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• Craig, F. N. 1991. “Raleigh of Farnborough.” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 145. AmericanAncestors.org:—
  • 4. JOHN RALEGH, son of Henry de Ralegh and his wife Mabel Punchardon, died after 24 February 1348, when he was mentioned in a tax commission in Devon (CPR, Edward III, 8:70).
  • He had by 1302 a first wife Joan de Grey, who died before 1339-40 when he had a second wife, Amy or Anne, as discussed below. John and Joan are named in 1302 in the settlement of Walpen, above (p. 6).
  • In 1310-11, John bought an acre of land in Farnborough, and in 1321-22 he and Joan acquired the whole manor from Jordan de Say (Feet of Fines for the County of Warwickshire, Publications of the Dugdale Soc., 15(1939]: nos. 1317, 1586).
  • In 1314, there was a pardon to John de Ralegh and Joan his wife for acquiring without licence from William de Spalding a messuage and a carucate of land, 1Sd of rent, and a rent of two capons in Molington, Oxfordshire (less than three miles from Farnborough); the grant was for the life of the said Joan with remainders to their son John, to Katherine his sister, and to John de Grey of Rotherfield (CPR, Edward II, 2:87). This record is important because it substantiates the claim in the Visitation pedigree that Joan was a de Grey of Rotherfield. However, Joan was the sister, not the daughter, of the first Lord Grey of Rotherfield. The only lohn de Grey ot Rotherfield living in 1314, he was born in 1300, the son of Sir John de Grey who died in 1311; he was not summoned to Parliament until 1338 (George Edward Cokayne, Complete Peerage [hereinafter CP], 6[1926], 144-45).
  • In 1316, John de Ralegh was a tenant in Molington (Feudal Aids, 4:166), but his name does not appear in the aid for Devon in that year.
  • In 1324, John son of Henry de Ralegh, man at arms of Devon, was to attend the Great Council (Parliamentary Writs, 2[IIIJ 1320). In the same year Dugdale found him in the list of esquires from Warwickshire and concluded that he resided there, citing “Ex. Coll. H. Ferrers.”
  • In 1327-28, he was a knight and bore as arms: Arg. sane of crosslets gules with a cross molein sable, as shown on his seal (Dugdale. Ex autog. penes praesat Edward Ralegh). From this seal, it can be seen that John Ralegh discarded his paternal arms and used arms based on those of his mother, the Punchardon coheiress. Such a change of arms was not uncommon during the medieval period, especially when coupled with a major inheritance. The Visitation of 1619 authorized the quartering of the Punchardon arms: argent, a cross moline gules, with the Ralegh arms: argent, a cross moline between ten crosslets gules. A version of these new arms continued to be used by the Raleghs and, as noted previously, was recorded during the 1619 visitation.
  • In 1332, John de Ralegh was taxed in Charles, Waleston, and Thome, and in North Pole (The Devonshire Lay Subsidy of 1332, Audrey M. Erskine, ed., Devon & Cornwall Rcc, Soc, n.s. 14[1969]:26,79,94).
  • When Joan died is not known, but in 1339-40 John had a wife Anne [sic], with whom he granted land in Farnborough (Lucy Drucker, Feet of Fines for Warwickshire, Dugdale Society, 18[1943] [hereinafter Warwick Fines] no. 1844).
  • In 1346, John de Raleye held one fee in Walpanne (Feudal Aids, 2:340). In Devon, John de Ralegh of Charles and Richmond Beamond held in Cortesknoll; John de Ralegh de Charles held Bydeford which Richard de Grenevyle once held; Alice de Beaumont and John de Ralegh held in Heanton, Westhagynton, Blakewyll, and Aliscote; and John de Ralegh de Chamys held in Westbokelond (ibid., 1:395, 410, 413, 415). The above lands came from the Punchardons with the exception of Bydeford, which he held in right of his second wife Amy. In 1388 Bydeford and Kilkhampton were in the hands of Theobald de Grenevylle (CIPM 16:206, no. 538), who in 1360 had petitioned concerning the manor of Kilkamperton, which in the time of Sir John Ralegh of Charles and Amy his wife had been held by them as Amy's dower (Register of Edward the Black Prince, PRO, 2:173-74).
  • John Ralegh of Farnborough alias John de Ralegh of Charles made his final appearance on 24 February 1348 in a tax commission in Devon (CPR, Edward III, 8:70), the year in which the Black Death first appeared in England.
  • Children, by first wife Joan de Grey, b. before 1314 as noted above (birth order not known); surname Ralegh:
    • 5. i. JOHN, m. Rose Helion.
    • ii. KATHERINE.