Amias Chichester

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Raleigh in Pilton, Devon, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1527, of Arlington, Devon, England

Notes:

The third son of his father's second marriage, he received from his father Arlington and Loxhore.

Amias married Joan Giffard before 1545. Joan (daughter of Roger Giffard and Margaret Cobley) died before 16 Apr 1596. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Frances Chichester died before 5 Apr 1626 in Braunton, Devon, England; was buried on 5 Apr 1626 in Braunton, Devon, England.

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• Alternate death: 22 Feb 1537

Notes:

Heir to his grandfather Richard Chichester, his father having d.v.p.

John married Joan Brett before 1527. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Bright.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 1498

Nicholas married Christina Paulet. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1542

Notes:

Or Bright, Brite, etc. Escheator of Devon, 1527. Last steward of Pilton priory before the dissolution, after which he purchased the prior's house, now called "Bull House."

Robert married Thomasyne Pillond. Thomasyne (daughter of John Pyllond) was born in of Pilland, Pilton, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 25 Dec 1498

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Sheriff of Devon 1463, 1468, 1474. His monument in Pilton church gives his death date as "24th of December 1498", but his IPM gives it as 25 Dec 1496.

Richard married Margaret Keynes. Margaret (daughter of Nicholas Keynes and Maud) was born in of Winkleigh, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Hinton St. George, Somerset, England

Notes:

Knighted by Henry VI for valor in France. [The Wallop Family, citation details below.]

William married Elizabeth Denebaud about 1429. Elizabeth (daughter of John Denebaud and Florence l'Arcedekne) was born in of Hinton St. George, Somerset, England; died in 1497. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He is listed amongst the lance-bearers present at the Battle of Agincourt, in the retinue of the Sieur de Harrington, in 1415." [John Blythe Dobson, citation details below]

John married Alice Wotton before 1424. Alice (daughter of John Wotton and Englesia Dymoke) was born in of Widworthy, Devon, England; died before 14 Dec 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Wooton.

Nicholas married Maud. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is called the wife of Nicholas Keynes in the 1420 IPM of Nicholas's father John, which suggests that Nicholas Keynes was probably born earlier than 1405.

Thomas married Margaret Burton. Margaret (daughter of Henry Burton and Alice de Boys) died before 1428. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Boniton, or Boulton.

John married Florence l'Arcedekne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Wallop Family gives her surname as "Archdeacon."

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Vivian's Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620 (1895), p. 172, gives two ancestries for this John Chichester, one from Alexander Chichester's book (citation details below) which makes this John a son of a Sir Roger de Chichester who is said to have been knighted after the seige of Calais and present at the 1356 battle of Poictiers, and the other from "Harl. MS. 1538, fo. 256, and the College of Arms", which makes this John a son of another John Chichester, GX5-grandson of "Walleran de Cirencester alias Chichester, descended from a brother of Robert Chichester, Bishop of Exeter, temp. King Stephen. Did homage to William de Raleigh for the Manor of South Pool 22 Hen. III, as appears on the Ledger Book of Tor Abbey."

Alexander P. B. Chichester's version is as follows:

Richard de Cicester, went to the Holy Land with King Richard

Robert de Cicester, m. Petronilla

Richard de Cicester, brother of Robert de Cicester, bishop of York; Richard m. Elizabeth

Roger de Cicester, accompanied Edward I to Gascony

Roger de Cicester, in the French and Scottish wars with Edward III

Roger de Cicester, knighted after the siege of Calais

John Chichester, m. Thomasine Raleigh

The College of Arms version is as follows, assuming that Vivian transcribed it correctly:

Waleran de Cirencester alias Chichester

John de Cirencester

John de Cirencester

Thomas Chichester, m. Alice de Rotomago, who brought her husband the manors of Ledwinstowe and Restercombe

William Chichester

John Chichester

Richard Chichester

John Chichester

John Chichester, m. Thomasine Raleigh

It doesn't speak to the validity of all these claimed connections, but it seems likely that this John Chichester's father was indeed another John Chichester, as pointed out by the author of the Wikitree page on Thomasine Raleigh. That page cites the following entries in Patent Rolls and Close Rolls for 1377-78.

From Calendar of the Patent Rolls, Richard II, vol. 1: 1377-1381 (London, 1897), page 31, 1377, October 10, Westminster:

Grant to Guy Bryan, the elder, knight, of the custody of the body of Thomasia, daughter and heir of John de Rale of Devon, together with the marriage of the said lady; rendering 40l. to the king if he in the king's right recover the custody and marriage. By bill of treasurer. Vacated by surrender and cancelled, because Edward, late prince of Wales, was long in possession of the custody, and Hugh de Browe, knight, bought the custody and marriage from the said prince's executors and granted them to Richard White.

From the same volume, page 186, 1378, April 14, Westminster:

"Grant for 40l. paid to the king by his father's executors, to Richard White, of the benefit of the custody and marriage of Thomasia, daughter and heir of John de Rale of the county of Devon, which the king granted on October 10, by letters patent, now surrendered and cancelled, to Guy de Brien, the father, for that sum to be paid at the Exchequer in case he in the king's right recovered the same, and of which the king's father long had possession, and which Hugh de Browe, knight, bought after the king's father's death of his executors, and afterwards grated to the said Richard White."

From Calendar of the Close Rolls, Richard II, Vol. 1 1377-1381 (London, 1914), page 201-02, 1378, July 29, Westminster:

"John Chichestre the younger and Richard White to John de Asshe. Recognisance for 100 marks, to be levied etc. in Dorset.

"Memorandum of defeasance, upon condition the said John Chichestre and Richard shall before Christmas next give security for a yearly pension of 6 marks payable to John Asshe at Exeter for his life, payment to begin at Michaelmas next.

"John de Asshe to Sir John de Fordham and John Chichestre, and to Richard White to whom the king has granted the wardship and marriage of the heir of John de Rale. Quitclaim of the said wardship and marriage, granted to John de Asshe by the late king. Dated London, 30 July 2 Richard II.

"Memorandum of acknowledgment, 30 July."

The John Chichester of these 1377-78 transactions cannot have been our John Chichester, who would have been underage at the time. The only reasonable interpretation we can see is that of the Wikitree writer, who says that "it is evident that John Chichester bought the marriage of Thomasine Raleigh along with Richard White, and that he subsequently married his son to her."

John married Thomasine Raleigh in 1384. Thomasine (daughter of John de Raleigh) died on 7 Aug 1402; was buried in Arlington, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 2 Aug 1402

Notes:

"Thomasine Raleigh (daughter and sole heiress), married firstly Sir John Chichester; secondly Sir William Talbot. Her Inquisition post mortem states that she died on the Monday following the feast of St Peter ad Vincula, 1402. A very worn stone effigy of a lady, said by Pevsner to be from the 14th century, exists in Arlington Church, under a low arch recessed into the north wall of the chancel. Lysons (1822) suggested this represented 'a female of the Raleigh family', and it may therefore represent Thomasine." [Wikipedia]

John married Englesia Dymoke before 8 Mar 1409. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Engaret.

Notes:

"Probably" the father of Nicholas, according to J. J. Alexander (citation details below). And according to the same source, not the same John Keynes d. 1419 whose daughter married John Speke and whose pedigree appears in The Wallop Family (volume 2, p. 469, "KEYNES II").

John married Joan. Joan died before Mar 1420. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her husband's IPM refers to the hundred of Black Torrington (in Devon) "of which Joan's ancestors have been seised since time immemorial."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 28 Nov 1391

John married Elizabeth Creedy. Elizabeth (daughter of John Creedy) was born in of Creedy, Sandford, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Boniton, or Boulton.

Henry married Alice de Boys. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The Wallop Family [citation details below] gives his surname as "Archdeacon"; The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor [citation details below] gives it as "Lercedekne alias Archdekne." Complete Peerage gives the three generations above him as "l'Arcedekne".

Richard married Joanna Boson. Joanna (daughter of John Boson) was born in of Bosomzeal, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Bosom.