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John de Brewes, Knt., son and heir of John de Brewes, Knt., and Eve de Ufford, was born about 1332.[1][2] He was deposed on 16 June 1386 in the Scrope vs. Grosvenor Controversy and stated that he was aged 54.[3] His father held lands in Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire, so it is uncertain where John was born.
In the 1370 will of William de Luthborow, rector of Salle, his parents, Sir John de Brews and Eva his wife, Sir John de Brews, junior, and Gyles his brother were mentioned.[4]
John was Lord of the manor of Stinton, and of Heydon, Witlingham, Witnesham, and Hasketon, Norfolk, and patron of Woodbridge priory.[4] Besides lands in Norfolk, he held lands at Ludborough, Lincolnshire; Akenham, Whittingham, and Witnesham, Suffolk, etc. In right of his 2nd wife, he held Caxton, Cambridgeshire,[1] which she had inherited from her first husband.[3] In 1368 John was a legatee in the will of his uncle, Robert de Ufford, K.G., 1st Earl of Suffolk, Lord Ufford.[1]
John was at the Siege of Calais in 1346-1347.[1] He was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk[1][3] from 26 October 1376 to 26 November 1377.[5] He was also Keeper of Norwich Castle[1] in 1376.[6]
In 1380/1, John was one of the men seized by the Norfolk rebels during the peasant revolt. He was released by Henry Spencer, Bishop of Norwich, who cut off the heads of three of the rebels.[4][7]
John married first to Joan de Shardelow, daughter of John de Shardelow, Knt.,[4] of Suffolk and his wife Margaret.[1][3] They had one son:
John married second Agnes ______, widow of Richard de Freville,[1] before November 1372, when 2/3 of the manor of Claxton was delivered to the couple.[9] The reversion of the third part of the manor was received in 1380/1 on the death of Ellen/Eleanor de Freville.[10]
John de Brewes was still living in 1394[1] but had died by 1402.[3] Richardson states that he was buried with his first wife at Woodbridge Priory, Suffolk.[1] Complete Peerage says John was married to "Joan [?Agnes], da. and in her issue h. of Sir John de Shardelowe" and goes on to say "He was bur., with Agnes, his wife, in Woodbridge Priory", citing Ancient Monuments.[3][11]
In 1403, John's manor of Hasketon Hall passed to his son, Robert.[12]
John's widow, Agnes, was still living in 1401 and married third to William Roos (or Rees), Esq., of Cambridgeshire.[1]
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Hugh died and Joan married Oliver Grosse by 1425. [Bloomfield’s Norfolk] and her son Hugh confirmed to his mother, now wife of Oliver Gross, the manor of Newhall in Snitterton. Joan died in 1433. Oliver Gross of Sloley will 1439 [see Fuller, Worthies of England vol II p 131]
There was nothing found in Fuller, Worthies of England vol II p 131. Perhaps the vol or page # is incorrect?
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