John was born about 1321 in England, the son of Roger de Northwood and Juliana de Say.
He died on 27 FEB 1379 in England.
His wife was Joan Here. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their five known children were Roger (1356-?), William (c1358-?), James (c1360-?), Juliana (c1362-?) and Joan (c1364-?).
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Note 1
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Sir Stephen de Northwode = ?
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Sir Roger de Northwode = Bona Fitzberwrd alias Bonafilia Je Wautham,
41 Hen. ID., 1257. heir to her brother, 50. Hen. Ill., 1265.
Ob. Nov. 9, 1285. See note 4, Appendix, p. 82.
13 Edw.I.
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Sir John de Northwode = Joan de Badlesmere.
Ob. June 2, 1819, Ob. May 26, 1819,
12 Edw. II. 12 Edw. II.
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Sir John de Northwode = Agnes, daughter of Sir
Ob. v. p. William de Grandison,
by Sibilla, his wife.
Ob. Dec. 4, 1349.
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Sir Roger de Northwode = Juliana, daughter of = Elizabeth, = Margery, = Joan, = Agnes,
[1st] Married under 15 1 Sir Geoffrey de Say, 2 widow of 3 relict of Sir 4 relict of 5 relict of Sir John
Aged 12 in the year 1319 1319 by Idonia, his wife. 1331 Richard 1340 Nicholas de 1342 Thomas de 1356 de Cobbam. Her
ob. Nov. 6, 1361 Ob. Feb 20, 3 Edw. Foliot, and Halgton. Faversham. third husband was
[aged X at event in year Y] III. 1328-9. daughter Ob. 1340. Ob. May, Christopher de
of John de s.p. 1356, 30 Shukkburgh.
Seagrave. Edw. III.
Ob. 1335
- From wife #1, Juliana de Say -
Sir John de Northwode = Joan, daughter of
Born 1321. 1350 Robert Here, of
Ob. Feb 27, 1379. Faversham,
2 Rich. II.
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Born about 1321 [uncertain] in England
Died 27 Feb 1379 at about age 58 in England
John "Lord Northwode" de Northwode formerly Northwode
Son of Roger de Northwood and Juliane Northwode
[brothers or sisters?]
Husband of Joan de Northwode — married 1350 [location unknown]
Father of John de Northwood, James de Northwode Knight and Juliane Dygge
Biography
Birth and Parents
John de Northwode was son of Roger de Northwode and his first wife Juliane de Say. He was his father's main heir.[1][2][3] He was baptised in 1321, when his father was under 15.[1][2]
Marriage and Children
In 1350 John married Joan Hert, daughter of Robert Hert of Faversham, Kent.[1][2][3] The marriage was against the wishes of his father, as it was a "disparagement of the blood", and his father considered disinheriting him.[3] They had the following children:
Roger,[1][2][3] named in a genealogical roll drawn up in the period 1385-1405[4]
John,[1][2][3] named in the genealogical roll[4]
William,[1][2][3] named in the genealogical roll [4]
James,[1][2][3] named in the genealogical roll[4]
Juliane, who married John Digge,[1][2] confirmed by the genealogical roll[4]
Joan who married John d'Engaine,[1][2] confirmed by the genealogical roll which says "John Dengeyne" was of Cambridgeshire[4]
A son Stephen, not mentioned by Richardson or in the genealogical roll, is named in John's will, apparently destined to join a religious community or to become a priest.[5]
Lands
John's father died on 5 November 1361 and John had livery of his estates the following month.[6] He held lands on the isle of Sheppey, Kent and at Milton and elsewhere in Kent.[1][2]
In 1375 John inherited a share in a manor at Lambourn, Berkshire following the death of his cousin Thomas de Grandison.[1][2]
Life
In 1342 John's father granted him an annuity of 10 marks.[3]
John fought in France in 1355 and 1359.[1][2][3]
He was summoned to Parliament from 1 June 1363 to 28 December 1375, and accordingly Cokayne records him as Lord Northwode.[3]
In 1369 John was appointed a commissioner for the muster of men to defend the Isle of Sheppey, Kent.[7] Eight years later, in 1377, he was ordered to stay in the Isle of Sheppey "with all his power" to defend it against invasion from the French, who had invaded elsewhere "and inflicted intolerable hurt, and are striving day by day to land on divers other coasts."[8]
Death and Will
John died on 27 February 1378/9. His wife survived him, and was living in September 1398.[1][2]
John's will, made the day he died, was proved by his widow on 13 March 1378/9. In it he:[5]
named his wife as executor and residuary legatee
requested burial at the Church of the Nuns of Saint Sexburg, Minster, Sheppey
asked his wife to pay his debts out of his moveable property, with any surplus being used for the following purposes:
some to go to his daughter Johanna at the discretion of his wife, William Frogenhale, William Suttone and John de Mere
some to pay for the education of his son Stephen "to the effect he be moved to be a Religious or take Sacred Orders"
some to pay for two men to go on pilgrimage to the shrine of the Apostles Peter and Paul and Saint James in Galicia
Research Notes
Previously-shown Daughter Margaret
Margaret has previously been shown on WikiTree as daughter of John de Northwode and Joan Hert. She was the daughter of a different person, John Norwood of Coventry, Warwickshire,[9] and has been detached.
Daughter Joan
Joan de Northwode, Northwode-1, who married Roger Scales and Edmund Thorpe, has previously been identified on WikiTree as the same as the Joan daughter of the John de Northwode of this profile and Joan Hert. This stems from a Marlyn Lewis misrepresentation of what Douglas Richardson says.
The 1385-1405 genealogical roll cited for children confirms that Joan, daughter of the John of this profile, was, when it was drawn up, "now wife of Sir John Dengeyne, knight, of the county of Cambridge."[4] That rules out her being the wife of Roger Scales and Edmund Thorpe.
See the Research Notes section of the profile of Joan, Northwode-1 for a more detailed discussion.
Sources
1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition , Vol. I, p. 79, DIGGES 6, Google Books
2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham , Vol. III, p. 102, GRANDISON 5
3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 G E Cokayne.The Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. IX, St Catherine Press, 1936, p. 757, viewable on Familysearch
4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Genealogical Notes on the Northwoods in 'Archaeologia Cantiana', Vol. 2, 1859, p. 25, Kent Archaeological Society website
5.0 5.1 Find A Grave: Memorial #82715764
Calendar of the Fine Rolls, Vol. VII, Edward III, A>D> 1356-1368, HMSO, 1923, p. 183, Internet Archive
Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Edward III, Vol.XIV, A.D. 1367-1370, HMSO, 1913, pp. 347-8, Hathi Trust
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Richard I, Vol. I, A.D. 1377-1381, HMSO, 1914, p. 1, Internet Archive
Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, pp. 114-115, GRESLEY 12
See also:
Space: Captain John Norwood's Ancestry, an attempt at a Northwode/Norwood tree
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Of which Sir Roger and Bona issued
Sir John de Northwode. The said Roger died the 9th
day of November, in the year of our Lord 1286, and
the fifteenth 5 year of the reign of Edward, son of the
aforesaid King, and he and the said Bona are buried
before the altar of the parish church of Menstre, in
Shepeye. And the said Sir John succeeded him as son
and heir, and did homage and relief to the said Lord
Edward, late King of England, for his lands coming
to him by inheritance after the death of the said Sir
Roger, as appears among the Records of the Exchequer,
in Easter Term, the eighteenth year of the foresaid
Lord Edward. Which Sir John married the Lady Joan
de Badlesmere, lady of, the manors of Horton near
Canterbury, and Beausfelde near Dover in the county
of Kent; she possessed also certain tenements in Southwerke,
in the county of Surrey, and rents in the city
of London. Of which Sir John and Joan issued Sir
John, the eldest son, James, Thomas, Richard, Simon,
and Humphrey. The said James died without heir of
his body. Sir John, the eldest son,7 married Agnes,
one of the daughters of Sir. William de Grandisson
and Sibilia his wife, and, with the consent of the said
Sir John, his father, endowed the said Agnes with the
manor of Northwode Chasteners at the door of the
church.8 And of the said Sir John the son and Agnes
issued Sir Roger, Sir John de Northwode, Otho, Sir
William, Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
in England, Thomas, and Robeit. The said Sir John,
the eldest son, died during his father's lifetime; and,
that the said Sir John son of Sir John, and Agnes
daughter of Sir William de Grandisson, were married,
and that the said Sir. Roger was their issue, is evident
page 13
by the Records of a plea in the Common Bench, in
Michaelmas Term, 6 Rich. II., Roll 508, on a certain
writ9 of 'forme donacionis' prosecuted in the county of
Berks against John Eastbury and others, at the suit of
Roger Beauchamp and others, seeking by that writ the
manor of Lamborne, with its pertinencies, in the said
county ; and by the judgment of the Court of the said
Lord the King they obtained it. And the said Sir John
the father and Joan his wife died, viz. the said Sir John 10
on the vigil of Pentecost, which then happened on the
26th day of May, in the twelfth year of King Edward son
·of King Edward, and the said Joan died on the vigil of
the Holy Trinity next following, which then happened
on the 2nd day of June, in the same twelfth year, as
appears by an Indenture of the goods of the said Sir
John, and by the offices11 taken by the Escheator after
their death and returned into the Chancery of the said
Lord the King, by pretext of writs of diem, clauset ex-
tremum, directed to the said Escheator in the county of
Kent; and by office taken at Sydyngborne, on Friday
next before the feast of St. John the Baptist, in the
twelfth year of the reign of King Edward son of King·
Edward. After the death of the said Sir John, it was
found that he died seized of many manors, lands, and
tenements with their pertinencies, in the said county,
held of the Lord the King in capite, without any men-
tion that he held any freehold in the foresaid manors of
Horton and Beausfelde. And it was also found that the
foresaid Sir Roger, son of Sir John, the elder son of the
said Sir John deceased, was of the age of twelve years
at the feast of Easter next before the taking of the said
Inquisition, and was his heir as to the manors, lands,
and tenements with their pertinencies, held by knight's
service. And as to the rest of the tenements of the
tenure of gavelkind, the said Roger, Thomas, Richard,
Simon, and Humphrey, uncles of the said Roger, and
page 14
Sir John, Sir William, Thomas, and Robert, brothers of
the said Roger, were heirs according to the custom of
gavelkind; making no mention of the foresaid Otho,
brother of the foresaid Roger, in the foresaid office.
And that there were so many coheirs to the said inheri-
tance of gavelkind, appears, as well by the foresaid
offices, as by the record of a certain plea in the Common
Bench, in Michaelmas Term, 47 Edw. III., Roll 257, on
a certain writ of consanguinity, at the suit of Roger de
Scalis and others, against Sir Richard atte Leese, Knight,
and others, prosecuted in the county of Kent.12 And, by
the office taken at Sydyngborne, on the Friday and year
aforesaid, after the death of the said Joan, it was found
that she died seized in her demesne as of fee, in the said
manors of Horton and Beauesfeld, with their pertinencies;
and also that the said Roger, then twelve years old, son <<<< Father Roger
of Sir John, the elder son of the said Joan, was heir to
the foresaid manors with their pertinencies, and so those
manors only were the inheritance of the said Joan.
And, forasmuch as the manots of the said late Sir John,
grandfather of the said Roger, were held of the Lord the
King in capite; by reason of the minority of the said
Roger, the said Lord the King Edward, son of King Edward,
seised all the manors, lands, and tenements pertain·
ing to the said Roger the heir into his own hands, and so
they remained till the 20th day of June in the thirteenth
year of his reign, on which day, by his letters patent
he committed the custody of the foresaid lands and tenements,
together with the marriage ^13 of the said heir,
to Sir Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Knight, to hold till
the legal age of the said heir; who sold that marriage
to the Lady Idonia de Leybourne, late wife of Sir Geoffrey
de Say the elder ; which Sir Geoffrey begat of the
fotesaid Idonia, Sir Geoffrey de Say, Sir Roger de Say,
Juliana de Say, and Isabella de Say, as I have been told
by many; among them, by John Wantynge, who was the
page 15
Esquire and Secretary of the said Sir Geoffrey the son,
and knew them all personally.14 Which Idonia, to whom
the marriage of the foresaid heir belonged, by virtue of
the grant of the said Sir Bartholomew, committed the said
Juliana, one of her daughters, to wife to the said Roger,
the foresaid heir, between the fourteenth and fifteenth
year of his age. And the said Sir Geoffrey the son deli
vered over the foresaid Isabella, another of his sisters,
to John Chaumpayne, lord of Norton and Newe1iham, to
wife; and by pretext thereof, the said John Chaumpayne,
by fine in the Court of the Lord the King Edward III.,
on the morrow of St. Martin, in the eighteenth year of his
reign, acknowledged the foresaid manors, with their perti
nencies, to be the right of Ralph, Parson of the church of
Cudham; and for that acknowledgment, the said Ralph
granted that the foresaid manors, with their pertinencies,
which Alice, widow of Sir William Dages, Knight, and
Robert Newelond, held for the life of Margery, widow
of Sir John Chaumpayne, Knight, of the heirs of the
foresaid Ralph, and which, after the decease of the said
Margery, ought to revert to the foresaid Ralph or his
heirs, should entirely remain, after the death of the said
Margery, to the foresaid John and Isabella, and the
heirs of the said John of his body begotten; and if it
should happen that the said John should die without
heirs of his body begotten, the said manors, with their
pertinencies, should remain to the said Sir Geoffrey de
Say, to hold to him and his heirs for ever. Of which
Roger and Juliana de Say his wife, issued Sir John de <<<< John
Norwode, Roger, Geoffrey, and Agnes; which Roger· the
father, at the time of the baptism of the said Sir John
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14 Sir Geoffi.·ey de Say = Idonia de Leyborne
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Sir Geoffrey Sir Roger Sir Roger = .Juliana John = Isabella
de Say. Northwood. Chaumpayne.
aet. vix 15.
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16 GENEALOGICAL NOTICES
his eldest son, had not completed the age of fifteen
years, as we receive for truth from the information of
Sir Richard Sheme, late chaplain of the foresaid Roger
the father, and afterwards Vicar of Eastcherche, in
Shepey,-and also of Agnes, the last wife of the said
Roger, now^15 wife of Christopher de Shukkeburgh; and of
Thomas Chicche of Balnerle, late his esquire, who often
heard it stated by the said Roger himself. After their
marriage they lived together· for nine years and more ;
and he sued for his writ de cetate probanda after the
feast of Easter, in the first year of the reign of Edward
III.; and about the feast of the translation of St. Tho-
mas, he obtained livery of his inheritance out of the
hands of the Lord the King. And the said Juliana
died the 20th of February, in the third year of the fore
said Lord the King Edward III. And also the foresaid <<<<
Geoffrey and Agnes, their children, died, without issue,
in the lifetime of their father, the said Roger. And a
little before the feast of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the fifth
year of the said Lord. the King Edward III., late King of
England, he contracted a second marriage, viz. with Eli-
zabeth, late wife of Richard Ffoliot, Esq., and daughter of
Sir John de Segrave, late lord of Folkstane ;16 and to ob
tain that maniage he gave the foresaid manors of Beaues
feld and Horton, near Canterbury, in the county of Kent,
and a rent of nine marks in the parish of St. Olave's, in
Southwerk, in the county of Suney, by deed sealed with
his seal of arms, dated at Ffolkstane, on Tuesday on the
monow of St. John the Baptist, in the fifth year of the
reign of the Lord the King Edward Ill, to Durandus
de Wydmerpole and John de Bykenore, son and heir of
Sir John de Bykenore, Knight, and their heirs fol ever.
16 Sir John de Segrave =
Lord of Jfolkstone. |
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Richard de Foliot = Elizabeth de Segrave = Sir Roger de Northwode.
Esquirre, 1 2
dead 1331. 1331.
,…,
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Juliana his first wife. And afterwards, a little before
the feast of the Nativity of our Lord, in the same four
teenth year,^21 in digging out a fox which was in an earth
near Bengebery, the said Margaret was smothered, but
not killed on the spot ; because, after that accident, viz.
on Thursday in the feast of the Holy Innocents, in the
year of our Lord 1340; she made her will, by permission
of the said Sir Roger ; and, on the last day of December
next following, in the said fourteenth year, died without
issue. And immediately after the feast of Easter in the
sixteenth year of the said lord the king Edward III., he
contracted a fourth marriage, viz. with Joan, relict of
Thomas de Ffaversham, lord of Gravene; and because
Sir John de Northwode, first-born son of the said Sir
Roger and Juliana his first wife, as is aforesaid, then
being twenty years old, wanted more for his establish-
ment than formerly, at the instance of Mr. Otho de
Northwode, brother of the said Sir Roger, he, by a cer-
tain deed, dated at Ewelle in, Faversham, the 4th day of
October, in the said sixteenth year of King Edward III.,
granted to the said Sir John his son a certain annual <<<< Sir John, her husband
rent of ten marks, to be received from his manors of
Bykenore and Wychelyng, at the four terms of the year,
in equal portions, to him and his heirs for ever; and
he gave to Sir Roger de Northwode, his other son, and
brother of the said Sir John, his manor of Beausfeld, to
him and his heirs for ever, to the value of ten marks of
land by the year.
"And afterwards, the said Lady Agnes, mother of the
said Sir Roger de Northwode, died, viz. on the 4th day
of December, in the year of our Lord 1349, by which the
manor of Northwode Chasteners came to the hands of
the said Sir Roger, as to the party to whom the rever-
sion thereof belonged. And, in the following year, viz.
in the year of our Lord 1350, John, son of the said Sir
Roger and Juliana his first wife, against the will of his
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father, married Joan, one of the daughters of Robert <<<< Joan
Here, of Faversham, Sir Ralph Spigurnell marrying
Elizabeth, the other daughter of the said Robert ;^22 for
which, the said Sir Roger was thinking of disinheriting
the said Sir John,because that marriage seemed to him
to be manifestly in disparagement of his blood; but,
with the greatest difficulty, and by the mediation of Sir
Arnald Savage, Knight, that thought of the said Sir
Roger was prevented. Yet he was unwilling to inter-
fere any further about the said Sir John with respect
tp the said marriage; but to exonerate himself from
supporting them, more for honor than love, he gave
the said Sir John the foresaid manor of Northwode
Chasteners to him and his heirs; and lest the said Dame <<<< Joan
Joan should obtain any profit of dower from the said
manor, if the said Sir John should die during the life of
the said Sir Roger, he reserved to himself an annuity
therefrom of £50 for the term of his. life; but nothing
was exacted or paid therefrom in his lifetime….