Ancestral Trails 2016 » John PASTON (1421-1466)

Données personnelles John PASTON 

• Il est né le 10 octobre 1421 dans Paston, Norfolk.
• Il est décédé mai 1466 dans Paston, Norfolk, il avait 44 ans.
• Un enfant de William PASTON et Agnes BERRY

Famille de John PASTON

Il est marié avec Margaret MAUTEBY.

Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1441 à Paston, Norfolk, il avait 19 ans.

Enfant(s):

1. William PASTON  1459-± 1505
2. Walter PASTON  1456-1479
3. Anne PASTON  1453-1494
4. Margery PASTON  1450-± 1480 
5. John PASTON  1442-1479 
6. John Ii PASTON  1444-1504 
7. Edmond PASTON  1447-< ???? 

Notes par John PASTON

William's oldest son was born on 10 October 1421 and grew up to be educated in the law at Cambridge and the Inner Temple. He, too, made a very advantageous marriage to Margaret Mauteby, gaining the manors of Mauteby and East Tuddenham, which still survives. John and Margaret were major figures in the county. He was both MP and JP for Norfolk, and together they endowed benefactions to various institutions within Norwich. The great hammer-beam roof of St Andrew's Hall and the church of St Peter, Hungate are the best examples. On either side of the window dedicated to them in St Peter Hungate, the two portrait busts of John and Margaret still smile down on us today.

It was John Snr who took the great gamble that almost destroyed his family, but which ultimately secured its position and lifted it beyond the ranks of the squirearchy. This had been achieved in just two short generations after peasanthood. As a lawyer, he spent a great deal of time in London, where he made friends with the local Norfolk knight and landowner, Sir John Fastolff - a Lollard sympathiser and the real-life Falstaff of Shakespeare's plays. It is probably no coincidence that, having wormed his way into the ailing knight's confidence and become his lawyer, John Paston miraculously found himself the main beneficiary of Sir John Fastolff's will! Sir John's cheated heirs, most notably Sir William Yelverton, Thomas Howes and the de la Poles, didn't believe in coincidence either, and contested the will. When John Paston Snr died in 1466, he was buried at Bromholm Monastery (where his tomb can still be found) with the legal wrangles still unresolved.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/pastonletters_01.shtml#two

"one of ten executors of Sir John Fastolf's vast Norfolk holdings, which comprised 94 manors. Two days before Fastolf's death in 1459 his will was changed in favor of John Paston, who received all the manors, lands, and personal property in Norfolk and Suffolk. Suspecting foul play, the other executors were outraged, and seventeen years of claims and counter-claims, law suits, forcible evictions, arrests, and even imprisonment ensued for both John Paston I and his estate manager Richard Call. In a letter dated Oct 1461, Call, writing from the Norwich gaol, informs John Paston II that William Yelverton and William Jenney, two of Fastolf's executors, had him arrested and jailed for the theft of the rents from the disputed manor at Cotton: they "hathe certified vup in-to the Kynges Benche jnsurrec[i]ons [and] congregacions a-yenste me." And unless Call posted security that he would appear in court in London, the sheriff threatened to "send me vp with strengthe of men as a presoner." Clearly the sheriff backed the claims of Paston's enemies. Call concludes hopefully, "God sende us a good scheryf thys yere".

In a letter dated May 3, 1465, Margaret Paston informed her husband ABT the Duke of Suffolk's attack on their manor at Hellesdon: "I have put youre evydens that com owte of the abbay in a seck, and enseylyd hem vnder Richard Call ys seall"."
SOURCE: www.tudorplace.com.ar/PASTON.htm

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