• Re: Margaret Stapleton in Plantagenet Ancestry (2/2)

    From Douglas Richardson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jan 27 10:20:21 2022
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    a. JOHN LEIGHTON (or LEYGHTON), Esq., of Stretton en le Dale and Leighton, Shropshire, Knight of the Shire for Shropshire, 1460–1, (?1463–5), 1467–8, 1472–5, 1478, Steward of Bishop’s Castle, 1463, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1467–8, 1473–4,
    1481–2, Escheator of Shropshire, 1488–9, Steward of Pontesbury, Shropshire, 1474, Constable of Oswestry Castle, 1476, and, in right of his wife, of Wattlesborough, Shropshire, 2nd son, born in 1430. He was a legatee in the 1444 will of his father.
    He married before 1453 ANKARET BURGH, daughter of John Burgh, Knt., of Wattlesborough, Shropshire, Sheriff of Shropshire, by his 1st wife, Jane, daughter and coheiress of William Clopton, Knt. They had three sons, Thomas, Knt., William Knt., and Fulk,
    and five daughters, Jane (wife of John Bruyn), Margaret, Alice (wife of Reginald Ridley), Elizabeth (wife of Fulk Lee, Esq.), and Rose (wife of William Beist). In 1455 John Leighton, Robert Mounford and Mary his wife, Robert Cresset and Christine his
    wife, Thomas Hord and Joyce his wife, Thomas Walwen and Joan his wife, and Thomas Acton, coheirs in the lands and tenements of John Stepulton, Esq., presented to the Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Stapleton, Shropshire. In 1460 he sued John
    Carpynter, yeoman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £10. In 1470 Thomas Horde and Joyce his wife sued John Leghton, Richard Bondes and Joan his wife, Robert Cresset and Christine his wife, Robert Mountfort, and Thomas Acton in the Court
    of Common Pleas in a plea that should be permitted to make a partition of the manors of Stepulton, Armegrove, and Folhampton (in Wistanstow), Shropshire, which formerly belonged to John Stepulton, Esq., father of the said Joyce. His wife, Ankaret, died
    in or before 1471. In 1481 the Bishop of Hereford allowed him as a “discrete man” to have a chapel at Stretton, Shropshire. In 1480–3 he was sued by the Abbot of Buildwas who accused him and his son, William, of breaking into a chapel and tearing
    up the hedges on the abbey pastures. In 1483 his cousin, William Roynon, quitclaimed all his land he had in Warminster, Wiltshire which he had by feoffment of Leonard Stapleton to George Booth and Katherine his wife, John Leighton, and Robert Cressett
    and Christian his wife. The same year John Leghton, Esq., George Bothe, Esq., Robert Cresset, Esq., and James Aysse, Esq., sued William Brent, Gent., of Warminster, Wiltshire, and others in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at
    Warminster, Wiltshire. The same year John Leghton, Esq., Robert Cresset, Esq., and George Boothe, Esq., sued John Nuehall, of Bedak,Cornwall, yeoman, and another in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bedak, Cornwall. In
    1495 he and his fellow Stapleton co-heirs presented to the Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Stapleton, Shropshire. JOHN LEIGHTON, Esq., died shortly before 4 Feb. 1496.

    Botfield, Stemmata Botevilliana (1858): 163–165, 183–188 (Leighton ped.). Eyton, Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 118. Collectanea Arch. 1 (1862): 79–89, 182–231. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6 (1883): 320–321 (will of Edward Leighton). List of
    Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 118. Burke, Gen. & Heraldic Hist. of the Peerage & Baronetage (76th ed., 1914): 1192–1194 (sub Leighton). Griffith, Peds. of Anglesey & Carnarvonshire Fams. (1914): 26 (Powys ped.).
    Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 5 (1915): 221. Wedgwood, Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 534–535 (biog. of John Leighton). VCH Shropshire 8 (1968): 164. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/796, image 403f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/
    AALT1/H6/CP40no796/aCP40no796fronts/IMG_0403.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/835, image 625f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/E4/CP40no835/aCP40no835fronts/IMG_0625.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/883, image 431f (available at http://aalt.
    law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no883/aCP40no883fronts/IMG_0431.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/883, image 498d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no883/bCP40no883dorses/IMG_0498.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/892, image 1286d (available at
    http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no892/bCP40no892dorses/IMG_1286.htm). Shropshire Archives, Cat. of Shropshire Deeds & Papers of the Smythe Fam. of Acton Burnell, 1514/67 (available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk). Shropshire Archives:
    Eyton Fam., 665/625 (available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).



    On Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 8:04:05 PM UTC-7, fosgate3 wrote:
    In volume 2 of Plantagenet Ancestry, p.93, Richardson states Margaret Stapleton possibly married John Stapleton after 1414 but does not give any information regarding the line of this particular person. The name is presented in boldfaced typeset and
    nothing more. Was this an oversight by Mr. Richardson or is there simply no information regarding who this John Stapleton is?

    Thanks in advance for reading.

    ~Glen~

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  • From fosgate3@21:1/5 to Douglas Richardson on Thu Jan 27 15:36:06 2022
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    a. JOHN LEIGHTON (or LEYGHTON), Esq., of Stretton en le Dale and Leighton, Shropshire, Knight of the Shire for Shropshire, 1460–1, (?1463–5), 1467–8, 1472–5, 1478, Steward of Bishop’s Castle, 1463, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1467–8, 1473–4,
    1481–2, Escheator of Shropshire, 1488–9, Steward of Pontesbury, Shropshire, 1474, Constable of Oswestry Castle, 1476, and, in right of his wife, of Wattlesborough, Shropshire, 2nd son, born in 1430. He was a legatee in the 1444 will of his father. He
    married before 1453 ANKARET BURGH, daughter of John Burgh, Knt., of Wattlesborough, Shropshire, Sheriff of Shropshire, by his 1st wife, Jane, daughter and coheiress of William Clopton, Knt. They had three sons, Thomas, Knt., William Knt., and Fulk, and
    five daughters, Jane (wife of John Bruyn), Margaret, Alice (wife of Reginald Ridley), Elizabeth (wife of Fulk Lee, Esq.), and Rose (wife of William Beist). In 1455 John Leighton, Robert Mounford and Mary his wife, Robert Cresset and Christine his wife,
    Thomas Hord and Joyce his wife, Thomas Walwen and Joan his wife, and Thomas Acton, coheirs in the lands and tenements of John Stepulton, Esq., presented to the Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Stapleton, Shropshire. In 1460 he sued John Carpynter,
    yeoman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £10. In 1470 Thomas Horde and Joyce his wife sued John Leghton, Richard Bondes and Joan his wife, Robert Cresset and Christine his wife, Robert Mountfort, and Thomas Acton in the Court of Common
    Pleas in a plea that should be permitted to make a partition of the manors of Stepulton, Armegrove, and Folhampton (in Wistanstow), Shropshire, which formerly belonged to John Stepulton, Esq., father of the said Joyce. His wife, Ankaret, died in or
    before 1471. In 1481 the Bishop of Hereford allowed him as a “discrete man” to have a chapel at Stretton, Shropshire. In 1480–3 he was sued by the Abbot of Buildwas who accused him and his son, William, of breaking into a chapel and tearing up the
    hedges on the abbey pastures. In 1483 his cousin, William Roynon, quitclaimed all his land he had in Warminster, Wiltshire which he had by feoffment of Leonard Stapleton to George Booth and Katherine his wife, John Leighton, and Robert Cressett and
    Christian his wife. The same year John Leghton, Esq., George Bothe, Esq., Robert Cresset, Esq., and James Aysse, Esq., sued William Brent, Gent., of Warminster, Wiltshire, and others in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at
    Warminster, Wiltshire. The same year John Leghton, Esq., Robert Cresset, Esq., and George Boothe, Esq., sued John Nuehall, of Bedak,Cornwall, yeoman, and another in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bedak, Cornwall. In 1495
    he and his fellow Stapleton co-heirs presented to the Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Stapleton, Shropshire. JOHN LEIGHTON, Esq., died shortly before 4 Feb. 1496.

    Botfield, Stemmata Botevilliana (1858): 163–165, 183–188 (Leighton ped.). Eyton, Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 118. Collectanea Arch. 1 (1862): 79–89, 182–231. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6 (1883): 320–321 (will of Edward Leighton). List of
    Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 118. Burke, Gen. & Heraldic Hist. of the Peerage & Baronetage (76th ed., 1914): 1192–1194 (sub Leighton). Griffith, Peds. of Anglesey & Carnarvonshire Fams. (1914): 26 (Powys ped.). Trans.
    Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 5 (1915): 221. Wedgwood, Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 534–535 (biog. of John Leighton). VCH Shropshire 8 (1968): 164. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/796, image 403f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/
    CP40no796/aCP40no796fronts/IMG_0403.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/835, image 625f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/E4/CP40no835/aCP40no835fronts/IMG_0625.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/883, image 431f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/
    AALT3/E4/CP40no883/aCP40no883fronts/IMG_0431.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/883, image 498d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no883/bCP40no883dorses/IMG_0498.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/892, image 1286d (available at http://aalt.
    law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no892/bCP40no892dorses/IMG_1286.htm). Shropshire Archives, Cat. of Shropshire Deeds & Papers of the Smythe Fam. of Acton Burnell, 1514/67 (available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk). Shropshire Archives: Eyton Fam.,
    665/625 (available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
    On Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 8:04:05 PM UTC-7, fosgate3 wrote:
    In volume 2 of Plantagenet Ancestry, p.93, Richardson states Margaret Stapleton possibly married John Stapleton after 1414 but does not give any information regarding the line of this particular person. The name is presented in boldfaced typeset and
    nothing more. Was this an oversight by Mr. Richardson or is there simply no information regarding who this John Stapleton is?

    Thanks in advance for reading.

    ~Glen~
    Thank you Mr. Richardson for taking the time to provide input on this discussion. Perhaps one day, an answer will presnt itself.

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  • From William Acton@21:1/5 to Douglas Richardson on Fri Jan 28 00:07:04 2022
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    a. JOHN LEIGHTON (or LEYGHTON), Esq., of Stretton en le Dale and Leighton, Shropshire, Knight of the Shire for Shropshire, 1460–1, (?1463–5), 1467–8, 1472–5, 1478, Steward of Bishop’s Castle, 1463, Sheriff of Shropshire, 1467–8, 1473–4,
    1481–2, Escheator of Shropshire, 1488–9, Steward of Pontesbury, Shropshire, 1474, Constable of Oswestry Castle, 1476, and, in right of his wife, of Wattlesborough, Shropshire, 2nd son, born in 1430. He was a legatee in the 1444 will of his father. He
    married before 1453 ANKARET BURGH, daughter of John Burgh, Knt., of Wattlesborough, Shropshire, Sheriff of Shropshire, by his 1st wife, Jane, daughter and coheiress of William Clopton, Knt. They had three sons, Thomas, Knt., William Knt., and Fulk, and
    five daughters, Jane (wife of John Bruyn), Margaret, Alice (wife of Reginald Ridley), Elizabeth (wife of Fulk Lee, Esq.), and Rose (wife of William Beist). In 1455 John Leighton, Robert Mounford and Mary his wife, Robert Cresset and Christine his wife,
    Thomas Hord and Joyce his wife, Thomas Walwen and Joan his wife, and Thomas Acton, coheirs in the lands and tenements of John Stepulton, Esq., presented to the Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Stapleton, Shropshire. In 1460 he sued John Carpynter,
    yeoman, in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a debt of £10. In 1470 Thomas Horde and Joyce his wife sued John Leghton, Richard Bondes and Joan his wife, Robert Cresset and Christine his wife, Robert Mountfort, and Thomas Acton in the Court of Common
    Pleas in a plea that should be permitted to make a partition of the manors of Stepulton, Armegrove, and Folhampton (in Wistanstow), Shropshire, which formerly belonged to John Stepulton, Esq., father of the said Joyce. His wife, Ankaret, died in or
    before 1471. In 1481 the Bishop of Hereford allowed him as a “discrete man” to have a chapel at Stretton, Shropshire. In 1480–3 he was sued by the Abbot of Buildwas who accused him and his son, William, of breaking into a chapel and tearing up the
    hedges on the abbey pastures. In 1483 his cousin, William Roynon, quitclaimed all his land he had in Warminster, Wiltshire which he had by feoffment of Leonard Stapleton to George Booth and Katherine his wife, John Leighton, and Robert Cressett and
    Christian his wife. The same year John Leghton, Esq., George Bothe, Esq., Robert Cresset, Esq., and James Aysse, Esq., sued William Brent, Gent., of Warminster, Wiltshire, and others in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at
    Warminster, Wiltshire. The same year John Leghton, Esq., Robert Cresset, Esq., and George Boothe, Esq., sued John Nuehall, of Bedak,Cornwall, yeoman, and another in the Court of Common Pleas regarding a trespass [vi et armis] at Bedak, Cornwall. In 1495
    he and his fellow Stapleton co-heirs presented to the Free Chapel of St. John the Baptist at Stapleton, Shropshire. JOHN LEIGHTON, Esq., died shortly before 4 Feb. 1496.

    Botfield, Stemmata Botevilliana (1858): 163–165, 183–188 (Leighton ped.). Eyton, Antiqs. of Shropshire 6 (1858): 118. Collectanea Arch. 1 (1862): 79–89, 182–231. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 6 (1883): 320–321 (will of Edward Leighton). List of
    Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 118. Burke, Gen. & Heraldic Hist. of the Peerage & Baronetage (76th ed., 1914): 1192–1194 (sub Leighton). Griffith, Peds. of Anglesey & Carnarvonshire Fams. (1914): 26 (Powys ped.). Trans.
    Shropshire Arch. & Natural Hist. Soc. 4th Ser. 5 (1915): 221. Wedgwood, Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 534–535 (biog. of John Leighton). VCH Shropshire 8 (1968): 164. Court of Common Pleas, CP40/796, image 403f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/
    CP40no796/aCP40no796fronts/IMG_0403.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/835, image 625f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT2/E4/CP40no835/aCP40no835fronts/IMG_0625.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/883, image 431f (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/
    AALT3/E4/CP40no883/aCP40no883fronts/IMG_0431.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/883, image 498d (available at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT3/E4/CP40no883/bCP40no883dorses/IMG_0498.htm). Court of Common Pleas, CP40/892, image 1286d (available at http://aalt.
    law.uh.edu/AALT3/R3/CP40no892/bCP40no892dorses/IMG_1286.htm). Shropshire Archives, Cat. of Shropshire Deeds & Papers of the Smythe Fam. of Acton Burnell, 1514/67 (available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk). Shropshire Archives: Eyton Fam.,
    665/625 (available at http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk).
    On Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 8:04:05 PM UTC-7, fosgate3 wrote:
    In volume 2 of Plantagenet Ancestry, p.93, Richardson states Margaret Stapleton possibly married John Stapleton after 1414 but does not give any information regarding the line of this particular person. The name is presented in boldfaced typeset and
    nothing more. Was this an oversight by Mr. Richardson or is there simply no information regarding who this John Stapleton is?

    Thanks in advance for reading.

    ~Glen~

    I think the Visitations identify Mary and Christiana as 'Stapleton' because they were coheirs of their Stapleton grandfather. There is no contemporary evidence for the identity of Margaret Stapleton's husband.

    Robert Mountfort had married Mary by 1451, see CP 25/1/293/72, number 362:

    http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/fines/abstracts/CP_25_1_293_72.shtml

    Here is the only other piece of evidence I have found concerning Christiana:

    Transactions of Shropshire (1894), p. 180
    “According to Blakeway (Bodl. MS., Salop, 10 f. 248,) however, the manor [of Chetton] passed through several hands after Corbet,– the next possessor being, says this authority, the Lord Clinton, who sold it to one Richard Legett, from whom it was
    purchased by Sir John Cowper, Rector of Chetton (see list below). This scarcely agrees with Talbot’s tenure; nor with the inquest on the death of Sir William Lord Lovel (and of Eudon Burnel,– see the account of that manor) in 1454, where, among his
    estates in Shropshire occurs not only “9 mess. 1 car. 5 virg. Terr.,” and so forth, of land in Chetton, but also “Chetton Maner” itself (Cal. Inq. p. m.). This I am unable to explain; but it seems that Chetton must have passsed [sic] to Sir John
    Cowper before 1416, for (to continue Blakeway’s account) he had made Christiana, daughter and co-heir of Sir John Stepleton, and wife of Robert Cresset of Upton Cresset, his heir. But Cresset’s title to Chetton was disputed by no less a person than
    John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, and not until that nobleman fell in battle (1460) could he make good his claim. In 1464 he called together an assembly of ecclesiastics and laymen of repute, in his little church of Upton, to give their decision in
    the matter. In the course of the inquiry it appeared that Sir John Cowper had solemnly notified Christiana to be his heir, publicly taking her by the hand in Chetton Church, and calling the congregation there present to witness. Asked as to the Earl’s
    claim, the Rector took a solemn oath, with hand upon breast, that the said Earl had no claim whatever. The assembly decided in favour of Cresset, who was declared to hold the Manor by free gift of the said Rector.
    The curious inquirer will find a copy of the “Notarial Instrument,” in Latin, in Blakeway’s collection (MS. Bodl., Salop, 10, f. 249).
    Robert Cresset, Sheriff in 1469, was son of Hugh, Sheriff in 1435 (Cp. Blakeway’s Sheriffs). Christiana, his widow, was, it appears, re-married to one Coyney, whose daughter Joyce married Edward Burton of Longnor (Ibid., p. 165).”

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