John Bernard (abt. 1490 - 1549)

Born about 1490 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Cecily (Muscote) Bernard — married 1520 in Abington,,Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died 4 Feb 1549 at about age 59 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

John was the son and main heir of John Bernard and Mary Daundelyn.^[1] He is likely to have been born at Abington, Northamptonshire where his father lived.^[2][3] He was said to be 18 when his father died in 1508, posting to a birth date of about 1490.^[4]

Besides inheriting Abington, John also inherited manors at Great Doddington and Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, brought into his family by his father's first marriage.^[5][6]

John married Cecily Muscote, daughter of John Muscote^[1][4] and Alice Beaufew.^[2][3] They had the following children:

• Francis^[1][2][3]
• John^[1][2][3]
• Dorothy, who became a nun^[1][2][3]
• Mary, who married George Purley^[1][2][3]
• Elizabeth, who married John Covert and William Dixon^[1][2][3]
• Bridget, who married John Dixon^[1][2][3]

John died on 4 February 1549. His wife survived him, dying on 21 September 1557. They were both buried at Abington, Northamptonshire.^[2][3]

Research Notes

Mother's First Name

Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry and Royal Ancestry give the first name of John's mother as Margaret.^[2][3] His father's Inquisition Post Mortem says it was Mary, and this is accepted by Douglas Richardson in a 2014 post in soc.genealogy.medieval. The confusion of first names arose because John married again, his second wife being called Margaret (daughter of Roger Wake).^[4][7]

Metcalfe's edition of Northamptonshire Visitations names his mother as Mary, daughter of John Daundelyn.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19, Mitchell and Hughes, 1887, p. 3, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9} 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, pp. 186-187, BERNARD 13, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 344-345, BERNARD 15
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Inquisition Post Mortem for his father, Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and A. C. Wood, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 551-600', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII (London, 1955), pp. 326-355, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
5. ↑ 'Parishes: Great Doddington', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 113-116, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
6. ↑ 'Parishes: Earls Barton', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 116-122, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
7. ↑ Post of 27 April 2014 by Douglas Richardson in the thread 'Bernard of Abington', soc.genealogy.medieval

See also:

• Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-century Colonists, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, p. 20
• Higgins, Sophia Elizabeth. The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon, Longmans, Green and Company, 1903, pp. 24-34, Internet Archive (NB Wrongly names John's mother as Margaret)
• Frederick Lewis Weis, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard and William R Beall. The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. p. 66, line 46/12

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 23 October 2022.

John Bernard was identified by the Magna Carta Project in a trail from Gateway Ancestors Richard Bernard and William Bernard to Magna Carta Surety Baron John FitzRobert that was project approved/badged in March 2015. Over time, the project identified this profile in other badged trails from the Bernard cousins to surety barons Roger le Bigod, Hugh le Bigod, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy and Saher de Quincy. This profile also appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from the Bernard cousins to surety baron Robert de Ros (vol. 1, pages 186-188 BERNARD) and another trail, to surety William d'Aubigny branches off the Ros trail. These trails were badged in October 2022. All the trails named above are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails sections of the profiles of Richard Bernard and William Bernard.

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".