John Sydenham of Brympton

• John Sydenham, Esq., Sheriff of Somersetshire & Dorsetshire1,2,3
• M, #90629, b. circa 1468, d. 6 December 1542
• Father Walter Sydenham, Esq.4,5 b. c 1445, d. 17 Apr 1469
• Mother Margaret Harcourt4,5 b. c 1444, d. 30 Mar 1477
• John Sydenham, Esq., Sheriff of Somersetshire & Dorsetshire was born circa 1468 at of Brimpton, Ashbrittle, Bossington, & Combe Sydenham in Stogumber, Somersetshire, England; Age 1 in 1469 & age 9 in 1477.1,2 He married Elizabeth Audley, daughter of Sir Humphrey Touchet, Constable of Southampton Castle and Elizabeth Courtenay, circa 1490; They had 3 sons (Henry; Sir John; & John).1,6,2,3 John Sydenham, Esq., Sheriff of Somersetshire & Dorsetshire married Joan Arundell before 8 October 1530; They had 3 sons (Richard; Walter; & Thomas) & 2 daughters (Elizabeth; & Joan).2 John Sydenham, Esq., Sheriff of Somersetshire & Dorsetshire left a will on 3 April 1540.1,2 He died on 6 December 1542.1,2 His estate was probated on 11 April 1543.1,2
• Family 1 Elizabeth Audley b. c 1466, d. b 8 Oct 1530
• Child
  • Sir John Sydenham, Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset+1,2 b. c 1494, d. 16 Apr 1557
• Family 2 Joan Arundell b. c 1470, d. a 20 Sep 1544
• Citations
• 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 699.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 158-159.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 219.
• 4.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 698-699.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 158.
• 6.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 722-723.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p3017.htm#...
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• Elizabeth TOUCHET
• Born: ABT 1472, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
• Died: BEF 5 Sep 1559
• Father: Humphrey TOUCHET (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Elizabeth COURTENAY
• Married: John SYDENHAM (son of Walter Sydenham and Margaret Harcourt) (m. 2 Joan Arundell) ABT 1492, Heleigh, Staffordshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. Henry SYDENHAM (b. ABT 1493 - d. ABT 1519) (m. Eleanor Warre)
  • 2. John SYDENHAM (Sir) (b. 1494 - d. 16 Apr 1557) (m. Ursula Brydges)
  • 3. Alice SYDENHAM
  • 4. Margery SYDENHAM
  • 5. Thomas SYDENHAM of Whetstow (m. Elizabeth Gross)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/TOUCHET.htm#Elizabeth TOUCHET2
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• Margaret HARCOURT
• Born: ABT 1444, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England
• Died: 1477
• Notes: Walter Sydenham directed by his will that he was to be buried in the new "Ile of Brimpton". At an inquisition, post mortem, held at Ivelchester, Somerset, in 9 Edw. IV (1469) on the death of Walter Sydenham, Esq., it is recorded that he held together with Margaret his wife, who still survives, the manor of Chilton Dommer held of Sir Humphrey Stafford, Knt., as of the manor of Compton Dunden, and messuages in North Petherton held od John Blewett, Esq.
• Father: Robert HARCOURT (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Margaret BRYON
• Married 1: Walter SYDENHAM (b. 1443 - d. 17 Apr 1469/70) (son of John Sydenham and Joan Stourton) ABT 1470, Brimpton, Somersetshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. John SYDENHAM (m.1 Elizabeth Touchet - m.2 Joan Arundell)
  • 2. Dorothy SYDENHAM (m. Lawrence Courtenay)
• Married 2: William MUTTON (Sheriff of Leicestershire) (b. 1440)
• Children:
  • 3. Robert MUTTON (b. 1477 - d. 1499) (m. Phillippa Willoughby)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HARCOURT.htm#Margaret HARCOURT1
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• Richard of Combe was probably occupier of the land c. 1240 (fn. 140) and William of Combe was mentioned in 1325. (fn. 141) In 1367 Nicholas Orchard may have held an estate called Combe Allen, which was sold in the same year to Richard Sydenham, justice of Common Pleas. (fn. 142) Richard Sydenham died in 1403 and was succeeded by his son Henry (d. before 1427) and Henry by his son John (d. 1468). (fn. 143) The estate was held by John's widow Joan (d. 1472). (fn. 144) Their grandson John Sydenham (d. 1542) settled it on his son Henry (d. c. 1519) and Henry's wife Eleanor (d.1539).
• From: 'Parishes: Stogumber', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 5 (1985), pp. 177-190. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117147 Date accessed: 21 April 2013.
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• A manor of NORTH PETHERTON, which can be traced to a holding of John Sydenham (d. 1468), included houses and lands which Margaret Mutton, probably wife of John's son Walter (d. 1469), held when she died in 1477. (fn. 43) Her son and heir John Sydenham of Brympton held land in Whitestock as a free tenant of Shearston manor in 1519. (fn. 44) In 1613 the Sydenhams' manor, held of the Bluets' manor of North Petherton, included lands in Moorland, Edington in Moorlinch, and Bridgwater, and probably less than half its land lay in North Petherton parish. John Sydenham (d. 1625) settled the manor on his son John for his marriage to Alice Hody, (fn. 45) and it descended with Combe Sydenham in Stogumber until 1674 or later. (fn. 46) No further reference to the lordship has been found and the land was probably dispersed.
• From: 'North Petherton: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6: Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and neighbouring parishes) (1992), pp. 283-300. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18686 Date accessed: 24 September 2010.
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• ==Brympton d'Evercy==
• Brympton d'Evercy (also known as Brympton House) is a manor house near Yeovil in the county of Somerset, England. .... etc.
• ==The Sydenham family==
• In 1430 following a legal battle over disputed titles, the Wynfords sold the estate to John Stourton, lord of the nearby manor at Preston Plucknett, who used it as a dowry for his daughter Joan when she married John Sydenham in 1434. The Sydenhams were said at one time to be England's largest landowners,[17] yet their wealth seems to have fluctuated with each generation.
• John Sydenham as in infant inherited the estate from his grandmother the original Joan Sydenham (née Stourton). However, at this time Brympton D'Evercy was not the principal family residence. In 1534 John Sydenham made over the house to his son, also, John – having first built the North wing to be his private lodgings for later visits. The new owner John III, was a great landowner bequeathing to each of his many children an estate. This lack of primogeniture proved to be the Sydenham's downfall. John III's successor John IV (died 1585), and his son John V (died 1625) were considerably less wealthy than their forebears, and used the house as their sole residence, the result of which was, despite their comparative penury, they added much to the house. John IV built the present west front thus enlarging the hall, and John V built the large kitchen block. .... etc.
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• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899)
• https://archive.org/details/historyofnobleho01mowb
• Pg.85
• John Stourton married, secondly, Alice Dennis or Peny, of Co. Kent, called Alice, daughter and heir of . . . Peny, by Hoare, and confirmed as to the name by Harl. MS., 1074; and as daughter of . . . Dennis, of Kent, by Edmondson. By her he had issue a daughter and coheir : —
  • Jane Stourton, aged 21 years in 1439, wrongly called Alice in the Visitation for Co. Somerset, but corrected to Jane in the old pedigree of 1509, who married John Sydenham(!), Esquire, M.P. for Co. Somerset, and which marriage is confirmed subject to Alice for Jane, by the Visitation for Co. Somerset, as well as being confirmed by Hoare and Edmondson, and supported by legal records. John Sydenham pre-deceased his wife, on the 4th April, 1460, leaving Walter, his son and heir, aged 25(+), and in his Inquisition taken in 8 Edward IV., he was called John Sydenham, senior. Esquire, and Preston Manor was then said to be held of the Honor of Trowbridge. His son and heir, Walter Sydenham, also predeceased his mother, Jane Sydenham, on the 1st May, 1469, leaving John Sydenham, his son and next heir, who was the next heir of his grandmother, Mrs. Joan Sydenham, who was seised in fee, by survivorship, of Brimpton Manor, Church, Chantry, &c., and of which she had enfeoffed certain trustees, viz: — John Chayney, John Byconyll, Robert Hymerford, and others, of the Manors of Brimpton and Alvington, with the Advowson of the Church of Brimpton, and Chantry of the blesssed Virgin Mary of Brimpton, to perform the trusts of her will. It is admitted that her husband acquired Brimpton in her right by marriage temp. Henry VI., and that the fair Manor of Brimpton, according to Mr. Batten, came down to Sir Philip Sidenham, Baronet, whose portrait is in the British Museum, from his ancestor, John Stourton, of Preston, who flourished in the reign of Henry VI. She died 21st April, 1472, and her Inquisition was taken after her death, 31st October following, at Crewkerne, before Thomas Phelipp, Escheator, when she was said to
  • https://archive.org/stream/historyofnobleho01mowb#page/86/mode/1up
  • Pg.86
  • have been wife of John Sydenham, armiger, and it was found she had died seised of Brimpton Manor, with .... etc. , leaving her grandson, John Sydenham, (son and next heir of her then late son, Walter Sydenham, Esquire,) as her next heir, then aged 3 years. The old manorial house of Brimpton was standing temp. Edward II's reign, still used and occupied by the owners, from that period as the Lords of Brimpton, down to that of Henry VI., when Mr. Batten thought the old Manorial residence was not destroyed but perhaps discarded, on Mrs. Sydenham's grandson, the above John Sydenham, building on or near .... etc.
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• Collectanea topographica et genealogica (1834)
• https://archive.org/details/collectaneatopog01londuoft
• https://archive.org/stream/collectaneatopog01londuoft#page/409/mode...
• Pg.409
• P. 313. The following Pedigree of Hill, of Spaxton, co. Somerset. compiled from a paper written about the year 1509, shows the relationship of the two persons of that name who married the two sisters Stourton, and includes descents of Sidenham, Cheyne, &c.
• John Stourton, of Preston Plukenet, co. Som. = 1st w.; ch: Joan (m. John Sidenham) Stourton.; = 2d w.; ch: Cicel (m. John Hill & Sir J. Curyell) Stourton.; = 3d w.; ch: Alys (m. William Daubenye & Robert Hill) Stourton.
  • Joan, mar. John Sidenham, of Brimpton, and had issue: Walter, father of John; Sylvester; Richard; George; and a dau.
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• The visitations of the county of Somerset, in the years 1531 and 1573, together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from the visitation of 1591 (1885)
• https://archive.org/details/visitationscoun00benogoog
• https://archive.org/stream/visitationscoun00benogoog#page/n94/mode/1up
• Pg.76
  • Sidenham
  • OF BRYMPTON D'EVERCY, NR. YEOVIL.
• Walter Sidenham.; ch: John (m. Agnes _ ) Sidenham.
• John = Agnes.; ch: John (m. Alice Stourton) Sidenham
• John. = Alice, d. and h. of (John Stourton of Preston Plucknett. & d. and h. Payne); ch: Alex. (m. d. Popham), Joan (m. John St. Barbe), Walter (m. Margt. Harcourt), Marcell (m. John Larde?), Richard (m. Joan Cambrey) Sidenham.
• Walter of Brimpton. = Margt., d. Sr. Rob. Harcourt.; ch: (Pg.77 John (m. Eliz. Awdeley) Sidenham.)
• https://archive.org/stream/visitationscoun00benogoog#page/n95/mode/1up
• Pg.77
• John. = Eliz., d. Sir Hugh Awdeley.; ch: Sr. John (m. Anne Bridges) Sidenham.
• Sr. John. = Anne, d. Sr Billes [Gyles] Bridges sister to John Bridges.; ch: Sir John (m. Eliz. Pawlett), Geo., Eliz. (m. Ric. Bamfield), Anne (m. Alex. Sidenham), Mary (m. John Fitz), Walter (m. _ Lawrance) Sidenham.
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• Richard of Combe was probably occupier of the land c. 1240 (fn. 140) and William of Combe was mentioned in 1325. (fn. 141) In 1367 Nicholas Orchard may have held an estate called Combe Allen, which was sold in the same year to Richard Sydenham, justice of Common Pleas. (fn. 142) Richard Sydenham died in 1403 and was succeeded by his son Henry (d. before 1427) and Henry by his son John (d. 1468). (fn. 143) The estate was held by John's widow Joan (d. 1472). (fn. 144) Their grandson John Sydenham (d. 1542) settled it on his son Henry (d. c. 1519) and Henry's wife Eleanor (d.1539). .... etc.
• From: 'Parishes: Stogumber', A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 5 (1985), pp. 177-190. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117147 Date accessed: 21 April 2013.
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• John Sydenham[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
• Born Cal 1468 [3]
• Died 6 Dec 1542 [1, 6, 7]
• Father Walter Sydenham, b. Cal 1445, d. 17 Apr 1469, of, Brimpton, Somerset, England
• Mother Margaret Harcourt, b. Abt 1444, of, Bosworth, Leicestershire, England , d. 30 Mar 1477
• Family 1 Elizabeth Audley
• Children
  • 1. Henry Sydenham
  • 2. Sir John Sydenham, Knight, b. Cal 1494, of, Brimpton, Somerset, England , d. 16 Apr 1557, of, Brimpton, Somerset, England
  • 3. Sir John II Sydenham, of, Brimpton, Somerset, England
• Family 2 Joan Arundel, d. Aft 20 Sep 1544
• Married Bef 8 Oct 1530 [3]
• Children
  • 1. Richard Sydenham
  • 2. Walter Sydenham
  • 3. Thomas Sydenham
  • 4. Elizabeth Sydenham
  • 5. Joan Sydenham
• Sources
• 1.[S342] #3625 The history of the part of West Somerset: comprising the parishes of Luccombe, Selworthy, Stoke, Pero, Porlock, Culbone and Oare (1901), Chadwyck-Healey, Charles Edward Heley, (London: Henry Sotheran, 1901), FHL book 942.38 H2L., p. 310.
• 2.[S265] #5310 The History of the Sydenham Family (1928), Sydenham, George Francis and Allan Thomas Cameron, (East Molesey, Surrey: E. Dwelly, 1928), FHL book 929.242 Sy24s; FHL microfiche 6,035,565., p. 117-119.
• 3.[S20] Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas, (Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2nd edition, 2011), vol. 4 p. 158.
• 4.[S1913] #2005 The Visitations of the county of Somerset, in the years 1531 and 1575 : together with additional pedigrees, chiefly from the visitation of 1591, Weaver, Frederic William, (Exeter : [s.n.], 1885), 942.38 D23we., p. 43.
• 5.[S2212] #249 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica (1868-1938), Church of England. Parish Church of Shere (Surrey), (31 volumes. London: Hamilton, Adams, 1868-1938), FHL book 942 B2m., 2nd series vol. 3 p. 326.
• 6.[S265] #5310 The History of the Sydenham Family (1928), Sydenham, George Francis and Allan Thomas Cameron, (East Molesey, Surrey: E. Dwelly, 1928), FHL book 929.242 Sy24s; FHL microfiche 6,035,565., p. 118.
• 7.[S20] Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas, (Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2nd edition, 2011), vol. 4 p. 159.
• 8.[S265] #5310 The History of the Sydenham Family (1928), Sydenham, George Francis and Allan Thomas Cameron, (East Molesey, Surrey: E. Dwelly, 1928), FHL book 929.242 Sy24s; FHL microfiche 6,035,565., p. 117.
• From: https://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I42572&tree...
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• 'Sydenham2'
• Families covered: Sydenham of Brimpton, Sydenham of Whetstow
• Walter Sydenham of Brimpton
• m. Margaret Harcourt (dau of Sir Robert Harcourt)
  • 1. John Sydenham of Brimpton, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset (d 07.12.1542)
  • m1. Elizabeth Audley (d 08.10.1530, dau of Sir Humphrey Audley)
    • A. Sir John Sydenham of Brimpton
    • m. Ursula (not Geilis) Brydges (dau of Sir Giles Brydges)
      • i. Sir John Sydenham of Brimpton
      • m1. Grace Godolphin (dau of Sir William Godolphin of Godolphin)
        • a. Sir John Sydenham of Brimpton, Sheriff of Nottingham (d 1625)
        • m1. Mary Buckland (dau of John Buckland of Westhharptree)
          • (1) George Sydenham (dvpsp 1615)
          • (2) John Sydenham of Brimpton
          • m. Alice Hoby (dau of William Hoby of Hales)
            • (A) Sir John Sydenham, 1st Bart of Brimpton (d 1642)
            • m. (1638) Anne Hare (dau of Sir John Hare of Stow Bardolph)
              • (i) Sir John Posthumus Sydenham, 2nd Bart of Brimpton (b 1642, d 1696)
              • m1. Elizabeth Poulett (dsps, dau of John Poulett, Lord)
              • m2. Mary Herbert (dau of Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery)
                • (a) John Sydenham (dvps)
                • (b) Sir Philip Sydenham, 3rd Bart of Brimpton (b c1676, d unm 16.10.1739)
                • (c) Mary Sydenham (d unm 1698)
            • (B) George Sydenham (d 1664-5, Major)
            • m1. Susan Sydenham (dau of John Sydenham of Combe)
              • (i) George Sydenham (d infant)
              • m2. Elizabeth Gilbert (dau of Gilbert of South Hams)
              • (ii) Susan Sydenham (d unm 1666)
            • (C)+ other issue - Mary, Katherine
          • (3) Sir Ralph Sydenham (d 1671, MP)
          • BEB1841 identifies Sir Ralph's wife as the widow of Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart. We can see no such Baronet who had a widow likely to have been Sir Ralph's wife.
            • (A) John Sydenham
            • m. Jane Portney (dau of Alexander Portney)
              • (i) John Sydenham
              • (ii) daughter
              • m. John Bowdage of Devon
        • m2. Mary Gifford (dau of Sir Thomas Gifford)
        • b. Ursula Sydenham
        • m. Sir John Poyntz of Iron Acton, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (b c1560, bur 29.11.1633)
      • m2. Mary Blunt
      • ii. Sir George Sydenham of Combe Sydenham
      • m. Elizabeth Hales (dau of Sir Christopher Hales)
        • a. Elizabeth Sydenham
        • m1. (1585) Sir Francis Drake 'the Navigator' (b c1540, dsp 1596)
        • m2. (sp) Sir William Courtenay of Powderham Castle, de jure 3rd Earl of Devon (b 1543, d 24.06.1630)
      • iii. John Sydenham of Hatch Bishop
      • iv. Elizabeth Sydenham
      • m. Richard Bampfield of Poltimore
      • v. Anne Sydenham
      • m. Alexander Sydenham of Luxburgh
      • vi. Mary Sydenham
      • m. John Fitz of Fitzford
    • B. Thomas Sydenham of Whetstow
    • m. Elizabeth Cross (dau of William Cross of Charlynch and/or Spaxton)
      • i. Thomas Sydenham of Whetstow
      • m. Dorothy Sellick (dau of David Sellick of Moorbath)
        • a. Walter Sydenham of Whetstow (b c1609)
        • The following comes from Visitation (Somerset & Bristol, 1672, Sidenham of Lydeard St. Lawrence).
        • m. Jane Fulford (dau of Thomas Fulford of Fulford)
          • (1)+ other issue (a 1672) - Walter (b c1670), George
        • b. Thomas Sydenham (b c1614)
          • (1)+ issue - Thomas, John
        • c. John Sydenham of Moorbath (b c1616)
        • m. Anne Byam (dau of John Byam)
          • (1) Walter Sydenham had issue
          • m. Agnes Combe of Willand
          • (2) William Sydenham had issue
          • (3) George Sydenham of Poole
          • m. Mary Hill
            • (A)+ issue - George of New England, Thomas, Walter
          • (4) Margaret Sydenham
          • m. Isaac Mauduit of Exeter
          • (5) Elizabeth Sydenham
          • m1. John Parsons of Dulverton
          • m2. George Peppin
          • (6) Katharine Sydenham
          • m. _ Melhuish
          • (7) Grace Sydenham
          • m. _ Chorley
        • d.+ other issue - George, Catherine (b c1610), Frances (b c1613), Margaret (b c1619), Elizabeth (b c1621)
      • ii. Simon Sydenham
      • m. Anne Cape or Cope
        • a.+ issue - Anne (b c1613), Elinor (b c1617), Sara (b c1619)
      • iii. Christopher Sydenham
  • m2. dau of Arundel of Lanherne
  • 2. Dorothy Sydenham
  • m. Laurence Courtenay of Enthie
• Main sources: BEB1844 (Sydenham of Brimpton) with just a little support from Visitation (Somerset, 1623, Sidnam)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4tz/sydenham2.php#link2
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• Links
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/sy...
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BRYDGES.htm#Ursula BRYDGES2
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/HARCOURT.htm#Margaret HARCOURT1
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