John Warde (abt. 1380 - abt. 1420)

Born about 1380 in West Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Died about 1420 at about age 40 in Yorkshire, England

Biography

THE WARD FAMILY

THE following authorities are given for the Ward Chart, which goes back to Osbert de Varde, 1130: Burton's "Monasticon," pp. 139-166; Whittaker's "Leeds" ; Dugdale's "Monasticon," Vol. V, P 139 ; Tanner's "Notitia."

In 1130 there were three brothers de Varde: Simon, Godewin and Osbert of Givendale, Yorkshire. Osbert had two sons, Richard and William de Varde of Givendale Living, 1150. William de Varde had son, Simon de Varde, who married Maude _____. Simon de Varde founded Escholst Priory the end of the Twelfth Century; he had two sons, John de Varde of Scotton and William de Varde of Givendale. William de Varde had sons: William of Capes and Simon (made Sir Simon 1260, by Henry III). Sir Simon had son, Sir Simon, knight and baronet, "A great Baron against the Scots;" and Sir Simon the second had two sons, Sir John, 1350, and Simon, "the Simon de Varde who married Margaret, a daughter of the House of Mortimer, Lords of Attilbury, County Norfolk, and ancestors of the Lords of Norfolk." Simon and Margaret de Varde's son John married Elena de Boost or de Bois; their son, John, 2d, married Katherine Applegard. Robert de Varde, son of John and Katherine Applegard de Varde, married Alice Kemp, had a son, Robert, 2d, who married a Copperdick ; and their son, Robert, 3d, married a daughter of Sir Giles Capel of London, ancestor of the Earls of Essex, and had three sons, Henry Warde of Kirby—Bedon, Jeffrey of Broke, and Thomas Warde of Homersfield, who married _____Hare, daughter of John Hare, D.C.L., of Homersfield, Norfolk.

From Archaeologia Cambrensis: "There was in the county of Norfolk an ancient family named Ward, of which Simon Ward had leave with others 20th June 1391 to perform certain exploits in arms in Scotland. He married Margaret Mortimer, whose arms are given as or, semee de lis sa., but she is said to be of the distinguished family of that name. Their son John married the daughter and heir of John de Bosco (or De Bois) of Kirbybedon. Ermine a cross sa., in whose right he became possessed of that estate. Their son John Warde-70 (whose will was proved 27th October 1445) married Katherine, daughter Appleyard-20 of William Appleyard of Brason Ash and Dunston, az. a chevron between three owls argt. Their son Robert Warde-72 married Alice Kemp Kemp-523 of Gissing, and had a son Robert Warde-67, who, marrying a daughter Appleyard-20 of John Coppledeck, argt. a chevron between three crosslets fitche gules, had issue Robert Ward Warde-148 of Kirby, who married Margaret Capell-36, daughter of Sir Giles Capel Capell-153 of Essex, son of William Capel Capell-155 by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne, co. Cornwall.

Morant, in his History of Essex, says Sir Giles of Rayne Hall married, firstly, Margaret, daughter of Sir Richard Roos Ros-181, younger son of William Ros-9, Lord Roos of Belvoir, by whom he had issue Henry Capel, and secondly, Isabel (*), daughter of Sir John Newton of Wake..

• We have a more detailed statement of the descent of Isabel, wife of Sir Giles Capel, iu Harleian MS. 1041, where she is recorded as the second daughter and coheir of Thomas Cradoc or Newton Newton-252 by his second wife, Elianor, daughter of Lord Daubeney (d'Aubeney/Aubigny). The father of Thomas was Sir John ; and his mother, Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir John Cliddari, Knight; Sir John being son of Sir Richard by Emma, daughter of Thomas Perrott of Haroldstone, son of John by Margaret, daughter of Howel Moythe, son of John Cradoc of co. Somerset, by whom he had Margaret, wife of William Ward of Brooks, Esq. Bloomfield, in his History of Norfolk, etc., calls him Robert Ward, as above.

The arms of Capel are gules a lion rampant argt. between three crosslets fitche- or. The Visitation of Essex of 1612, under the head of Capel, says Sir Giles Capell of Hadham, co. Hertford, Knt., son and heir lyeth buried by his father (i.e., in St. Bartholomew's Church, by the Exchange). He married daughter and co-heir of Sir John Newton alias Craddock, Knt., and had issue Sir Edward, ancestor of Lord Essex, and Margaret, married to Robert Warde of Brooke, alias Kirkby, in co. Norfolk, gent. (argent, on a chevron azure three garbs or). Robert Ward Warde-148 and Margaret Capell Capell-36 his wife had issue, Henry Ward Ward-6906 of Postwick, M.P. for Norwich in 1553, who by his wife Margaret Uggs-1, daughter of William Ugges of Pokelthorpe, near Norwich, had issue, Edward Ward, who built Bixley Hall, the future seat of the family, and died in 1583, having married Anne, daughter of John Havers of Winfarthing. On their tomb at Bixley, co. Norfolk, is the following inscription in black letter,—

"In fatall Tombe a Squire here lyes, enshryned by Death, One Edwarde Warde, who lefte of twelve, ten children deare, With Anne his lovinge wife, on Maye day past his Breathe And Soule to God by Christ, though senceless corpes lye heare. "Obiit 1583, Stat. 41."

The arms of Ward are cheeky or and azure, a bend ermine. Blomfield tells us that Bixley Hall, long the seat of the Wards, was built in 1565 by Sir (?) Edward, the first of the family who settled there. Of his numerous issue, William, the sixth son, was put apprentice, and became a wealthy goldsmith in London. Mr. Ward Newton, by Nest, daughter of Sir Peter Russell, Knight, son of Robert by Margery, daughter of Sir Nicholas Sherbowell, Knight, of Mangle (erm., three lozenges sa.), son of John by Joane, daughter of Elidr Ddy, son of William, son of Sir Wilcock of Newton, son of Cradog, son of Howel, by Gwenllian Gethin, daughter of Lord Rhys-grych, son of Gronwy ab Rytherch ab Criadog ab Iestyn ab Owen ab Howel Ddha...." (end snippet).

From The History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk Happing, Henstead, Holt, Humbleyard, and Loddon:

"The Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 195, mentions a Ward married to Margaret Mortimer, as father and mother of John Ward, who by the marriage of the daughter and heiress of John, son and heir of Thomas de Bosco or Bois, of Kirby-Bedon, became lord of that manor in 1363, the 37th of Edward III. and was succeeded by John Ward Warde-70, gent. his son and heir, who married Catherine Appleyard-20, daughter of William Appleyard, lord of Bracon-ash and Dunston: his will was proved October 27, 1445, the 24th of Henry VI. by which he ordered his body to be buried in the church of St. Mary at Kirby; and it appears that he was lord of the manors of Wodehouse, Bedons alias Seams, and patron of two parts of the advowson of Kirby St. Andrew; having estates in Bixley, Surlingham, Bramerton, Rocklands, Framlingham, Trowse, and Witlingham, leaving Robert Ward Warde-72, gent, his eldest son and heir, who married Alice Kemp Kemp-523, of Gissing, by whom he left Robert Ward, esq. Warde-67 who married the daughter Copperdick-4 of John Coppledick, esq. and had Robert Ward, of Kirby, esq.Warde-148, who by a daughter Capell-36 of sir Giles Capel Capell-153, of London, knt. (ancestor of the earl of Essex) had Henry Ward Ward-6906, of Postwick or Posswick, esq. who in 1553, the 1st of queen Mary, was one of the representatives in the parliament held at Oxford for the city of Norwich." (for more see link in sources).

Sources

• Burton's Monasticon (on Google books- viewable)
• Baildon and the Baildons by Baildon, W. Paley."Baildon and the Baildons", Vol. 1, page 247.- By BAILDON, W. Paley
• Fifty Puritan Ancestors by Author Elizabeth Todd NASH.
• "Archaeologia Cambrensis" W. Pickering, 1880 - Wales
• The History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk: Happing, Henstead, Holt, Humbleyard, and Loddon. By J. Crouse, 1781 - Norfolk (England).