John was born about 1323, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.
His wife is not known. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Joan (c1348-?).
| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | ABT 1323 |
Note 1
!Stylename: de Seint Loe, Shir John [~1323-?]
!Source: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant,
Extinct, or Dormant G. E. Cokayne; new edition rev. Vicary Gibbs & H. A. Doubleday
Vol. V [Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat]. London: The St Catherine Press, 1926 [cancelling 1921 issue]
p. 456 – FitzPayn.
https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up
> page 456 matches:
Function Record Location
Royal confirmation of inherited estates Close Roll 29 Edw III m. 29 Writ de non intromittendo [20 Apr 1355] confirming possession of Kingstone [Somerset] and
other manors by Sir John Chidiok & Isabel FitzPaen.
Campaign in France French Roll 33 Edw III p. 2 m. 8 Letters of protection 8 Sep 1359 – Easter 1360; served in the retinue of Sir John de Mountagu during
the King’s 1359 invasion of France.
Licence to crenellate Chideock Manor Pat. Roll 44 Edw III p. 1 m. 28; Formal licence to fortify the family seat at Chideock [Dorset].
confirmed 2 Jun 1380 [3 Ric II p. 3 m. 14]
Death 6 May 1388 Ch. Inq. p.m. Ric II file 49 no. 14; Exch. Enrolments no. 263 Inquisition confirms death 6 May 1388; son Sir John Chidiok [aged 40 +] named heir.
Marriage before 17 Apr 1334 Feet of Fines case 49 file 36 no. 72 Marriage of Sir John Chidiok to Isabel FitzPaen formalized; entail to heirs of their bodies.
Isabel FitzPaen predeceased her husband Pat. Roll 34 Edw III p. 1 m. 30 Isabel died before 1360; her father’s manor of East Chelborough held by courtesy by Sir John Chidiok.
Inheritance of son Sir John Chidiok II [22 Jun 1388] Fine Roll 12 Ric II mm. 28–29; Close Roll 12 Ric II m. 2 Livery of Chelborough, Cottley, Buckham, Chideock, More Crichel [Dorset]; Allownshay & Kingston [Somerset];
tenements in Wells.
Marriage before 8 Nov 1375 Ch. Inq. p.m. Edw III file 251 no. 34 b Sir John Chidiok II m. Joan de Seint Loe, eldest daughter and coheir of Sir John de Seint Loe of
Newton St. Loe [Somerset] & Maiden Newton [Dorset].
> Clean Reconstruction
Sir John Chidiok I [c. 1306 – 6 May 1388], knight, of Chideock and More Crichel [Dorset] and Kingstone [Somerset], was the husband of Isabel FitzPaen, only daughter and heir of Sir Robert FitzPaen II [d. 1354].
They received livery of the FitzPaen manors by 1355 and established Chideock as their fortified seat [licence granted 1369/70]. John served with King Edward III in France in 1359–60 and held numerous Dorset and Somerset estates by the courtesy of England after Isabel’s death [before 1360]. He died 6 May 1388, having already settled his lands upon his son.
Sir John Chidiok II [c. 1348 – aft. 1390] succeeded at age 40 and received livery 22 June 1388 of Chelborough, Chideock, Cottley, Buckham, More Crichel, Allownshay, and Kingston in Yeovil. He m. before 8 Nov 1375 Joan de Seint Loe, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir John de Seint Loe of Newton St. Loe and Maiden Newton.
> Relevance to the Verified FitzPaen Descent
Page 456 traces the inheritance of the FitzPaen estates into the Chidiok family through Isabel FitzPaen, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Robert FitzPaen II. The FitzPaen lands thus passed from the Somerset–Dorset barony into a new West Country line based at Chideock. Although the barony itself fell into abeyance after 1354, the blood and properties continued unbroken through Isabel FitzPaen and her son Sir John Chidiok II, whose later alliances [with the de Seint Loe family] further linked the line to the aristocracy of Somerset and Dorset.