Lady Joan de Clinton, heiress of Coleshill

Lady Joan CLINTON , Heiress of Coleshill was born BET 1341 AND 1342 in Coleshill Manor, Arden, Warwickshire, England, and died after 1407.

She was the daughter of John III CLINTON , of Coleshill, Sir and Joan HILLARY.

Sir John Sutton; married 1st 25 Dec 1357 Catherine (died Dec 1361), daughter of 1st Earl of Stafford, and had issue; married 2nd Joan (married 3rd by 1371 Sir Henry Griffith), widow of Sir John de Mountfort and daughter and heir of John Clinton. [Burke's Peerage]

Family

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She married

1. John de MONTFORT , of Ilmington & Remenham ,Sir in 1st husband, son of Piers 3rd Baron de MONTFORT , of Beaudesert,Sir and Lora de ASTLEY. He was born ABT 1330 in Ilimington, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, England, and died AFT 25 MAY 1361 in Remenham, Henley, Berkshire, England.
2. John SUTTON , Lord of Dudley, Sir AFT 1361 in 2nd husband 2nd wife, son of John SUTTON , MP, Lord of Dudley and Isabel de CHERLETON. He was born NOV 1338 in Dudley Castle, Worcestershire, England, and died ABT 1370 in France.
3. Henry GRIFFITH , of Wychnor & Long Benton, Sir BEF 1371 in 3rd husband 2nd wife, son of Rhys "Hen" ap GRIFFITH , of Llansadwrn, Sir and Joan SOMERVILLE , Heiress of Wychnor. He was born ABT 1332 in Wychnor, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, and died 25 MAY 1372 in Longbenton, Tynemouth, Northumberland, England.

Children with 1st husband

• Baldwin MONTFORT , of Coleshill & Ilmington, Sir b: ABT 1355 in Ilimington, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, England
• Margaret de MONTFORT b: ABT 1357 in Coleshill Manor, Arden, Warwickshire, England

Children with 2nd husband

• Dionysia de SUTTON b: ABT 1367 in Southcote, Reading, Berkshire, England

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Notes

John Sutton m.2nd Joan Clinton widow of sir John Mountfort Joan married after John Sutton, Sir Henry Griffith bef. 1371, she was living in 1407.

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From 'Parishes: Coleshill', in A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4, Hemlingford Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1947), pp. 47-57. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol4/pp47-57 [accessed 31 January 2019].

In 1241 an agreement (fn. 13) was made by which Thomas should hold the manor of Coleshill as one knight's fee from Luke de Culum and Amabel, Ralph son of John and Isabel, and Warin de Bragenham and Agnes, doing homage to Warin and Agnes. William de Cantilupe and the heirs of William de Briwere registered their claims. Amabel, Isabel, and Agnes were daughters and co-heirs of Henry de Clinton, (fn. 14) son of the Geoffrey from whom the first Osbert had acquired the manor. In 1235 Thomas de Clinton was a justice of assize in the county (fn. 15) and from 1251 to 1253 was King's escheator in the county. (fn. 16) In 1254 he was given the right of free warren in his demesne lands of Coleshill. (fn. 17) In 1259 Thomas settled the manor on his second son, John, and his heirs, with contingent remainder to another son Osbert, Thomas to retain a life tenancy at a yearly rent of 50s. (fn. 18) Thomas died in 1278. (fn. 19)
During the Barons' War John de Clinton supported Simon de Montfort and was one of those that held out against the king at Kenilworth, (fn. 20) for which action his manor was seized and given to Roger de Clifford in 1265, (fn. 21) but was restored by the Dictum of Kenilworth. (fn. 22) In 1285, 1309, and 1311 he was commissioner for, or justice of, oyer and terminer gaol delivery in Warwickshire. (fn. 23) In 1297 he, together with Andrew de Astley, was entrusted to select knights and esquires in the county thought fit for service, to attend Edward, the king's son, and his lieutenant in England, with horses and arms at London a fortnight after Michaelmas. (fn. 24) In 1284–5 he claimed by prescription within the lordship of Coleshill, assize of bread and ale, gallows, pillory, tumbrell and court leet, infangthef and utfangthef, a market, fair, and free warren. He was then described as John de Clinton the elder. (fn. 25) He died in 1316, holding the manor of the young son and heir of John de Clinton of Maxstoke. (fn. 26) His heir was his 12-year-old grandson, John, (fn. 27) who subsequently married a daughter of Sir Roger Hilary, and died in 1353 or 1354 leaving one daughter Joan. (fn. 28) She as her first husband married Sir John de Montfort, illegitimate son of Sir Peter de Montfort of Beaudesert. (fn. 29)
The Montforts had possessed the adjacent manor of Kingshurst for a long time, and in 1357 Sir John de Montfort complained that various persons, including John le Baillif of Coleshill, had assaulted him at Coleshill in Arden and carried away his goods and £40 in money. (fn. 30) Presumably this refers to the same Montfort who was summoned to parliament in February 1361 as a knight of the shire. (fn. 31) At John's death the manor reverted to his widow Joan, who then married John de Sutton and subsequently Sir Henry Griffith. In 1371 (fn. 32) she entailed the manor in the first place upon her issue by Sir Henry, in the second place on John son of John de Sutton, and in the third upon Baldwin her son by her first husband, to whom it eventually came.

Sources

• Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and ..., Volume 3 By George Edward Cokayne Pg.182 GoogleBooks
• Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the peerage, baronetage and ... Pg. 657 GoogleBooks

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Joan CLINTON

Born: ABT 1340, Coleshill, Warwick, England

Died: AFT 1371

Father: John De CLINTON (3º B. Clinton of Marstoke)

Mother: Joan (HILLARY) LIMBURY

Married: John De SUTTON ABT 1362

Children:

1. Margaret SUTTON (b. 1362)

2. Elizabeth SUTTON (b. 1362)

3. Thomas SUTTON (b. 1363 - d. AFT 1402)

4. Richard SUTTON (b. 1365 - d. AFT 1420)

5. Dionysia SUTTON

Married 2: John MONTFORT (Sir Knight)