121683720. William de Saint John & 121683721. Olive of Brittany
~1180, William de Sancto Johanne, born in England, s/o §Adam de
Port & Mabel d’Orval.
5/27/1199, John crowned king
of England.
Olive 1st married
to Henry de Fougeres.
1202, Adam de Port and his son William brought the prisoners
captured at Mirebeau to England.
Bef. 7/13/1213, William’s father died; William giving 500 marks
for his father’s lands. (S) Honors and Knights’ Fees, Farrer, 1925, P57.
1213, William de St. John a surety for Henry Hose of a debt of
100 marks.
1214, William assessed 114£ scutage. (S) Studies in Taxation,
Mitchell, 1914, P115.
4/15/1215, The King to the Convent of Saint Mary of Southwick, …
We send to you … and our faithful William de St. John, to whom we have
committed the authority … (S) Patent Rolls in the Tower of London, 1835, P29.
5/1215, William de St-John, Peter de Maulay, and Robert of
Burgate dispactched to Otto of Brunswick. (S) Household Knights of King John,
Church, 1999, P71.
1215, Messengers Thomas de Erdington and Henry de Ver
dispatched by the King to William de St. John, constable of Southampton castle.
(S) History of Southampton, Davies, 1883, P78.
6/19/1215 at Runnymede near Windsor, King John forced to agree
to the terms of the Magna Carta.
5/1/1216, The sheriff of Hants ordered to transfer property to
William de St. John. (S) General History of Hampshire, Woodward, 1861, P239.
5/20/1216, Prince Louis of France crossed to England in 10
warships, with 1200 knight and 900 troops. Louis quickly captured all the
Cinque Ports except Dover. Louis captured the town of Lincoln, but not the
castle.
6/2/1216, Louis proclaimed King in London. (S) A Primary
History of Britain, Smith, 1873, P66.
10/18/1216, King John died.
10/28/1216, Henry III, age 9, crowned king of England.
1217, The lands of William de St. John, in arms against the
king, granted to John, sheriff of Hants. (S) General History of Hampshire,
Woodward, 1861, P189. [William apparently supported Louis as King of England
over Henry.]
6/1217-9/1223, William de St. John made a grant of the chaples
of Appleshaw and Cholderton to Chichester for lights in the cathedral. (S)
English Episcopal, Smith, 1994, P7.
9/12/1217, For 10,000 marks and some land exchanges, Prince
Louis forfeited his claim to the English crown by the treaty at
Kingston-on-Thames.
3/6/1218, William de St. John named in a writ of the Earl
Marshall to the sheriff of Hampshire. (S) Transactions of the Royal Historical
Society, 1907, P216.
1219, William’s mother died.
2/20/1219, Roger de Crest gives the king 2 m. for the verdict
of an assize of mort d’ancestor summoned before the itinerant justices in
Surrey between the same Roger, claimant, and William de St. John, defendant,
concerning half a knight’s fee with appurtenances in Merrow.
11/3/1221, William de St. John owes the king 100 m., which were
delivered to him as a prest.
1222, William aquitted of his scutage assessed in 1214 because
it was shown that he had performed his duty. (S) Studies in Taxation, Mitchell,
1914, P115.
1/22/1223, Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in
respite, …, the demand of £40 that he makes from William de St. John …, because
William has mainperned … ready to satisfy the king.
1223, William de St. John served with Peter des Roches against
Llywelyn in Wales. (S) peter des Roches, Vincent, 2002, P211.
6/4/1224, Order to the sheriff of Sussex to place in respite
the demand he makes from William de St. John for the debts that he owes.
7/6/1226, William de St. John has made fine with the king by
500 m. for having the king’s thickets of Chichester with their appurtenances in
order to assart and cultivate them.
1227, The keepers of the King’s galleys at Portsmouth ordered
to deliver the galley “Percevet” with all her stores to Herbert de Borun for
William de St. John in Guernsey. (S) History of the Royal Navy, Nicolas, 1847, P221.
8/1227, William de St John, overlord of William de Pont-de-l’Arches,
a surety for that William’s debt of 11£. (S) Peter des Roches, Vincent, 2002, P145.
4/24/1228, Order to William de St. John that, … abbot of
St. Michael’s Mount , …, he is to permit the newly substituted abbot to have
his corn and his other chattels found in his lands, which he holds from the
king in the isles, …
6/15/1228, Order to the sheriff of Sussex to cause William de
St. John to have respite … from the debts that are exacted from him.
10/1/1229, At the petition of the king’s beloved and faithful
William de St. John and William of Eynsford, the king has granted them that,
upon that which is in arrears of the 600 m. which S., of good memory archbishop
of Canterbury, owed the king, and for which, at the petition of William of
Eynsford, the king betook himself to the same for the aforesaid archbishop, he
will betake himself to William de St. John for William of Eynsford, so that
William de St. John will answer the king for the remainder of the aforesaid
debt of 600 m. at the Exchequer by the plevin of the king’s beloved and
faithful H. de Burgh, earl of Kent, justiciar , at the terms assigned to
William of Eynsford.
2/5/1230, The king has granted to William de St. John that, of
the £761 2s. 1½d. which are exacted from him …, he may render 50 m. each year …,
until the aforesaid debt is paid to the king.
1230, William held half of the manor of Hunston, Sussex.
1231, Composition made by Walter, abbot of Hyde … villenage fo
the croft which lies between the house of William Chasteyne and the park of Sir
William de St. John near the water, … (S) Calendar of Charters – Selborne, Pt2,
1894, P14.
10/26/1232, Notification to the barons of the Exchequer that
the king has given respite to William de St. John, until the octaves of Hilary
in the seventeenth year, from the 25 m. which he ought to have rendered.
2/7/1233, The king has given respite to William de St. John
from the 25 m. that he ought to have rendered at the Exchequer.
11/27/1233, Order to the sheriff of Hampshire to place in
respite the demand he makes from William de St. John … for the debt he owes the
king, …, and to cause his livestock taken for this reason to be delivered to
him in the meantime.
1234, William de St. John received a pardon. (S) Honors and
Knights’ Fees, Farrer, 1925.
4/9/1235, William de St. John pledged 100 m. for Matthew, son
and heir of Henry Hoese to have seisin of the lands.
8/17/1235, The king has granted to William de St. John that, of
the debts he owes him, …, he may henceforth render 25 m. each year …,
notwithstanding that he did not keep his terms for the aforesaid 50 m. annually.
7/1237, William de St John appointed Aymer de Chaunceus
and Stephen de Warneford as his attorneys, to act for him against the Crown in
a plea of Quo Warranto. (S) An English Family, Warneford, 1991, P23.
6/2/1239, William de St. John owes 50 m. for trespass of the
forest.
1239, William died.
(S) Fine Rolls of Henry III.
Family notes:
·
Olive of Brittany d/o Stephen of Brittany.
·
12/1239, Robert, son and heir of
William de St. John, owes £100 10s. 6d. for his relief of lands that [William,
his father, held ...] Order to the sheriff of Hampshire. (S) FRsHIII.
·
Mabel, heiress & gd/o Roger de Saint John.
·
William described himself as “William de
Saint-John, son and heir of Adam de Port.
·
1172, Adam de Port of age.
·
1180, Adam de Port gave 1000 marks for his lands
and for his wife’s inheritance in Normandy.
·
1194, Adam de Port served the king in Normandy.
·
1199-11/1212, Adam de Port was frequently with
King John.
·
1202, Adam de Port and his son William brought
the prisoners captured at Mirebeau to England.
Child of William and Olive:
i. Robert de Saint John (60841860), born ~1210 in England.
