John St. Quintin of Hornby

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/St_Quintin-61

This family of Saint Quintin occur nowhere in the pedigrees of the family, so it’s difficult to say exactly who they were, but my guess is that Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin was a younger son of Sir Geoffrey de Saint Quintin of Harpham Yorkshire (died in 1330) and his first wife Alice de Ros who died in September 1314.[1]

Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin married before October 1330, Margaret de Hornby, only daughter and heiress of Robert de Hornby, of Hornby Yorkshire, and his wife Christiana.[2]

In November 1332, Thomas de Saint Quintin, Margaret his wife, and Christiana late the wife of Robert de Hornby had licence for the alienation in mortmain of a messuage, three tofts, six bovates of land and 3 acres of meadow, in Hornby and North Otterington, to a chaplain to celebrate divine service daily in the church of St. Mary, Hornby, for the souls of the grantors and of their ancestors.[3]

Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin died in or before 1381, when bishop Hatfield of Durham granted to William Playce, his esquire, the wardship and marriage of successive heirs of Thomas de Saint Quintin, knight until one shall attain full age.[4]

There is a fine of May 1378, whereby Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin and Margaret his wife conveyed the manor of East Brompton, Yorkshire to John, son of Thomas de Saint Quintin, knight and Elizabeth, his wife.[5]

Since we know from the fine of May 1378, that Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin had a son named John, it must be assumed that John died between May 1378 and 1381, probably before his father. The heir of Sir Thomas de Saint Quintin was Margaret, daughter of his son John who was under age in 1381.

'Parishes: Hornby', in A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1, ed. William Page (London, 1914), pp. 313-320. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp313-320 [accessed 1 October 2023].

Thomas de Hornby was the chief tenant here in 1316 (fn. 21) and Robert de Hornby in 1327. (fn. 22) Four years later mills and tenements in Hornby were settled on Robert and his wife Christina and their issue, with contingent remainder to Thomas St. Quintin and his heirs. (fn. 23) In 1332 Christina, widow of Robert, and Thomas St. Quintin were holding jointly. (fn. 24) At her death the manor came into the sole possession of the family of St. Quintin, a younger branch of the St. Quintins of Harpham. (fn. 25) Thomas was succeeded by his nephew William, who had a son and heir John. (fn. 26) Anthony son of John died at the end of the 14th century, and left a daughter and heir Margaret, whose wardship and marriage belonged to Richard Lord Scrope. (fn. 27) He married Margaret St. Quintin to John Conyers, 'a servant of his own,' (fn. 28) who became the ancestor of the Conyers of Hornby. He was succeeded by a son and heir Christopher, who purchased more lands in Hornby. (fn. 29) Christopher was alive in 1459, (fn. 30) and was succeeded by his son John, (fn. 31) who became Sheriff of Yorkshire 'at the king's special request,' but received none of the accustomed issues and profits. As a reward he had a pardon of all offences committed by him and all accounts due to the king. (fn. 32)

Traditional pedigree

from http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2011-06/...

The line is published at RD600 (The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants . . . ) by Gary Boyd Roberts (Baltimore, Md., GPC, 2008), pp. 431-32. The line was:

• 4. William de Ros m. Eustache Fitzhugh (he the great grandson of William the Lion)
• 5. Alice de Ros m. Sir Geoffrey St. Quintin
• 6. Geoffrey St. Quintin m. Margery Constable
• 7. Sir William St. Quintin m. Joan de Thweng
• 8. Sir John St. Quintin m. Agnes Herbert
• 9. Anthony St. Quintin m. Elizabeth Gascoigne
• 10. (probably illegitimate from Margaret Swynho), Margaret St. Quintin m. Sir John Conyers
• 11. Sir Christopher Conyers m. Ellen Rollesonn
• 12. Joan Conyers m. John FitzRandolph, himself a descendant of Hugh