John de la Chambre

The Inquisition post mortem of John’s son, Thomas, states that after the death of his mother, Agnes, Thomas’s son, William, would have the reversion of the manor of Chambers’ Court in Litlington, Estden, and Estborne (Attree p. 50).

John is said to be descended from Hugh de la Chambre of Chambers’ Court in Laughton, who in temp. Edward II left lands in Clapham, Litlington, East Dean, and Eastbourne to his son, Gerard de la Chambre (SAC 7:128, 13:258, 14:213).

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1503.

The date is given by Comber (3:90).

Relationships

Father: unknown.

The record of the estreats cited below suggests his name was also John Chambre.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Agnes (died after 2 November 1542).

This relationship is given by Comber (3:90). The Inquisition post mortem of Thomas de la Chambre gives his mother as Agnes, and states that she was still alive 2 Nov. 34 Hen. VIII (Attree p. 50). She was possibly a sister or niece of John Wilfeld, vicar of Saint Andrew in Lewes. 

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information comes from Comber.)

Thomas de la Chambre (died November 1540) married Anne.

Richard de la Chambre (died after 6 June 1548) married Jane Farnfold.

Mary de la Chambre (buried 20 September 1552 in Preston) married Richard Scrase.

Evidence

Duke (p. 1, see also errata) cites a deed dated 6 Edw. II (1312/13) “whereby Hugo de la Chambre, of [Laughton], settles upon his married son and issue, lands in Clapham, Littlington, East Dean, and Eastbourne.” 

John's son Richard appears in the "Villat de Littlyngton" in the 1524 lay subsidy roll.

from the East Sussex Record Office catalogue:

SAS/CP 89 , recording the court roll and rentals of the manor of Clapham otherwise called Chambers in Eastbourne, shows that John Chamber was collecting rent in Eastbourne in about 1450 and 1471.

SAS/CP 160 shows that the court of the manor was held by feoffees of John Chamber in 1481.

SAS/CP 161 is entitled "Manor of Clapham Eastbourne: estreats of the second court of John Chambre the younger," dated 16 October 1500.

SAS/CP 90 deals with the same second court as the above, as well as the court of the late John's feoffees in 1503, and courts of John's widow Agnes in 1505, 1507, and 1509.

from the Feet of Fines for the County of Sussex (1 Henry VII).

3256. John Theccher and John Chambyr v. John Tomson and Petronilla his wife; a messuage and a garden in Lewes; to John and John and heirs of John Theccher. [John Thatcher was one of John Chamber's feoffees in the 1481 record above.]

from the West Sussex Record Office catalogue [not sure if this family is related]:

Deed

28 Feb 1461

We, Richard Hammond, Rector of St. Pancras, Chichester, Humphrey Heuster, and John Vyncent grant to William Jacobbe, citizen of Chichester, our lands, rents, and services in Yapton which we had of the grant of John Fust of Chichester. Sealed. Witnesses, John Chambre, Thomas Nyton, John Stigant, William Shanketon, Henry Cutfoull. Yapton, last day of February 39 Henry VI.

Contemporary copy of grant

?1461 × 1483

By Johan, the relict of John Atte Chambre, to Gregory Fuller of Stedeham, her father, William Fyteshale senr. and John Pypershyt of Fytelworthe, of all lands &c. tenements &c. which the said Johan and the said John atte Chambre late her husband, had by grant of John in the Lane, Walter Forey, clerk, John Elgham, Walter Russel and Richard Huchon at Fynynge, with appurtenances in Rogate, as by a charter of fee simple made thereof. To hold to the said Gregory and others of the chief lord of that fee. Date not given (? Edw. IV)

The 1511 will of John Wilfeld, rector of Saint Andrews in Lewes, makes Agnes Chambir, widow, one of his executors. It leaves her property in Rotherfield. It also leaves Cecilia Chambir 20 s to her marriage, and £10 to William Chambir, a student at Oxford (who was awarded a BA in 1514), as well as a tenement in Cliva near Lewes to William Wilfeld. 

References

Attree, F. W. T. Notes of post mortem inquisitions taken in Sussex: 1 Henry VII to 1649 and after, [1485-1649]. (London: Sussex Record Society, 1912).

Cornwall, Julian. The Lay Subsidy Rolls for the County of Sussex 1524-1525. (Sussex Record Society, 1956).

Duke, George. The Life of Major-General Worge (1844). 

England. Sussex. Genealogies of Families Living in Sussex. A database extraction of John Comber’s Sussex Genealogies (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, 1931 -). John de la Chambre.

Sussex Archaeological Collections, relating to the History and Antiquities of the County (Sussex: Sussex Archaeological Society).

Will of John Wilfeld, rector of Saint Andrew, Lewes, Sussex. Proved 7 February 1511 in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.