STONOR, John, Sir

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stonor-30

Biography

John Stonor was born about 1310 son of John Stonor, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. [1]He succeeded his father in 1354. [2]

John the eldest son of the Chief Justice, was returned as over forty years of age at his father's death ; in two of the Inquisitions his age was given as over 44 or 45. Probably therefore he was born about 1310. [3]

John Stoner married the second daughter of Sir John Hernshill, of Cheshire.[4][5][1]

He is also said to have married a daughter of John Wenard of Oxfordshire [3]

The Black Prince's steward tried to treat Watcombe as part of Wallingford honor, but Sir John Stonor, the judge's son, successfully maintained his claim that it was held of Préaux at fee farm. When he died in 1361 he held a messuage and 80 acres of Préaux Abbey for 2s. yearly with 5 acres of meadow, a ruined horse-mill, pasture at Watcombe and in Watlington for 2 horses, 6 oxen, and 100 sheep, 62s. rent of free tenants, and pleas of court worth 2s. yearly. [6]

He and his father were described as Knights (Chevalier) in 1351[7]

At his IPM he was said to have died 10 July 1361 and held lands in Lincolnshire, Devon, Oxfordshire, Southampton and Berkshire. Edmund his heir was variously 16, 15, 14 and upwards.[8][9]
Research Notes

The following would suggest a birth date of 1343 but this could be a son of John [Google Translation, may be errors!]

25 Jul 1362: Inquisition taken at Bourton on the Friday next after the feast of St. James the Apostle, in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of King Edward the Third after the Conquest, before Philip de Lutteley, Essayor of the said King, in the County of Gloucester, by the sacrament of William Caldecote, John Purrok, Benedict de Stoke, Richard Edden, John Sandres, John Prodhomme, John Heynes, John Franeeys, William Huwet, Richard Geff'es and Willehni Soutere, who say by their oath that Joan, who was the wife of John de Wynchester, held of the lord the king in chief , the day on which he died on his Sunday, as of a fee, at Bourton' in Com. Glouc. one carucate of land, which is worth a year, beyond the retakes, xiiij 8iiij d. Also, that he held, in the same place, twenty acres of meadow, which are worth a year, beyond the retakes, 20 s. Likewise, they say that there are 36 s iiij d of rent held there, to be paid at the feasts of the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary, and of Saint Michael, in equine portions. And they say that the aforesaid lands, meadows, and rents are held of the lord the King, in chief, by military service. And they say that the aforesaid Johanna died on the Sunday next before the feast of All Saints last past. And they say that John, the son of John of Stonor, related by blood to the aforesaid John, is his nearer heir, of the age of ten and nine years. [10]

However BHO "neither of the Johns of Stonor mentioned here can be identified with the John of Stonor who died in 1361" [11]
Sources

? 1.0 1.1 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Stonor [Stonore family (per. c. 1315\endash c. 1500) Christine Carpenter]
? British History online: Condicote
? 3.0 3.1 The Stonor Letters and Papers Vol. 1 by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain); Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). Camden third series Publication date (1900-63) Vol 1 Page xvi ff
? Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society by Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Vol 16 Page 86, Footnote 4 Cobham, fol. 7. Publication date 1876
? Visitation of Oxfordshire Page 143: Stonor
? "Parishes: Watlington," in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8, Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds, ed. Mary D Lobel (London: Victoria County History, 1964), 210-252. British History Online, accessed October 15, 2023, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol8/pp210-252.
? Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward II by Great Britain. Public Record Office Publication date 1971 Page 206
? Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain. Public Record Office; Kirby, J. L. (John Lavan); White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918. fmo Publication date 1904 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924011387895/page/172/mode/1up?q=stonore Vol 11 Page 172 No 192
? Thoyts, F.W., A History of Esse or Ashe, Hampshire (William Clowes & Sons, London, 1888) Page 27.
? Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Societyby Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Publication date 1876 Vol 16 Page 70
? 'Parishes: Bourton-on-the-Hill', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 6, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1965), pp. 197-206. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol6/pp197-206 [accessed 16 October 2023].

John married Unknown.