950666.
Lord John Carent & 950667. Alice ?
~1405, John Carrant born in Somerset, England, s/o 1901332. William Carent & 1901333.
Alice Toomer.
1420-22, John’s father died.
8/31/1422, Henry VI (an infant) succeeded Henry V as King of
England.
~1430, John seated at Silton, Dorset, married Alice ?, who
held it in jointure from a former husband.
5/1/1434, Commission, pursuant to the Act of the last
Parliament ... the following whose names have been certified ... as those of
persons who should take the oath not to maintain peace breakers ... Dorset ...
William de Botreaux, ‘chivaler,’ ... commissioners to receive the oath of ...
Humphrey Stafford, ‘chivaler,’ ... John Latymer ... Nicholas Latymer, ... John
Carent ... William Godwyn ... (S) CPRs.
2/10/1439, John and Christian Bedenhale show that they now
hold the manor [Bednall, Dorset] ... remainder to John Newburgh, John Carent,
jnr, ... (S) Hist. And Antiq. Of Dorset, Hutchins, V4, 1973, P332.
10/16/1441, “…Pardon for acquiring land without royal
licence … Thomas Brook knight, John Hody, Ralph Bussh esquire, John Stork, John
Carent senior, …” (S) UKNA. [At this time John was ‘senior’ to his nephew John,
s/o of oldest brother William.]
1453, John, MP for Dorset.
12/17/1457, John on a commission to assign the number of
archers each part of Dorset should provide.
1459, John Carent, High Sheriff of Somerset
5/6/1460, John on a commission to array all men-at-arms and
other fencible men in Somerset.
6/28/1461, Edward IV, age 19, replaced Henry VI as King of
England in London.
7/12/1463, Commission to William Carrant [eldest brother],
John Carrant, ... and the constables of the town of Mertok, co. Somerset, to
arrest Thomas Sherlok and John Sherlok and bring them before the king. (S)
CPRs.
11/20/1463, Bishop Beckynton, ... William Carent, Esq.,
erected in the prebendal church of Henstridge ... for the welfare of the said
William Carent, and of the Venerable Mr. Nicholas Carent, and John Carent,
senior, his brothers, and also of John Carent, junior, his son, during their
lives, and for the soul of Margaret, late the wife of William Carent, and the
souls of the other persons aforesaid, after their deaths.
1467, John an executor of his son-in-law John Fillol.
1467-72, Plaintiffs: John Carent. Defendants: William, Lord
Stourton, William Huddesfeld, John Byconyll, and William Twynyho, arbitrators. Subject:
Manors of Fifehead Nevill, Burcombe, and Melbury Osmond, and advowson of church
of Poverton; Dorset. (S) UKNA.
5/3/1467, John’s older brother Nicholas died.
8/16/1467, John, his son John Jr, and William Carent [his
older brother] granted custody of minor William, s/o John Fillol. [John Fillol
his son-in-law.] (S) CPRs.
3/30/1469, Power of Attorney. By William Carent, John
Carent, Wm. Walton and Jo. Barter for livery of seisin to William Weston, of
all their lands in Bruton, Bruham, Hengrove, Milton, Castlecary and Thorne, Co.
Som. (S) UKNA.
7/12/1469, “…By John Wroughton, esq. to Robert Cliffe,
clerk, and William Cooke to deliver seisin to John Carent, sen., …” (S) UKNA.
10/29/1469, John on a commission of array for Dorset.
6/2/1470, John on a commission of array against Clarence and
Warwick.
4/8/1476, John’s oldest brother William died.
1477, Possessions of William, Lord Stourton, Co. Somerset:
... Ten messuages, 10 acres of land, 20 acres of pasture and 20 acres of heath
in Leigh, of John Carent, by service unknown, which premises, by the same
description and quantity, had been held by William, Lord Stourton, in 3 Edward
IV., of William Carent. (S) Hist. of the Noble House of Stourton.
4/4/1478, John Carent of Silton, Dorset, died.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P328. (S) Som. Arch. & NH Soc.
Proc., 1870, P41.
Family notes:
·
In Marnhull church the alabaster effigies on an
altar-tomb depicting a knight in armour with a woman on either side, have been
near certainly identified as John Carent (senior), who died in 1478, with his 2
wives. The somewhat mutilated state of the work is thought to have been
caused by the theft of alabaster to make dies for coins.
Child of John and
Alice:
i. Margaret Carent (475333), born ~1430 in England.
ii. John Carent Jr., born ~1433 in England.
Aft. 1458, John Jr. married Margaret Fiennes, widow of
Nicholas Carew, Esq. [No children.]
8/28/1467, John, his son John Jr, and William Carent granted
custody of minor William, s/o John Fillol. [John Fillol his son-in-law.]
4/1/1476, Lease, for lives. By John Carent, jun, esq., ...
of 4 closes of pasture in Nywenham in Stapelbrigge Co. Dors. which the said
lessors had by grant from John Weston: rent 46sh. 8d. (S) UKNA.
10/27/1478, “Katherine, late the wife of John Thomas,
‘marchaunt,’ late of Pole, co. Dorset, ‘wedowe,’ executrix of his will ... she
render £40 to John Carent the elder, executor of the will of John Filoll,
esquire, and John Wroughton, esquire, and Margaret (John’s sister) his wife,
late the wife of John Filoll …”. (S) CPRs.
1483, John died.
