John Hervey (1405 - 1475)

Born 1405 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England

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Died 1475 at about age 70 in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England

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Biography

Copinger writes that his son Thomas...

...was, according to some pedigrees, son of John Hervey, of Thirley, co. Bedford, by Alice, daughter of Nicholas Morley, of Glyn, co. Sussex, which John was son of John Hervey, by Christian his wife, daughter of John Chicheley, which John was son of Thomas Hervey, by Jane his wife, daughter of William Paston, which Thomas was son of John Hervey by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir William Calthorpe, which John was son of John Hervey by Margaret his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir John Nornueit, and heir also of her grandmother Ales, daughter and heir of Thomas Buckhorne, of Buckland, co. Bucks., which John was son of William Hervey and Mary his wife, daughter and coheir of Richard Foliott, which William was son of John Hervey, the son of Adam Hervey and Juliana his wife, daughter and heir of John Fitz Hugh, which Adam was son of Osbert, the son of Henry, the son of Hervey, who lived in the time of Rich. I.

In the footnote he writes:

According to the pedigree given by Dr. Howard in his annotated Visitation of Suffolk, vol. ii. p. 188, Thomas Hervey who married Jane Drury was son of John Hervey senior and Joan his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir John Niernuyt, of Burnham, Co. Bucks, which John was son of John and Margery his wife, daughter of Ralph Parles, which John was the son of Sir John Hervey by a daughter of D'Engayne, which Sir John was the son of William Hervey, of Ley and Wotton, and Mary or Margary his wife, daughter and coheir of Richard Foliott, William was son of John Hervey and Joan, daughter and heir of Hamon of Thurleigh, which John was son of Adam FitzHervey in ward to Hen. III., lord of Ormesby, in Norfolk, 1226, by Juliana his wife, daughter of John Fitzhugh, which Adam was son of Osbert FitzHervey, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1182, one of the King's Justices, by Dionysia his wife, daughter of Geoffrey de Grey, of Bedfordshire, which Osbert was son of Herveus.

Sources

• Copinger, Manors of Suffolk https://archive.org/details/cu31924092579600/page/n85/mode/2up
• Pedigree of the Hervey Family, National Trust
• Lord Arthur Hervey (1848), "Ickworth and the Family of Hervey", Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, Volume 2, https://books.google.be/books?id=q-oGAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA417
• Collins https://books.google.be/books?id=k55cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA376
• The History and Antiquities of Suffolk: Thingoe Hundred By John Gage https://books.google.be/books?id=knVPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA293
• 'Parishes: Thurleigh', in A History of the County of Bedford: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 104-109. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/beds/vol3/pp104-109 [accessed 28 February 2019].