Primary Sources

John was a legatee in the 1434 will of his father.

The Inquisitions Post Mortem held in 1434 for his father state "John Hill, his son and next heir, was aged 10 years on 6 September last" [b. 1424].

His proof of age states he was born at Spaxton on Monday before the Nativity of the Virgin [4 September] 1424, and baptised in the church of the Virgin Mary there.

Other Sources

• The Antiquary, Volume 32 edited by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson
• Pg. 223 CHART
• Denyse, or Dionisia (3rd husband), dau. of John Durborough (? Sir J. D., of Heathfield, near Taunton, who d. 16 Ed. III.). She mar. (1) Martin Langdon; (2) Robert Challons, of Challonsleigh, Devon (son - Ralph); d. before 1392 = SIR JOHN HILL (or HULLE), knight, of Hill's Court, St. Sidwell's Exeter. Probably of a Somersetshire family. (? Recorder of Exeter, 1379); King's Serjeant, 1382; Justice of King's Bench, 1389. Had a grant of Houndstone, near Yeovil; ? June 24 1408., and was bur. in St. John Baptist's Priory, Exeter, where his two wives were also bur. = Maud, or Matilda (2nd husband), dau. of Sir Giles Daubeny (d. c. 1386), of Barrington, Somerset. She mar. (1) Sir Hy. Percehay, of Chalsfield, Wilts, Baron of Exchequer, Etc. (d. c. 1380); and (3) Sir Robert Latymer, of Duntish, in Dorset; she d. April 21, 1416.
• CHILDREN of Dionisa Durborough & John Hill
  • Robert, of Spaxton; Sheriff of Somerset; d. April 25, 1423. = Isabella (b. 1383; living 1416). dau. and heir of Sir Thos. Fychet, of Spaxton, near Bridgewater, and Ricarda his wife, heir of families of Ingpen, Cobham, and De Halton; holding great estates in Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall, and manor of Westcote in Inkpen.
  • CHILDREN of Isabella Fychet & Robert Hill
    • John, b. before 1402; d. Oct. 21 (? 14), 1434. = Cicely, dau. of John Stourton, of Preston, near Yeovil, by his second wife (? Joan, dau. of Wm. Banastre, of Radstock); coheir of father and mother. She mar. (2) Sir Thomas Keryell, of Westonhanger, near Dover (exec. 1461); d. April 18, 1472.
    • 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).
      • CHILDREN of Margaret Rodney & John Hill
        • Genoveia, b. Aug., 1455; d. c. 1480; mar. Sir Wm. Say (d. Dec. 4, 1529), of Sawbridgeworth, but had only one child, which died with its mother. Sir Wm. mar. (2) Elizabeth, widow of Sir T. Walgrave.
• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899) Vol. 1
• Cecily Stourton, aged 34 years in 1439, she married (i) John Hill, of Spakton, aged 21 years on his father's death, on Sunday the Feast of St. Mark, 1424§, who himself died on Thursday next after the Feast. of St. Calixtus in 1435||, with whom she claimed a house in Wells, as heir of her maternal grandfather, William Banastre, called Lord of Wellesleigh, who had, by deed in 12 Richard II., given a messuage in Wells to a Canon thereof, which John and Cecily Hill alleged they had been dispossessed of*. She married (2) Sir William Kuriel, knight, of Westhangre, Kent**, whose wife she was at her father's death, and under
• page 85
• the latter's will she had one silver cup which had belonged to one Nicholas d'Ortes. On her death, 18th April, 1472, Preston Pluckenet passed to her son and heir by John Hill*.