Bacheler Family Tree » John "John Sturton" Stourton Esq. (± 1385-1438)

Personal data John "John Sturton" Stourton Esq. 

• Nickname is John Sturton.
• He was born about 1385 in Preston PlucknettYeovil
  England.
• Profession: Member of Parlament.
• He died on December 16, 1438 in Somerset, England.

  Attention: Died (December 16, 1438) before marriage (??-??-1456).

• A child of John Stourton and Alice de Stourton

Household of John "John Sturton" Stourton Esq.

He is married to Katherine Payne.

They got married in the year 1456England.

Child(ren):

1. Alice Stourton  ± 1432-1491 

Notes about John "John Sturton" Stourton Esq.

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

Sources for John de Stourton (as father of Esther/Edith, no parentage indicated), who I assume to be this John, who CP [vol XII/1:300 note (h)] indicates is "of Preston Plucknett", being the younger son of John of Stourton. I think that there were many John de Stourtons, which makes it confusing as to how many there were in a row, and who was married to which wife. His marriages to Jane Basset and Catherine Beaumont are taken from World Connect/LDS sources. His son John is sourced as "of Preston Plucknett" and father of Alice. There is no source connecting John with his son John, except that it is pretty obvious because both are of Preston Plucknett.
The elder son William (of John & Lettice) held Stourton with a descendancy that goes into the 1960's, while this John, his younger brother, was ancestor of the Stourtons of Preston, which his father John acquired in 1380 (source - CP). Sir Knight

{geni:about_me} ==Biographical Notes
Younger son of John Stourton of Stourton, Wilts. by his 2nd w. Alice (d.1407); half-bro. of William. m. (1) bef. 1403, Joan (c.1376-1406), da. and h. of William Banaster (d.1395) of East Lydford, Som., wid. of Robert Affeton, 1da. Cecily; (2) bef. 1416, Alice Denys or Peny, 1da. Joan; (3) bef. 1430, Katherine (d. 20 Mar. 1473), da. of Thomas Payne of ‘Paynshay’, Devon by Margery, da. and h. of Peter Yeovilton of Speckington, Som., 1da Alice. He died on 16 Dec. 1438.

=Primary Sources
[https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000061116231039& Will] of John Stourton of Preston, the elder, son of John Stourton, formerly Lord de Stourton, brother of William Stourton, son and heir of the said John Stourton de Stourton, dated 10 November 1438 and proved 27 January 1438/9.

"my body to holy burial in the church of Staverdale"

Family members mentioned:

"Katherine, my wife"

"Master Richard, my brother"

"Anastasia, my sister"

"Cecilia, my daughter"

"Joan Sydenham, my daughter"

"John Stourton, knight, my nephew"

[https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000058780916856 Inquisition Post Mortem] for John Stourton of Preston Plucknett, Writ. 13 March 1439.

He died on 16 December 1438. Cecily, wife of Thomas Curiell, knight, Joan, wife of John Sydenham,
esquire, and Alice Stourton, are his daughters and co-heirs. Cecily is aged 34 years and more, Joan is 21 years and more, and Alice is 7 years and more.

===Full Transcript of Will

1438. JOHN STOURTON.

[25 LUFFENAM. FO. 195.]

I, John Stourton of Preston, the elder, son of John Stourton,
formerly Lord de Stourton, brother of William Stourton, son
and heir of the said John Stourton de Stourton, on the tenth
day of November, 1438, make my will in this manner :

I bequeath my body to holy burial in the church of Staverdale.
Item, I will that my body shall be carried thither in my
best waggon (plaustro), and that the same shall be drawn by
my ten best oxen, and that the waggon and oxen shall remain
to the said house for a memorial of my soul

Item, I will that on the day of my burial the prior of the
said place shall have 40s. ; and every canon there 20s.

Item, I bequeath to Katherine, my wife, 14 oxen being at
Preston, with the waggon, ploughs, yokes, iron chains, " dragges,"
harrows (herpices] with all the apparatus to the same, and which
belongs to husbandry there. Also 200 sheep (multones) and
one half of my corn and grain at Preston, both in the barns
there and sown in the fields, equally to be divided between the
said Katherine and my executors. I give to her also all my
brewing vessels (vasa pandoxabilid) and all that belongs to my
bake-house (pistrinani) and my brewing house (domum pandox-
abiliem) there, both lead, brass and wood, and all my vessels of
tin, brass, stone and iron, with iron spits (veruferreis) and other
necessaries and utensils belonging to the offices of the kitchen
and larder (lardarie) there. Also all that "stuffe" which
belongs to my chambers there, and to the pantry and butlery
there, such as beds, sheets, blankets (lodicibus), "matreas,
quyltes, fetherbedys, pylowes," cloths, towels, and other
necessaries, and all things belonging to the said houses,
except all jewels and all silver vessels gilt or not gilt, which
I reserve at the disposition of me and my executors. Item,
I bequeath to the said Katherine of vessels (de vasts) two
chased silver salts, whereof one is covered, and all cups which
are assigned by writing in the butlery to Thomas "Panter,"
with one "potte" of silver there. Also one pair of vestments
for the chapel, which belonged to Master Richard, my brother
of black "tartryne" and red, with all the apparel to the same
for the altar. Also one white chalice, one "frount" and "rerefrount"
of "Grenetarteryn," and two phials which belonged to
the said Master Richard. Also one silver cup covered, which
belonged to St. Thomas the Martyr (quod fuit sancti Thome
martiris). Also all my "stuffe" which belongs to the hall as
well for the summer as for the winter, except the silver vessels.
Item, I bequeath to the said Katherine one cup called " le
Note" harnessed with silver and gold and covered. Item, one
grey " ambler "horse, which I had of the receiver of the Lord
Bishop of Bath. Also one silver cup called" a stonnynge
cuppe" "coueryd and gyld enameled the pomelle of blew,
paysynge 2lbs. 71/2 ounces."
Item, I bequeath to John Stourton, knight, my good psalter
which belonged to William, his father, and one pair of vestments
of blue cloth of gold, one gilt chalice, two cruets of silver, one
bell of silver, two candlesticks of silver, and three "quysshyns"
of silk for his chapel.

Item, I bequeath to the Lady Abbess of Shafton one piece
of silver, "flatte," and covered and gilt, which belonged to
Master Edward Prentys.

Item, I bequeath to Anastasia, my sister, one piece of silver,
"flatte," covered.

Item, to William Carent and Margaret his wife, one pair of
beads of gold.
Item, to the said William, my black horse which I had of
Thomas Knyvalle, knight.

Item, I bequeath to Cecilia, my daughter, one cup of silver
covered and gilt, which I had of Nicholas Orteys.

Item, I will that the church of Staverdale and the cloister
there shall be completed in all things, as well in glazing the
windows as in other buildings there to be done, and that the
expenses and costs thereof shall be borne by my executors.

Item, I will that two images carried thither by me \per me
cariatas), shall be ordained and placed in the middle of the
choir of the said church, between the stalls there, and that
underneath shall be made a certain tomb (sepulcrum), ordained
and walled (muratum) for the bodies of me and my wife to be
placed therein reasonably and honestly after our death, with one
"closet" of iron bars around the said tomb ; and that the
reading-desk (lectrinunt) shall be at the head of the said tomb.

Item, I will that the aforesaid church shall be throughout
(in omnibus) honestly paved with " Tyle " of my arms and the
arms of my mother.

Item, I bequeath to the Friars of Dorchester 6s. 8d.

Item, to the Friars of Brygewater 6s. 8d.

To the fabric of the church of Yeuelle 40s.

To the fabric of the church of St. Andrew of Wells 6s. 8d.

Item, I will and firmly prohibit that any great cost be
incurred on the day of my burial, nor further cost on the day
of my anniversary, except such as must of necessity be borne,
but that what is [usually] spent in these uses should be dis-
tributed among the poor, though it reach (licet attingaf] the sum
of 20li.

Item, I bequeath to Joan Sydenham, my daughter, one
covered cup gilt in the likeness of a custard (costardi) with
leaves.

Item, to William Carent, for his labour and friendship,
beyond what is bequeathed to him, 10li.

Item, to William Bochelle, 10 marks.

To John Godewyne, for the execution of the will of Master
Richard Stourton and mine, 10li,

Item, I bequeath to Lewis, rector of the church of Penne
[Pendomer], 100s.

Item, I will that a tomb (tumbd) shall be made by my
executors at Dowlysshwake of two images, one of a man armed and
the other of a gentlewoman, designed (deputate) for a memorial
of John Keynes and his wife, at the cost of my said executors,
and that the images shall be placed between the high altar of
the church there, and the chapel of the chantry of the said John
Keynes.

Item, I will that if John Stourton, knight, my nephew, shall
make complaint (querelaverit) to my executors for any things
which belonged to William his father, and if he be not content

with what I have bequeathed to him
(et de remanere maneriorum terrarum et tenementorum vieorum
quod sibi et heredibus suis post diversos status terminandos rectis
heredibus met prefati Johannis Stourton) ; but if he make no
complaint, then I will he shall have what I have disposed.

Item, I will that all my garments shall be distributed amongst
my household servants, at the discretion of my executors ; and
all the residue of my goods not bequeathed I give and bequeath
to my executors to distribute for my soul, and to perform my
last will. And I ordain William Carent, John Godewyne and
William Bochelle (Bocheft), my executors.

Proved 27th January in the year abovesaid, before Master
John Lyndefeld, commissary, and administration committed to
the executors named, in the person of William Payne, their
proctor in this behalf.

==References
* Will: https://archive.org/stream/somersetpub16someuoft#page/143/mode/1up
* [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/stourton-john-i-1438 STOURTON, John I (d.1438), of Preston Plucknett, Som.] Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993

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