2, John de St. John, who inherited his brother's lands in England, and principally the lordship of Stanton, in Oxfordshire, (for distinction from the other towns of the same name called Stanton St. John). This John was famous in the reign of William Rufus, being one of the twelve knights who accompanied Robert Fitz-Hamon, Earl of Gloucester, in his expedition against the Welch, and had, in reward for his services, the castle of Falmont, Faumont, or Fauman (as variously written), in the county of Glamorgan. He had two sons, 1, Roger, of whom hereafter; 2, Thomas de Št. John, living 13 Hen. II.; and a daughter Avoris, who was the second wife of Bernard de St. Walery*, lord of the manor of Ambrosden, &c. in Oxfordshire. 3, Roger de St. John, the eldest son of John, married Cecily †, daughter and heiress of Robert de Haya, lord of the manor of Halnae, in Suffolk (given unto him by his kinsman Henry I.) by whom he had two sons; William ‡, mentioned among the barons and knights in the rolls, for payment of scutage for knights fees in the county of Sussex; who, between them, augmented the number of monks at Boxgrave, in that county, from three to fifteen: and one daughter, 4, Maud, was wife of Reginald de Aurea valle, or Orvile, by whom she had one daughter, 5, Mabil, wife of Adam de Port, a great baron, son of John, son of Henry, son of Hugh de Port, proprietor of fifty-five lordships in Hampshire, temp. William I. 6, William de St. John, son and heir of Adam de Port §, assumed the surname of his maternal grandmother ||, writing himself, Willielmus de Sancto Johanne, Filius & Hares Ade de Port. He enjoyed the barony of Basing, and gave to the monks of Boxgrave eleven vergates of land in the town of Walborneton, and pasture for twelve oxen and as many cows, &c. He married Godechild, or Godchilda, daughter of Paganel, by whom he had four sons, 1, Robert; 2, Jeffery; 3, Adam; and 4, Thomas, who wrote himself Thomas de Port, aliter St. John, and was living in 1956. 7, Robert de St. John, lord of Basing, in 1254, obtained a charter of free This family derived their name from St. Walery, or Valery, in France, the port from whence Duke William set sail for his English expedition. This Bernard having incurred the king's displeasure, to make his peace, gave him his manor of Walvercote, and his right of advowson and patronage of the nunnery of Godstow, both of which he had by his wife (a). This Thomas was father of Roger, who, 22 Hen. II. was assessed 1331. 6s. 8 d. for trespassing in the king's forests in Oxfordshire; and being dead 16 King John, Jeffery de Luci gave 300 marks for the wardship and marriage of his heir, whose name was John, who had a son John, killed at the battle of Evesham, 43 Edw. III. He was in the Holy Wars with Richard I, who, at the siege of Acre, thought of this device: he tied a leathern thong round the left leg of a certain number of his knights (one of whom was this John St. John), that they might be excited to greater courage (6). This, some think, the first occasion of the institution of the order of the garter. + Mon. Ang. Vol. I. p. 594. Lib. Rub. Scac. & Col. Lib. Claudius, c. 2. Mon. Ang. Vol. I. p. 594. Ibid. p. 595. warren in all his demesne lands at Warnford and Chanton, in Hampshire, and others in Sussex and Berks. He had summons to be at Chester upon Monday next after the feast of St. John Baptist, well accoutred with horse and arms, to oppose the incursions of the Welsh. In 50 Hen. III. he was governor of the castle of Porchester †, but died the next year or before, for then John, his son and heir (by Agnes, daughter of William de Cantelupe), had livery of his lands, doing his homage, from whom are descended the Lords St. John, of Basing. 8, William, the brother of John §, had the castle of Faumont, in Glamorganshire, temp. Edw. I. He maried Isabel, daughter and coheiress of William Combmartin, by whom he had two sons, Henry, who died without issue, and 9, Sir John St. John, who, by Beatrix, his wife, had a son, 10, Sir John St. John, who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Sir Henry Umfreville, of Penmark, by whom he had an only son, 11, Sir John St. John, who married Isabel, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Paveley, of Panters Pury, in Northamptonshire, Knt. by whom he had, 12, Sir Oliver St. John, who married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir John Delabere, Knt. by whom he had an only son, 13, Sir John St. John, who was cousin and heir to Sir John Delabere; he was mayor of Bourdeaux from 1414 to 1421 ||. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Pawlet, by whom he had one son, 14, Sir Oliver St. John, lord of Funnen, in Glamorganshire, married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir John Beauchamp, Knt. of Bletso, in Northamptonshire, a junior line of the Beauchamps, of Powick, branched from the Earls of Warwick, by whom he had two sons, 1, Sir John St. John, ancestor to the Lord St. John, of Bletso; and 2, Oliver, of whom hereafter: and five daughters, 1, Edith, wife of Sir Geofrey Poole, Knt.; 2, Elizabeth, of Henry, Lord Zouch, of Codnor, secondly, of John, Lord Scrope; 3, Mary, of Sir Richard Frogenhall, of Frogenhall; 4, Margaret, lady abbess of Salisbury, who died 1492; 5, Agnes, wife of David Malpas, of Cheshire. The said Margaret Beauchamp was afterwards wife of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, knight of the garter, by whom she had one daughter Margaret, wife of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, by whom she had Henry VII. King of England. The said Margaret was thirdly the wife of Lionel, Lord Willes, and by him mother of John, Viscount Willes, knight of the garter, who married Cecily, second daughter of Edward IV. but died Feb. 9, 1498, leaving only one daughter Anne T. 15, Oliver St. John, the second son, was, as Leland writes in his Itinerary, a stout black man, and died at Fonterabia, in Spain, 1492. He married Elizabeth, *Claus. 42 Hen. III. in dors. m. 11. Pal. 50 Hen. III. m. 20. Claus. 51 Hen. III. m. 17. Segar's Baronage. Rymer's Federa, Vol. IV. part ii. p. 187, and Vol. IV. part iii. p. 197. daughter of Lord Scroop, and widow of Bygod, or Bigot, who died June 12, 1503, by whom he had one son John, and three daughters; 1, Elizabeth, wife of Gerald Fitz-Gerald, eighth Earl of Kildare; 2, Eleanor, of Thomas Grey, Marquis of Dorset; 3, Margaret, lady abbess of Shafton, or Shaftesbury, in Dorsetshire. 16, John, his only son and heir, was knighted by Henry VII. having, in 1487, brought forces to the aid of the king against the Earl of Lincoln, Lambert Simnel, and their adherents, in the battle of Stoke, near Newark-upon-Trent. Margaret, Countess of Richmond, who died June 29, in the first year of her grandson Henry VIII. by her last will, dated June 6, 1508, constitutes this Sir John, who was then her chamberlain, one of her three executors, and the king, her son, supervisor, desiring him " to shew his special favour, help, and assistance, to her said executors, and to every of them. He married Joanna, daughter and heiress of Sir John Ewerby, or Iwardby*. by Catharine his wife, daughter and coheiress of Sir Hugh Armesley, of Mapledurham, in Oxfordshire, by whom he had two sons, 1, John; 2, Oliver, of Lambeth, in Surry, who married Margaret Love, of Winchelsea, in Sussex, by whom he had three sons, Sir Oliver, Nicholas, and John. This Sir John St. John died Sept. 1, 1512, and was succeeded by his son, 17, John St. John was in ward to Sir Richard Carew, of Beddington, in Surry, Knt. and married Margaret, one of his daughters, by whom he had three sons, 1, William, ancestor to the present Viscount Bolingbroke; 2, William; and 3, John. 18, William St. John, the second son, was of Farley, in Hampshire, and had one son, 19, Henry St. John, who had two sons, John, who died young, and 20, Oliver St. John, who had one son Oliver, and one daughter Christian, the wife of Ellis Mewe, of Winchester, Esq. by whom she had one son Ellis Mewe, who married Frances St. John, his cousin, of whom hereafter. 21, Oliver St. John left one daughter and heiress, 22, Frances, the wife of Ellis Mewe, Esq. her cousin aforesaid, who assumed by act of parliament, the name of St. John, in consequence of succeeding to that part of the property which belonged to this branch of the family, at Farley St. John, in Hampshire. On the death of Frances, her husband married secondly, Martha, daughter of John Goodyer, of Dogmersfield, by which marriage he acquired the present residence of the family. By his first wife he had four surviving children, 1, Paulet; 2, Ellis; 3, Goodyer; and 4, Mary, wife of John Pollen, Esq. member of parliament for Andover, and a Welch judge, who was mother of the present Sir John Pollen, Bart. I. PAULET ST. JOHN, Esq. the eldest son, succeeded his father, and married first, —, daughter of Sir John Rushout, Bart.; secondly, Maria, widow of Sir Haswell Tynte; and thirdly, Jane, widow of W. Pescod, recorder of Win * His monument is in Purley Church, Berks. chester. In the year 1734, he represented the county of Hants, and soon afterwards the city of Winchester, of which place it appears he was mayor in 1772, by an inscription placed over the market-place, which was erected during the time he filled that office. He was created a Baronet in 1772, died in 1780, aged 76, and was succeeded by his eldest son by his second lady, II. Sir HENRY-PAULET ST. JOHN, Bart. who likewise represented the county of Hants in two successive parliaments, and married Dorothea-Maria, daughter and coheiress of Abraham Tucker, Esq. of Betchwath Castle, in Surry, and dying in 1784, aged 47, was succeeded by his only son, III. Sir HENRY-PAULET ST. JOHN, Bart. member of parliament for Winchester, who married, 1786, Jane, daughter and coheiress of Carew Mildmay, of Shawford House, in Hants, (and obtained, in 1790, his Majesty's permission to use the name and bear the arms of Mildmay only, in pursuance of the will of the late Carew-Henry Mildmay, of Haslegrove, in Somersetshire, and Marks, in Essex, Esq. whose estates devolved to the elder of the three daughters of Carew Mildmay, of Shawford), by whom he has issue. 300. WILMOT, of OSMASTON, Derbyshire. Created Baronet, Sept. 19, 1772. THIS family is a younger branch of that of Chaddesden, in the county of Derby, as will be found in the pedigree of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart. No. 265. 13, Robert Wilmot, of Chaddesden, Esq. who was the common ancestor of the two families, had by Dorothy, his wife, daughter and heiress of Lawrence Shrigley, of Shrigley, in the county of Chester, four sons, of which, 14, Nicholas, the fourth son, to whom his father devised the Osmaston and other estates in Derbyshire, was born in Dec. 1611, was a student, and at length a bencher of Gray's Inn, where he took his degree of serjeant-at-law. He was honoured by the Cavendish family with particular marks of confidence and trust, relative to the restoration of King Charles II. On the 24th of May, 1661, he received a deputation from the Earl of Clare, recorder of the town and county of the town of Nottingham, to be deputy recorder thereof. The following year, the commissioners for regulating corporations in the county, attempted to remove his lordship from that recordership, but his Majesty, by his royal letter to the commissioners, bearing date the 16th of December, 1662, put an entire stop thereto. The commissioners had offered the said recordership to the said Nicholas Wilmot, which he refused, for which the Earl of Clare, in a letter bearing date the 10th of March following, returned his thanks to him in a very particular manner. |