Sir John Cokayne, Chief Baron of Exchequer

• 'A genealogical history of the dormant, abeyant, forfeited, and extinct ... By Sir Bernard Burke
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• COCKAYNE -- VISCOUNT CULLEN.
• By letters Patent, dated 11 August, 1642.
• Lineage.
• The Cockyns, Cockeyns, or Cockaynes were of importance in the co. of Derby soon after the Conquest, and were seated at Ashbourne, in that shire, where some magnificent monuments of the family still remain.
• ROBERT COCKEYN, Esq., of Ashborne, living 1284 ( son of William Cockeyn, by Alice his wife, dau. of Hugh de Dalbury), by Elizabeth his wife, had two sons and three daus. The elder son,
  • WILLIAM COCKEYN, of Ashburne, in 1299, by Sarah, his wife, had issue, 1 JOHN, living at Ashburne, 1305, father of JOHN COCKAYNE, who, by Letitia his wife, was father of another JOHN COCKAYNE, a person of great distinction temp. EDWARD III. This last-named John Cockayne m. Cecilia Vernon, of the co. of Derby, and had two sons, viz.,

   	EDMUND, of whom presently.

• **' John (Sir), of Bury Hatley, co. Bedford, ancestor of the family of COCKAYNE, OF COCKAYNE-HATLEY.
  • * The elder son,
    • EDMUND COCKAINE, Esq., of Ashburne, m. Elizabeth, dau of Sir Richard de Herthull, of Pooley, co. Warwick, and had a son,
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• 'John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer1,2
• 'M, d. 22 May 1429
• Father Sir John Cokayne2 d. a 1372
• Mother Cecilia Vernon2
• ' John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer was born at of Cokayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England. He married Ida Grey, daughter of Sir Reginald de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Ruthyn and Alianore le Strange, before 1394; They had 5 sons (including Reginald, Henry, John, & Thomas) and 5 daughters (Elizabeth & Margaret).2,3 John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer left a will on 10 February 1427. He died on 22 May 1429; Buried at Cokayne Hatley, Bedfordshire.2
• 'Family Ida Grey d. 1 Jun 1426
• Child
  • Elizabeth Cokayne+2 b. c 1388, d. a 1427
• Citations
• 1.[S4624] Unknown author, The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 64; Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 129, 254.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 620.
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• 'Sir John Cokayne1
• 'M, #326117, d. 1429
• Last Edited=24 Dec 2008
• ' Sir John Cokayne was the son of Sir John Cokayne and Cecilia (?).2 He married Ida Grey, daughter of Reynold de Grey, 2nd Lord Grey (of Ruthin) and Alianore Lestrange.1 He died in 1429.1
• ' Sir John Cokayne held the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer.1 He lived at Hatley Cokayne, Bedfordshire, England.1
• 'Child of Sir John Cokayne and Ida Grey
  • 1.Sir Reginald Cokayne+2
• 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 988. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• http://thepeerage.com/p32612.htm#i326117
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• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREY3.htm#Edith GREY1
• 'Edith GREY
• Born: ABT 1368, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
• Died: 1 Jun 1426
• Father: Reginald De GREY (2° B. Grey of Ruthin)
• Mother: Alianor Le STRANGE (B. Grey of Ruthin)
• 'Married: John COKAYNE (B. Cokayne) ABT 1400, Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. Elizabeth COKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (m.1 Sir Phillip Butler - m.2 Sir Lawrence Cheney)
  • 2. Reginald COKAYNE
  • 3. Henry COKAYNE
  • 4. John COKAYNE
  • 4. Thomas COKAYNE
  • 4. Margaret COKAYNE
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• 'Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley By Robert Edmond Chester- Waters
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• Pg. 156
• SIR PHILIP BOTELER, KT. of Watton Woodhall succeeded his cousin Sir Edward in 1413 in the estates entailed in 1312 by their common ancestors Ralph Boteler and Hawise Gobion.(3) He died 6th Nov. 1421,(32) and his widow Elizabeth married secondly Laurence Cheney Esq. of Fen Ditton, by whom she was the ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk, the Peytons of Iselham, and other noble families.(33) She was the daughter of 'John Cokayne, who puchased from Sir Edward Boteler the manor of Bury Hatley in Beds, and was one of the executors of John of Gaunt, who calls him in his will 'chief steward of my lands.'(34) He was raised on the accession of Henry IV. to the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, which he held during the whole of this reign; but he was also a Judge of Common Pleas from 1406 until his death in 1429.(35) He was the second son of John Cokayne of Ashbourne in Derbyshire by Cecilia Irton his wife, and is confused by Foss with his nephew of the same name who died in 1438. (35) He married Ida, daughter of Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn by Eleanor le Strange, who died in 1424, leaving four sons and two daughters.(29) Their surviving children were:
  • 1. REGINALD, son and heir, ancestor of the Cokaynes of Cokayne Hatley.
  • 2. HENRY occurs with his wife Grace in his father's Will.
  • 3. JOHN. 4. THOMAS, a priest, who was presented to the rectory of Pulverbatch by his brother-in-law Philip Boteler on 19th July 1413.(36)
  • 1. ELIZABETH, married Sir Philip Boteler, Kt., and secondly Laurence Cheney Esq., and had issue by both marriages.
  • 2. MARGARET, married Sir Edmond d'Odingsells Kt. of Warwickshire.
• ' John Cokayne died in 1429, and desired by his Will to be buried at Bury Hatley, but his monument stands in Ashbourne Church, and is accurately figured by Dugdale as a specimen of the judicial robes worn at that period.(37)
• ' JOHN COKAYN. Will dated 10th Feb. 6 Henry VI. (1427-8).
• ' To be buried in the parish church of Bury Hattele. To my nephew John Cokayn of Ashbourne Kt., to his wife, and to his daughter Alice, wife of Ralph Sherley Kt., one gold ring each.
• ' I desire that 3 marks a year be paid by my son Reginald Cokayn and his heirs to pray for the souls' health of Henry vj., of myself, of the said Reginald and Beatrix his wife, and of all my sons living, also for the souls of John late Duke of Lancaster, Richard ij., Henry iv. and Henry v., of John Cokayn by father, and Cecilia Irton* my mother, of Edmond Cokayn my brother, Ida my late wife, and my dead children. To Sir William Babington Kt. a book of statutes and L10 from the heritage of the heirs of Sir Philip Boteler Kt. To Reginald Cokayn, my son and heir apparent, all my armoury and my ornaments in my chapel at Bury Hatley. To Henry Cokayn, my 2'd son, and Grace his wife two silver cups; to John Cokayn my 3'd son one cup; and to Thomas Cokayn my 4th son my missal, psalter, and all books of canon and civil law. To Laurence Cheyne and Elizabeth his wife my daughter a cup. To Margaret D'odyngsells my daughter a cup, and I forgive her husband Sir Edmond D'Odyngsells Kt. his bond debt to me.
  • Sir William Babyngton Kt., Reginald Cokayn, Laurence Cheyne, John Chichele Parson of Hattele, and Thomas Cokayne to be my executors.
  • Will proved in 1429 (no month or day) in C.P.C. [12 Luffnam.]
    • * Not Cecilia Vernon, as stated in the Peerages. (38)
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• 'British Archaeological Association. Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Volume 7)
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• MONUMENTS OF THE COCKAYNE FAMILY IN
• ASHBOURNE CHURCH, DERBYSHIRE.
• BY J. R. PLANCHE, ESQ., F.S.A.
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• 'The visitations of Bedfordshire, annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634
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• 'Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
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• '7. IDA GREY, married before 1394 JOHN COKAYNE, of Berwardecote, Brunaldeston, and Hatton, Derbyshire, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Common Pleas, Recorder of London, Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster (Northern parts), 2nd son of John Cokayne, Knt., of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, by his wife Cecily. They had five sons, including Reginald, Henry, John, and Thomas (clerk), and five daughters, including Elizabeth and Margaret (wife of Edmund Odingsells, Knt.). He was named one of the executors of the 1397 will of John of Gaunt, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster. They received a papal indult to choose a confessor in 1405. In 1409 he had license to hunt in Sutton and Potton, Bedfordshire. In 1417 he purchased the manor of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire from Edward Boteler, Knt. His wife, Ida, died 1 June 1426. JOHN COKAYNE died 22 May 1429, and was buried with his wife at Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire. He left a will dated 10 Feb. 1427, proved in 1429 (P.C.C. 12 Luffenam).
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• 8. ELIZABETH COKAYNE married (1st) PHILIP LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), Knt, of Watton Woodhall (in Watton at Stone) and Sele (in St. Andrew Hertford), Hertfordshire, and Bromham, Bedfordshire, son and heir of Philip Le Boteler, Knt., of Watton Woodhall (in Watton at Stone), Herfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth. he was born in 1388. They had two sons, Edward and Philip, Gent. He was heir in 1412 to his cousin, Edward le Boteler, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Norbury, Staffordshire, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordshire, etc. SIR PHILIP LE BOTELER died 5 Nov. 1420 and was buried at Watton, Hertfordshire. She married (2nd) by license dated 13 Dec. 1421 LAURENCE CHEYNE (or CHENEY), Esq., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Irchester, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son of William Cheyne, Knt., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. He was born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). They had one son, John, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary (wife of John Allington). He and his wife Elizabeth, were legatees in the 1427 will of her father, John Cokayne. LAURENCE CHEYNE, Esq., died testate 31 Dec. 1461, and was buried at Barnwell Priory.
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• 'John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer1,2
• 'M, d. 22 May 1429
• Father Sir John Cokayne2 d. a 1372
• Mother Cecilia Vernon2
• ' John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer was born at of Cokayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England. He married Ida Grey, daughter of Sir Reginald de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey of Ruthyn and Alianore le Strange, before 1394; They had 5 sons (including Reginald, Henry, John, & Thomas) and 5 daughters (Elizabeth & Margaret).2,3 John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer left a will on 10 February 1427. He died on 22 May 1429; Buried at Cokayne Hatley, Bedfordshire.2
• 'Family Ida Grey d. 1 Jun 1426
• Child
  • Elizabeth Cokayne+2 b. c 1388, d. a 1427
• Citations
• 1.[S4624] Unknown author, The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 64; Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 129, 254.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206.
• 3.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 620.
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• 'Sir John Cokayne1
• 'M, #326117, d. 1429
• Last Edited=24 Dec 2008
• ' Sir John Cokayne was the son of Sir John Cokayne and Cecilia (?).2 He married Ida Grey, daughter of Reynold de Grey, 2nd Lord Grey (of Ruthin) and Alianore Lestrange.1 He died in 1429.1
• ' Sir John Cokayne held the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer.1 He lived at Hatley Cokayne, Bedfordshire, England.1
• 'Child of Sir John Cokayne and Ida Grey
  • 1.Sir Reginald Cokayne+2
• 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 988. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• http://thepeerage.com/p32612.htm#i326117
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• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREY3.htm#Edith GREY1
• 'Edith GREY
• Born: ABT 1368, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
• Died: 1 Jun 1426
• Father: Reginald De GREY (2° B. Grey of Ruthin)
• Mother: Alianor Le STRANGE (B. Grey of Ruthin)
• 'Married: John COKAYNE (B. Cokayne) ABT 1400, Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
• Children:
  • 1. Elizabeth COKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (m.1 Sir Phillip Butler - m.2 Sir Lawrence Cheney)
  • 2. Reginald COKAYNE
  • 3. Henry COKAYNE
  • 4. John COKAYNE
  • 4. Thomas COKAYNE
  • 4. Margaret COKAYNE
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• 'Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley By Robert Edmond Chester- Waters
• http://books.google.com/books?id=oGMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq...
• Pg. 156
• SIR PHILIP BOTELER, KT. of Watton Woodhall succeeded his cousin Sir Edward in 1413 in the estates entailed in 1312 by their common ancestors Ralph Boteler and Hawise Gobion.(3) He died 6th Nov. 1421,(32) and his widow Elizabeth married secondly Laurence Cheney Esq. of Fen Ditton, by whom she was the ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk, the Peytons of Iselham, and other noble families.(33) She was the daughter of 'John Cokayne, who puchased from Sir Edward Boteler the manor of Bury Hatley in Beds, and was one of the executors of John of Gaunt, who calls him in his will 'chief steward of my lands.'(34) He was raised on the accession of Henry IV. to the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, which he held during the whole of this reign; but he was also a Judge of Common Pleas from 1406 until his death in 1429.(35) He was the second son of John Cokayne of Ashbourne in Derbyshire by Cecilia Irton his wife, and is confused by Foss with his nephew of the same name who died in 1438. (35) He married Ida, daughter of Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn by Eleanor le Strange, who died in 1424, leaving four sons and two daughters.(29) Their surviving children were:
  • 1. REGINALD, son and heir, ancestor of the Cokaynes of Cokayne Hatley.
  • 2. HENRY occurs with his wife Grace in his father's Will.
  • 3. JOHN. 4. THOMAS, a priest, who was presented to the rectory of Pulverbatch by his brother-in-law Philip Boteler on 19th July 1413.(36)
  • 1. ELIZABETH, married Sir Philip Boteler, Kt., and secondly Laurence Cheney Esq., and had issue by both marriages.
  • 2. MARGARET, married Sir Edmond d'Odingsells Kt. of Warwickshire.
• ' John Cokayne died in 1429, and desired by his Will to be buried at Bury Hatley, but his monument stands in Ashbourne Church, and is accurately figured by Dugdale as a specimen of the judicial robes worn at that period.(37)
• ' JOHN COKAYN. Will dated 10th Feb. 6 Henry VI. (1427-8).
• ' To be buried in the parish church of Bury Hattele. To my nephew John Cokayn of Ashbourne Kt., to his wife, and to his daughter Alice, wife of Ralph Sherley Kt., one gold ring each.
• ' I desire that 3 marks a year be paid by my son Reginald Cokayn and his heirs to pray for the souls' health of Henry vj., of myself, of the said Reginald and Beatrix his wife, and of all my sons living, also for the souls of John late Duke of Lancaster, Richard ij., Henry iv. and Henry v., of John Cokayn by father, and Cecilia Irton* my mother, of Edmond Cokayn my brother, Ida my late wife, and my dead children. To Sir William Babington Kt. a book of statutes and L10 from the heritage of the heirs of Sir Philip Boteler Kt. To Reginald Cokayn, my son and heir apparent, all my armoury and my ornaments in my chapel at Bury Hatley. To Henry Cokayn, my 2'd son, and Grace his wife two silver cups; to John Cokayn my 3'd son one cup; and to Thomas Cokayn my 4th son my missal, psalter, and all books of canon and civil law. To Laurence Cheyne and Elizabeth his wife my daughter a cup. To Margaret D'odyngsells my daughter a cup, and I forgive her husband Sir Edmond D'Odyngsells Kt. his bond debt to me.
• Sir William Babyngton Kt., Reginald Cokayn, Laurence Cheyne, John Chichele Parson of Hattele, and Thomas Cokayne to be my executors.
• Will proved in 1429 (no month or day) in C.P.C. [12 Luffnam.]
• * Not Cecilia Vernon, as stated in the Peerages. (38)
• _______________
• 'British Archaeological Association. Journal of the British Archaeological Association (Volume 7)
• http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/british-archaeological-associ...
• MONUMENTS OF THE COCKAYNE FAMILY IN
• ASHBOURNE CHURCH, DERBYSHIRE.
• BY J. R. PLANCHE, ESQ., F.S.A.
• http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/british-archaeological-associ...
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• http://www.cokayne.net/The_Cokayne_Memoranda.html
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• http://www.cokayne.net/resources/AECM+stemma+1+ashbourne+bw.jpg
• http://www.cokayne.net/resources/AECM+stemma+3+cockayne_hatley+bw.jpg
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• (CHART)
• 'The visitations of Bedfordshire, annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634
• http://www.archive.org/stream/visitationsbedf00britgoog#page/n36/mo...
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Sir John was Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

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