Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
John seems to have died before his father.
Relationships
Father: Richard de la Bere.
Mother: Sybil de Chabbenore.
These relationships are given in pedigrees in the plea rolls (see below).
Spouse: Agnes.
This relationship is given in a fine (see below). An Agnes Turberville married a John de la Bere, but I am not sure this is the same family.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Violetta de la Bere married Sir John Chaundos in 1363.
Sybil de la Bere (died before 1382) married Thomas Crophulle about 1371.
Kynard de la Bere (died 22 June 1402) married Katherine, the widow of Sir John Pecche in about 1387.
Evidence
from the Feet of Fines (abstracted on Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy):
CP 25/1/82/42, number 138.
Herefordshire.
13 October 1347 Westminster.
John, son of Richard de la Bere, knight, and Agnes, his wife, querents, and Richard, son of Walter de Duynre, and Agnes, his wife, deforciants.
Property: 2 messuages, 2 carucates of land, 6 acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, 36 shillings of rent and a moiety of 1 messuage and of 1 mill in Bromyerd', Hodesbache, Estnore and Parua Tatynton'.
Action: plea of covenant.
Agreement: Richard and Agnes, his wife, have granted to John and Agnes, his wife, the tenements and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to John and Agnes, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, of Richard and Agnes, his wife, and the heirs of Richard for ever, rendering yearly 1 rose at the feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, and doing to the chief lords all other services. In default of such heirs, the tenements shall revert to Richard and Agnes, his wife, and the heirs of Richard, quit of the other heirs of John and Agnes, his wife, to hold of the chief lords for ever.
CP 25/1/83/45, number 203.
Herefordshire.
12 November 1363 Westminster.
John de Oldecastel and Maud, his wife, querents, and John de la Bere, knight, John Gour, Hugh de Monyton' and David Kyngeyn, deforciants.
Property: 2 messuages, 3 carucates of land, 12 acres of meadow, 12 acres of wood and 20 shillings of rent in Kyngescaple, Bayscham and Brokhampton'.
Action: Plea of Covenant
Agreement: John de Oldecastel and Maud have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of John de la Bere, as those which the same John, John Gour, Hugh and David have of their gift. John de la Bere, John Gour, Hugh and David have granted them to John de Oldecastel and Maud and have rendered them to them in the court, to hold to them of the chief lords for their lives, and after their decease they shall remain to Thomas, the son of John and Maud, and the male heirs of his body. In default of such heirs, successive remainders (1) to John, the brother of Thomas, and the male heirs of his body and (2) to the right heirs of Maud.
from the Calendar of Patent Rolls:
1363, October 12. Westminster.
Licence, for 10 marks paid to the king by Thomas de Chaundos, ‘chivaler,’ for him to enfeoff John Gour, Hugh de Montyn, John de Oldecastel and Richard de Hortesleye, parson of the church of Kynardsleye, of four messuages, four carucates of land, 20 acres of meadow and 40s. of rent in Welynton, Vowehop and Snodhull, held in chief, and for them to grant the same to him, for life, with remainder to John, his son, and Violetta daughter of John de la Bere and the heirs of John.
from the Plea Rolls (Wrottesley):
De Banco. Easter. 13. Hen. 4. m. 333 [1412]
Hereford. John Baskerville sued Walter Ismanes, Bailiff of Richard, son of Kinnard de la Bere, for damages for an illegal distraint in Erdisley.
Richard Baskerville, held the land of Ingenard de Elmebrugge, as of his manor of Chabenore.
Richard.
Richard.
Richard.
Richard.
John Baskerville, the plaintiff.
Ingenard gave the manor of Chabenore to
William de Chabbenore.
Thomas. = Sibil.
William.
Sibil. = Richard de la Bere.
John.
Kinard de la Bere.
Richard de la Bere.
References
Wrottesley, G. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls (1905).