John Baynard (abt. 1309 - 1349)

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Concerning Birch manor we can read about this family:

Before 1276 one of the Gernons granted the mesne tenancy of Great Birch to a member of the Baynard family, lords of Messing Hall and Harborough manors in Messing. (E.R.O., D/DR M1.) John Baynard died in possession of the manor in 1344, and was succeeded in turn by his son John (d. 1349), John's son Thomas (d. 1375), Thomas's son Richard (d. 1433) whose second wife was Grace, widow of John Peyton, who held the manor of the king in chief. (Cal. Inq. p.m. ix, p. 144; xiv, pp. 92-3; P.R.O., C 139/63, no. 21; Cal. Close, 1419-22, 223; Morant, Essex, ii. 176.) When Richard and Grace Baynard were lord and lady of both Great Birch and the Messing manors they administered those manors and Easthorpe together. (E.R.O., D/DH X29-30, 34.) They were followed by Richard's son Richard Baynard (d. 1473) whose heir was his daughter Grace, wife of Thomas Langley. Grace died in 1509 and was succeeded by her son from her second marriage, John Daniell (d. 1556) and then by his son Edmund Daniell (d. 1570) who held Birch as of Easthorpe manor. (Morant, Essex, ii. 176; P.R.O., C 140/46, no. 57; C 142/109, nos. 22, 25; C 142/157, no. 64; Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. VII, iii, p. 315.)

Morant Vol.2 p.176 thinks John who died 1349 must have died without issue (because so soon after his father?) and seemed unsure of the connection to Thomas, but p.404 he says he was supposed to be brother to the said John (d.1349). Morant calls the father of John, who died 1344, Thomas, and says he was a son of Richard, who was a son of Imama Baynard.

The inquisitions post mortem for John was done together with his mother as they died in quick succession:^[1]

135. JOAN, LATE THE WIFE OF THOMAS BAYNARD. JOHN BAYNARD.

Writ concerning the said Joan, 30 September, 23 Edward III [1349].

Writ concerning the said John, 8 November, 23 Edward III.

ESSEX. Inq. taken at Branketre, according to the tenor of the two writs annexed thereto, on Sunday after St. Katherine, 23 Edward III.

Messyngge. The manor (extent given) held by the said Joan for her life, as of the inheritance of John Baynard, son and heir of the said Thomas and Joan, of the king as of the honour of Reines, by service of a knight’s fee and a half. The said John after her death entered the said manor, as his inheritance, and died seised thereof.

Knepesho and Bryche. Certain tenements, called the manors of Knepesho and Bryche, held by the said John jointly with Isabel his wife, who survives, of John Gernoun, knight, service not known, by the grant of Thomas le Rowe, chaplain, and Lucy Shaldeford to the said John and Isabel and the heirs of the said John.

Burnham. A certain marsh held jointly in the same form of John filz Wauter, service not known.

St. Lawrence. The manor, which Roger Baynard and Alice his sister hold for life, held in reversion by the said John, of Sir John filz Wauter, by knight’s service. The said Roger and Margery his wife hold for life a messuage and 24a. arable by the grant of Thomas Baynard, father of the said John, and a tenement sometime of William Olyve, a bondman of the manor of Messyngge, by the grant of the said Joan and John.

Little Reynes. A messuage, 80a. arable, 3a. meadow, 7a. pasture, 20a. wood and 6s. rent held by the said John of the king in chief by service of a quarter of a knight’s fee.

Joan died on 20 September last and the said John, her son, aged 40 years and more, was her heir. He died on 4 November last and Thomas, his son, aged 12 years and more, is his heir.

C. Edw. III. File 94. (6.)

E. Enrolments &c. of Inq. No. 72.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol9/pp142-158

• 'Birch: Manors', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 10, Lexden Hundred (Part) Including Dedham, Earls Colne and Wivenhoe, ed. Janet Cooper (London, 2001), pp. 44-46. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol10/pp44-46 [accessed 3 August 2016].