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Persoonlijke gegevens Sir John Rodney MP 

• Hij is geboren in Stoke Gifford, Somersetshire, England.
• Hij is overleden op 19 december 1400 in (Somersetshire), England.
• Een kind van Thomas Rodney en Joan Cressye

Gezin van Sir John Rodney MP

(1) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Katherine Cheddar.

Kind(eren):

1. Sir Walter Rodney  ± 1370-1413 

(2) Hij heeft/had een relatie met Alice Cheddar.

Notities over Sir John Rodney MP

About
English (default) edit | history
Family and Education s. and h. of Sir Thomas Rodney† of Backwell ?by Joan, da. of Hugh Cressye. m. (1) bef. 1369, Katherine, ?da. of Robert Cheddar† of Bristol, 4s. inc. Walter*, 1da.; (2) aft. 1386 and bef. Nov. 1389, Alice (d. 27 Mar. 1426), wid. of John Fitzroger, Sir Edmund Clevedon† and Sir Ralph Carminowe*, s.p. Kntd. by Mar. 1373.1

Offices Held

Commr. to put down unlawful assemblies, Som. June 1381; of sewers June 1382; arrest Nov. 1387; inquiry, Dorset Nov. 1388 (shipwreck), Som. May 1399 (trespass), Devon, Som., Dorset, Wilts., Bristol, Hants Dec. 1400 (concealment of the possessions of Richard II and his adherents); array, Som. Mar. 1392; to assign dower, Som., Dorset June 1397.

Sheriff, Som. and Dorset 18 Nov. 1387-1 Dec. 1388, 1 Dec. 1396-3 Nov. 1397.

J.p. Som. July-Nov. 1389.

Biography Rodney came from a family which had established itself in Somerset before the end of the 11th century. He inherited the manors of Backwell, Stoke Giffard (now Rodney Stoke), Dinder, Winford, Saltford, ‘Twyerton’ and Lamyatt and lands elsewhere, all together valued at his death at more than £66 a year. Lamyatt was held of the duchy of Lancaster, which might account for Rodney’s participation in the expedition to France of 1373 as a knight in the service of his feudal overlord, John of Gaunt. In February 1375, however, he was preparing to go overseas in the retinue of Edmund Mortimer, earl of March. Then, too, a substantial part of his estates was held of the Despensers: his five-and-a-quarter knight’s fees so held were valued in 1376 at £53 10s.; and this connexion doubtless played a part in the arrangement of the marriage of his grandson, John, to a member of the Glamorgan family of St. John, who were also Despenser feudatories. Sir John’s uncle, Richard Rodney, was a canon of Wells cathedral, and the dean and chapter were Rodney’s tenants in property in the High Street, Wells. In addition, he held Dinder and a moiety of Stoke Giffard of the bishop of Bath and Wells. Such connexions explain his employment as a witness to several local deeds concerning Wells cathedral. Rodney’s second wife, Alice, brought to the marriage three substantial dowers, including land in Cornwall left her by her third husband, Sir Ralph Carminowe. In 1393 there was an investigation at the Exchequer as to whether, since Rodney occupied, in right of his wife, six fees ‘mortain’ of the castle of Launceston, he was obliged to keep in repair a battlement in the castle, and whether, in time of war, he had to supply six men-at-arms at his own expense to serve there for 40 days. Rodney denied any such obligations, saying that he held the fees by homage and fealty only. Besides land, Rodney had a financial interest in other ventures: in May 1395 he and Sir Humphrey Stafford I* secured a licence to use his newly built ship, the Kateryne of Lyme, to take 40 pilgrims to Santiago, no doubt in the hope that the voyage would prove lucrative.2

Rodney died on 19 Dec. 1400 and was succeeded by his eldest son, Walter. His widow took as her fifth husband the wealthy Sir William Bonville I* of Shute and, surviving him as well, eventually died in 1426.3

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421

Notes 1. C138/4/51; C139/23/28, 24/34; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. xi), 93-94; CCR, 1389-92, p. 80; J. Maclean, Trigg Minor, iii. 160, 332. 2. J. Collinson, Som. iii. 603; CPR, 1391-6, p. 566; C76/58 m. 25; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 300; E143/18/2/54-59; Reg. Gaunt 1371-5, i. 31, 34; HMC Wells, i. 327, 373; ii. 641-2; Wells City Chs. (Som. Rec. Soc. xlvi), 99; Som. Feet of Fines (ibid. xvii), 62, 75, 205; CCR, 1374-7, p. 307; 1381-5, p. 540; 1389-92, pp. 80-81; 1399-1402, p. 268; CIPM, xiv. 209; CIMisc. iv. 312; E159/169 recorda Trin. m. 27. 3. C137/22/32; C139/23/28, 24/34.

'Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
http://books.google.com/books?id=wHZcIRMhSEMC&pg=PA442&lpg=PA442&dq=Walter+Rodney+1400&source=bl&ots=2EwaxtZB5J&sig=erORFMUYHOiVYpKY7rsXWlT1d88&hl=en&ei=O_W-TdO6H4i8sAPel5zEBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Rodney&f=false
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8. JOHN FITZ ROGER, of Chewton, Somerset, West Kington, Wilts, and Mapperton, Dorset, 3rd son, born 1345-52. He married before 26 April 1369 'ALICE ___'. They had one daughter, Elizabeth. JOHN FITZ ROGER died 1370-72. 'His widow, Alice', married (2nd (as his 2nd wife) Edmund de Clyvedon, Knt. (died 16 Jan. 1375/6, of Clyvedon, Somerset, (3rd) (as his 2nd wife) before 18 Nov. 1383 Ralph Carminow, Knt. (died 9 Oct. 1386 or after Jan. 1387); '(4th) (as his 2nd wife) before 27 Jan. 1389 John Rodney (or Rodeney), Knt. (died 19 Dec. 1400), of Backwell and Rodney Stoke, Somerset, Knight of the Shire for Somerset, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset'; and (5th) as his 2nd wife) before 6 June 1402 William Bonville (or Bonevyle), Knt., of Shute and Northleigh, Devon (died 11 Feb. 1408). Alice died 27 March 1426, and was buried in the nave of the church of Newnham Monastery beside her 5th husband.
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'Sir John Rodney, Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset1
'M, d. 19 December 1400
Father Walter Rodney2 b. c 1347, d. c 1414
Mother Dorothy St. John2 b. c 1349
' Sir John Rodney, Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset married Alice before 27 January 1389.1 Sir John Rodney, Sheriff of Somerset & Dorset died on 19 December 1400 at of Backwell & Rodney Stoke, Somersetshire, England.1
'Family Alice d. 27 Mar 1426
Child
◦Walter Rodney+2 b. c 1399
Citations
1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 126.
2.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1765.htm#i53038
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