Edward St John (died 1389) explained

Sir Edward St John (died 7 March 1389), of Londesborough and Weaverthorpe, Yorkshire was an English landowner.

St John was a younger son of Edward St John of Litchfield and Sherborne and Eve Dawtrey.[1] In 1361, Edward granted his estate in Chirton, Wiltshire, to his brother Richard and his wife Margaret, in tail.

Edward married Anastasia, daughter and co-heiress of William Aton and Isabel Percy, they had a daughter Margaret who married Sir Thomas Bromflete.[2] St John held in the name of his wife Anastasia, her lands of Brompton.

Notes and References

  1. Cokayne, George Edward. "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000), XII/2:285.
  2. Book: The Complete Peerage. The Hon. Vicary Gibbs. 2. 1. 324–5. London. 1910.