John Stourton, Lord de Stourton

John De Stourton, 1st son and heir. From 1355 to 1378 he was in commissions for Somerset. From 1377 to 1379 he was escheator for Somerset and Dorset. He is styled John Stourton, formerly Lord de Stourton in the will of his son John.

In 1374 he founded a chantry for himself, his wife, and his parents William de Stourton and Joan his wife (both deceased), his brethren and sisters, and Lettice and Alice his wives. John was married to Alice by 10 July 1380 when an application was made to grant John de Stourton, Alice his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, one-third of messuages and land in Preston Plucknett. The surnames of both his wives are unknown. The date and place of John's death are unknown. On 9 February 1407, an order was made to make inquisition touching the lands and heir of Alice late the wife of John Stourton. Inquisitions were ordered for Somerset and Dorset, however, these have not been found.

Caution

An erroneous (or fictitious) College of Arms pedigree ratified and confirmed in 1722 records the wives of John de Stourton as (1) Catharine, daughter of Lord Beaumont and (2) Jane, daughter of Ralph Lord Basset. This pedigree was published by Hoare in 1822 in his History of Modern Wiltshire Vol 1 and used by Collins in his Peerage of England publications as early as 1768. These errors were repeated by Collins and others in later publications and do not match contemporary documents.

References

• Historical Manuscripts Commission, 'Liber albus II: Fols. 152-72', in Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells: Volume 1 (London, 1907), pp. 385-395. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/wells-mss/vol1/pp385-395 [accessed 27 August 2019].
• Chancery: Inquisitions Ad Quod Damnum, Henry III to Richard III, Inquisitions taken as a result of applications to the Crown for licences to alienate land. Reference: C 143/396/19, Date: 3 RICHARD II., Held by The National Archives, Kew
• Calendar of Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office, Richard II, vol. 1 1377-1381 pp. 530 and 531
• Calendar of the Fine rolls preserved in the Public Record Office Vol. XIII., Henry IV., A.D. 1405-1413. p. 79
• Burial March 18, 1374 at the Abbey of Stavordale. A canon from Stavordale Priory was to say mass for the souls of John and his wife Alice, and his parents Sir William de Stourton and Johanne. He is differentiated from his nephew John, son of brother Roger. Both John and his son John had wives names Alice. Masses were also to be said for this brothers and sisters. link
• Page attached from original book "History of the the Noble House of Stourton, of Stourton, in the County of Wilts; by Mowbray, Charles Botolph Joseph, Baron. 1867. page 76 Archive.Org
• His son and heir was William (this is the official pedigree in the Collge of Arms), son of Catherine Beaumont: Archive.Org
• Jim Weber Notes: At this point the history both of the manor and of the family of Stourton becomes obscure. The pedigree gives Ralph two sons, Eudes (who is said to have d. young) and William, whose son John, according to the "History of the Noble House of Stourton", was sheriff in 1377; and this may be correct. [Complete Peerage XII/1:297]
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I12862 cites
• Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Page: XII/1:297 & 300
• Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, l Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Page: XII/1:300 Text: on commissions for Somerset by 1355 (of age).
• Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Page: XII/1:300
• Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000 Page: XII/1:300
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• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 45. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage
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• 1.[S4056] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. II, p. 45; Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 926; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1806.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 473-474.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 221-222.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 305.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 524-525.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 331-332.
• 7.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 626
• http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/st...
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• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STOURTON.htm#John De STOURTON (Sir Knight)1
• History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts; (1899) Page 80 Archive.Org, Page 84 Archive.Org, Page 97 Archive.Org
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ss4tz/stourton01.php#dau3
• The Magna charta barons and their American descendants with the pedigrees of the founders of the Order of Runnemede deduced from the sureties for the enforcement of the statutes of the Magna charta of King John (1898) By Charles Henry Browning. Pedigree V. Page 135 GoogleBooks
• Collectanea topographica et genealogica (1834) No. XIII. f. 317, 317b, 318, 319. PEDIGREE CHART. Page 312. Archive.Org