St John of Fonmon and Bletsoe - Rodney of Somerset

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St John of Fonmon and Bletsoe - Rodney of Somerset

Legg inn av Gjest » 08 feb 2007 18:58:14

The archives show that there has been some interest in the past in the
St John family of Glamorgan/Bedfordshire. The following, which does
not show in the St John pedigree in
the Visitation of Bedfordshire, may add to the general pool of
knowledge

Agnes St John, died bet 5 Oct 1420 and Feb 1421, daughter of Sir John
St John, and
sister of Oliver St John of Penmark (and later of Bletsoe following
his marriage to Margaret Beauchamp) was married to John Rodeney of
Rodney Stoke, Somerset, born in or before
1387 (aged 26 or more in the IPM of his father Sir Walter in 1413),
died 7 May 1420 (per
IPM).

The wills of both John Rodeney, dated Thursday the Feast of St Mary
Magdalene 1417,
and Agnes Rodney, dated 5 Oct 1420, were proved in Feb 1421 - they are
entered consecutively (TNA PCC ref PROB 112B). John Rodeney's three
IPMs name his son and
heir as Walter Rodney aged 5 and no more

John's will mentions his wife Agnes, son Walter and 250 marks owed him
by John St
John which was to go to his unborn child.

Agnes of Wybley (Weobley) Castle desired that she be buried at
Lanredian (Llanrhidian
- a mile down the road from Weobley castle) near her ancestor. It
refers to her father,
Lord Sir John St John Knight, her brother Oliver St John, Knight, and
her sons Walter,
John and Robert. (translations taken from Somerset Record Society
publications as we
don't do Latin). The reference to Weobley Castle links her to her
paternal grandmother, Elizabeth de la Bere.


The TNA catalogue ref E118/1/10; 9 Hen V May 28 also contains the
following:
Charter of confirmation by Parschal Gilot, Abbot of the monastery of
St Mary Graces,
London, and the convent there, to John Seyat John and Oliver Seyat
John, kts, keepers
of all land in Lovington, Som, in their hands by reason of the
minority of Walter, son and
heir of John Rodenay, kt, etc

The wardship of Walter Rodeney was held by Walter, Lord Hungerford,
who married him
to his daughter Margaret Hungerford.

Incidentally, The Visitation of Somerset 1623 (Harleian ms 1141) for
the Rodney family
seems hopelessly flawed - John Rodney is shown as married to Jane
Bridmanmanston
(sic), of whom there is no trace, although it is clear that his wife
and the mother of his
heir was Agnes St John, and John's father, another Walter, is shown as
married to
Dorothie St John dau of Sir Roger St John whereas IPM and will
evidence shows she was Isabel Blanket, a daughter of Edmund Blanket,
one of the Blanket brothers of Bristol who according to legend were
the originators, at least in England, of the eponymous bed
covering,.

Denise Padley David Cooper
UK France

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