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John Giffard

Born 1525 in Brightley, Devon, England

Ancestors

Son of Roger Giffard and Margaret (Cobleigh) Giffard

Brother of Jane (Giffard) Chichester and Anne (Giffard) Fortescue

Husband of Mary (Grenville) Giffard — married before 1550 in Devon or Cornwall, England

Descendants

Father of Arthur Giffard, John Giffard, Achilles Giffard, Roger Giffard and Hanniball Giffard

Died 1585 at about age 60 in Brightley, Devon, England

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Biography

John Giffard was born in Devon, England.

John Giffard was born at Brightley^[1] (Brightleigh), Devon in 1523. He was the son of Roger Giffard and Margaret Cobleigh. He was most likely baptised at the family church Chittlehampton: St Hieritha's Church^[2], Chittlehampton, Devon although no documentation has yet been found.

John Giffard was the eldest son and heir to the manor of Chittlehampton^[3] in Brightleigh, its mansion house once occupying a moated site to the west of a later large farmhouse known as Brightleigh Barton which incorporates some elements of the earlier house^[4].

John Giffard married Mary Grenville in 1551. They had six children: Arthur (born 1552), John (born 1554), Achilles (born 1556), Roger (born 1558), Hanniball Giffard (born 1560) and possibly Walter.

John Giffard died^[4]^[5] in 1585 at Brightley, Devon.

Research Notes

There is interesting information on the Giffard Family at Chittlehampton at https://www.chillingtonhall.co.uk/our-story/the-giffard-family.

The Wikipedia article on Brightley^[1] gives the following for John Giffard

John Giffard (died 1585), son and heir of Sir Roger Giffard (died 1547), married Mary Grenville, daughter of Sir Richard Grenville (c. 1495 – 1550), lord of the manors of Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, MP for Cornwall in 1529. Mary was the sister of Roger Grenville, believed to have been the captain of the Mary Rose in the sinking of which at Portsmouth he drowned in 1545, and was thus aunt of his son the heroic sea captain Sir Richard Grenville (1542–1591) of the Revenge. She survived her husband and remarried Arthur Tremayne of Collacombe. His eldest son and heir was John Giffard (died 1622).