Sir David (or Davy) Owen, bastard uncle of King Henry VII of England
Douglas Richardson
Since my original post on the topic of King Henry VII's bastard uncle,
Sir David (or Davy) Owen, I've done additional research on Sir David
Owen's life, marriages, children, and extended descendants. I've
determined that five of Sir David Owen's seven legitimate children
married, four of which left identifiable issue. Of the four children
which had issue, modern descendants can be traced from three of
them.
I've copied below my current file account of Sir David (or Davy) Owen
and his children. Further details on the Owen family can be found in
the forthcoming second editions of my two books, Plantagenet Ancestry
and Magna Carta Ancestry, which new editions are scheduled for
publication later this year.
Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Sir DAVID (or DAVY) OWEN AND HIS IMMEDIATE FAMILY
I. DAVID (or DAVY) OWEN, Knt., of Westminster, Middlesex, Old,
Northamptonshire, Lagham (in Godstone) and Wotton, Surrey, Oxhill,
Warwickshire, and Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, Knight of
the Body to King Henry VII, King’s carver, 1486–1529Constable of
Winchester, 1489, Sheriff of Hampshire, 1498–1499, Knight of the Shire
for Sussex, 1491–1492, 1523, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Cowdray
(in Midhurst), Buddington (in Easebourne), Clemping, Ford, and
Newtimber, Sussex, Weston Corbett, Hampshire, etc., born in
Pembrokeshire, Wales about 1459 (aged 70 in 1529). He fought at the
Battle of Bosworth 22 Aug. 1485 on behalf of his nephew, Henry Tudor
[afterwards King Henry VII]. He was granted the manor of Oxhill,
Warwickshire following the forfeiture of John Catesby of Lapworth in
1485. He was one of the twelve knight bachelors who held the canopy
at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth of York in 1487. In 1489 he was
granted the manors of Little Creaton and Old, Northamptonshire,
forfeited by William Catesby. He married (1st) MARY BOHUN, daughter
and co-heiress of John Bohun, of Midhurst, Sussex, Kelvedon, Essex,
etc. They had three sons, Henry (or Harry), Knt., Jasper, and Roger,
and one daughter, Anne. In 1495 he and Robert Southwell presented to
the church of North Crawley, Buckinghamshire in right of their
respective wives, Mary and Ursula Bohun. He was probably made a
knight banneret in 1493. He was one of the king’s favorites denounced
by Warbeck in 1497. David married (2nd) before 1500 ANNE BLOUNT,
widow of Thomas Oxenbridge, Gent. (will dated 12 Nov. 1496, proved 8
Feb. 1497), of Ford Place (in Brede), Sussex, Lambeth and Southwark,
Surrey, and London, Serjeant-at-law, and daughter of William Blount,
Esq., of Derbyshire, by Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas
Echingham, Knt. (descendant of King Henry III) [see ECHINGHAM 13.i.a
for her ancestry]. She was co-heiress in 1475 to her brother, Edward
Blount, 2nd Lord Mountjoy. They had no issue. In the period, 1493–
1500, he and his wife, Anne, together with Andrew Windsor, Esq. and
his wife, Elizabeth, as “sisters and heirs of Edward Blownte, Lord
Mountjoye, daughters and heirs of William Blounte, esquire, father of
the said Edward, and cousins and heirs of Walter Blownte, late Lord
Mountjoy” sued William Dreyton, clerk, and Thomas Hunte, feoffees to
uses, and others in Chancery regarding the detention of deeds relating
to the manors of Barton, Sutton, and Sapperton and other manors and
lands late of Anne, Duchess of Buckingham, and of the said Walter,
Lord Mountjoy in cos. Derby, Stafford, Worcester, Rutland, Leicester,
and Hants. In the period, 1502–1503, the same parties sued Robert
Tykhyll, Thomas Corneby, and Thomas Lathome, executors of Harry
Tykhyll in Chancery regarding the detention of deeds relating to the
inheritance and possessions of the said Anne and Elizabeth. He served
as one of the chief mourners at the funeral of King Henry VII in
1509. He attended the Coronation of King Henry VIII in 1509. He
presented to the church of North Crawley, Buckinghamshire in 1510.
His wife, Anne, was living 20 July [?1510]. He led 100 men in the
expedition to France in 1513. He made a settlement of the manor of
Buddington (in Easebourne), Sussex in 1513. He was present at the
marriage of Princess Mary Tudor and King Louis XII of France in 1514.
He served as chief carver to the king on St. George’s Day, 1517. In
the period, 1518–1529, he sued John Bower, late under-steward of
complainant’s manors of Midhurst and Easebourne, Sussex regarding the
detention of deeds relating to the said manors. In 1519 he purchased
the manor of Isenhampstead Latimer, Buckinghamshire from Robert
Willoughby, Lord Brook. He attended King Henry VIII at the Field of
the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He married (3rd) before 1525 ANNE
DEVEREUX, daughter of John Devereux, Knt., 2nd Lord Ferrers of
Chartley, by Cecily, daughter of William Bourgchier, Knt. They had
two sons, Henry (or Harry) and John, Esq., and one daughter,
Elizabeth. By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had one
illegitimate son, William, and one illegitimate daughter, Barbara. In
1526 he was among those who escorted the king to Petworth. In 1528 he
sold his life interest in the Bohun estates to William Fitzwilliam,
Knt., reserving the right to live at Cowdray (in Midhurst), Sussex.
In 1530 he brought an action against Fulk Greville and Francis
Dawtrey, husbands respectively of Elizabeth and Blanche,
granddaughters and heirs of Robert Willoughby, who had entered the
manor of Isenhampstead Latimer (in Chesham), Buckinghamshire “with
Bucklers, Daggers, Bowes and Arrowes'”and turned out his tenant,
Robert Durrant. SIR DAVID (or DAVY) OWEN was buried in Easebourne
Priory, Sussex on or about 27 Sept. 1535. He left a will dated 20
Feb. 1529/30, codicil dated 6 May 1535, proved 13 May 1542 (P.C.C. 6
Spert). Following his death, his widow, Anne, petitioned in 1535 for
the money and household stuff which her husband had at his death, and
for the custody of her son, John. Anne married (2nd) before 1538
NICHOLAS GAYNESFORD, Esq., of Ditchling, Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and
Sussex, 1537–1538, 2nd son of John Gaynesford, Knt., of Crowhurst,
Surrey, Knight of the Shire for Surrey, Sheriff of Surrey, by his 1st
wife, Anne, daughter and heiress of Otwell Worsley. They had no
issue. In the period, 1533–1538, Nicholas and Anne, his wife, and her
son, John Owen, sued Simon Harecourt, Knt., in Chancery regarding the
manor of Lagham (in Godstone), Surrey, late of Davy Owen, Knt., former
husband of the said Anne, and father of the said John. In 1540 he was
among those appointed to receive Anne of Cleves. NICHOLAS GAYNESFORD,
Esq., left a will dated 4 August 1548, proved 18 Jan. 1549/50 (P.C.C.
1 Coode), naming his wife, Anne “… fourtyme wife of Sir David Owen,
knight, deceaed.”). His widow, Anne, married (3rd) before 1549 (as
his 3rd wife) JOHN HARMAN, Esq., of Naunton Hall (in Rendlesham),
Suffolk, Gentleman Usher of the Household, 1540–1558, Burgess (M.P.)
for Orford, ?1536, ?1539, 1545, 1547, 1554, Burgess (M.P.) for
Bletchingley, 1554, son and heir of Christopher Harman, of Tunstall,
by his 1st wife, Cecily, daughter of Robert Fitz Ralph. They had no
issue. In the period, 1532–1538, Thomas Cunnyngham, of Winston,
husbandman sued him in Chancery regarding the manor of Bocking Hall,
Suffolk, held on lease of the abbess of Bruisyard. In 1544 he served
in the French campaign, where he had charge of the gunners. In 1548
her son, John Owen, sold the reversion of the manor of Little Creaton,
Northamptonshire to be had following the death of his mother, Anne.
In 1552 he conveyed the manors of Naunton Hall and Caketon (both in
Rendlesham), Suffolk to James Spencer. JOHN HARMAN, Esq., was living
in Dec. 1558, when he attended the funeral of Queen Mary I.
References:
Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 700–702 (will of David Owen). Banks,
Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 378–380 (“It seems
that Owen Tudor had a natural son, called sir David Owen, who married
three wives; viz. first, Anne, daughter and heir of William Blount,
who died S.P.; second, Mary, daughter and co-heir of John de Bohun, of
Midhurst, by whom he had three sons; viz. Henry, Jasper, and Roger;
also a daughter Anne, who married Arthur Hopton, esq. His third wife
was Anne, sister to Walter Devereux, lord Ferrers, of Chartley.”).
Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 83 (re. Blount fam.). Jerdan, Rutland
Papers. Original Docs. Ill. of the Courts & Times of Henry VII & Henry
VIII (Camden Soc. 21) (1842): 101. Banks, Baronies in Fee 1 (1844):
126–127 (Blount), 129 (Bohun). Halliwell, Letters of the Kings of
England 1 (1848): 202–204. Sussex Arch. Colls. 7 (1854): 22–43.
Arch. Jour. 12 (1855): 99–100 (“Mr. Blaauw … has furnished four
papers. One is on the effigy of Sir David Owen, in Easeborne Church,
near Midhurst …. the illegitimate son of Owen Tudor, who, by his
marriage with Katherine, the widowed queen of Henry V., became the
stepfather of Henry VI., and was the grandfather of Henry VII. It had
seemed so improbable that a son of this Owen Tudor should have died in
1542, that Nicolas, Baker, and some other genealogists, had supposed a
generation had been overlooked, and that Sir David was Owen Tudor’s
grandson. He had even been mistaken for a son of Henry VIII. Mr.
Blaauw has explained this most satisfactorily, by means of the
deposition made by Sir David himself as a witness at the time of the
divorce of Henry VIII. from his Queen Katherine of Arragon was in
agitation; which shows that he was born in 1459, about two years
before the execution of Owen Tudor, and consequently was only eighty-
three years of age at his own death in 1542.”). Burke, Gen. Hist. of
the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, & Extinct Peerages (1866): 690 (sub
Windsor). Antiquary 3 (1873): 305; 37 (1901): 253. Notes & Queries
5th Ser. 7 (1877): 89, 155, 252, 455; 6th Ser. 6 (1882): 289–290.
Harvey et al., Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 & 1669 (H.S.P.
19) (1884): 187–188 (Addl. Pedigrees) (Owen pedigree: Sr David Owen of
Medhurste in com. Sussex Knt. [1] = Mary d. & heire of John Bohun of
Medhurste vide Sussex 1 wife, [2] = Anne d. & coheire of Will’m Blount
sonn and heire of Walter Blount 1 Lord Mountjoy 2 wiffe.”) (Owen arms:
[Gules], a chevron [ermine] between three esquires’ helmets argent).
Gairdner, Letters & Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 9 (1886):
143–165, 367–402. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27)
(1888): 20–21 (Blount pedigree: “Anne [Blount] 1 vx. Thomas Oxenbridg
of …. in com. …2 to Sr David Owen of Medhurst in com. Susex.”).
Stevens, Parochial Hist. of St. Mary Bourne (1888): 139 (re.
Oxenbridge fam.). Desc. Cat. of Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 75–76; 3
(1900): 74–85. Lewis, Pedes Finium; or, Fines rel. to the County of
Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 210. List of
Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 55,
137. Benolte et al., Vis. of Sussex 1530, 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905):
122 (Owen pedigree: “Sr David Owen of Medhurst in com. Sussex knt.
naturall sonn. [1] = [left blank], [2] = Anne d. & coheire of Willm.
Blount sonn & heire the 1 Lord Mountjoye 2 wiffe widdow of Thom.
Oxenbridge.”). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 386–388. Copinger, County of
Suffolk 4 (1909): 318–319. D.N.B. 19 (1909): 1217–1218 (biog. of Owen
Tudor) (author states that “a natural son of Owen, called Dafydd, is
said to have been knighted by Henry VII, who gave him in marriage
Mary, daughter and heiress of John Bohun of Midhurst in Sussex.”).
Gainsford Annals of the House of Gainsford (1909): 36–37, 140.
Williams, Llyfr Baglan, or, Book of Baglan (1910): 36 (“The mothere of
Edmont ap Owene and Jaspar ap Owen was Caterin, Queene of England, da.
to Charles k. of ffaunce. The wief of Sr dauid ap Owene, the 3 sone
to Owen Tudyr, was Joyes, the da. of Sr Edward Crofte.”), 37. VCH
Surrey 3 (1911): 154–164, 290–293; 4 (1912): 283–291. Burke, Gen. &
Heraldic Hist. of the Peerage & Baronetage (1914): 1000–1002 (sub
Hereford). Griffith, Peds. of Anglesey & Carnarvonshire Fams. (1914):
106 (Plas Penmynydd pedigree) (Sir David Owen identified as an
illegitimate son of Owen Tudor). Salzman, Feet of Fines Rel. Sussex 3
(Sussex Rec. Soc. 23) (1916): 296–301. Brewer, Letters & Papers,
Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 1 (1920): 8–24, 815–833, 869–887 (Sir
David Owen styled “cousin” by Lord Herbert in 1513). VCH Buckingham 3
(1925): 203–218; 4 (1927): 327–338. C.P. 5 (1926): 325–326 (sub
Ferrers); 9 (1936): 336–337 (sub Mountjoy). Wedgwood, Hist. of
Parliament 1 (1936): 654–655 (biog. of Sir David Owen). VCH
Northampton 4 (1937): 100–107, 200–204. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 125.
Dibben, Cowdray Archives 2 (1964): 326–327, 329, 334. VCH Wiltshire 8
(1965): 218–234. VCH Sussex 2 (1973): 84–85; 4 (1953): 47–53, 74–80;
7 (1940): 204–208; 9 (1937): 169. VCH Sussex 2 (1973): 84–85; 4
(1953): 47–53, 74–80; 7 (1940): 204–208. Williams, Religion, Language
& Nationality in Wales ( 1979): 178. Bindoff ,House of Commons 1509–
1558 2 (1982): 302 (biog. of John Harman). VCH Cambridge 8 (1982):
111–124. Bartrum, Welsh Gens. 1400–1500 8 (1983): 1284 [Marchudd 13
(A)]. Ives, Common Lawyers of Pre-Reformation England: Thomas Kebell,
A Case Study (1983): 471 (biog. of Thomas Oxenbridge). MacCulloch
Reign of Henry VIII (1995): 64. Weir, Wars of the Roses (1996):
100. West Sussex Record Office, Cowdray Archives, COWDRAY/12 (Draft
will of Sir Davy [David] Owen, Knt. dated 20 Feb 1529/30) (abstract of
document available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
National Archives, C 1/217/19; C 1/268/24; C 1/551/72; C 1/767/35; C
1/804/16; C 1/1148/40 (abstract of documents available online at
http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
Children of David Owen, Knt., by Mary Bohun:
1. HENRY (or HARRY) OWEN, Knt., of Pulborough and Newtimber, etc.,
Sussex, and London. He married (1st) JOYCE CROFT, daughter of Edward
Croft, Knt., by Joyce, daughter and heirss of Walter Skull, Knt. They
had no issue. He married (2nd) before 1516 DOROTHY WEST, daughter of
Thomas West. K.G., K.B., 8th Lord la Warre, 5th Lord West (descendant
of King Henry III), by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh
Mortimer, Knt. (descendant of King John). They had one son, David
(living 1530), and three daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Nicholas
Dering, Esq.), Mary (wife of John Warnet, Gent.), and Anne (wife of
James Gage, Esq.). He presented to the church of North Crawley,
Buckinghamshire in 1509. He was heir in or before 1513 to his aunt,
Ursula Bohun, wife of Robert Southwell, Chief Butler of England. In
1513 John Berney, William Wotton, and Robert Southwell, the younger,
demised to him “as son and heir of Mary, late wife of David Owen,
Knt., a daughter and heir of John Bohun, [and] as kinsman and heir of
Ursula, late wife of Robert Southwell, another daughter and heir of
John Bohun” the manor of Filolles Hall, with appurtenances in
Kelveden, Esterford, Tolleshunt, Coggeshale, and Great Braxstede,
Essex, with remainders in succession to Jasper Owen, brother of Henry,
Anne wife of Arthur Hopton, sister of Henry, and the right hiers of
the said Henry Owen. In 1520 and 1522 he conveyed his half share of
the manor of Newtimber, Sussex to Thomas Cheyne and others. In 1528
he conveyed the reversion of the manor of Cowdray (in Midhurst),
together with lands and tenements in Cowdray, Fernhurst, Midhurst,
Easebourne, and Heyshott, Sussex, and all his lands called the Marshe
in Climping and Ford, Sussex to William Fitzwilliam, Knt. for the sum
of £1,224. In the period, 1533–1538, he sued the Mayor and sheriffs
of London; Humphrey Browne, King’s sergeant, and William Birche in
Chancery regarding a debt partly satisfied by the sale of land in
Essex. In 1537 he conveyed the advowson of the church and some land
in North Crawley, Buckinghamshire to Robert Dormer, Knt.
References:
Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 700–702 (will of David Owen).
Retrospective Review 2nd ser. 1 (1827): 474 (re. Croft fam.). .Banks,
Baronies in Fee 1 (1844): 126–127 (Blount), 129 (Bohun). Elwes, Hist.
of the Castles, Mansions, & Manors of Western Sussex (1876): 53.
Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 7 (1877): 89, 155, 252, 455; 6th Ser. 6
(1882): 289–290; 8th ser. 10 (1896): 486; 10th ser. 7 (1907): 102–103
(re. Gage fam.). Harvey et al., Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634
& 1669 (H.S.P. 19) (1884): 187–188 (Addl. Pedigrees) (Owen pedigree:
“Sr Henery Owen of Medhurst [1] = Joyce d. of Sr Edward Crofts & aunt
of Sr James. 1 wiffe, [2] = Dorathey d. of Thom. West Lord Delaware 2
wiffe.”). Desc. Cat. of Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 76. Gairdner &
Brodie, Letters & Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 15 (1896):
379. Clutterbuck & Webb, Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton,
Penton Mewsey, Weyhill & Wherwell (1898): 178–185. Benolte et al.,
Vis. of Sussex 1530, 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 122 (Owen pedigree:
“Sr Henery Owen of Medhurst in com. Sussex knt. [1] = Joyce d. of Sr.
Edward Croftes of …. in com. Herefford 1 wiffe Aunt of Sr James, [2] =
Dorothey d. & heire of Thom. West Lord Delaware 2 wiffe.”). C.P. 4
(1916): 157, footnote a (sub De La Warr). Brewer, Letters & Papers,
Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 1 (1920): 217–234. VCH Buckingham 4
(1927): 327–338. Sussex Arch. Colls. 77 (1936): 255. VCH Sussex 4
(1953): 74–80; 7 (1940): 204–208. Bartrum, Welsh Gens. 1400–1500 8
(1983): 1284 [Marchudd 13(A)]. Siddons, Visitations by the Heralds in
Wales (H.S.P. n.s. 14) (1996): 89 (1531 Visitation) (Croft of Croft
pedigree: “Joyce [Croft] maryed Sir Harry Oweyne, in Sussex.”). West
Sussex Record Office, Cowdray Archives, COWDRAY/8,COWDRAY/9, COWDRAY/
10, COWDRAY/11, COWDRAY/12 (Draft will of Sir Davy [David] Owen, Knt.
dated 20 Feb 1529/30) (abstract of document available online at
http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp). National Archives, E 40/648
(abstract of document available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
2. JASPER OWEN, Knt., of Coventry, Warwickshire, younger son. He
married ELIZABETH _____. They had no issue. In 1517 he quitclaimed
his right in seven messuages in the parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and
St. Michael’s, Cornhill, London to George Monoux. In 1522 he served
in the military expedition which departed from Calais and went into
Picardy. He was a legatee in the 1530 will of his father. In 1545
Shrewsbury wrote to the Privy Council requesting that Jasper Owen who
had been taken prisoner in Scotland be exchanged for John Hume, a
Scotsman being held prisoner in England. In the period, 1553–1555,
Elizabeth, late the wife of Jasper Owen, Knt. sued Robert Catlyn,
Esq., regarding the detention of the will of Henry [Stafford], Lord
Stafford, Earl of Wiltshire.
References:
Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 700–702 (will of David Owen). Nichols,
Chronicle of Calais (Camden Soc. 35) (1846): 31–32. Harvey et al.,
Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 & 1669 (H.S.P. 19) (1884): 187–
188 (Addl. Pedigrees) (Owen pedigree: “Jasper Owen.”). Desc. Cat. of
Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 76. Bain, Hamilton Papers 2 (1892): 587.
Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines relating to the County of Surrey (Surrey
Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 210. Gairdner & Brodie, Letters &
Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 15 (1896): 379. Benolte et
al., Vis. of Sussex 1530, 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 122 (Owen
pedigree: “Jasper Owen.”). Coventry Archives, Miscellaneous docs.
rel. principally to the Coventry area, PA/101/138/19 (abstract of
document available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
West Sussex Record Office, Cowdray Archives, COWDRAY/12 (Draft will of
Sir Davy [David] Owen, Knt. dated 20 Feb 1529/30) (abstract of
document available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
National Archives, C 1/1372/34; E 40/648 (abstract of documents
available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
3. ANNE OWEN. She married (as his 2nd wife) ARTHUR HOPTON, Knt., of
Westwood (in Blythburgh) and Cockfield Hall (in Yoxford), Suffolk,
Justice of the Peace for Suffolk, 1514–1555, Knight of the Body to
King Henry VIII, Knight of the Shire for Suiffolk, 1539, 1542, 2nd son
of George Hopton, of Swillington, Yorkshire and Westwood (in
Blythburgh), Suffolk, by Thomasine, daughter of ____ Sothill. He was
born in 1489 (aged 18 months in 1491). They had six sons, Owen, Knt.,
Ralph, Knt. [Marshal of the Palace], Robert, Knt. [Marshal of the
Palace], Thomas, Charles, and John, and four daughters, Margaret (wife
of Anthony Cockett and Arthur Robsart), Frances (wife of ____ Miller,
_____ Jermy, Thomas Neville, Knt., and William Hovell), Mary (wife of
Richard Gurney and William Butler), and Dorothy (wife of _____ Berry,
of Norwich, or John Byryss, Esq., of Colchester). He was heir in 1491
to his older brother, John Hopton. He married (1st) MAUD DYMOKE,
daughter of Robert Dymoke, Knt., of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire [see
READE 13], by whom he had no issue. He served in the war in France in
1513, being knighted at the Battle of the Spurs. He attended King
Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in June 1520, and at the
meeting with Emperor Charles V in 1522. His wife, Anne, was a legatee
in the 1530 will of her father, who bequeathed her a standing cup of
silver. He attended the Coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1533. He
took an active part in suppressing the Northern Rebellion in 1536. In
1538 he was granted in tail male the house and site of the dissolved
priory of Blythburgh, Suffolk, together with the manors of Blythburgh
and Hinton Hall. In 1541 or 1542 he sold the manor of Swillington,
Yorkshire. In 1544 he captained 100 soldiers in the French campaign.
SIR ARTHUR HOPTON died 15 (or 16) Aug. 1555. His wife, Anne, survived
him. Gardner Hist. Account of Dunwich (1754): 140–141. Testamenta
Vetusta 2 (1826): 700–702 (will of David Owen).
References:
Bentley, Excerpta Historica (1833): 329. Gurney, Rec. of the House of
Gournay 2 (1848): 481 (Hovell pedigree). St. George & Lennard, Vis.
of Somerset 1623 (H.S.P. 11) (1876): 56–57 (Hopton pedigree: “Sir
Arthur Hopton of Cockfield. = Ann d. of Sir David Owen of Cowdrey in
co. Sussex.”). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 6 (1882): 289–290. Harvey et
al., Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 & 1669 (H.S.P. 19) (1884):
187–188 (Addl. Pedigrees) (Owen pedigree: “Anne [Owen] ux. Sr Arther
Hopton Knt.”). Desc. Cat. of Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 76. Harvey et
al., Vis. of Norfolk 1563 & 1613 (H.S.P. 32) (1891): 80–81 (Cockett
pedigree). Misc. Gen. et Heraldica 3rd Ser. 3 (1900): 9–12 (Hopton
pedigree), 49–53. Benolte et al., Vis. of Sussex 1530, 1633–4 (H.S.P.
53) (1905): 122 (Owen pedigree: “Anne [Owen] ux. Sr Arthur Hopton
knt. hee was of Westwood in com. Suffolk.”). Williams, Llyfr Baglan,
or, Book of Baglan (1910): 37. Harvey, Vis. of Suffolk 1561 2 (H.S.P.
n.s. 3) (1981): 300–305 (Hopton pedigree). Bindoff, House of Commons
1509–1558 2 (1982): 387–389 (biog. of Sir Arthur Hopton), 389 (biog.
of Sir Ralph Hopton). Bartrum, Welsh Gens. 1400–1500 8 (1983): 1284
[Marchudd 13(A)]. National Archives, E 40/648 (abstract of document
available online at http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
West Sussex Record Office, Cowdray Archives, COWDRAY/12 (Draft will of
Sir Davy [David] Owen, Knt. dated 20 Feb 1529/30) (abstract of
document available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Children of David Owen, Knt., by Anne Devereux:
4. JOHN OWEN, Esq., of Wotton, Surrey, Weston Corbett, Hampshire, Old,
Northamptonshire, Buddington (in Easebourne), Sussex, Oxhill,
Warwickshire, etc., born about 1525 (aged 10 in 1535). He married
ELIZABETH (or ISABEL) CATESBY, daughter of Richard Catesby, Knt., of
Legers Ashby, Northamptonshire, by his 1st wife, Dorothy, daughter of
John Spencer, Knt. They had one son, Henry, Esq. In the period, 1544–
1551, John, son of David Owen, Knt., and of Anne his last wife, sued
Roger Dennys, an executor of the said Sir David, regarding the manors
of Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, Wotton, Surrey, Oxhill,
Warwickshire, and Isenhampstead Latimer, Buckinghamshire, etc. In
1547 he leased the manor of Oxhill, Warwickshire to John Broughton for
a term of 41 years at an annual rent of £6 12s. In 1548 he sold the
reversion of the manor of Little Creaton, Northamptonshire expectant
on the death of his mother to Thomas Twigden. The same year he sold
his interest in the manor of Isenhampstead Latimer (in Chesham),
Buckinghamshire to Fulk Greville and his wife, Elizabeth. In 1556 he
conveyed the manor of Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire to
Christopher Bailey, in return for an annuity of £42. In 1557 he sold
the manor of Buddington (in Easebourne), Sussex to John Parkehurst.
In 1558 he sold the manor of Old, Northamptonshire to Gregory Isham.
The same year he sold the manor of Weston Corbett, Hampshire to James
Altham, Alderman of London. JOHN OWEN, Esq. died in 1559. His widow,
Elizabeth, married (2nd) at Carshalton, Surrey 19 May 1559 JOHN
PRESTALL (or PRESTOLFE, PRISTON).
References:
Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 700–702 (will of David Owen).
Lennard & Vincent, Vis. of Warwick 1619 (H.S.P. 12) (1877): 124–127
(Catesby pedigree: “Elizb. [Catesby] ux. John Owen de Wotton in Surey,
2 to John Prestolfe.”). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 6 (1882): 289–290.
Harvey et al., Vis. of Bedfordshire 1566, 1582, 1634 & 1669 (H.S.P.
19) (1884): 187–188 (Addl. Pedigrees) (Owen pedigree: “John Owen of
Wootton in com. Bedford. = Elizebeth d. of Sr Richard Catesby of
Legers Ashby in com. Northampton.”). Metcalfe, Vis. of
Northamptonshire 1564 & 1618–9 (1887): 10 (1564 Vis.) (Catesby
pedigree: “Isabel [Catesby], mar. to John Owen of Wootton, co. Surrey,
Esq.”), 172–174 (Appendix) (“Elizabeth [Catesby], ux. John
Prestolfe.”). Benolte et al., Vis. of Sussex 1530, 1633–4 (H.S.P. 53)
(1905): 122 (Owen pedigree: “John Owen of Wootton in com.
Bedfford.”). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 386–388. VCH Surrey 3 (1911):
154–164. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 203–218. VCH Northampton 4 (1937):
100–107, 200–204. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 125. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965):
218–234. West Sussex Record Office, Cowdray Archives, COWDRAY/12
(Draft will of Sir Davy [David] Owen, Knt. dated 20 Feb 1529/30)
(abstract of document available online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
Parish regs. of Carshalton, Surrey [FHL Microfilm 97134 item 1].
5. ELIZABETH OWEN. She was a legatee in the 1529 will of her father,
she then being unmarried. She married before 27 April 1535 THOMAS
BURGH, Knt., of Lincolnshire, Chiddingstone, Kent, etc., 2nd son and
heir apparent of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Lord Burgh. SIR THOMAS BURGH was
living 13 Nov. 1537, but died before 8 March 1543. In 1543 an Act was
passed in Parliament which declared Elizabeth's three children,
Margaret, Humphrey, and Arthur, to be bastards. Queen Katherine Parr,
who was also, briefly, one of Lord Burgh’s daughters-in-law, paid
Elizabeth a pension from her own chamber accounts during her tenure as
queen in the period, 1543–1547.
References:
Hasted, Hist. & Top. Survey of Kent 3 (1797): 210–227. Nicolas,
Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 700–702 (will of David Owen). Le
Marchant, Report of the Procs. of the House of Lords on the Claims to
the Barony of Gardner (1828): 472 (re. the bastardized children of
Elizabeth Owen, wife of Thomas Burgh). Nicolas, Treatise on the Law
of Adulterine Bastardy (1836): 60–61, 577. Brewer, Letters & Papers,
Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 4 (1875): 356–372. Gairdner Letters &
Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 8 (1885): 218–241; 12(2)
(1891): 47–85, 370–386. Cole, Hist. of the Manor & Township of
Doddington (1897): 41–44 (re. Burgh fam.). Gairdner & Brodie, Letters
& Papers, Foreign & Domestic, Henry VIII 18(1) (1901): 46 (“Cap. xl.
[o. n. 32]. “That, whereas Eliz. Burgh, late wife of Sir Thos. Burgh,
dec., son and heir apparent of Thos. lord Burgh, lived in adultery
during her husband's lifetime, and had children, Margaret, Humfrey,
and Arthur by other persons than her husband, as she has partly
confessed, these children are to be taken for bastards.”). Harris,
English Aristocratic Women,1450–1550 (2002): 84–85. West Sussex Record
Office, Cowdray Archives, COWDRAY/12 (Draft will of Sir Davy [David]
Owen, Knt. dated 20 Feb 1529/30) (abstract of document available
online at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).