Greyndour, John (1356 - 1416)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 1
Properties - 8
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 6
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Born / Died

Birth Date: ca. 1356
Death Date: by 1416-09

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. , (n.d.)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. , (n.d.)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: before 1392-4
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union produced one daughter.

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed By 1398-04
    Vacated 1416-10-30

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Tax Collector, Gloucestershire 1379-5 n.d.
Tax Collector, Gloucestershire 1382-11 n.d.
Tax Collector, Gloucestershire 1383-11 n.d.
Constable, Gloucestershire 1384-11-13 by 1416-09 Held office until death
Tax Collector, Gloucestershire 1388-3 n.d.
Sheriff, Glamorgan 1399/1400-1-25 Circa 1414-11
MP, Herefordshire 1401 n.d.
Constable, Monmouthshire ca. 1402 (possibly ca. 1403) n.d.
Keeper, Radnorshire 1402-9-24 1413-06-9 (date of Earl of March's livery of estates) Held during the minority of Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March
Keeper, Herefordshire 1402-9-24 1413-06-9 (date of Earl of March's livery of estates) Held during minority of Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March
Keeper, Radnorshire 1402-9-24 1404/5-01-28
Keeper, Herefordshire 1402-9-24 n.d.
JP, Herefordshire 1404 1408
MP, Herefordshire 1404-10 n.d.
Tax Collector, Herefordshire 1404-3 n.d.
Deputy Constable, Monmouthshire 1404/5-2-20 1406-12-25
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Gloucestershire 1405 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Herefordshire 1405 n.d.
Constable, Monmouthshire 1405-6-11 ca. 1409
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1405-11-22 1406-11-5
JP, Gloucestershire 1405/6 1408
Constable, Monmouthshire 1406-5-22 By 1416-09 Held office until death
Steward, Monmouthshire 1406-3-29 ca. 1413-06-9 (date of Earl of March's livery of estates) Held during the minority of Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March
Constable, Cardiganshire 1408-9-29 Circa 1410
Sheriff, Gloucestershire 1411-12-10 1412-11-3
Steward, Monmouthshire 1411/12-1-11 by 1416-09 Held office until death
Council Member, Duchy of Lancaster After 1412/13-3-21 n.d.
JP, Herefordshire 1412/13 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, South Wales 1413 n.d.
Constable, Monmouthshire 1413-4-5 By 1416-09 Held office until death
Steward, Gloucestershire 1413-12 1416-06
Justice Intinerant, South Wales 1415 n.d.

General Lands Note

Granted custody of William Blount's lands in Gloucestershire and wardship of heir Isabel 12 Oct. 1399

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Newland townhouse, Gloucestershire

Lands

  • Gloucestershire: Abenhall, Little Dean & Mitcheldean Manors
    Acquired: 1375
    Via mother; held half of Mitcheldean Manor
  • Gloucestershire: Bicknor Court
    Acquired: 1392
    Divested: 1402
    Purchased; granted away
  • Gloucestershire: Clearwell Manor & Noxon Estate
    Acquired: 1403
    Divested: by 1416-09
    Via 2nd wife. Clearwell estate had been known as Newland prior to the 15th c.
  • Gloucestershire: Hathaways Manor
    Divested: by 1416-09
    Via 1st wife
  • Herefordshire: Aston Ingham Manor
  • Monmouthshire: Hadnock
    Patrimony
  • Monmouthshire: Newport Lordship
    Acquired: 1408-05-22
    Granted

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1409-1410 Boothall, Gloucester , Gloucestershire John Greyndour's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
John Greyndour's Minstrel/s Greyndour, John (1356 - 1416) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV [1399–1413]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1903–9.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II [1377–99]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1895–1905.
List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. Public Record Office Lists and Indexes 9. London: HMSO, 1898.
Orme, Nicholas. Education in the West of England 1066–1548: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire. np: U of Exeter, 1976.
Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. 9 vols. London; London: A. Constable [vol 2]; Oxford UP [vols 4-11], 1907–2001.
Roskell, J.S., Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, eds. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386–1421. 4 vols. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for The History of Parliament Trust, 1992.