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Joan MARTYN

Joan MARTYN

Female - ?

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  • Name Joan MARTYN 
    Gender Female 
    Died
    Person ID I40487  Main
    Last Modified 9 May 2016 

    Family Sir John DE FOXLEY,   b. Abt 1318, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1378, Bramshill, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 60 years) 
    Last Modified 9 May 2016 
    Family ID F28405  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • It was possibly during his sojourns in the south that Sir John entered into a liaison with a penniless girl called Joan Martyn. The two had at least three sons together (the eldest of whom later claimed that his mother was from a younger branch of the Martyns of Athelhammpton in Dorset). Sir John must still have spent much time at home however. For 1376 was also the year in which he was one of nine who were to set the county of Berkshire in array and he did sit in nine parliaments at the end of Edward's reign - seven times for Berkshire and twice for Hampshire. The Royal grant he obtained for a house in Fleet Street (Westminster), must have come in very handy. The date of Lady Foxley's death is unknown, but, not long afterwards, Sir John married his lover, Joan Martyn, and presumably his young illegitimate family moved to Bramshill or Bray.
      http://www.berkshirehistory.com/bios/jfoxley.html


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Updated 23 Dec 2023