John (Chauncey) Chauncy (abt. 1475 - 1546)

Born about 1475 in Hertfordshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 8 Jun 1546 at about age 71 in Hertfordshire, England [uncertain]

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John Chauncy is a descendant of Magna Carta surety baron Hugh Bigod (see text below).

Biography

Birth and Parents

John was the son and heir of John Chauncy/Chauncey^[1][2] and Alice Boyce. He was likely to have been born in Hertfordshire, where his father had lands.^[3][4] His birth date is not known, nor is the marriage date of his parents, but his father was said to be 27 in 1479, and he himself married before 4 November 1509: with that in mind, the birth date has been guesstimated as about 1475.

Marriages and Children

John married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Proffit, widow of Richard Manfield^[5] and daughter of John Proffit of Sussex and Alice Horne, who was heiress to property in Kent.^[3][4] They married before 4 November 1509^[2] had the following children:

• Maurice, who became a Carthusian monk, initially in England, went to Flanders in 1546, returned to England in 1555, during the reign of Mary I, helping to refound a Carthusian monastery at Sheen, Middlesex, and went back into exile in 1559, becoming prior of a Carthusian English community at Bruges and dying in 1581^[2][3][4][6]
• Henry,^[1][2] who was John's main heir^[3][4]
• Robert^[2][3][4]
• Alice,^[3][4] named as Mason in her father's Will, indicating that she married someone with that last name^[2]

Elizabeth Proffit died on 10 November 1531. John subsequently married Katherine, whose family origins are not known; they had no children, and she died on 30 April 1535.^[3][4]

Lands

From his father, John inherited lands at Gilston and Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire. His first marriage brought him property at Crayford and East Lenham^[5] in Kent.^[3][4]

Death

John died on 8 June 1546, probably in Hertfordshire; he was buried (like his wives) at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.^[3][4] (Charles William Darling's 1888 Memorial To My Honored Kindred gives his death date as 4 June.^[7])

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Hertfordshire..., Harleian Society, 1886, p. 39, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Joseph Jackson Howard (ed.). Miscellanea Genealogical et Heraldica, 2nd Series, Vol. I, Mitchell and Hughes, 1886, p. 22, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 423, CHAUNCY 10, Google Books
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 131-132, CHAUNCY 15
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Edward Hasted, 'Parishes: Lenham', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Vol. 5 (Canterbury, 1798), pp. 415-445, British History Online, accessed 1 January 2023
6. ↑ 'Religious Houses: House of Carthusian monks', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 1, Physique, Archaeology, Domesday, Ecclesiastical Organization, the Jews, Religious Houses, Education of Working Classes To 1870, Private Education From Sixteenth Century, ed. J S Cockburn, H P F King and K G T McDonnell (London, 1969), pp. 159-169, British History Online, accessed 1 January 2023
7. ↑ Charles William Darling. Memorial To My Honored Kindred, Fierstine & Gifford, (Utica, New York), 1888, p. 50, Internet Archive

• Chauncy, Henry. The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire, Vol. I, 1826, p. 116, Internet Archive
• Fowler, William Chauncey. President Charles Chauncy and his Ancestors and Descendants, in 'The New England Historical & Genealogical Register', Vol. X,, 1856, p. 260, Internet Archive

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 1 January 2023.

John (Chauncey) Chauncy appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Charles Chauncy to Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod (vol. I, pages 421-425 CHAUNCY). This trail was badged by the Magna Carta Project in 2015 and was re-reviewed in December 2022-January 2023. See the full trail in the Magna Carta Trails section of George Chauncy's profile.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".