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Greyndour, John (1356 - 1416)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1356
Death Date: 1416-09

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Titles

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

General Lands Note

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

Details of Offices

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

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: 1416-09
    Via 2nd wife. Clearwell estate had been known as Newland prior to the 15th c.
  • Gloucestershire: Hathaways Manor
    Divested: 1416-09
    Via 1st wife
  • Herefordshire: Aston Ingham Manor
  • Monmouthshire: Hadnock
    Patrimony
  • Monmouthshire: Newport Lordship
    Acquired: 1408-05-22
    Granted

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - 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. 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. 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