Follow Us
Like Us
Historical records matching Sir John Fortescue, Kt., of Meaux
view all
Immediate Family
-
wife -
-
-
daughter -
-
-
-
brother -
stepmother
-
half brother
-
stepfather
About Sir John Fortescue, Kt., of Meaux
- Sir John Fortescue1,2,3
- M, #35325, b. circa 1380, d. circa 1435
- Father William Fortescue4,3 b. c 1360, d. a 1411
- Mother Elizabeth Beauchamp4,3 b. c 1348, d. a 1411
- Sir John Fortescue was born circa 1380 at of Combe in Holbeton, Devonshire, England.3 He married Eleanor Norreys, daughter of William Norreys, Esq. and Eleanor Colaton, circa 1400 at of Devonshire, England; They had 3 sons (Sir Henry, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland; Sir John; & Sir Richard).2,3 Sir John Fortescue died circa 1435; He married (2) before 12 November 1408 to Clarice.3
- Family Eleanor Norreys b. c 1376, d. b 12 Nov 1408
- Children
- Sir Henry Fortescue, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas+ d. a 1426
- Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice, Chancellor of England, Burgess for Tavistock, Totnes, & Plympton Erle+3 b. c 1402, d. b 18 Dec 1479
- Sir Richard Fortescue+5 b. c 1406, d. 1455
- Joan Fortescue+ b. c 1421
- Citations
- [S10927] Unknown author, Burke's Commoners, Vol. II, p. 541.
- [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 112.
- [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 7.
- [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 111.
- [S11581] Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, p. 221.
- From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1176.htm#... _________________
- Sir John Fortescu1
- M, #296668, b. circa 1380, d. after 1424
- Last Edited=1 Apr 2015
- Sir John Fortescu was born circa 1380 at Shepham, Devon, England.2 He was the son of William Fortescu and Elisabeth Beauchamp.3 He married Eleanor Norreis, daughter of William Norreis.1 He died after 1424 at Meaux, France.2
- He held the office of Governor of Meaux, during the reign of King Henry V.1
- Children of Sir John Fortescu and Eleanor Norreis
- Sir John Fortescue+3 d. a 1472
- Sir Henry Fortescu+3 b. c 1399, d. 1458
- Joan Fortescu2 b. c 1400
- Sir Richard Fortescue+2 b. c 1413
- Citations
- [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1473. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
- [S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
- [S37] BP2003. [S37]
- From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p29667.htm#i296668 __________________
- John FORTESCUE (Sir)
- Born: ABT 1380/1, Shepham, Devonshire, England
- Died: AFT 1424, Meaux, France
- Notes: Captain of Meaux, France.
- Father: William FORTESCUE
- Mother: Elizabeth (Eleanor) BEAUCHAMP
- Married: Eleanor NORREYS
- Children:
- 1. Joan FORTESCUE
- 2. Henry FORTESCUE (Sir)
- 3. John FORTESCUE (Sir Chief Justice)
- 4. Richard FORTESCUE (Sir)
- From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FORTESCUE.htm#John FORTESCUE (Sir)1 _______________________
- ACCORDING TO THIS BOOK THERE IS A GENERATION MISSING WILLIAM & ALICE'S SON, A WILLIAM, WIFE NOT LISTED (FATHER OF WILLIAM MARRIED ELIZABETH BEAUCHAMP)
- A History of the Family of Fortescue in all its branches by Thomas (Fortescue) Lord Clermont.
- The works of Sir John Fortescue, Knight, Chief Justice of England and Lord Chancellor to King Henry the Sixth (1869) Vol. 2
- https://archive.org/details/worksofsirjohnfo02fort
- https://archive.org/stream/worksofsirjohnfo02fort#page/18/mode/1up
- Pg.5
- To him a third Adam was fon and heir, and fucceeded his father. This laft Adam married Anne, daughter and co-heir to William Delaport of Old Port, in Devonfhire (the
- https://archive.org/stream/worksofsirjohnfo02fort#page/20/mode/1up
- Pg.6
- ancient manfion of which family ftill exifts, though now a farm-houfe),(1) by whom he had iffue three fons, William, Richard, and Nicholas.
- William, the eldeft fon, fucceeded ; he married Alice, daughter of Walter Strechleigh ; he inherited through his mother, at the death ot her father, William Delaport above named, and who was ftill alive in 1342, lands in the parifh of Holbeton,(2) in South Devon. In the nineteenth year ot King Edward III., A. D. 1346, at the making that king's eldeft fon, the Black Prince, a knight, William de Fortefcu paid the ufual contribution for one knight's fee in Wymondfton, which Adam de Fortefcu held of Tremeton.(3) ....
- William de Fortefcu was fucceeded by William, his fon by Alice Strechleigh, ....
- This William was alive in the end of the year 1394. he was fucceeded by his fon William, who had married during his father's lifetime, Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Ryme, in Dorfetfhire, gret-grandfon of Robert de Bello Campo or Beauchamp, Baron of Hatch in Somerfet.(11) She afterwards became a co-herifs with her fifter Joan, wife of Sir Robert Chalons, to her brother, Thomas Beauchamp of Ryme, who died without iffue.
- https://archive.org/stream/worksofsirjohnfo02fort#page/22/mode/1up
- Pg.7
- She was the widow, without children, of Richard Branfcomb.(1) ....
- The children by this marriage were two fons, William and John. ....
- William Fortefcue, the eldeft fon of his father William, by Elizabeth Beauchamp, was married, about the year 1394, to Mabel, daughter and heir of John Falwell, or Fowell, and was fucceeded by his fon John,(4) .... ______________
- Sir John Fortescue of Meaux
- M, b. 1380
- Father William Fortescue of Wimpstone b. c 1345, d. a 1410
- Mother Elizabeth Beauchamp b. c 1349
- Last Edited 21 Nov 2006
- Name Variation Sir John Fortescue of Meaux was also known as John Fortescue.
- Marriage* He married Eleanor Norreis of Norreis, daughter of William Norreis of Norreis, in Parish of North Huish, Devon, England.
- Birth Sir John Fortescue of Meaux was born circa 1362 in Wimpstone, Devonshire, England.
- Birth* He was born in 1380.
- He was the son of William Fortescue of Wimpstone and Elizabeth Beauchamp.
- Birth Sir John Fortescue of Meaux was born in 1396 in Shepham, Devonshire, England.
- Note* He was a Governor of Meaux in France in 1420. Sir John of Meaux served in the French Wars under Henry V and was present at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. He was made captain of Meaux when it was taken in 1422, and Governor of the province of La Brie. He returned to England before 1431 and appears to have had a residence at Shepham, Devon.
- He married in the parish of North Huish, and acquired Norreis via his wife. He had manors at Overcomb, Efford and Alsford in the parish of Holboughton or Holberton. In 1429 there is a reference to a grant by him to John Longford. He left his estate in Hertfordshire to his son Richard. in 1420.
- Family
- Eleanor Norreis of Norreis b. 1390
- Children
- * Joan Fortescue
- * Sir John Fortescue of Ebrington, Gloucestershire+ b. 1395, d. c 1485
- * Henry Fortescue of Wood b. c 1413
- * Sir Richard Fortescue+ b. c 1416 ________________
- Sir Henry Fortescue (fl. 1426), was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
- Fortescue was the eldest son of Sir John Fortescue, appointed in 1422 Captain of the captured Castle of Meaux, 25 miles NE of Paris. The earliest surviving record of the Fortescue family relates to its 12.c. holding of the manor of Wimpstone in the parish of Modbury, Devon. His younger brother was Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
- .... etc.
- From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fortescue_(Lord_Chief_Justice) ________________
- FORTESCUE, Henry (d.c.1458), of Wood Barton in Woodleigh and Fallapit in East Allington, Devon.
- 1st. s. of Sir John Fortescue (d.c.1435) of Whympstone, Devon by Eleanor, da. and h. of William Norris; er. bro. of John*. m. (1) bef. 1421, Katherine—of Wood Barton, ?1s.; (2) bef. 1424, Joan, da. of Edmund Bosom of Bosomzeal, Devon; (3) by 1437, Margaret, da. and h. of Nicholas Fallapit of Fallapit.1 1s.
- .... etc.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/fo... ________________
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 20
- Fortescue, Henry by George Knottesford Fortescue
- FORTESCUE, Sir HENRY (fl. 1426), lord chief justice of the common pleas in Ireland, was the eldest son of Sir John Fortescue, governor of Meaux, and brother to Sir John, lord chief justice of England [q. v.] It is probable that he was a student of Lincoln's Inn, and almost certain that he was elected member of parliament for Devon on 11 Nov. 1421 (Return of Members of the House of Commons, 1878, pt. i. p. 299). His appointment as chief justice of the common pleas in Ireland is dated 25 June 1426, and for a short period his name occurs several times in the ‘Calendar of the Irish Chancery Rolls.’ .... He was twice married, each time to an heiress, the first being Joan, daughter of Edmund Boyun and heiress of the estate of Wood, South Devonshire; and the second the daughter and heiress of Nicholas de Fallapit. He left sons by each wife, who each inherited their respective mothers' properties, and founded two branches of the Devonshire family of Fortescue.
- [Lord Clermont's Hist. of the Family of Fortescue; Rotulorum Patentium et Clausorum Cancellariæ Hib. Calendarium, pp. 241, 243, 244 b, 246, 248, 248 b, 249.]
- From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fortescue,_Henry_(DNB00) _______________________
- Sir John Fortescue (c. 1394 – c. 1480) was the Chief Justice of the King's Bench of England and the author of De laudibus legum Angliæ (Commendation of the Laws of England, first published posthumously around 1543), an influential treatise on English law.
- .... etc.
- Fortescue was born around 1394 at Norries, in the parish of North Huish near South Brent in Devon, England, and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He was the second son of Sir John Fortescue, who in 1422 was appointed captain of the captured Castle of Meaux, 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Paris. His eldest brother was Henry Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. The earliest surviving record of the Fortescue family relates to its 12th-century holding of the manor of Wimpstone, in the parish of Modbury, Devon.[2]
- .... etc.
- From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fortescue_(judge) ______________________
- FORTESCUE, John (d.1479), of Devon.
- 2nd s. of Sir John Fortescue2 and yr. bro. of Henry*. m. (1) by 1423, Elizabeth (d. 26 Apr. 1426), da. and coh. of Robert Brytte of Doddiscombsleigh, Devon, s.p. (2) by 1436, Isabel, da. of John James of Norton St. Philip, Som., 1s. d.v.p. 2da. Kntd. by Oct. 1442.
- .... etc.
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/fo... ___________________
- Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 20
- Fortescue, John (1394?-1476?) by George Paul Macdonell
- FORTESCUE, Sir JOHN (1394?–1476?), chief justice of the king's bench and legal writer, was the second of the three sons of Sir John Fortescue, whom Henry V made governor of Meaux, the eldest being Sir Henry Fortescue [q. v.], sometime chief justice of the common pleas in Ireland, and the third Sir Richard Fortescue, who was killed at the battle of St. Albans in 1455 (see the family pedigree in Clermont's supplement to Family History). The date of his birth cannot be precisely stated, but it was certainly before the beginning of the fifteenth century. He is said to have been educated at Exeter College, Oxford; .... About 1436 he married the daughter of John Jamyss of Philips Norton in Somersetshire. .... On the reversal of his attainder, he went to live at Ebrington, where he died, and in the parish church of which he was buried. The date of his death is unknown, the last mention of him being in 1476 (Kal. Exch. iii. 8). ‘According to local tradition,’ says Lord Clermont, ‘which the present occupant of the manorhouse repeated to me, he lived to be ninety years old’ (Life, p. 44). He left one son, Martin, who died in 1471, and two daughters. The present Earl Fortescue is descended from Martin's elder son, Lord Clermont from the younger. .... etc.
- From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fortescue,_John_(1394%3F-1476%3F)_(DNB00) _________________
view all
Sir John Fortescue, Kt., of Meaux's Timeline
| 1380 |
1380
|
Holbeton, Devon, England, United Kingdom
|
|
| 1392 |
1392
|
of, Winston, Devonshire, England
|
|
| 1394 |
1394
|
Ebrington Manor, Gloucestershire, England, England (United Kingdom)
|
|
| 1400 |
1400
|
Whympston Wood, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
|
|
| 1413 |
1413
|
Falkbourne, Essex, England
|
|
| 1415 |
October 25, 1415
Age 35
|
Meaux, (Present Puy-de-Dome Department), Auvergne, France
|