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- [S33] Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Joseph Jackson Howard, (London: Mitchell & Hughes, 1890), vol. 2, 326.
- [S34] The History of the Noble House of Stourton, Charles Boltoph Joseph, (Chicago: The Institute of American Genealogy, 1899), vol. 1, 80-87.
- [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), "John Stourton (died 1438)" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stourton_(died_1438).
"John Stourton (died 1438) of Preston Plucknett in Somerset was seven times MP for Somerset, in 1419, 1420, December 1421, 1423, 1426, 1429 and 1435."
- [S336470] Wikipedia, (Online: https://en.wikipedia.org), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brympton_d'Evercy.
"In 1430 following a legal battle over disputed titles, the Wynfords sold the estate to John Stourton, lord of the nearby manor at Preston Plucknett, who used it as a dowry for his daughter Joan when she married John Sydenham in 1434. The Sydenhams were said at one time to be England's largest landowners, yet their wealth seems to have fluctuated with each generation."
- [S34] The History of the Noble House of Stourton, Charles Boltoph Joseph, (Chicago: The Institute of American Genealogy, 1899), vol. 1, 83.
- [S336467] History of Parliament Online, published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993, (The History of Parliament Trust ), http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/stourton-john-i-1438.
"Stourton left three daughters, each by a different wife, and his estates were divided between them. The eldest, Cecily, the widow of John Hill of Spaxton (for whom Stourton had acted as executor in 1434), was now the wife of Sir Thomas Kyriel of Sarrecourt, on the Isle of Thanet, currently making his reputation as a soldier; the second, Joan, was married to John Sydenham of Bridgwater; and the third, Alice, was aged seven and as yet unmarried. (Later she was wedded first to William Daubeney of South Ingleby, by whom she became the mother of Giles, 1st Lord Daubeney, and then to Robert Hill of Houndstone, nephew of his namesake of Spaxton). Stourton's widow married secondly Sir John Beynton of Hampreston, Dorset, thirdly William Wadham, and lastly William Carent (the same person as had previously been the husband of Stourton?s niece); she survived our MP by nearly 35 years, eventually dying in 1473."
- [S34] The History of the Noble House of Stourton, Charles Boltoph Joseph, (Chicago: The Institute of American Genealogy, 1899), vol. 1, 79.
"Hoare's copy of the College of Arms Pedigree states Sir John Stourton married secondly, Jane or Joan, daughter, of Ralph, Lord Basset, which is confirmed by many other authorities. The strongest evidence against this marriage is that neither of the Lords Basset bearing that name, had a dughter Janes, and that the Stourtons never claimed coheirship to that dignity, which fell into abeyance in 1390, on the death of Ralph, the last Lord Basset, among his coheirs, about whom there is some uncerainty amonst historians. It is clear that Sir John Stourton married more than once, although Brydges' Collins' Peerage makes all the children of Sir John Stourton to have been the issue of this second wife, which is proved to be erroneous from the fact that when Sir John Stourton purchased the before mentioned property from William de Pappeworth, he limited the same not only to himself, Alice, his wife, and the issue of that marriage, but for default thereof he made an after remainder in favour of William Stourton, his son and heir, the ancestor of the Barons Stourton, which tended towards the probablility that this William was the issue of another wife, as we think in fact he was. We ascertain that Sir John Stourton had a wife, Alice, which is not shewn by any authority, and taking the Basset pedigree we find that Alice, daughter of Nicholas, Lord Audley of Helegh, by Elizabeth, his wife, said by Banks to be the only daughter of Henry, Lord Beaumont, married Ralph Basset, who never succeeded to the peerage, as he died about 1335, in the lifetime of his father, Ralph, Lord Basset, when after the death of Ralph Basset, his widow, Alice Basset, married Hugh Meynell, who as a gallant soldier fought at Cressy ant Poiters. Both Ralph, Lord Basset, father and son respectively of Ralph Basset, left widows of the name of Jane, and these Lords died repsectively 25th Feb., 1343, and 10th May, 1390. We are unable to say whether Jane, widow of Ralph, Lord Basset, the grandfather, was the second wife of Sire John Stourton, or whether the second wife was Alice, widow of Ralph Basset, and identical with Alice, whom we find mentioned as wife of Sir John Stourton."
- [S34] The History of the Noble House of Stourton, Charles Boltoph Joseph, (Chicago: The Institute of American Genealogy, 1899), vol. 1, 85.
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