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John Cobham

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  • Name John Cobham 
    Born of, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 12 Nov 1399  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6016  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Joan d'Oyley,   b. Abt 1344, of Ronton, Staffordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1393, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Married 1376  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2575  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “THOMAS DE LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, and St. Peter Cornhill, London, and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Ronton, Staffordshire, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, and Whatton, Leicestershire, son and heir, born about 1347 (aged 15 in 1362). He married (1st) in 1362 (date of property settlement) AGNES ___. He married (2nd) by settlement dated 1370 JOAN D'OYLEY, daughter of John d'Oyley, Knt., of Ronton, Staffordshire, Warnham, Sussex, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, and Whatton, Leicestershire, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Tregoz, Knt., 2nd Lord Tregoz. She was born about 1344. They had two sons, Roger, Esq.; and John, and one daughter, Katherine. She was heiress in 1370 to her brother, Thomas d'Oyley, Knt., by which she inherited the manors of Ronton, Staffordshire, Warnham, Sussex, Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, and Whatton, Leicestershire. SIR THOMAS DE LEWKNOR died in 1375. His widow, Joan, married (2nd) in 1376 JOHN COBHAM, of Devonshire, Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, younger son of John Cobham, Knt., of Randall (in Shorne) and Hever, Kent. They had two children, Reynold and Elizabeth. His wife, Joan, died in 1393. JOHN COBHAM died testate 12 Nov. 1399.
      Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 146-148 (sub Tregoz). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102. Top. & Gen. 2 (1853): 124-136. Elwes Hist. of the Castles, Mansions & Manors of Western Sussex (1876): 102 (Tregoz-Lewknor ped.). Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thom. Lewknor Knt Ano 30 E. 3, 1356. = Joane da. & heire of Sr John Doyley."). Boyd & Wrottesley Final Concords (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 11) (1890): 191. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Thomas Lewknor knight 30 E. 3, 1356 = Joane d. & heire of Sr John Doyley.”) (D’Oyley arms: Gules, three stags’ heads caboshed or). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 432. Salzman Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 3 (Sussex Rec. Soc. 23) (1916): 172. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-3 (Doyley arms: Gules, three harts' heads caboshed argent). Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 123; 6(2) (1986): 208. NEHGR 112 (1958): 308-309 (D'Oyley arms: Gules, three bucks heads caboshed argent (adopted from Duston marriage); d'Oyley ancient: Or, two bends azure). C.P. 12(2) (1959): 28, footnote I (sub Tregoz). Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 607-608 (biog. of John Cobham).”