Sir John Cheney, Kt.

How are you related to Sir John Cheney, Kt.?

Connect to the World Family Tree to find out

Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love

  • Build your family tree online
  • Share photos and videos
  • Smart Matching™ technology
  • Free!

Related Projects

Sir John Cheney, Kt.

Also Known As: "John Cheyney"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Probably Pinhoe, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
Death: January 20, 1486 (76-85)
St Thomas, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir William Cheyne, MP and Cecily Cheyne
Husband of Elizabeth Cheney
Father of Alianor Strode; Agnes Stawell; Joan Strode; Elizabeth Wadham; John Cheney and 2 others
Brother of Sir Edmund Cheyne, MP
Half brother of John Bonville, Esq. and William Bonville

Occupation: Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset and Devon
Managed by: Private User
Last Updated:

About Sir John Cheney, Kt.

  • John Cheney
  • M, b. circa 1430
  • John Cheney was born circa 1430 at of Pinhoe, Devonshire, England. He married Elizabeth Hill circa 1451.
  • Family Elizabeth Hill b. c 1432
  • Child
    • Cecily Cheney+ b. c 1453
  • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2434.htm#...
  • _____________
  • Sir John Cheney1
  • M, #9420
  • Last Edited=7 Jul 2008
  • Sir John Cheney lived at Pincourt, England.1
  • Child of Sir John Cheney
    • 1.Cecily Cheney+1
  • Citations
  • 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1123. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p942.htm
  • ________________
  • John CHENEY of Pinhoe
  • Born: ABT 1405
  • Died: 20 Jan 1486/7
  • Notes: Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset and Devon.
  • Father: William CHENEY (Sir)
  • Mother: Cecily STRETCHE
  • Married: Elizabeth HILL (dau. of John Hill and Cecily Stourton) 1429, Spaxton, Somersetshire, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Cecily CHENEY
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHENEY.htm#John CHENEY of Pinhoe1
  • ________________________
  • The Antiquary, Volume 32 edited by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=J9gzAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223&dq...
  • Pg. 223 CHART
  • CHILDREN of Cicely Stourton and John Hill
    • John, b. 1424; d. Oct. 12, 1455. = Margaret, dau. of Sir Walter Rodney and granddau. of Walter, Lord Hungerford.
    • John (?Roger).
    • Thomas; d. s.p.
    • Elizabeth (ultimately sole heir). = John Cheney, of Pinhoe, near Exeter; several time Sheriff of Devon, son of Sir Wm. Cheney (d. 1421).
  • ____________________________
  • The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Author: Rogers, William Henry Hamilton
  • https://archive.org/details/thestrifeofthero32675gut
  • http://archive.org/stream/thestrifeofthero32675gut/32675-8.txt
  • Cheney, Cheyney, or Cheyne,--originally _De Caineto_--(or query, from the French _du ch�ne_, 'of the oak') was also an old and largely ramifying family, that first came over with the Conqueror, and were subsequently scattered throughout midland and southern England, from Kent to Cornwall, their name still surviving as an affix to their olden possessions in several localities.
  • A branch appears to have been early settled, and afterward held considerable station in Devon. "In king Henry III. tyme" says Pole, "Sir Nicholas Cheyney was lord of Upotery," where he was succeeded by his son Sir William, of whom the Antiquary continues "at what tyme the Dean and Chapter of Roane, with consent of the Kinge, and Archbishop of Roane, granted the same unto ye said Sir William Cheyney, which they had formerly held of the grant of William the Conqueror."
  • Sir William Cheney married Felicia, and had issue Sir Nicholas, who married Elinor, was Sheriff of Devon, 15 Edward II., 1322, and died 3 Edward III., 1330.
  • To Sir Nicholas succeeded William his son, who married Joan daughter of William Lamborn. He had two sons, Edmond, who died without issue, and Ralph.
  • Sir Ralph Cheney married Joan, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Paveley of Broke, and died 2 Henry IV., 1401.
  • Sir William Cheney, his son and successor, married Cicely, daughter of Sir John Stretch of Pinhoe, Devon, and widow of Thomas Bonville. She died 14 October, 1430. To him and his lady, Bishop Stafford of Exeter on 27 Jan., 1400-1, granted license for them to have divine service performed in their Chapel, "_infra manerium suum de Pinho_." He was Sheriff of Devon 1408. Secondly he married Joan daughter of John Frome of Woodlands, Dorset, and widow of Sir William Filliol who died 3 Henry V., 1418. Sir William Cheney died 12 Henry VI., 1434, leaving two sons Edmond and John.
  • Sir John Cheney was of Pinhoe. He married Elizabeth daughter of John Hill of Spaxton, was Sheriff of Devon 12 and 22 Henry VI., 1434-44, and was succeeded by his son John, four times Sheriff, who married Margaret daughter of Nicholas Kirkham of Blagdon, and died leaving four daughters his coheiresses.
  • Sir Edmond Cheney, of Broke, knt., born 4 Dec., 1401, married Alice daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford, knt. "_with the Silver Hand_," of Suthwyke, Wilts, and Hooke, Dorset, who died 27 May, 1442, and was buried in the Chapel of St. Anne in the Abbey Church of Abbotsbury, which he founded;--by his wife Elizabeth who died in 1420, daughter of Sir John Mautravers of Hooke, knt. Sir Edmond, who died 30 May, 1430, left two daughters,--Elizabeth, born Nov., 1424, married Sir John Coleshill, knt., of Duloe, Cornwall, and died about 1492,[1]--and Anne, born, 26 July, 1428, who married Sir John Willoughby, knt., who was killed at Tewkesbury 3 May, 1471. Secondly his wife Alice married Walter Tailboys, of Newton-Kyme, Yorkshire, by whom she had a daughter Alianore married to Thomas Strangeways of Melbury, Dorset, ancestor to the Earls of Ilchester. She died in 1469. etc. ....
  • ___________________________
  • CHEYNE, Sir William (c.1374-1420), of Brooke, Wilts.
  • b.c.1374, s. and h. of Sir Ralph Cheyne*. m. bef. July 1401, Cecily (c.1371-18 Oct. 1430), yr. da. and coh. of Sir John Stretch* of Pinhoe and Hempston Arundel, Devon, by his 1st w., wid of Thomas, yr. s. of Sir William Bonville I* of Shute, Devon, 2s. inc. Edmund†. Kntd. by May 1400.1
  • etc. ...
  • Cheyne died on 27 Sept. 1420, leaving as his heir his son Edmund, aged about 18, whose wardship and marriage were granted, for £400, to the MP’s widow and Bishop Beaufort of Winchester. Edmund married Alice, one of the daughters of Sir Humphrey Stafford II* and, having been returned to Parliament for Wiltshire in 1429, died on 30 May 1430. His mother, Cecily Cheyne, made her will at Brooke on 12 Oct. following, expressing a wish to be buried in the parish church of Westbury next to her late husband. She had settled Pinhoe on her other son, John Cheyne, but the remainder of the family estates passed to her young grand daughters, Elizabeth, Cecily and Anne.5
  • From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ch...
  • ________________
view all

Sir John Cheney, Kt.'s Timeline

1405
1405
Probably Pinhoe, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
1435
1435
1445
1445
Probably Pinhoe, Devon, England
1449
1449
Probably Pinhoe, Devon, England
1451
1451
Devon, England
1453
1453
Pinhoe, Devon, England
1455
1455
Pinhoe, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
1486
January 20, 1486
Age 81
St Thomas, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
????
Pinhoe, Devon, England