Somerset’s fall, when he appears to have retired from court. As early as 1537 his old friend Archbishop Cranmer wrote, ‘Sir John of long season hath unfeignedly favoured the truth of God’s word’, and later he was described by Edward Underhill as ‘both wise and zealous in the Lord’. His daughter Isabella and his son Thomas entered the Princess Elizabeth’s household at Hatfield during Mary’s reign.2
• Markham’s local standing had already earned him election as knight of the shire before the accession of Elizabeth. It was to be expected that such a man, prominent in his own locality, a protestant and a friend of the protestant 2nd Earl of Rutland, would be elected to the crucial first Parliament of the new reign; and while Sir John sat for the county, his son sat for the city of Nottingham.3
• Markham made his will in April 1559. Only the necessary minimum was left to his heir, Robert, the son of his deceased eldest son John. A disposition was made of his movable property to the prejudice of Robert. The executors of the will were Markham’s sons, Thomas and William, his friend Henry Needham, and his servant Nicholas Blouston. They were to hold lands in East Markham and Tuxford for 20 years for the payment of debts and legacies. Among these was a bequest of £100 to Thomas Cranmer, son of the archbishop, ‘for a due debt that 1 am bound in my conscience’. Markham appointed as supervisors (Sir) Gervase Cliftont and his cousin Ellis Markhamt. The will was proved in October 1559.4
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• Sir Alexander de Markham, Castellane of Notthingham circ. 1270. = ; ch: William (m. Isabel or Cecily de Lexington) de Markham.
  • William = Isabel or Cecily, dau. of John de Lexington; niece & coh. of Henry, Bishop of Lincoln. ; ch: Richard de Markham.
    • Richard. = ; ch: Robert (m. Sarah de Snitterton), Richard (2 son) Markham.
      • Robert, 1 son, inq. p.m. 16 E. 1, seised of the m'rs of Tuxford, Lexington. = Sarah, dau. & h of Jordan de Snitterton, co. Derb., 42 II. 3. ; ch: Cecily, aet. 30, 16 E. I. (m. John Bray), Bertha, aet. 19, 16 E. 1. (m. William Longvillers), Agnes, (m. William de Sancta Cruce.)
      • Richard Markham, 2 son, Lord of Markham by entail after his brother's death. = ; ch: John (m. Joan Bothumsal) Markham.
        • John, of West Markham temp. E. 3. = Joan, dau. of Sir Nicholas Bothumsal. ; ch: Sir Robert (m. . . . . Caunton) Markham.
          • Sir Robert = . . . . dau. of Sir John Caunton. ; ch: (Pg.965 Sir John (m. Margaret Cressie & Milicent Bickering) Markham).
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            • Sir John Markham, Ch. Just. of the Common Pleas, ob. 30 Dec. 1409; drew the Instrument for the deposition of Richard II.; Mon. at Markham; d. on day of St. Silvester. = Margaret, 1 w., dau. & d. of Sir Henry Cressie of Cressie, co. Linc.; niece & h'rs of Sir Hugh. ; ch: Sir Robert (m. Eliz. Burden), Adela (m. Sir Ric. Stanhope). Markham. ; = Milicent, 2 w., dau. of Sir John Bickering; wid. of Nic. Burden. ; ch: John (Ch. Just. of the King's Bench) Markham.
              • John Markham,(1) Ch. Just. of the King's Bench, from whom Markham of Sedgebrook.
              • Sir Robert, Sher. Notts 12 H. 6. Had a tomb in Markham Church. = Eliz., dau. & h. of Sir Nicholas Burden. ; ch: Sir Robert (m. Jane Daubeny) Markham.
                • Sir Robert, of Cotham, Sher. Notts 7 E. 4. = Jane, dau. & h. of Sir Giles Daubeny, bro. of Lord Daubeny, by . . . . dau. & h. of Sir S. Leake of Cotham. ; ch: Sir John (m. Alice Skipwith), Robert, Elizabeth (m. Thomas Molyneux), Margaret (m. Sir H. Willoughby), Catherine (m. Sir H. Bosom) Markham.
                  • Robert, 2 son, from whom M. of Southwell; father of Robert; father of Wil. a Cap'n in the Low Countries; father of John M. of Southwell, now living.
                  • Sir John Markham of Cotham, Commander at Stokefield 1488, Mon. at Cotham. "A very beautiful & free-hearted gentleman, valiant & exceeding full of boldness." = Alice, dau. of Sir Wil. Skipwith. ; ch: Sir John (m. Anne Nevile & Margery Langford & Ann Strelley), Robert (m. . . . . Sapperton) Markham.
                    • Robert, 2nd son, mar. h. of . . . . Sapperton; s.p.
                    • Sir John Markham, knighted at Tournay; L't of the Tower; d. 1558, aged nr 100. = Ann, 1 w., dau. & h. of Sir George Nevile; wid. of Earl Rivers; bur. at Croydon. ; ch: Sir John (m. Cath'e Babington Dethick) Markham ; = Margery, 2 w., dau. of Sir John Langford. ; ch: Robert & 13 other sons, (ob. s.p.), Alice (m. John Morton of Bawtry) Markham ; = Ann, 3 w., dau. & c. of John Strelley; wid. of Richard Stanhope. ; ch: (Pg.966 William (m. Elizab. Montacute), Thomas (m. Mary Griffin), Isabel (m. Sir John Harrington.(1)), Frances (m. Sir Henry Babington) Markham.)
                      • Sir John M. of Sierston, ob. v.p. = Cath'e, dau. of Sir Anth. Babington Dethick. ; ch: Robert (m. Mary Leke) Markham.
                        • Robert, of Cotham = Mary, dau. of Sir Fran. Leke. ; ch: (Pg.966 Robert (m. Ann Warburton & Winifred Thorold), Francis, Gervas, John, Godfrey, Thomas, George, Gerturde, Frances, Mary, Anne, Isabel, Catherine, Ruth Markham)
                      • (1) He presided at the trial of Burdet, a Citizen of London, for treasonable words, who having recovered by suit a house in Cheapside called the Crown (now the Fleur de Lis), meeting his son that day coming from Sir Anthony's school, bid him ply his book & he would make him heir of the Crown. The man was acquitted. The King wrote to the Chief Justice to proceed to a second trial & use all strictness in the process. He did so, but he charged the Jury in favour of the prisoner, who was again acquitted, for which the King deposed the Judge & sent him to the fleet, deputed another in his place, & Burdet was tried again, convicted, & executed. This tale did a Judge (Fleetwood Recorder of London) tell me! The King would have restored him, but he preferred to retire from public life, & settled himself at Sedgebrook, where he built a lodging for himself & two priests (giving up all the rest to his son) in the church, where he spent 20 years in spiritual comtemplation for the good of his soul, & at his death was bur. in the church. He built a window in Cotham Church with his effigies. Made a fish-pond at Sedgebrook just the length & breadth of Westminster Hall, which to this day they call Westminster.
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                          • Robert, of Cotham. = Ann, 1 w., dau. of Sir Geo. Warburton. ; ch: John Markham; = Winifred, 2 w., dau. of Robert Thorold. ; ch: Philip Markham.
                      • William, of Okeby, 2 son, followed the wars; d. rich. = Elizab., dau. of Sir Edw. Montacute. ; ch: Elizabeth, Anne Markham.
                      • Thomas of Allerton, Standard Bearer to Qu. Eliz. = Mary, dau. & h. of Rice Griffin of Dingley & Braybrooke; a Catholic. ; ch: Charles (m. Bridget Ford), (Pg.967 Tho., Wil., Rob. (s.p.), Jane (m. Sir John Skinner), Marg't (m. Nich's Longford), Ann (m. Sir F. Smith), Eliz. (m. Edw. Sheldon), George (m. Judith Withenwick), Sir Griffin (m. Ann Roos), John (m. Mary Markham) Markham)
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• The line through which Albert Gallatin Markham's descent is traced goes back to Claron, of West Markham, a Saxon chief who, for services rendered at the time of the Norman Conquest, was granted lands which had already been held by his father and grandfather before him. From his son Roger, of East Markham, the line is traced through Fulc, of East Markham; his son Sir Alexander, known as Knight of Castellane, of Nottingham Castle, Nottinghamshire ; his son Sir William, of Markham and Tuxford ; his son Sir Richard ; his son Richard (2) ; his son John, Lord of East Markham, who married John Bottomsell ; their son Sir Robert, a lawyer and King's sergeant, who married Isabell Caunton ; their son Sir John, barrister and judge, who committed Henry, Prince of Wales (son of Henry IV) to the Fleet Prison in London ; his son Sir Robert, who married Elizabeth Burdon ; their son Sir Robert, Knight, who married Sarah Joan Daubeney ; their son Sir John, who married Alicia Skipworth; their son Sir John (3) who was a lieutenant of the famous "Tower of London" and whose daughter was maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth, married (first) Ann Neville, whose mother was a granddaughter of the Earl of
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• Somerset, son of Duke of Lancaster, son of Henry III, married (second) Margery Langford, (third) Ann Strelly Stanhope; his son John (4), who married Catherine Babbington; their son Robert, who married (first) Maria Leeke, (second) Jane Burnell ; their son Sir Robert, of Cotham, married Ann Warburton ; their third son Daniel, who was engaged in commercial pursuits and died in Plumstead (now Pirney), Norfolk County, in 1690. after having regained in mercantile pursuits the fortune squandered by his father. Among his children was Daniel Markham, of whom further.
• (I) Daniel Markham, immigrant ancestor of the line herein traced, was born in Plumstead Manor, near Norwich, England, of which city his brother Matthew was mayor in 1634. The brother Matthew had a son, also named Daniel, who was a colonel in the British Army and came to New York with the Duke of York in 1664; the last named Daniel was the ancestor of Admiral Markham, of the British Navy, whose mother, brothers, and sisters, were living in Independence, Iowa, in 1903. Daniel (2) Markham, the immigrant ancestor, arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1665, and in 1665 removed to Middletown, Connecticut, where he became a freeman in 1674, and where he was prominent in the affairs of church and State. He married (first), November 3, 1669, Elizabeth Whitmore, daughter of Lieutenant Francis Whitmore, of Cambridge. She died about 1676, and he married (second) Patience Harris, daughter of William Harris, of Middletown. Children of the first marriage were : Daniel, Elizabeth, and James, of further mention. To the second marriage, also, three children were born: Martha, who died in infancy; Martha, and Edith.
• (II) James Markham, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Whitmore) Markham, was born March 16, 1675, in Middletown, Connecticut. He married Elizabeth Lock (given as Lock in Volume I and as Lick in Volume II of Middlesex County) and they were the parents of one child John, of whom further.
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• Robert Markham (1536-1606) was an English politician.
• He was born the eldest son of John Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire.
• He was appointed a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Nottinghamshire from 1564 and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1571-2 and 1583-4.
• He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Nottinghamshire in 1571 and 1589 and Grantham in 1586.[1]
• He married twice: firstly Mary, the daughter of Francis Leck of Sutton in the Dale, Derbyshire with whom he had five sons and three daughters; and secondly Jane, the daughter of William Burnell of Winkburn.
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