Robert Porter (abt. 1400 - 1453)

Born about 1400 in Over Ettington, Warwickshire, England

Descendants

Died 1453 at about age 53 in Over Ettington, Warwickshire, England

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Biography

"It was Alice, the daughter of Sir John Cockayne of Ashbourne, Knight, the second wife and widow of Sir Ralph Shirley, who, by a deed dated in the 33d of Henry VI. leased the manor of Eatington to Thomas Porter, whose only daughter, Agnes, having married John Underhill. . . "^[1]

Robert Porter held the manor of Upper Ettington in 1444 and when he died in 1453 he was succeeded by his son Thomas Porter, as to his properties other than Upper Ettington, which passed to Robert Porter's younger son, William Porter.^[2]

According to Burke's Commoners (1836), Robert Porter of Ettington had an eldest son, Sir William Porter "temp Henry V", and a 2nd son, Robert Porter, who in turn had two sons, Thomas and William.

According to Burke's Commoners (1836), Robert Porter was the 2nd son of Robert Porter of EFFINGTON. This may be a reference to Ettington, 5 miles SE of Stratford-on-Avon. Again according to Burke, as above, Robert Porter had two sons, Thomas and William; and two daughters, Katharine and Margaret.

"In 1509 Sir Ralph Shirley leased the manor [of Lower Ettington] to John Underhill, origninally of Wolverampton, Staffs., who had married, as her second husband, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Porter of Upper Ettington."^[3]

"In 1427, John Porter of Marston is stated to be lord [of the manor of Upper Ettington]. Robert Porter held the manor in 1444, and died in 1453, when his eldest son Thomas [Porter] succeeded. . . "Upper Ettington, however, passed in tail male to William [Porter], younger son of Robert Porter, who died in 1480, or to his son, another Robert [Porter]. Thomas [Porter], son of the second Robert, held the manor in 1531, and, on his death on 10 November 1539, was succeeded by his son Thomas, aged 18."

Vict. Co. Hist. (as above) cites J. H. Bloom, 'Notes" from Kineton Manor Rolls, for John Porter of Marston, as lord of the manor of Upper Ettington in 1427.

Sources

1. ↑ LOWER EATINGTON: ITS MANOR HOUSE AND CHURCH (1869), by Evelyn Philip Shirley
2. ↑ Victoria County History of Warwick, Vol. 5 (1949)
3. ↑ Victoria County History of Warwick, Vol. 5 (1949)