Sir John de Brumpton
Events
Date of Birth: 29 September 1287.
Place of Birth: unknown.
According to his father’s inquisition post mortem, John was aged 27 on 29 September (the Feast of St Michael) 1314.
Date of Death: 19 August 1336.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Bridgeman (p. 12). It is recorded in John’s inquisition post mortem.
Relationships
Father: Sir Adam de Brumpton.
Mother: Mary.
These relationships are given by Bridgeman (p. 11, p. 12).
Spouse: Isabel.
This relationship is given by Bridgeman (p. 12).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John de Brumpton (born about 1310) married (1) Margaret; married (2) Agnes.
Elys de Brumpton (died 1394-5), rector of Neuenham.
William de Brumpton, rector of Longford.
Evidence
from Bridgeman:
On 5th March, 1316, John de Brumpton is certified as one of the Lords of the townships of Brimpton and Wasing, in the county of Berks, and Lord of Middle Aston, in the county of Oxford. He was Sheriff of the counties of Oxford and Berks from 1319 to 1322; in which last year he was one of the commissioners empowered to assemble the forces of the counties of Oxford and Berks, his commission being tested at Worcester on 2nd January. On 25th December, 1325, he was appointed one of the commissioners of array in the county of Berks. And on 23rd February, 1327, being Knight of the Shire returned for the county of Berks, he obtained his writ de expensis for attendance at the Parliament at Westminster on the morrow of the Epiphany, 7th January. He was again returned for the same county to serve in the Parliament summoned to meet at York, 7th February, 1227–28; and in the following Parliament summoned to meet at Northampton a few months later, namely, on 24th April, 1328, he sat for the county of Oxford. In September, 1331, he was again returned for Berkshire, and once more in March, 1331–32. He was also Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1327, 1328, and 1333. I suppose him to have succeeded his mother Mary de Brumpton at Eyton about 1335–56, but he appears to have been in possession of Longford, or at least the advowson of the Church, at an earlier date, for on 5th October, 1332, William de Ipstones, Clerk, was admitted to the Church of Longford on the presentation of Sir John de Brumpton, Knight.
…….He left Isabel his wife surviving, and at least two sons, John and Elys (or Elias). It is probable that William de Brumpton, Clerk, who was admitted to the Church of Longfordjuxta-Newport at the presentation of Dame Isabella, relict of Sir John de Brumpton, 7th August, 1343, was another son of the same Sir John. On 19th September, 1357, the said William exchanged preferments with Elias de Brumpton, late Rector of Newenham, in the Diocese of Lincoln, which Elias occurs as Rector of Longford in 1362, and died in 1394–5. His successor was instituted at the presentation of Sir Robert Franceys, Knight, and his wife Isabel.
John’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM v.8 no. 9):
John de Brompton or de Brumpton
Writ, 8 September, 10 Edward III.
Stafford. Inq. 19 September, 10 Edward III.
Eyton. The manor (extent given) held to himself and his heirs in fee of Ralph, baron of Stafford, by service of a little knight’s fee.
He died on 19 August. John his son, aged 26 years and more, is his next heir.
Salop. Inq. 18 September, 10 Edward III.
Longeford. The manor (extent given) held to himself and his heirs in fee of the king in chief by service of a knight’s fee.
Date of death and heir as above.
Berksire. Inq. 15 September, 10 Edward III.
Brumpton. A messuage and 2 carucates of land (extent given), held jointly with Isabel his wife, of the master of the Hospital (hospitalitatis) of St. John of Jerusalem in England by service of 2s. yearly.
Heir as above, aged 25 years and more.
Oxford. Inq. 16 September, 10 Edward III.
Middelastone. A messuage and 2 carucates of land (extent given), held jointly with Isabel his wife, who still survives, by fine levied in the king’s court, of Robert de Beek by service of 5s. yearly.
Heir as last above.
References
Bridgeman, G.T.O. “The History of the Parish of Church Eaton and its members, Wood Eaton, Orslow, High Onn, Little Onn, Shushions, and Marston” in Collections for a History of Staffordshire v. 4 p. 2. (1883)
“Brimpton” in A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1924).
Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem (Public Record Office, generally available online at British History Online, HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, or Mapping the Medieval Countryside).
Eyton, Robert William. Antiquities of Shropshire v. 8 (1859).