Sir Henry Griffith, of Wychnor & Long Benton

Henry GRIFFITH , of Wychnor & Long Benton, Sir was born ABT 1332 in Wychnor, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, and died 25 MAY 1372 in Longbenton, Tynemouth, Northumberland, England.

He was the son of Rhys "Hen" ap GRIFFITH , of Llansadwrn, Sir and Joan SOMERVILLE , Heiress of Wychnor.

Family

From https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=jweber&id=I20998

He married

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2. Joan CLINTON , Heiress of Coleshill BEF 1371 in 3rd husband 2nd wife, daughter of John III CLINTON , of Coleshill, Sir and Joan HILLARY. She was born BET 1341 AND 1342 in Coleshill Manor, Arden, Warwickshire, England, and died BEF 1386.

Notes

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].

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.

References

• http://thesignsofthetimes.com.au/37/694667.htm