John was born about 1401, the son of John Chideock and Alianore FitzWarin. The place is not known.
He died on 6 MAR 1449. The place is not known.
His wife was Katherine de Lumley. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their two known children were Katherine (c1427-1479) and Margaret (c1428-?).
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| Death | 6 MAR 1449 |
Note 1
!Stylename: Chideock, Sir John IV [~1401 - ?]
!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. 458 – FitzPayn.
https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up
> page 458 matches:
Function Record Location
Livery of inheritance following John Bache’s death Fine Roll 11 Hen. IV m.17; Close Roll m.28 Sir John Chidiok [the younger] gained possession of Bache’s courtesy holdings in Wilts and Little Crichel, Dorset
[1397 writ].
Knight of the Shire Parliamentary return 1414 Served as Knight of the Shire for Dorset.
Marriage to Alianore FitzWarin Fine Roll 2 Hen. V m.15 Married before 26 Aug 1390. Alianore, only daughter and heir of Sir Ivo [John] FitzWarin of Caundle Haddon and
Up Cerne, Dorset, and Maud Argentein, heiress of Wymondley, Herts, and Ketteringham, Norfolk.
Homage respited [inheritance of Alianore] Fine Roll 2 Hen. V m.15; Close Roll 5 Hen. VI m.6 Homage postponed; he and wife received livery of her FitzWarin–Argentein inheritance in 1415.
Death [25 or 28 Sep 1415] Ch. Inq. p.m. Hen. V file 17 no. 58; Died at the siege of Harfleur, Normandy. Will probated 10 Oct 1415 [P.C.C. 30 Marche].
Exch. Inq. I file 104 no. 8
Widow Alianore FitzWarin Ch. Inq. p.m. Hen. V file 17 no. 58 Aged 24–30 & more [abt 40] in 1414; later remarried Ralph Busshe [homage taken 30 Jun 1427].
> Clean Reconstruction
Sir John Chidiok [the younger] [b. ~1374 – d. 25/28 Sep 1415], heir of the Chidiok–FitzPayn estates, represented Dorset in Parliament [1414] and was married to Alianore FitzWarin, sole heir of the FitzWarin and Argentein lines of Dorset, Somerset, and East Anglia.
He died during the campaign in Normandy, likely at Harfleur, in the retinue of Henry V. His will was proved shortly afterward. His son, John Chidiok [aged 14 in 1415], succeeded him as heir.
The inheritance combined the former FitzPayn manors [Chidiok, Chelborough, Allownshay, Frampton-on-Severn, etc.] with FitzWarin–Argentein holdings [Caundle Haddon, Up Cerne, Isle Brewers, Pitney, Wymondley, and Ketteringham].
> Relevance to the Verified FitzPaen Descent
Page 458 continues the FitzPayn line through Isabel FitzPaen’s descendants, solidifying the transition of the Somerset–Dorset estates into the Chidiok–FitzWarin family.
The record shows how the male FitzPayn barony had ended, but the bloodline and much of the property persisted under new names — a fusion of FitzPayn, Chidiok, FitzWarin, and Argentein, linking the old Marcher barony to broader English gentry by the early 15th century.
!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. 460 – FitzPayn.
https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n239/mode/2up
> page 460 matches:
Function Record Location
Proof of age [b. 1 Nov 1401; bap. Chideock] Writ de etate probanda 1 Jul 1 Hen VI “Probacio etatis Johannis Chediok’ filii et heredis Johannis Chediok’ chivaler defuncti,”
Sherborne, Dorset, Mon. after Trans. of St. Thomas [12 Jul 1423]
Livery of father’s lands [homage respited] Close Roll 1 Hen VI m. 5 [17 Jul 1423] Took possession of father’s estates at age 21
Livery of East Chelborough and other manors Close Roll 13 Hen VI m. 14 Had livery of East Chelborough, Allownshay, and Frampton-on-Severn; homage respited,
after death of mother Alianore [bef 18 Oct 1434] fealty to be taken in Somerset & Dorset
Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset [1447–48] Chancery Records Local high office under Henry VI
Marriage [between 24 Apr 1418 – 25 Mar 1425] Durham Reg. Langley f.108 [will of Sir John de Lumley, Married Katherine de Lumley [daughter of Sir Ralph de Lumley, Lord Lumley, and Alianore Neville of Raby]
24 Apr 1418]; Feet of Fines case 291 file 65 no.45;
Patent Roll 3 Hen VI p.2 m.9
Charter settlements on marriage Charters 16 & 25 Mar 3 Hen VI Manors of Chideock & Buckham entailed to John & Katherine and heirs of their bodies;
proviso for re-entry if Katherine remarried & alienated property
Death [6 Mar 1449/50] Ch. Inq. p.m. Hen VI file 139 no.26; Held manors in Dorset [East Chelborough, Lydlinch], Somerset [Pitney, Wearne, Isle Brewers], Wilts [Westbury,
Exch. Inq. p.m. I file 188 no.12 Hilperton, Imber], and Cambridge [⅓ of ⅓ of Clapton Bury]; jointly with Katherine held More Crichel, Allownshay,
Kingston in Yeovil, and Caundle Haddon
Will [dated 11 Jun 1449; proved 13 Mar 1449/50] Lambeth Reg. Stafford ff.187v–188 Requested burial “in ecclesia conventuali Christi Twynnow coram ymagine sancte Trinitatis.”
Mentions sisters Margery Barat and Alice.
Heirs Ch. Inq. p.m. Hen VI file 139 no.26 Daughters Katherine [aged 22] wife of William Stafford armiger, and Margaret [aged 21] wife of William Stourton,
son of Sir John Stourton.
> Clean Reconstruction
Sir John Chidiok [1401–1450]
Born and baptised at Chideock, Dorset, 1 November 1401. Son and heir of Sir John Chidiok [d. 1415] and Alianore FitzWarin [d. 1433]. Came of age in 1423 and inherited the FitzPaen–Chidiok estates. Married Katherine de Lumley of the Neville–Lumley line before 1425, securing alliances in the northern peerage.
As Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset [1447–48], he served prominently in the west.
Died 6 March 1450; buried at Christ’s Minster Twynham [Christchurch Priory]. His co-heiresses, Katherine Stafford and Margaret Stourton, divided the long-held FitzPaen and Chidiok estates—setting up the eventual abeyance of the FitzPaen barony in the next generation.