Sir John de Arderne (died about 1349)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Sir John was underage in 1317.

Date of Death: about 1349

Place of Death: unknown.

Sir John’s inquisition post mortem was dated 23 December 1349.

Relationships

Father: Sir John de Arderne.

Mother: Margaret.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (Misc. Pal. pp. 81; Hist. Ches. 2:79).

Spouse: Alice Venables.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (Misc. Pal. pp. 82-3; Hist. Ches. 2:79).

Alice was a daughter of Sir Hugh Venables.

Spouse: Joan de Stokeport.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (Misc. Pal. pp. 82-3; Hist. Ches. 2:79).

Joan was the daughter of Richard de Stokeport, baron of Stokeport, and widow of Sir Nicholas Eton.

Spouse: Ellen de Wastneys.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (Misc. Pal. pp. 82-3; Hist. Ches. 2:79). Ellen was previously Sir John’s concubine. She died between 13 July and 23 December 1349.

Children (by Alice):

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

John de Arderne married Cecily de Eton (later divorced).

Margaret de Arderne contracted to married Nicholas de Eton in 1330.

Peter de Arderne (born about 1327) married Cecily de Bredbury (marriage settlement in 1331).

Children (by Ellen):

Matilda de Arderne married Robert de Legh of Adlington.

Sir Thomas de Arderne (born about 1328)

Walkelyn de Arderne

References

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Ormerod, George. Miscellanea Palatina: consisting of genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families and of a memoir on the Cheshire Domesday roll. (London: T. Richards], 1851).