Joan Bellers

• Name	Joan Bellers  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I17699	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	James Bellers,   b. of Ab Kettleby, Leicestershire, England d. Aft 1411
  Mother	Margaret de Bernake
  Marriage	Bef 1381  [2]
  Family ID	F10873	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Simon Digby,   b. of Tilton, Leicestershire, England d. Bef 1422
  Children	+ 1. Everard Digby,   b. of Welby, Lincolnshire d. 29 Mar 1461, Towton, Yorkshire, England
  Family ID	F10870	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2018

  
  

  Family 2	John Seyton alias St. Liz,   b. of Martinsthorpe, Rutland, England d. Between 1436 and 1437
  Children	+ 1. Agnes Seyton alias St. Liz   d. Aft 1479
  Family ID	F12849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Jane; also called Belers, Bellairs, etc. Several sources, including Royal Ancestry (vol. 1, p. 351), have Joan/Jane, daughter of James Beler and Margaret de Bernake, as having been married to Simon Digby and Thomas Seyton. But: "Everard Seyton was the son of Sir John Seyton by his second wife a daughter of Digby. He died in 16 Edward IV [1477] leaving two infant daughters Joan and Anne. Everard Seyton received the estate of Maidwell, Northamptonshire as his inheritance. He is not mentioned in Vincent's pedigree of the family but his daughter Joan married Francis Metcalfe and upon her husband's demise conveyed the manors of Maydewell to John Seyton, esq. Her uncle had received the estate of Seyton in Rutlandshire upon his father's death in 1396. In 6 Henry VIII [1515] a fine was levied between Joan Metcalfe, widow, daughter to Everard Seyton, Esq. and John Seyton, Esq. This John Seyton was the second son of Thomas Seyton, Esq.; eldest son to John Seyton, Esq. by Jane Bellers his first wife." [The History and Antiquities of Northamptonshire, Compiled from the Manuscript Collections of the Late Learned Antiquary John Bridges, Esq. by Peter Whalley. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1791] "Though the pedigree of the Seytons given in the visitation of Northamptonshire shows that John Seyton had a son Thomas and three grandsons, Martinsthorpe is said to have passed to William Feilding by his marriage with Agnes, daughter and heir of John de St. Liz or de Seyton." [VCH Rutland 2:84-85] "John de Seyton [...] died at Jerusalem in 1396 and was succeeded by his son John. The latter held the manor until his death, which took place about 1436-7. His son Thomas de Seyton assigned it at that date in dower to his father's widow Joan." [VCH Buckinghamshire 2:334-35] Just as a side note, the late Leo van de Pas's Genealogics site shows Joan/Jane Beler as having married Simon Digby and John Seyton (alias St. Liz).

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S1357] The Visitation of the Counter of Leicester in the Year 1619, Taken by William Camden, Clarenceux King of Arms ed. John Fetherston. London: Harleian Society, 1870. [S2671] Middlesex Pedigrees, as Collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian Ms. No. 1551 ed. George John Armytage. London: Harleian Society, 1914.