Sir John Pelham

Sir John Pelham, only son, appointed, by John of Gaunt, constable of Pevensey-castle for life, by patent, 17th Richard II. knight of the Bath, at the coronation of Henry IV. 13th Oct. 1399; made sword-bearer before the king for life, by patent, 24th Oct. and had the constableship of Pevensey-castle to him and his heirs, male, by patent, 12th Feb. 1st Henry IV.; sheriff of Sussex, 2d Henry IV.; chief butler of the port of Chichester, 9th Henry IV; privy counsellor and ambassador in France, 1st Henry V. ob. 1429.

Married

1. Margaret de Grey,   d. Bef 29 Oct 1390 
2. Joan Escures,   d. Yes, date unknown 

notes

• OFFICE: Constable of Pevensey Castle, 1393.
• OFFICE: [M.P.] Member of Parliament for Sussex, 1399, 1400, 1403, 1404, 1405/6, 1407, 1427.
• OFFICE: Sheriff of Sussex, 1401.
• OFFICE: Treasurer of England, 1411/2.
• HONORS: Knight Bachelor, 1399.
• PROBATE: Will dated 8 Feb 1425/6.

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• County genealogies: Pedigrees of the families in the county of Sussex By William Berry Pg.313 CHART

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Thomas Pelham

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Thomas Pelham

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John Pelham

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John Pelham, Sir Knight = Joan, dau. of Vincent Herberts alias Finch

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John Pelham, Sir Knight = Joan, dau. of Sir John Escures, Knight

Only Son

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Children of John Pelman & Joan Escures: 1. John Pelham, Sir Knight m. Joan de Courcy, 2. Agnes, 1st da. m. John Colbrond, Joan, 2nd da. m. John Seyneclere

Child of John Pelham & Joan de Courcy: John Pelham 1st son m. Alice Lewknor, William 2nd son, Thomas 3rd son.

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These documents are held at Berkeley Castle Muniments

Administrative history:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=2189-bcm_4&...

"Joyce Burnell's inheritance from her cousin Hugh la Zouche consisted of the manors of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Leics.), Swavesey and Fulbourn (Cambs.) and Nutbourne, in Pulborough, and River, in Tillington (Sussex). Joyce died on 1 Jan. 1407; on 27 Jan. Hugh la Zouche's feoffees quitclaimed to Hugh Burnell all the Zouche lands, including the two Sussex manors held for life by Hugh la Zouche's widow Joan (d. 1439), and in 1412 a potential Zouche heir, Robert de la Zouche, quitclaimed the five manors to Burnell.[In 1391 the manors of River (Treve) and Nutbourne, or a rent of 100 marks from the other three manors, had been settled on Joan. She married secondly Sir John Pelham (d. 1429) and died in 1439.]"

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Roger la Zouche died in 1238 and his son and heir Alan, (fn. 9) lord in the 1260s, (fn. 10) in 1270. In the 1270s that manor was held under Alan's son and heir Roger (d. 1285) (fn. 11) by his younger brother Alan. (fn. 12) Roger's son Alan, (fn. 13) in possession by 1299, (fn. 14) who died in 1314, settled its reversion on his second cousin William Mortimer, (fn. 15) later lord la Zouche, (fn. 16) a lord at Fulbourn in 1316. (fn. 17) He died in 1337 and his son and heir Alan la Zouche, (fn. 18) who was granted free warren at Fulbourn in 1344, in 1346. (fn. 19) Alan's widow Eleanor, shortly remarried to Sir Nicholas d'Amory, held his Fulbourn manors as part of her jointure until she died in 1360, whereupon Alan's son Hugh bought out Amory's interest. (fn. 20) That Hugh, lord la Zouche (d. s.p. 1399), settled the reversion of his lands on his aunt Joyce's granddaughter Joyce and her husband Hugh Burnell, lord Burnell. Zouche's widow Joan retained a life interest in Fulbourn Zouches, (fn. 21) which her second husband Sir John Pelham enjoyed in 1412.

From: 'Fulbourn: Manors and other estates', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10: Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (north-eastern Cambridgeshire) (2002), pp. 136-143. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=18823 Date accessed: 29 September 2010.

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