Sir John Pelham

Sir John Pelham, Knt., was one of the persons who took John, King of France,=y=Joan, da. of Vincent Herberts, alias Finch. prisoner, at the battle of Poictiers, 19th Sept. 30th Edward III. 1358; and, in memory of that king surrendering his sword, had the buckle of a belt for a badge of that honour; Esquire of the body of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, knighted 24th Edward III. 1368, bu. in Canterbury-cathedral.

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

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Joan HERBERT
Born: ABT 1342, Netherfield, Sussex, England
Father: Vincent HERBERT
Mother: Joan SALERNE
Married: John De PELHAM
Children:
1. John De PELHAM (Sir)
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FINCH.htm#Joan%20HERBERT1
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Sir John de Pelham (died 1429) was an English parliamentarian who served as Treasurer of England.
Biography
Early life
John de Pelham was the son of Sir John Pelham, a Sussex knight who fought in the wars of Edward III in France, and of his wife Joan Herbert of Winchelsea. He was in the service of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and afterwards of his son, Henry, Earl of Derby, subsequently Henry IV. On 7 December 1393 he was appointed by John of Gaunt constable of Pevensey Castle for life. He was possibly one of the scanty band that landed with Henry at Ravenspur in 1399, and was certainly with him at Pontefract soon after his landing. Meanwhile his wife Joan Pelham sustained something like a siege from Richard's partisans in Pevensey Castle. An interesting letter, written in Middle English and dated 25 July 1399, from Joan to John is printed in Collins's Peerage.[1] Hallam, who reprints it in modern spelling, describes it as "one of the earliest instances of female penmanship".[2][a]
etc.
Marriage and issue
Pelham married Joan, daughter of Sir John Escures, and had by her a son named John, his successor, and two daughters, Agnes and Joan, who respectively married John Colbrond of Boreham, and Sir John St. Clair. A valuation of his estates made in 1403 is printed by Collins and translated by Lower. The rental amounted to the large sum of 870l. 5s. 3d. Besides his wife's letter already mentioned, four familiar letters to him in English are printed by Collins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pelham_(English_parliamentarian)
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County Genealogies: Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex
By William Berry
https://books.google.com/books?id=okhFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA313&lpg=PA313&d...
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WALTER DE PELHAM, 28th Edward I.

• Thomas de Pelham, 2d Edward II.
  • Thomas de Pelham, 20th Edward III.
    • John De Pelham, held lands called Pelhams, in co. Sussex.
      • Sir John Pelham, Knt., was one of the person who took John, King of France, prisoner, at the battle of Poictiers, 19th Sept. 30th Edward III. 1358; and, in memory of that king surrendeering his sword, had the buckle of a belt for a badge of that honour; Esquire of the body of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, knighted 24th Edward III, bu. in Canterbury-cathedral. = Joan, da. of Vincent Herberts, alias Finch, of Netherfield, co. Sussex.
        • 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 sward-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. = (*)Joan, da. of Sir John Escures, Kt.
          • Sir John Pelham, of Laughton, co. Sussex, only son, chamberlain of the household to Queen Catherine, consort to Henry V.; ob. 1466. - Joan de Courcy, servant to Queen Catherine.
          • Agnes, 1st daughter, ma. John Colbrond.
          • Joan, 2d daughter, mar. Sir John Seyneclere.
            • J.P. See page 315

(*) In the Visitation of Sussex, 1634, the wife is Alice, da. and heir of . . . . Crownall.
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The Peerage of England;: Containing a Genealogical and Historical ..., Volume 8
By Arthur Collins
https://books.google.com/books?id=FTEUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&d...
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etc.
Another THOMAS de Pelham (son of the former, as Philpot, Somerset-herald, asserts) is mentioned in a deed dated at Warbleton, in Sussex, on the vigil of St. Philip and James, in 1346, and left issue a son, John de Pelham.
Which JOHN was a person of great fame in the reign of Edw. III. and in memory of his valiant acts, his figure in armour, with the arms of the family on his breast1, was painted in glass, in the chapter house at Canterbury, being (it's probable) a benefactor to the cathedral, or was buried there. He attended that victorious monarch in his wars with the French, and was a competitor in taking John, King of France, Prisoner, at the battle of Poictiers, in 1356. etc. Among these, Sir Roger la Warr, and the before-mentioned John de Pelham, were most concerned; and in memory of so signal an action, and the King's surrendering his sword to them, Sir Roger la Warr, Lord la Warr, had the crampet, or chape of his sword, for a badge of that honour; and John de Pelham, (afterwards knighted) had the buckle of a
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belt, as a mark of the same honour, which was sometimes used by his descendants, as a seal-manual, and at others the said buckles on each side a cage; being an emblem of the captivity of the said King of France, and was therefore borne for a crest; as in those times was customary. etc.
The said John de Pelham was so well esteemed by John de Vere, Earl of Oxford (who was also at the battle pf Poictiers) that he constituted him one of the executors of his last will and testament, etc. Sir John had certain lands and houses in Winchelsea, in marriage with Joan, daughter to Vincent Herbert, alias Finch, ancestor to the present Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, and was succeeded by a son of his own name.
JOHN de Pelham, who was no less famous, than his father, for many great achievements and honourable exploits, being, from his youth, in the service of Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby (son of the before-mentioned Duke of Lancaster) afterwards King of England, by the name of Henry IV. etc.
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He was also created on the the Knights of the Bath, October 13, 1399, at the coronation of that monarch, etc.
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etc. He bequeaths to sixteen of his servants, 6s. 8 d. each, and constitutes Joan his wife, Sir John Pelham Knt. his son, Sir John Brown, Knt. and William Burgoin, Esq; his executors; etc.
The inquisition taken after his death, shews that he died four days after the date of his will, leaving an only son (by his wife, Joan, daughter of Sir John Escures, Knit.) Sir John Pelham, before mentioned, and a daughter, Agnes, the wife of John Colbrond, of Boreham. he has also another daughter, Joan, married to Sir John Seynclere, as from the following letter of his to him appears, wrote in the reign of Henry V. etc.
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Sir JOHN Pelham, his only son, was likewise in the French wars in the reign of Henry V. as is evident from two letters to his father etc.
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He was Chamberlain of the Household to Henry V.'s consort, who in the 3d of Hery VI. stiling herself Catharine, Queen of England, wife of King Henry V. daughter of Charles, King of France, and mother of the King of England, of her especial grace and free-will, and for the good and agreeable service of his best beloved Knight, Sir John Pelham, and Joan de Courcey, his wife, grants to them, for their better maintenance in her service, 50 marks per annum, out of her manors, &c. in England and Wales. etc.
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He had two wives; first, Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir John de Escures; and, secondly, Joan de Courcy, and attendant on Queen Catherine, consort of Henry V. By this last he had the sons before-mentioned and three daughters, Catherine, married first to John Bramshot, Esq; and secondly, to Sir Sir Thomas Lewknor, Knight; Cecily, second daughter, wedded to William Lunsford, of Hotheley, in Com. Suff. Esq; and Joan, the youngest to John Covert, of Slaugham, and secondly to William Ashbornham, of Ashbornham, Esqrs. etc.
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A Biographical Peerage of the Empire of Great Britain: In which ..., Volume 1
By Sir Egerton Brydges
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The Pelhams are a family of undoubted antiquity, and have florished in Sussex, at the head of the gentry, from the reign of Edward III. Sir John Pelham distinguished himself at the battle of Poictiers, 1356, and was one of those, who claimed the honour of taking John, king of France, prisoner; on which occasion he had granted him as a badge, the buckle of a belt; and his posterity have borne two such buckles, in a field gules, as a quartering. His son, Sir John, was equally distinguished. He appears to have been owner of a noble estate, and a great number of manors in Sussex. He was one of the executors of the will of Henry IV. and had granted to him, by Henry V. the guardianship and government of James I. of Scotland, who, from the age of thirteen, was detained in the Tower of London, thirteen years. He continued in favour with Henry VI. and died, full of honour, in the seventh of that king's reign, 1429. His son, Sir John Pelham, was chamberlain of the household to Henry V.'s consort. His son,
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Thomas Pelham, died 1516, leaving Sir William Pelham, who was knighted by Henry VIII. at the meeting between that monarch and the Fench king, between Calais and Boulagne; and died 1538. His younger son, by his second wife, (Mary Sands) was Sir William Pelham, a man of celebrity, who was lord justice of Ireland, and ancestor (by the female line) of the present Lord Yarborough. Sir Nicholas Pelham, the eldest son, (by the first wife, Mary Carew,) was knighted 1549; member of parliament for Sussex, and died 1560. His son, Sir John, was knighted, 1573, and died 1580; and was succeeded by his son, Oliver, who dying in his minority, was succeeded by his uncle, Sir Thomas, who was member of parliament for Sussex, 28 Elizabeth; and on the creation of the dignity of baronet, was advanced to that degree, May 22, 1611. He died 1624, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas, who represented Sussex, in the reigns of James I, and Charles I. and seems to have favoured the parliament fide, at least in the outset of the troubles; but living retired during Cromwell's usurpation, was buried with his ancestors, at laughton, Aug. 28, 1654. (His younger son, by his third wife, Sir Nicholas, was ancestor of the Pelhams of Crowburst, in Sussex.) His eldest son, Sir John Pelham, was elected member of parliament for Sussex, 1550, and continued to represent that county, during the remainder of the reign of Charles II. He died at the age of eighty, at his feat at Halland, in the parish of East-Hothley and Laughton, Jan. 26, 1703. His wife was a lady of high rank, Lucy, second daughter of Robert Sydney, second earl of Leicester. His younger son, Henry, clerk of the Pells, was grandfather of the late earl of Chichester. But Sir Thomas, the eldest son, sat in parliament for Lewe and for Sussex, from the reign of Charles II. till 1706, in which time he was a commissioner of the customs, and, in 1689, a lord of the Treasury; and having married to his second wife, Lady Grace, sister to John Holles, duke of Newcastle, was, on Dec. 29, 1705, created Lord Pelham. He died Feb. 23, 1712, leaving, by his second wife, two sons,
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Thomas, created duke of Newcastle; and Henry, a celebrated statesman, born 1696, "who being," says Coxe, "of a Whig family, closely attached himself to the partizans of the Brunswick line, and distinguished himself against the rebels, as a captain of dragoons, in the regiment of major-general Dormer. At the age of twenty-one, in 1718, he obtained a seat in parliament, first for the borough of Seaford, in Sussex, and afterwards for the county, which he continued to represent till his death." He was soon after the resignation of Sir Robert Walpole, nominated, 1743, to be head of the Treasury, etc.
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He died of a violent fever, which in five days put a period to his life, march 6, 1754, aged 60. etc. "His elder brother, Thomas, was born," says Coxe, "in Aug. 1694; and, on the death of his father, succeeded to the barony of Pelham: he inherited a large part of the great estate of his uncle, who had no issue male, and took the name of Holles. Soon after the accession of George I. he was created earl of Clare; and, in 1715, duke of Newcastle. etc.
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On the resignation of the premiership, in 1756, he had a new patent of a dukedom, with remainder to his nephew, Henry Clinton, earl of Lincoln, who had married Catharine, daughter and coheir of his brother Henry. etc. His grace died, Nov. 17, 1768, without issue; and was succeeded as duke of Newcastle, by Henry earl of Lincoln, and as lord Pelham of Stanmer, by Thomas
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Pelham, late lord Pelham, who, on June 23, 1801, was created earl of Chichester, and died 1805, when he was succeeded by, his eldest son, the present and second earl.
His lordship was born April 28, 1756; and, in 1783, went secretary to lord Northington, lord lieutenant of Ireland; and again, in the same office, to lord Camden, in 1795; he was appointed secretary of state for the home department, in 1801; and chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, in 1803; and joint post master, in 1807. He married in 1801, lady Mary Osborne, sister to the duke of Leeds, by whom he has issue. Etc.
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