John de la Poyle

Events

Date of Birth: between 1273 and 1276.

Place of Birth: unknown.

John’s age is given variously as 22, 24, and 25 in his father’s inquisitions post mortem taken 27 Edward I (CIPM 3 no. 534) .

Date of Death: 1317.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the VCH of Oxford (6:sub Hampton Poyle). The writ for John’s Middlesex inquisition post mortem is dated 18 October, 11 Edward II (CIPM 6 no. 93).

Relationships

Father: Walter de la Poyle.

This relationship is given by the VCH of Oxford (6:sub Hampton Poyle).

Mother: Alice de Hampton.

This relationship is given by the VCH of Oxford (6:sub Hampton Poyle).

Spouse: Isabel.

This relationship is given in the inquisition post mortem of John’s father Walter (CIPM 3 no. 534) and in his own inquisition post mortem (CIPM 6 no. 93). Isabel died before John.

Spouse: Mabel.

The VCH of Berkshire (sub Chilton) states that Margery was the daughter of Mabel. Greenfield (p. 211) cites a deed in the Gaynesford Cartulary “dated at Crowhurst in Surrey, on Sunday next before Michaelmas Day, 5 Edward III. 1331, whereby Mabill, the widow of Sir John de la Poyle, grants to John de Gaynesford and Margaret his wife, their heirs and assigns, all her lands and tenements in Crowhurst.”

Children:

(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside the scope of this project. Elizabeth was the daughter of Isabel. Margery, and probably John and Henry, were the children of Mabel.)

Elizabeth (Isabel) de la Poyle (born about 1293).

John de la Poyle (about 1303 - 1332).

Henry de la Poyle (about 1311 - 1359).

Margery de la Poyle married John Gainsford.

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume III. Edward I. (London, 1912).

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume VI. Edward II. (London, 1910).

Greenfield, Benjamin Wyatt. “The Descent of the Manor and Advowson of Hampton-Poyle” in The Herald and Genealogist: Volume I, (1863).

"Parishes: Chilton," in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4, ed. William Page and P.H. Ditchfield (London: Victoria County History, 1924), 11-15.

"Parishes: Crowhurst," in A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4, ed. H.E. Maldon (London: Victoria County History, 1912), 274-281.

"Parishes: Hampton Poyle," in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6, ed. Mary D. Lobel (London: Victoria County History, 1959), 160-168.