John Brereton (abt. 1462 - 1527)

Born about 1462 in Brereton, Cheshire, England

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Died 11 Apr 1527 at about age 65 in Austria or Hungary [uncertain]

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Sir John Brereton, Knight^{[1] [2]}

John was a younger son of Sir William Brereton of Brereton and his wife, Phillippa, daughter of Sir Hugh Halse.^[2]

He was the brother of:

1. William Brereton, esq of the body to King Henry VII, died without having children;^[2]
2. Sir Andrew Brereton, who married 1) Agnes, daughter of Robert Ligh of Adlington, and 2) Anne Done;^[2] and
3. Hugh Brereton of Hassall Grene, who married Anne, daughter of Robert Donn, brother of Sir John.^[2]

John was married twice:

1. Katherine Berkeley, daughter and heir of Morrice Barkley;^[2] John and Katherine were the parents of:
   1. Winburgha^[3] or Walburgh who was married to 1) Sir ffrancis Cheney, and 2) Sir William Compton;^[2]
   2. John, dead before 20 November, 1494;^[3]
   3. Joan, dead before 20 November, 1494;^[3] and
   4. Dorothy, dead before 20 November, 1494.^[3]
2. Dame Jane,^[1] daughter and heir of Geoffrey Massy of Tatton, relict of William Stanley Junior;^[2] John and Jane were the parents of:
   1. Phillipa.^[2]

Katherine, John's first wife, was the daughter of Maurice Berkeley and the widow of John lord Stourton; John lord Stourton died on 6 October, 1 Henry VII [1485].^[3]

Between 1486 and 1493, John Brereton, esquire, and Katherine, his wife, sister and heir to William Berkeley, of Bettesthorn, were the plaintiffs in a suit against defendant William Berkeley, of Wyle, knight, for detention of deeds relating to the manor of Bettesthorn and other lands in Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucestershire, etc, late of the said William Berkeley, of Bettesthorn, during whose absence with Henry VII in France during the reign of Richard III they came into his hands.^[4]

On 20 November, 1494, the escheator in Wiltshire was ordered to take fealty of John Brereton and to give him seisin of the lands undermentioned in that county, removing the king's hands thence : since it was learnt by inquisition before John Wikes escheator, that Katherine wife of John Brereton, widow of Sir John Stourton, was seised of the manors of Grymstede and Plaiteford, and of the advowsons of the chapel, with the hamlets of Bemerton, Quydehampton, Mere and Farley, parcels of the manor of Plaiteford; a messuage and sixty acres of land in Abbeston with its advowson; two carucates of land and ten acres of meadow in Enford; a messuage and twenty acres of land in Wellowe; three tofts, three carucates and eight acres of meadow in Chelworth and Calecote; three meses and eighty acres of land in Wisheford and Stoford; the manor of Chadenwiche, the advowson of three chantries in Mere, seven messuages and 24 acres of land in Westknowle; three messuages and three hundred acres of land in Seggehill; and being so seised Katherine married John Brereton and had issue Winburgha yet alive, and John, Joan and Dorothy who are dead; and Katherine died and John overlived her, being seised in free tenancy; and the manors of Grymstede and Plaiteford are held of the king in chief by service of half a knight's fee; and the lands in Chelworth and Caldecote at 1/40 knight's fee; and the other lands are held of others than the king, who for half a mark paid in the hanaper, has respited the homage of the said John Brereton.^[3] The escheator in Southampton received similar orders concerning John Brereton as to the manor and advowson of Myndstede, the hamlets of Totton, Berkeley and Fritham, the manors and advowsons of Bettishorne, Enkesbury and Leope; the moiety of a messuage and eighteen acres of land in Wynketon and Bokehamp ton, a messuage with curtilage and forty acres of land in Arnewode; two mossuages, two gardens, 25 acres of land and four acres of meadow in Cristechurche, twelve messuages, 250 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow and 20 acres of pasture with a toft in Gorlyngton and Alkerton, and twelve messuages, 200 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow and 20 acres of wood in Westasshley and Estasshley. And the manor of Mynstede is held in chief of the king by service of 1/20 knight's fee; and Enkesbury and Leope also of the king with the service of finding a man in the war with Scotland; and the other manors are held of others than the king; who for a fine paid in the hanaper, has respited the homage of John Brereton.^[3] The escheator in Somerset received like orders, since by inquisition before Thomas Turbervyle it was found that Katherine was seised of Norton manor held by others than the king.^[3] The escheator in Dorset received similar orders concerning the manors and advowsons of Kyngton Magna and Langenham, and of a messuage and 20 acres of land in Estmelbury and Shaftesbury held of others than the king.^[3]

After 17 June, 1497, John Bruerton (Brereton) was one of the knights dubbed at the Bridge Foot on the King Henry VII's entering London after the Battle of Blackheath.^[5]

After 1499, Sir John Brereton, Knight, took a complaint regarding disturbance of right of common at Worsley Manor on Walkden More by Robert Worsley to the Duchy Court of Lancaster: Sir John and Dame Jane, his wife, were seised of the manor of Worsley in the parish of Eccles with appurts. in the county of Lancaster in his demesne as of fee in right of the said Jane; Robert Worseley of Bowthes, esq, accompanied by divers "riotos and misruled" people "arraied in a maner of warr with jackes, Brigandynes, Gestrons, Galettes and stele bonettes, bowes, arrowis, speres, billes, sweres and bokelers", numbering more than 154 persons, "and their assauted the said servants and bete, wounded and hurt them," so that they were in jeopardy of their lives "to the worst example that hath been seen in that cuntrey."^[1]

Research Notes

In a footnote to the case of "Sir John Brereton versus Robert Worsley", Fishwick states "Worsley Manor, about 1499, on the death of William Stanley, passed to his daughter Joan, who married Sir John Brereton, a younger son of Sir Randle Brereton, of Malpas.^[1] Jane Stanley, daughter of William Stanley of Tatton, was married to Richard Brereton of Tatton, son of Sir Randoll Brereton of Mallpas, made Knight Banerett at the seige of Tirwin and Tourney, Chamberlaine of Chester, and his wife, Elenor daughter of Piers Dutton of Dutton,^[6] not John. William Stanley of Tatton married Jane Massy of Tatton.^[2] Jane was then married to Sir John Brereton, son of William Brereton of Brereton.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Lieut-Colonel Henry Fishwick, ed., Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster: Time of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol XXXII, 1896), 37-8. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor32reco/page/37/mode/1up : accessed 7 August, 2022).
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including Those from the Visitation of Cheshire Made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald. With an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms, (London: Harleian Society, XVIII, 1882), 41-2, e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/visitationofches00glov/page/42/mode/1up : accessed 7 August, 2022). [Pedigree: Brereton of Brereton].
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Calendar of the Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII. 1485-1500 ed. K H Ledward, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1955), 229-30, e-Book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293017956222?urlappend=%3Bseq=241%3Bownerid=13510798902491159-245 : accessed 12 August, 2022).
4. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: C 1/85 - Chancery pleadings addressed to John, Archbishop of Canterbury as Lord Chancellor: C 1/85/48 - Brereton v Berkeley, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C7454410 : accessed 6 August, 2022.
5. ↑ William A Shaw, LittD, The Knights of England Vol II (London: Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, Lord Chamberlain's Office, St James's Palace, 1906), 30. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/n39/mode/1up : accessed 8 August, 2022).
6. ↑ Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, (1882), 43. [Pedigree: Brereton of Malpas].

See also:

• https://archive.org/details/pedigreesfromvis64beno/page/56/mode/2up?q=clevedon Pedigrees from the visitation of Hampshire made by Thomas Benolt, Clarenceulx a 1530 : enlarged with the vissitation of the same county made by Robert Cooke, Clarenceulx anno 1575 both which are continued with the vissitation made by John Phillipott, Somersett (for William Camden, Clarenceux) in a 1622 most part then done & finished in a 1634. As collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1544 by Benolt, Thomas, d. 1534; Cooke, Robert, d. 1592; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Mundy, Richard; Rylands, W. Harry (William Harry), 1847-1922 Page 56: Berkley