John Botetourt

- 1324

• Name	John Botetourt
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Nov 1324  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Person ID	I5996	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	Guy Botetourt,   b. of Little Ellingham, Norfolk, England ,   d. Abt 1317
  Mother	Ada
  Family ID	F4060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud fitz Thomas,   b. 1269,   d. Bef 27 Nov 1328  (Age < 59 years)
  Married	Bef Jun 1282  [2, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Botetourt,   b. of Upton, Norfolk, England ,   d. Bef 28 Jul 1322 + 2. Otes Botetourt,   b. of Mendlesham, Suffolk, England ,   d. 11 Nov 1345 + 3. Ada Botetourt,   d. Bef 31 May 1349 + 4. Elizabeth Botetourt,   d. 11 Apr 1384
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2019
  Family ID	F4079	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Or Buteturte; Boutecourte; Botecourt; Butecourt. "In 1294 when the king faced the threat of French galleys raiding the south coast of England, he appointed two household knights, William de Leybourne and John Botetourt, as captain and sub-captain of the fleet. In the following year they were described as admirals--the first use of the term in England. In 1296 he commanded 94 ships taken from ports between Harwich and King's Lynn, the great majority from Yarmouth." [Royal Ancestry] "He was summoned to Parliament from 13 July 1305 to 13 Sep. 1324, by writs directed Johanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt." [Royal Ancestry] "A distinguished soldier; Gov. of St. Briavel's Castle, co. Gloucester, 1291; Adm. for the Northern Seas 1294-97, and again 1315. He was one of the Barons who signed the letter to the Pope in 1301, and was sum. to Parl. from 13 July (1305) 33 Edw. I to 13 Sep. (1324) 18 Edw. II, by writs directed Johanni Botetourt, whereby he may be held to have become Lord Botetourt. Gov. of Framlingham Castle, 1314. He joined in the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and fought at Boroughbridge, 16 Mar. 1321/2, for which he was fined £1,000, and was pardoned 8 Oct. 1322. He m., probably soon after 1 July 1285, when she was a minor, certainly before June 1292, Maud, sister and h. of Otes Fitz Thomas, being da. of Thomas Fitz Otes, of Mendelsham, Suffolk, by Betarice, 3rd da. and coh. of William de Beauchamp, feudal Lord of Bedford. He d. 25 Nov 1324. His widow was living 28 May 1329." [Complete Peerage II: 233-35] He has been claimed by some (including CP volume XIV) as an illegitimate son of Edward I, a claim dismantled in F. N. Craig's 1988 "The Parentage of John Boutetourt" (citation details below). William Addams Reitwiesner commented on the history of this claim here.

  
  

• Sources

  [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S523] F. N. Craig, "The Parentage of John Boutetourt (died 1324)." The American Genealogist 63:145, July 1988. [S524] F. N. Craig, "Descent from a Domesday Goldsmith." The American Genealogist 65:24, Jan 1990., year only. [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., "probably soon after 1 July 1285".