Joan Pelham

Joan de Courcy1,2,3,4,5
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
F, #33566, b. circa 1410
Father William de Courcy, Lord Courcy of Kinsale d. a 1399
Mother Margaret Peinnel
Joan de Courcy married Sir John Pelham, Chamberlain to Queen Katherine of France, son of Sir John Pelham, Constable of Pevensey Castle, Sheriff of Surrey & Sussex, Lord High Treasurer and Joan Bramshot.2,3,4,5 Joan de Courcy was born circa 1410 at Cauvigny, France.
Family
Sir John Pelham, Chamberlain to Queen Katherine of France d. 1471
Children

• Cecily Pelham+6
• Elizabeth Pelham+7
• Anthony Pelham+ d. 22 Nov 1566
• Katherine Pelham+8,2,3,4,5 d. 1481
• Thomas Pelham+ b. c 1452, d. 1 Feb 1516

Citations
1.[S74] Brent Ruesch's Research Notes.
2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 296.
3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 21.
4.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 503-504.
5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 573-574.
6.[S387] Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 4th Ed., by F. L. Weis., p. 92.
7.[S13] Worldroots.com.
8.[S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 613.
https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1118.htm...
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etc.
Another THOMAS de Pelham (son of the former, as Philpot, Somerset-herald, asserts) is mentioned in a deed dated at Warbleton, in Sussex, on the vigil of St. Philip and James, in 1346, and left issue a son, John de Pelham.
Which JOHN was a person of great fame in the reign of Edw. III. and in memory of his valiant acts, his figure in armour, with the arms of the family on his breast1, was painted in glass, in the chapter house at Canterbury, being (it's probable) a benefactor to the cathedral, or was buried there. He attended that victorious monarch in his wars with the French, and was a competitor in taking John, King of France, prisoner, at the battle of Poictiers, in 1356. etc. Among these, Sir Roger la Warr, and the before-mentioned John de Pelham, were most concerned; and in memory of so signal an action, and the King's surrendering his sword to them, Sir Roger la Warr, Lord la Warr, had the crampet, or chape of his sword, for a badge of that honour; and John de Pelham, (afterwards knighted) had the buckle of a
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belt, as a mark of the same honour, which was sometimes used by his descendants, as a seal-manual, and at others the said buckles on each side a cage; being an emblem of the captivity of the said King of France, and was therefore borne for a crest; as in those times was customary. etc.
The said John de Pelham was so well esteemed by John de Vere, Earl of Oxford (who was also at the battle of Poictiers) that he constituted him one of the executors of his last will and testament, etc. Sir John had certain lands and houses in Winchelsea, in marriage with Joan, daughter to Vincent Herbert, alias Finch, ancestor to the present Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham, and was succeeded by a son of his own name.
JOHN de Pelham, who was no less famous, than his father, for many great achievements and honourable exploits, being, from his youth, in the service of Henry of Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby (son of the before-mentioned Duke of Lancaster) afterwards King of England, by the name of Henry IV. etc.
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He was also created on the the Knights of the Bath, October 13, 1399, at the coronation of that monarch, etc.
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etc. He bequeaths to sixteen of his servants, 6s. 8 d. each, and constitutes Joan his wife, Sir John Pelham Knt. his son, Sir John Brown, Knt. and William Burgoin, Esq; his executors; etc.
The inquisition taken after his death, shews that he died four days after the date of his will, leaving an only son (by his wife, Joan, daughter of Sir John Escures, Knt.) Sir John Pelham, before mentioned, and a daughter, Agnes, the wife of John Colbrond, of Boreham. he has also another daughter, Joan, married to Sir John Seynclere, as from the following letter of his to him appears, wrote in the reign of Henry V. etc.
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Sir JOHN Pelham, his only son, was likewise in the French wars in the reign of Henry V. as is evident from two letters to his father etc.
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He was Chamberlain of the Household to Henry V.'s consort, who in the 3d of Hery VI. stiling herself Catharine, Queen of England, wife of King Henry V. daughter of Charles, King of France, and mother of the King of England, of her especial grace and free-will, and for the good and agreeable service of her best beloved Knight, Sir John Pelham, and Joan de Courcey, his wife, grants to them, for their better maintenance in her service, 50 marks per annum, out of her manors, &c. in England and Wales. etc.
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He had two wives; first, Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir John de Escures; and, secondly, Joan de Courcy, and attendant on Queen Catherine, consort of Henry V. By this last he had the sons before-mentioned and three daughters, Catherine, married first to John Bramshot, Esq; and secondly, to Sir Thomas Lewknor, Knight; Cecily, second daughter, wedded to William Lunsford, of Hotheley, in Com. Suff. Esq; and Joan, the youngest to John Covert, of Slaugham, and secondly to William Ashbornham, of Ashbornham, Esqrs.
JOHN Pelham, his eldest son and heir was a Knight in the 12 year of Henry VI. for then Richard Aylard demises to Sir John Pelham, senior, Knt. and to Sir John Pelham, junior, Knt. and their heirs, all his right in the manor of Ewerst, and also the reversion of all his lands and tenements in Ewerst, North-Hamme, Bekkele, and Idene, which the Lady Joan Brenchesle held for term of their life; whereby it appears, she had a second husband of the name of Brenchesle.
In 13 Hen. VI. he was married to Alice, daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor, Knt. and on Sept. 30, that year, the manor of Laughton and hundred of Shiplake, as also the manors of Noteborn and Chiltington, in county of Sussex, were settled on her in jointure.
In 28 Hen. VI. he, and Alice, his wife had a grant from his father, Sir John Pelham, the manor of Treve, with the Knights's fee, advowson of the free chapel, and all reversions
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appertaining thereto, to hold to them and the heirs of their bodies. Sir John Pelham died without issue male by the said Alice, leaving an only daughter, Isabella, married to John Covert, second son to William Covert, of Sullyngton, in Sussex, Esq; whereby the estate devolved on William, his brother.
This WILLIAM Pelham, Esq, had a grant from his brother Sir John Pelham, dated on September 8, 1468, to him and Emeline his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, of all those lands, tenements, &c. called Colbons, in Laughton; which Emeline was daughter of Nicholas Carryle, of Bentone, in com. Sussex, Esq. The Said William Pelham died, without issue, Feb. 24, 1503. etc.
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