FitzJames of Redlynch

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Michael Synge

FitzJames of Redlynch

Legg inn av Michael Synge » 14 aug 2006 00:11:04

May I add a contribution and some questions to the discussion of the
Fitjames family of Redlynch, Somerset? What I've read so far is most
interesting and informative. Please forgive me if, as a newcomer, I go
over ground already ploughed.

John Collinson in his History of Somerset (1791) I.225-6 agrees with
Weaver (which I've not seen) in making John Fitzjames (d 1510) the
grandson of James Fitzjames and Eleanor Draycott and disagrees with The
Victoria County History of Somerset (vol 7, pp 18-42) which says he was
their great grandson. Since Eleanor's father Simon Draycot is said to
have died in the reign of King Henry V (1413-22), long after the James
Fitzjames who died in 1391, perhaps VCH married Eleanor to the wrong
James, and her husband should be the James who d < 1423.

VCH says that the heir of Chief Justice Sir John Fitzjames was Nicholas
Fitzjames whose son Richard married Elizabeth, daughter of John Basket,
but had no children. Where does Nicholas fit in the Fitzjames family
tree, and how do these Baskets relate to Christian, daughter of William
Baskett of Dulish, Dorset, who married John, son of John Gilbert by
Elizabeth Fitzjames? Incidentally, Collinson wrongly says that Chief
Justice Sir John Fitzjames (c 1470-1542) was the elder brother of
Richard (c1443-1522), who became Bishop of London. According to the
Dictionary of National Biography, John was Richard's nephew, as their
dates suggest.

Michael Synge

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