Richard Dynham

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ralph Bellers. Ralph (son of Hamo de Beler) was born in of Kettleby, Leicestershire, England; died before 1345. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1388

Notes:

Also called Beller, Bellers, Bellairs. Knight of the shire for Leicestershire, 1376-77. Said by Richardson (citation details below) to have been "probably living in 1411."

James married Margaret de Bernake before 1381. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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).

Family/Spouse: Simon Digby. Simon (son of Richard Digby and Katherine de Pakeman) was born in of Tilton, Leicestershire, England; died before 1422. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Seyton alias St. Liz. John (son of John de Seyton and Joan Longueville) was born in of Martinsthorpe, Rutland, England; died between 1436 and 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Eye Kettleby, Leicestershire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 1421

Notes:

"He served in the retinue of Henry Beaufort, bishop of London, on the bishop's voyage to Brittany in 1402 to escort King Henry IV's consort, Joan of Navarre, to England. [...] In 1406 he and his half-brother, James Bellers, abducted the aged Roger Walron from Snibston, severely maltreating his prisoner on their ride to Sysonby, Leicestershire; the failure of the Bellers brothers to appear before the King's Council in Parliament to answer Walron's charges resulted in a fine of £100 each." [Royal Ancestry, citation details below]

John married Elizabeth Sutton before 1404. Elizabeth (daughter of Anthony Sutton) was born about 1392; died on 18 Aug 1427. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]