John Markham, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

• Sir John Markham, Lord of East Markham1,2
• M, #22044, d. 30 December 1409
• Father Robert Markham
• Mother Isabel Caunton
• Sir John Markham, Lord of East Markham Justice of the Common Pleas. He was born at of East Markham, Nottinghamshire, England. He married Elizabeth Cressy, daughter of Sir John Cressy, Sheriff of Nottingham & Derby and Agnes, circa 1397.3,2 Sir John Markham, Lord of East Markham married Millicent de Beckeryng, daughter of Sir John de Beckering, after 28 November 1400.4 Sir John Markham, Lord of East Markham died on 30 December 1409; Buried at East Markham Church.3
• Family 1 Elizabeth Cressy b. c 1380, d. b 28 Nov 1400
• Children
  • Elizabeth Markham
  • Sir Robert Markham, Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, & Derbyshire+2 b. c 1398, d. 1 Sep 1495
• Family 2 Millicent de Beckeryng b. c 1380
• Citations
• 1.[S6735] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. III, p. 531; Wallop Family, p. 527.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 131.
• 3.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. III, p. 530-531.
• 4.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p734.htm#i... ___________________________
• BURDON, Nicholas (d.1403), of Maplebeck, Notts.
• s. of John Burdon (fl. 1388) of Maplebeck. m. Millicent (d. Sept. 1419), da. of John Bekering, 1da. Kntd. between 1402 and d.1
• Offices Held
  • Auditor of the accounts of ministers of the Crown in Cheshire and the principality of Wales 4 Feb. 1395-d.2
• The Burdon family settled at Maplebeck by the beginning of the 12th century, and about 100 years later they acquired their second manor of Boughton through an advantageous marriage. Several of Nicholas’s ancestors are now chiefly remembered as friends and patrons of Rufford abbey, although they boasted an even earlier association with successive constables of Chester, and this may well have helped Burdon to secure the important — and lucrative — post of auditor of the King’s estates in Cheshire and the principality of Wales. His appointment, which was made in February 1395, while he was representing Nottinghamshire for the first and only time in Parliament, also came as recognition of his services as an esquire of the body to Richard II: indeed, his election to the Lower House probably owed as much to his influence at Court as his position in the local community. Whatever personal attachment Burdon may have felt for King Richard did not, even so, prevent him from accepting the Lancastrian coup d’état of 1399 and throwing in his lot with the newly crowned Henry IV. The latter, who in turn was grateful for the support of Richard’s former servants, promptly confirmed him in office and, moreover, continued to retain him as an officer of the royal household. In April 1402 Burdon and his colleague, William Spridlington, were assigned £29 as wages and expenses for their ‘necessary labours’ in taking the annual audit, and they also received a present of game from the King by way of an additional reward.3
• Burdon’s loyalty to the new regime was clearly now beyond question, and when, in 1403, a combination of Welsh and northern rebels marched with the Percys against King Henry he enlisted under the royal banner, only to fall on 21 July at the battle of Shrewsbury. He left but one child, a daughter named Elizabeth, who married Sir Robert Markham. Her mother, Millicent, retained one third of the Burdon estates as dower, and it was clearly with the intention of gaining possession of the entire inheritance that Sir Robert’s father, the judge, John Markham, made her his second wife. On his death in 1409, Millicent married her influential neighbour, Sir William Meryng*, to whom she brought two dowers, as well as the property left to her by her father, John Bekering.4
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/bu... ______________________
• MERYNG, Sir William (d.1449), of Meering, Notts.
• s. and h. of Alexander Meryng (fl. 1418) of Meering by his w. Agnes (fl. 1409). m. (1) Millicent (d.1419), da. of John Bekering, wid. of Nicholas Burdon* (d.1403) and John Markham (d.1409) j.c.p. of Markham, Notts. at least 1s. William†; (2) Alice (fl. 1449). Kntd. by June 1417.1
• .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/me... __________________
• A history of the Markham family (1854)
• http://archive.org/details/ahistorymarkham00markgoog
• http://archive.org/stream/ahistorymarkham00markgoog#page/n38/mode/1up
• SIR JOHN MARKHAM, Lord of East Markham, was living in the reigns of the first three Edwards. He was an eminent lawyer, and arrived at the dignity of King's Sergeant.
• He married Joan, the daughter and heir of Sir Nicholas Bottumsell or Bothomsell, and her coat is impaled with Markham in Markham, Cotham, and Maplebeck. By her he had three sons: William, who succeeded him, but died childless; Robert, of whom hereafter; and Nigel, who was the tenant of William of Lyneham, of a manor in Markham 9 Edw. I. By his second wife Sir John had two daughters, Elizabeth, who was 12, and Cecilia, who was 10 years of age, at his death, which took place in 1329. He was buried in the cemetery of the church of East Retford.(*)
• SIR ROBERT MARCHAM succeeded his brother William, who died childless, and, following the same profession as his father, became also King's Serjeant, He married Isabel, the
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• daughter and heir of Sir John de Caunton, of Caunton, and by her had issue one son.
• SIR JOHN MARKHAM, following in the steps of his father and grandfather, applied himself to the study of the law, in which he was eminently successful. In Richard the Second's time he had become serjeant-at-law, and was entrusted to draw up the instrument for deposing that monarch; moreover he was appointed one of the commission to receive the crown which the unfortunate Richard resigned in favour of his rival Henry of Bolingbroke. A curious speech made upon this occasion to the King by Sir William Thirnyng, the Chief Justice, will not be without interest. .... etc.
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• Sir John Markham was married twice: his first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Henri de Cressi, in direct descent from Sir Roger de Cressi lord of Hodsac in the time of Henry II. Sir John de Clifton, of Clifton, who was afterwards killed at the battle of Shrewsbury, married the elder sister Katharine, and at the death of their brother Hugo de Cressi, his property was divided between the two sisters at Retford, in the tenth year of Henry IV., when Hodsac fell to the Cliftons; and Cressi Hall, Risegate, Braytoft, and Exton in Lincolnshire to the Markhams. Sir John married for his second wife Milicent, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Bekeryng, and widow of Sir Nicholas Bourdon, by whom he had two children: Sir John, afterwards Lord Chief Juctice of England,(!) "the greatest ornament," says Camden, "of this family, who tempered his judgments with so much equity that his name will endure as long as time itself;" and Margaret, who married Sir Walter Pitwardyn. Milicent died in 1419. Upon a fair marble tomb in the church of East Markham was this inscription — .... etc.
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• By his first wife, Elizabeth de Cressi, Sir John had two sons and one daughter, Adela, the wife of Sir Robert Stanhope, who had a monument erected to their memory in York Minster now destroyed; Henry was the second son, who appears never to have been married, and the eldest succeeded his father.
• SIR ROBERT MARKHAM married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Burdon and Elizabeth de Bekeryng his wife ; by which marriage the manors of Maplebec and Boughton were settled upon him. By this lady, Sir Robert had four children: Elizabeth, married to Sir Thomas Molineux of Hawton, created Knight Banneret by Richard III. at Berwick; Margaret, the wife of Sir Henry Willoughby, also a Knight Banneret; and Katharine, the wife of Sir Henry Bozome of Screveton. The fourth child was his son Robert, who suceeded him. The exact time of his death is uncertain; it was probably in the early part of the reign of Henry IV. Both Sir Robert and his lady were buried at Sedgbrook, the seat of his brother the chief justice, and in the "quayer of the church, in a window on the syde of the Ladyes chapel," are three pictures with inscriptions as follows — .... etc.
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• SIR ROBERT MARKHAM married Joan the daughter and heir of Sir Giles Daubeny, and Mary, daughter of Sir Simon Leake, in whose right he held the manors of Cotham and Houghton by Newark; Joan carried the lordship, as heir, to Sir Robert Markham her husband. "The family of Markham," says Thoroton, "then made Cotham their principal residence, and were of great note." .... etc.
• Sir Robert had two sons, John who succeeded him, and Robert,(*) who married Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William
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• de Mering, a descendant of Agnes Markham and William de Sancta Cruce, mentioned above. He settled at Oxton in the county of Nottingham, and had a son Robert, who married Ela, daughter and heir of John Saperton, by whom he had five children. The eldest of these was William, whose grandson James died without issue, and thus the Oxton family of Markhams became extinct.
• Sir Robert died about the year 1476, and was succeeded by his eldest son. .... etc. ___________________
• Familiae minorum gentium; v39 (1894)
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• http://archive.org/stream/FamiliaeMinorumGentiumV39/Familiae_Minoru...
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  • Markham. MS.412 - Chart Pg.964-968
• 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.
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• "Obiit in festo Sti Silvestri, anno Dom. 1409" (East Markham church, north side of the chancel)

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/rodgers1908/ollerton2.htm

"In course of time Sir John became Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, from 1396 to 1406. He was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Henry de Cressi, lord of Hodsac. Sir John married for his second wife Milicent, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Bekeryng, and widow of Sir Nicholas Bourdon, by whom he had two child­ren. Of the first, Sir John, afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England, of whom Camden says, " he was the greatest ornament of this family, who tempered his judgments with so much equity that his name will endure as long as time itself." The judge died in the tenth year of Henry the Fourth."

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Under "Cotham" in Robert Thoroton's "The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire" Vol I. (First published by John Thresby at Nottingham in 1790) Sir John Markham's wife is named " Elizabeth, sister and co-heir of Hugh and daughter of Sir John Cressey of Hodsak, from them called Cressy Hall".

However:

1. In the Pedigree of Markham in "Familiae Minorum Gentium" Vol. III., published by the Harleian Society, London, in 1895, Sir John's wife is called "Margaret, dau and co-heir of Sir HENRY Cressie of Cressie, Co. Lincoln; niece and heiress of Sir Hugh".

2. In the Pedigree of Markham in the "Visitations of the County of Nottingham, 1569 and 1640", published by the Harleian Society, London in 1871, Sir John's wife is called "Margerett, d. and co-heire of Sr. HENERY (Henry) Cressy, Knight".

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http://newsfeed.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOWLES/2006-01/1136255334

"By his 1st wife he had Cressy Hall, Risegate, Braytoft, and Exton, co. Lincoln."

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Sir John, following in the steps of his father and grandfather, also became Sergeant-at-law. He was entrusted to draw up the instrument for deposing Richard the Second, and appointed one of the Commission to receive the crown he resigned in favour of Henry of Bolingbroke.

In course of time, Sir John became Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, from 1396 to 1406. He was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter and co-heir of Henry de Cressi, lord of Hodsac.

Sir John married for his second wife Milicent, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas de Bekeryng, and widow of Sir Nicholas Bourdon, by whom he had two child­ren.

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• page 220 of the History of Nottinghamshire, Volume 2 By Robert Thoroton
• Alabaster tomb chest of Sir John Markham who died in 1409