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Pennington, John (1393 - 1470)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1393
Death Date: 1470-07-06

Notes

Pardoned in 1462 for serving the Lancastrians in the War of the Roses

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Tunstall, Katherine ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1412
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union also produced 2 additional daughters

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1426/7
    Vacated: 1470-07-06

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
MP, Constituency unknown
Commissioner of Array, Cumberland 1426/7
Sheriff, Cumberland 1426/7 -1 -12 1427 -11 -7
Commissioner of Array, Cumberland 1429 1430
Sheriff, Cumberland 1430 -11 -5 1431 -11 -25
Commissioner of Array, Cumberland 1434
Sheriff, Cumberland 1434 -11 -3 1435 -11 -6
JP, Cumberland 1437
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Westmorland 1441
JP, Cumberland 1443
JP, Cumberland 1447 1448
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cumberland 1449
JP, Cumberland 1452 1454
Commissioner of Array, Cumberland 1457
Commissioner of Array, Cumberland 1459
JP, Cumberland 1459
Sheriff, Cumberland 1459 -11 -7 1460 -11 -6

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Cumberland: Birks, Blackhall, Gaitscale, Gosforth & Muncaster Manor
    Acquired: 1415
    Divested: 1470-07-06
    Patrimony
  • Lancashire: Pennington & Tilberthwaite Manors, Ulverston
    Acquired: 1415
    Divested: 1470-07-06
    Patrimony
  • Westmorland: Little Langdale Manor, Preston Richard
    Acquired: 1415
    Divested: 1470-07-06
    Patrimony; posessed half of Preston Richard

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Sir John Pennington's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Pennington's Minstrels Pennington, John (1393 - 1470) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Muncaster Castle Cumberland Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • Chippindall, W.H. 'Tunstall of Thurland Castle.'. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society ns 28 (1928): 292--313.
  • Hudleston, C. Roy, and R.S. Boumphrey. Cumberland Families and Heraldry; with a supplement to An Armorial for Westmorland and Lonsdale. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society es 23 (1978): 1--429.
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 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
  • Wedgwood, Josiah C., and Anne D. Holt. The History of Parliament: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House 1439–1509. London: HMSO, 1936