Margaret (Gernon) Peyton (abt. 1350 - 1413)

Born about 1350 in Great Leighs, Essex, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1413 at about age 63 in Wicken, Essex, England

Biography

Margaret Gernon^[1]

Parents: John Gernon, Knight, of East Thorpe, Essex and his first wife, Alice ____,^[1] widow of John Bigot^[2]

Born: c1350^[2] (age 34 in 1384)^[3] Leer, co. Essex^[4] or Leeys Manor, Essex^{[citation needed]}

• "Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of John Gernon, Knight, of Lees in Essex"^[5]
• Margaret's sister, Joan (Gernon) Botetourt, was born "1328 in Lees Mauer, Essex"^[6]

Married: John de Peyton, Knight, of Peyton Hall (in Boxford), Essex,^[1] who "by her became Lord of the Manors of East Thorpe and Wicken, Cambs., and of Bakewell, Derbyshire."^[5]

Children:

• John Peyton, "died at infancy and was buried at Wicken"^[5]
• John Peyton, married Joan Sutton (died c1404, "in his mother’s lifetime and so did not inherit any of the Gernon Estates . . . .")^[5]
• Thomas Peyton^[7]
• Robert Peyton^[8][7]

Died: 6 Jun 1413,^[2] Wicken, Essex, England^{[citation needed]}

Margaret died a widow and was buried at "Wicken, co. Cambridge (Inq.p.m. 2 Henry V)"^[2]

A note in Peytons of Virginia II (POV II) about Sir John de Peyton questions his date of death, saying in part: "Waters and Hayden give his death in 1394, but The Visitation of Suffolk chart states that he was living in 10 Henry IV, 1409. The same chart gives his wife’s death in 1414."^[5]

In addition, POV II says that Sir John de Peyton was buried at Stoke Neyland and Margaret his wife (died 1405) was buried at Wicken.^[5]

The Hundred of Lexden

"This hundred is bounded westward by Hinckford and Witham hundreds; eastward, by Tendring and Winstree; southward, by parts of Witham, Winstree, and Thurstable; and on the north by the river Stour, which parts the counties of Essex and Suffolk."^[9]

"In the time of King John, Ralph Gernon held it . . . and was succeeded by his son William, who died in 1258, and left this possession to his son Ralph, from whom it went to Sir William Gernon, in 1327. John Gernon granted it, in 1350, to William, son of John Gernon, and Elizabeth his wife; and, in 1383, Sir John Gernon held this hundred of the King: he left, by Alice his wife, two daughters; Margaret, wife of Sir John de Peyton; and Joanna. Margaret had it for her property; and it was entailed upon her son, John Peyton, and Grace, his wife; then on Thomas and Robert, two of their other sons. Margaret died in possession of it in 1414, and was succeeded by her grandson John Peyton. Robert Peyton, in 1536, sold this hundred of Lexden to Sir Thomas Audley . . . ."^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), p 89, DODDINGTON (Margaret m John Peyton); p 386 HELION #6 Joan Gernon (Joan m John Botetourt)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals, page 222
3. ↑ 2015 post to Rootsweb by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, "Re: Margaret Gernon, wife of Sir Geoffrey Gresley," citing Douglas Richardson's Royal Ancsestry, volume 4, p. 366
4. ↑ Thomas Christopher Banks, Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Or, A Concentrated Account of All the Baronies Commonly Called Baronies in Fee (page 87)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} Peytons of Virginia II, Volumes One and Two (2004, plus additional data edition 70 [March 24, 2013] : Peyton Society of Virginia).
6. ↑ ^{[citation needed]} (from Joan's profile as of June 13, 2017). Joan's husband was born c1330 (aged 9 in 1339, when his father died).
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} See #Hundred of Lexden (below), which names Thomas and Robert as their sons also.
8. ↑ "Humphery-Smith lists a son, Robert" (POV)
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} The History and Topography of the County of Essex, by Thomas Wright, Esq. (pp 361-2)

See also:

• Botetourt entry in the database Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families by Charles Cawley © Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, 2000-2017.
• History of Parliament Online: Sir Robert Swinburne (c1327-1391), by L. S. Woodger