Vivian Davenport, of Davenport

Wikitfree: Vivian (Davenport) de Davenport (abt. 1204–abt. 1291)

• Last updated 27 Aug 2021 – Vivian "Baron Davenport of Marton" de Davenport formerly Davenport
• Born about 1204 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
• Son of Richard (Davenport) de Davenport and [mother unknown]
• Husband of Beatrix (Hulme) Davenport — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
• Died about 1291 at about age 87 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England
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Books

• Beers, J. H., ed. 1899. Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families. Vol. 1. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Company. Google Books.
• Bulkeley, E. W., ed. 1888. "Prestbury and Mottram Parishes." In Advertiser Notes and Queries, Vol. 8, Stockport, England: Swain and Company. Google Books.
• Davenport, Amzi Benedict. 1851. A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family: In England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850... New York: S. W. Benedict. Google Books.
  • Davenport, Amzi Benedict. (1876) 2024. A Supplement to The History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family, in England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850. Reprint eBook. Frankfurt, Deutschland: Outlook Verlag. Google Books.
• Davenport, Roger. 2022. A Journey Through History with the Davenports. Vol. 1. Alexandria, Australia: Balboa Press. Google Books. eBook ISBN: 9781982296056.
  • “Vivian de Davenport (B circ 1200 to 1260) who was Richard's successor married about 1223 to Beatrix de Hulme (B Circ 1208 to 1280. He was appointed the Grand Sergeancy of the Forest leek and Macclesfield between 1209 & 1226.”
• Earwaker, John Parsons. 1877. East Cheshire: Past and Present: or, A History of the Hundred of Macclesfield, in the County Palatine of Chester. from Original Records. Vol. 2. London: Wyman & Sons. Google Books.
• Highet, T. P. 1960. Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Vol. 9. The Early History of the Davenports of Davenport. Manchester, England: Chetham Society. Google Books.
• Jewitt, Llewellynn, ed. 1865. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, Quarterly Archæological Journal and Review. Vol. 5. Benrose & Sons. Google Books.
• Ormerod, George. 1882. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities. Vol. 3. Google Books.

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Vivian DAVENPORT of DAVENPORT is likely to have been born previous to 1190. He was living at the time of John and 18 Hen. 3. and was certainly alive previous to 1205. He is known to have been flourishing in 1254 and to have died in 1260.

Sometime between 1217-1226, he was granted the hereditary offices of Sergeant of the Peace for the Hundred and Grand Forester of the Forests of Macclesfield by the Earl of Chester. He exchanged his land called Wilwhich for this grant. A robber roll in the possession of the Davenports at Capesthorne records the execution of 120 thieves, robbers, murderers and cutpurses.

• To Richard DAVENPORT of DAVENPORT, he was successor as the Lord of Davenport and Marton in County Cheshire, England. Randle Blunderville, the Earl of Chester, furnished Vivian DAVENPORT of DAVENPORT with a grant of magisterial serjeancy over the forests of the Hundred of Macclesfield and Leek. Vivian DAVENPORT of DAVENPORT held the rents of Edmund de Lacy, the constable of Cheshire. The name of Vivian DAVENPORT of DAVENPORT appears as witness in more than forty charters. He was living at the time of John and 18 Hen. 3.

Family

• Parents: Son of Richard Davenport
• Married: Beatrix, daughter of Bertrand de Hulme

Children

1. Roger Davenport. Married Mary Salemon.
2. Edward de Davenport de Newton, living in 1272. He assumed the name of Newton, and became the ancestors of the Newtons of Newton
3. Richard de Davenport, who was the father of Roger de Tornock, and who had lands in Somerford Booths.
4. Robert de Davenport, living in 1272; he assumed the name of Lawton, and was the ancestor of the Lawtons of Lawton.
5. Beatrix Davenport, in some pedigrees called the wife of Betrand de Hulme
6. Thomas de Davenport

~A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family: In England and America, pp. 65-66

(Ormerod) "He was given a charter for the grand serjeanty of the forests of Leek and Macclesfield and the quittance of juries of the country and hundred; was living in the time of John and 18 Henry III (1234). His children are given in the following order: Edward, Robert, Roger, Richard (3rd son), Thomas and Beatrice."

(Dav. Geneal.) "Grand sergeancy charter given between 1209 and 1226. Children named in given order."

Links

• https://cybergata.com/roots/3789.htm
• http://gennotes.150m.com/davenport.html

Find A Grave ®: Vivian de Davenport

• BIRTH: 1190 – Davenport, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
• DEATH: 1260 (aged 69–70) – Davenport, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
• BURIAL: St Peter Churchyard, Prestbury, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
  • Vivian de Davenport, was likely born sometime before 1190, was living in 1254 and died in 1260. He was buried at Prestbury church, under the pavement of the Tytherington Chantry. In the 1880s, fragments of the covering of a stone coffin with the remains of a Norman French inscription were found there.
  • According to Omerod [History of Cheshire, 3:68], he married Beatrix de Hulme, daughter of Bertrand de Hulme. Sometime between 1217-1226, he was granted the hereditary offices of Sergeant of the Peace for the Hundred and Grand Forester of the Forests of Macclesfield by the Earl of Chester. He exchanged his land called Wilwhich for this grant. A robber roll in the possession of the Davenports at Capesthorne records the execution of 120 thieves, robbers, murderers and cutpurses.
  • Children were:
    • Roger, married Mary Salemon
    • Edward, living in 1272; assumed the name of Newton and became the ancestor of the Newtons of Newton
    • Richard, father of Roger de Tornock
    • Peter
    • Henry
    • Thomas
    • Beatrix, m. Bertram de Hulme
      • Source: The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 78-79