Sir John Gifford, MP for Buckinghamshire

Name Sir John Giffard le Boef

• Birth abt 1270, Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England
• Death abt 1330, Twyford, Buckinghamshire
• Father Sir John Giffard le Boef (~1235-~1300)

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Misc. Notes

A Knight of the shire for Buckingham in 1315. Age was given as 50 years and more on 1 Dec 1317, he was living in 1329.

In June of 1314, he was in prison at Aylesbury for trespass of vert and venison in the forest of Bernewode.

In 1322, the sheriff reported that he was very ill and unable to perform military service against the Scots without endangering his life. Later that year, it was reported that he was a knight accustomed to arms, but was gouty and incapable of acting.

M.P. for Buckinghamshire, 1315

Title: Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol III, p. 370. Title: Ancestry.com Parke Family Tree.FTW Media: Other Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came To America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis. Seventh Edition, 1999 Page: Line 42 Title: The Blackmans of Knights Creek, by Henry James Young, p. 85 Spouses 1Alexandra de Gardinis Deathaft 1328, Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England FatherSir Thomas de Gardinis (~1260-<1328) ChildrenJohn (1301-1368) Last Modified 11 Jan 2003

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Summoned on 24 June 1301 to perform military service against the Scots. He had lands at Helidon. He was imprisoned at Aylesbury 1314 for a trespass of vert and venison in the Royal Vorrest. 28 Sep 1315 he was knight of the shire for co. Bucks; and in 1316 certified as lord of the vills of Twyford, Charndon and Pounden in co. Bucks.

[NEHGR 75:129 Geneal Res in England, by Moriarty]

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• Sir John Giffard1
• M, #23962, b. circa 1270, d. circa 30 March 1328
• Father Sir John Giffard b. c 1235, d. 1300
• Sir John Giffard was born circa 1270 at of Twyford, Buckinghamshire, England. He married Alexandra de Gardinis, daughter of Thomas de Gardinis, in 1300. Sir John Giffard died circa 30 March 1328.
• Family Alexandra de Gardinis b. c 1279, d. b 1328
• Child
• Sir John Giffard+ b. 1301, d. 25 Jan 1369
• Citations
• 1.[S7563] Unknown author, Some Early English Pedigrees, by Vernon M. Norr, p. 73; OFHS Newsletter, Sept. 1995, p. 59.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p798.htm#i... _______________________
• The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 75 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society
• http://books.google.com/books?id=88sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58&dq=%22Hugh+sa...
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• 11. SIR JOHN GIFFORD LE BOEF (Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osberne de Bolebec), of Twyford, co. Bucks, Knight, born about 1270, was living 30 Mr. 1328, when his son was called John Giffard the Younger of Twyford in the inquisition post mortem of Sir Thomas de Gardinis, but appears to have died shortly thereafter (Calendar of Inquisitions port Mortem, vol. 7, Edward III, page 107). He married about 1300-1 ALEXANDRA DE GARDINIS, daughter of Sir Thomas of Oxfordshire, a descendant of the baronial house of Arsic. She was dead in 1328, when her son John was the heir of his grandfather, Sir Thomas de Gardinis.
• On 24 June 1301 John, son of John Giffard le Boef, was summond from Devonshire to the muster at Berwick on Tweed, to perform military service against the Scots (Parliamentary Writs, vol. 1, page 632). His lands at Helidon are mentioned 23 Aug. 1312 (Calendar of Close Rolls, 1307-1313, page 548). He was imprisoned at Aylesbury, 7 June 1314, for a trespass of vert and venison in the Royal Forest (ib., 1313-1318, page 58). On 28 Sept. 1315 he was knight of the
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• shire for co. Bucks (Parliamentary Writs, vol. 2, page 918), and in 1316 he was certified as lord of the vills of Twyford, Charndon, and Pounden in co. Bucks (ib.). He held the Twyford lands (i.e., two part) of Ralph Pipard (Feudal Aids, vol. 1, page 109). In Oxfordshire he held lands in Begbrooke (ib., vol. 4, page 30) and also lands in Astwell. On 26 Mar. 1316 he appears as commissioner to raise soldiers for the Scotch War (Parliamentary Writs, vol. 2, page 918), and on 5 Aug 1316 his orders to select footmen in co. Bucks for the Scotch War were countermanded (Calendar of Fine Rolls, vol. 2, page 297). On 30 May 1322 John Giffard of Tywford, Knight, was summond from Oxfordshire to the Great Council at Westminster (Parliamentary Writs, Vol. 2, page 918). On 20 June 1322 John Gifford, a knight or baneret of co. Beds and co. Bucks, was returned as ill and unable to serve in person against the Scots (ib.), and on 24 June 1322 John Gifford le Boef, man at arms, was summoned from Northamptonshire to serve against the Scots (ib.). On 31 Oct. 1322 he was returned as a man at arms between the ages of 16 and 60 years, and was called a knight accustomed to arms but gouty and incapable of acting (ib.). In 1325 John, son of Osbert Giffard (9, i), sued him to recover lands in Accott, Devonshire, which Osbert formerly held. Children:
  • 12. i. JOHN, b. in 1301 (Calendar of Inquisitions port Mortem, vol. 6).
  • ii. EDMUND (?), a knight, who, with John Giffard of Twyford, comitted trespass at Grendon, 4 Nov. 1347 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1345-1348), and was probably of Stanlak in Oxfordshire in 1361 (Calendar of Close Rolls, 1360-1364, p. 194).
• 12. SIR JOHN GIFFARD, (Sir John le Boef, Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osberne de Bolebec), of Twyford, co. Bucks, Knight, born in 1301, died on the Sunday next after the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul,(*) 43 Edward III [1368/9] (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 232). He married first LUCY DE MORTEYN, who was living 8 Mar. 1361, daughter of Sir John and sister of Master Edmund de Morteyn, D. C. L., the King's excheator for Ireland, canon of York, and King's clerk; and secondly ALICE ---- , who was living 30 July 1379 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1377-1381, page 323.
• From his maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas de Gardinis, he inherited large estates, namely, the manorial estates at Somerton and Fringsford and the Coggs lands in Oxfordshire, which, with the messuage at Leisdon, co Kent, came down from the Arsic family, and the manor of Ixning, which came from the De la Haye family. His father died about 1330, and he inherited the Giffard lands. On 22 July 1334 he was styled Sir John Giffard, when he witnessed an enrollment grant (Calendar Close Rolls, 1333-1337, page 326). On 26 Mar. 1338 he was to array in co. Bucks 10 men at arms, 20 armed
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• men, and 40 archers for the French War (ib., 1334-1341, p. 55). In 1340 he had licence to build an oratory in his house at Twyford (Lipscombe's History of Buckinghamshire), in the same year he was assessor of taxes in Oxfordshire (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1340-1343, pag 25), and he served frequently on commissions of ayer and terminer with William de Shreshull, the famous judge (ib., 1340-1343, pages 87, 554, 582, 583). He was one of the knights who accompanied Edward III to France, and he was in the King's division at the Battle of Crecy, 1346 (Wrottesley's Crecy and Calais). He appears to have had a brother Edmund, with whom he committed a trespass at Grendon, 4 Nov. 1347 (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1345-1348). In 1349, 1351, and 1361 he was commissioner of the peace in co. Bucks (Calendar of Patent Rolls, 1350-1354), on 14 Mar. 1360 he was one of the commissioners of array in co. Bucks, for the French War, and in 1368, with Reynold de Grey of Ruthyn, he was again commissioner of array (ib., 1364-1367, page 431). Children by first wife:
  • i. JOHN, living 23 Dec. 1360; d. s.p. before 11 Mar. 1368/9. (Vide infra, 13.)
  • 13. ii. THOMAS, b. about 1345 (REGISTER, Vol. 74, p. 232).
  • iii. RICHARD (probably son of No. 12), m. JOAN ---- , and with her levied a fine on the manor of Helidon, 7 Richard II [1383-4]. ________

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Born in England on 1267 to John Giffard and Maud De Clifford. John married Alexandra De Gardinis and had 3 children. He passed away on 1328 in England.