John Barttelot
John was treasurer of the hospice for Thomas, earl of Arundel.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 6 February 1428/9.
Place of Burial: presumably Stopham, Sussex.
The date is from a monumental brass in Stopham engraved about 30 years after the death.
Relationships
Father: Adam Barttelot.
Adam Barttelot is given by Robinson, citing a charter of 48 Edward III [1374]. See below in the Evidence section.
Mother: Assoline.
Assoline, daughter of John de Stopham, is given by Robinson, citing the same charter.
Spouse: Joan de Stopham.
This relationship is given by Robinson and by Clark. It is recorded in John and Joan’s brass monumental inscription in the church at Stopham.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John Barttelot (died 1453) married Joan Lewknor.
Joan Barttelot (died 14 September 1459) married John Threle.
Thomas Barttelot (died 1465) married Joan de Warncamp.
Evidence
A charter transcribed by Jenyns in 1672:
Charta Joannis Stopham et Ade Palmer
or
The joynt sale of some lands by John Stopham and Adam Palmer 48 E.3. 1373
Patent universis per praesentes nos Johannes de Stopham et Adam Palmer concessimus et demisus Adae Bartlet et Asselinae uxori ejus et Johanni filio eorundem Adae et Asselinae unum messuagium et unum gardinum quae nuper fuerunt Johanni Sedinghouse cum pertinentibus in East Preston habend’ et tenend’ praedict’ messuagium et gardinum Adae et Asselinae et Johanni ad terminum vitae eorum, &c. In cujus rei testimonium his litteris indentatis praesentia praedict sigilla sua alternativa apposuerunt his testibus Willielmo Stopham, Gilberto Michaelgrove, Willielmo Hammond et allis. Dat’ apud Preston die Lunae proximo ante Festum omnium Sanctorum Anno 22 Edwardi 3tii a conquestu quadragesimo octavo.
from the National Archives catalogue:
SC 8/299/14950
1399
Robert Leukenore, John Bartelot, Robert Atte Lee, Richard Batford, and the entire community of Pulborough, Stopham, Fittleworth, Bury and Petworth, tenants of the Duke of Exeter.
The petitioners state that there used to be a ferry between the hamlets of Pulborough and Stopham, with certain charges for those crossing, until, twenty-eight years ago, Edward St John built a wooden bridge there, to the great benefit of the community and all others passing that way. This bridge is now ruined and dangerous, and they ask for letters patent reviving the old tolls for the ferry, for a period of twelve years, to be paid to the people named above for the rebuilding of the bridge.
from the Calendar of the Close Rolls:
1417. Memorandum of a mainprise made 4 December by Richard Wakehurst, John Bartelot the elder and John Bartelot the younger, all of Sussex, [for Beatrice countess of Arundell, and of an undertaking by her under a pain of 1,000l., that she shall do or procure no hurt or harm to Robert More citizen and skinner of London or any of the people.]
A monumental brass at Stopham reads:
Illustrissimi quo(n)dam Thome Comitis Arundellie hospicii Thesaurarius Joh(ann)es Bartelot hic requiescit / humatus cu(m) uxore sua Johanna quo(n)dam Will(elm)i de Stopham filia qui quidem Joh(ann)es Anno domini / Mo CCCCo xxviijo sexto die Februarii diem suu(m) clausit extremu(m) quor(um) animab(us) propiciet(ur) deus Amen.
[It was probably engraved in the 1460s.]
References
Bertram, Jerome. “Embellishment and Restoration: the Barttelots and their Brasses at Stopham, Sussex” in Monumental Brass Society: Transactions (2012) pp. 334-362.
Clark, Linda. “John Bartelot (d. 1453)” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020).
Jenyns, Roger. The Pedigree of the Ancient Family of the Palmers of Sussex. (1867).
“John Bartelot and wife Joan de Stopham” on Monumental Brass Society (website).
Robinson, C.J. “Stopham” in Sussex Archaeological Collections v. 27. (1877).
Round, J.H. “The Stophams, the Zouches, and the Honour of Petworth” in Sussex Archaeological Collections v. 55. (1912).