Sir Robert Danvers, Kt., Chief Justice of the Common Pleas

According to Francis Nottidge Macnamara's book titled Memorials of the Danvers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth): Their Ancestors and Descendants from the Conquest till the Termination of the Eighteenth cCntury; with Some Account of the Alliances of the Family and of the Places where They Were Seated @Archive.org:—

Sir Robert Danvers was admitted to Lincolns Inn in 1420, so born about 1400-1404. He must therefore be the son of his father's first wife Alice Verney [married about 1399], rather than the second. Robert Danvers married his first wife Agnes by 1441, as his eldest daughter Alice who married George Burnaby was found to be aged 25 at her fathers death. His daughter Agnes, married to Sir Walter Denys was 22 & his youngest daughter was Joan Danvers [daughter of his second wife Katherine] was aged 10. His son Henry Danvers died between Robert's 1467 will & his IPM>

Sir Robert Danvers, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas1,2

• M, b. circa 1424
• Father Sir John Danvers b. b 1382, d. c 1449
• Mother Joane Bruley b. c 1396, d. a 1469
• Sir Robert Danvers, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was born circa 1424 at of Ipwell, Oxfordshire, England. He married Agnes de la Bere, daughter of Sir Richard Delabere and (Miss) Blount, circa 1444.1,2 Sir Robert Danvers, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was buried on 17 April 1467 at Church of Holy Cross, West Smithfield, Middlesex, England.
• Family Agnes de la Bere b. c 1420
• Child:◦Agnes Danvers+2 b. c 1445
• Citations
  • 1. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 263-264.
  • 2. Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 58.
    • http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2335.htm#...

Biography

• Sir Robert was the last "Danvers of Ispwell" and a judge during the War of the Roses. He was born about 1400, son of John Davers of Ispwell, Colthorpe and Prestcote, and his first wife Alice Verney, daughter and heir of William Verney of Byfield.
• According to Memorials of the Danvers family (of Dauntsey and Culworth), by F.N. Macnamara:[1]
• "Sir Robert's second wife was Katherine, widow of William Fetiplace, sister to Drew Barentyne, of Great Haseley, Oxon. In many of the genealogies of the family she is spoken of as a daughter of Fetiplace, but the Berkshire Visitations and other documents afford conclusive evidence that her maiden named was Barentyne."
• Macnamara names her father as Drugo Barentyne, whose will is published in "Ancient Lincoln Wills" (1888), and mentions both his son Drugo and his daughter Katherine married to William Fetiplace, and a daughter Margaret married to John Cotysmore.
• This second wife was the mother, according to that work, of Robert's youngest daughter, Joan, who was ten years old at the time her father died, as mentioned in the inquisition post mortem. Sir Robert's will was made 15 April 1467, 2 days before he died.
• Marriage: Husband of Agnes (De La Bere) Danvers — married 1440 in London,,Middlesex,England
• Knighthood
• "Robert continued to sit as judge during the reign of Henry VI., and was, notwithstanding the Lancastrian tendencies of his house, reappointed on the accession of Edward IV. in the year 1461. Moreover, he was one of the noblemen and gentlemen who were chosen for the honour of knighthood on the occasion of the coronation, of the Queen. His relatives, John Say and John Plomer were also amongst those who were knighted — * knights of the sworde ' Metcalfe, in his ' Book of Knights,' calls them ; but we have' not been able to discover any other * order of the sworde ' than a Swedish order founded in 1628, and refounded in 1748."[2]

Death and Burial
Sir Robert Danvers died 17 APR 1467 and is buried at St. Bartholomew the Less Churchyard, London, England. [3]

Sources
– https://books.google.be/books?id=NkAIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA116
– Memorials of the Danvers family (of Dauntsey and Culworth), pg 109 [1]
– Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 28 April 2022), memorial page for Sir Robert Danvers (unknown–17 Apr 1467), Find A Grave: Memorial #218631947, citing St. Bartholomew the Less Churchyard, London, City of London, Greater London, England ; Maintained by Plantagenet Princess (contributor 49922906).
– Turner, William Henry. The Visitations of the County of Oxford, Taken in the Years 1566, 1574, and 1634... (Taylor and Co., London, 1871) "Danvers, of Waterstock," p. 187.