John Bernard (abt. 1470 - 1508)

Born about 1470 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Daundelyn) Bernard — married before 1490 in Northamptonshire, England

Descendants

Died 20 Aug 1508 at about age 38 in Abington, Northamptonshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

John was the son of John Bernard of Abington, Northamptonshire and Margaret Scrope.^[1][2][3] He was said to be 16 in 1486, pointing to a birth date of about 1470.^[4]

John married twice. His first wife was Mary Daundelyn, daughter of John Daundelyn^[5] of Doddington and Earls Barton, Northamptonshire.^[4] Her first name is confirmed by his Inquisition Post Mortem which says the mother of his son John was called Mary.^[6] Mary brought him manors at Great Doddington and Earls Barton, which she inherited from her grandfather William Daundelyn.^[7][8]

By his first marriage John had two children:

• John^[4][2][3]
• Richard^[4][2][3]

John's first wife died no later than 14 Henry VII (22 August 1498 - 21 August 1499): in that year property arrangements were made relating to his second marriage.^[6] She is referred to as John's late wife in John's Inquisition Post Mortem.^[6]

John's second wife was Margaret Wake, daughter of Roger Wake: they married at Blisworth, Northamptonshire.^[6] No children of this marriage are known.

A writ for his Inquisition Post Mortem was issued on 9 September 1508. The Inquisition was held on 31 March 1509 and showed him holding land at Abington and elsewhere in Northamptonshire. His heir was his son John, age 18 and more. His second wife Margaret was living at his death.^[9]

Research Notes

Wives

Sophia Higgins' book on the Bernards of Abington names only one wife for John, Margaret Daundelyn.^[10]

Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry (2nd edition, 2011) and Royal Ancestry (2013) name only one wife for John, whom they call Margaret Daundelyn.^[2][3] He corrects this is a 2014 post in soc.genealogy.medieval, where he names two wives, Mary Daundelyn, mother of his known sons, and Margaret Wake.^[4]

The confusion will have arisen because it is known from his Inquisition Post Mortem that John left a widow called Margaret: but the IPM also refers to Mary, late wife of John and mother of his son of the same first name.^[6]

Metcalfe's edition of Northamptonshire Visitations names his wife Mary, and her father as John Daundelyn.^[5] So does the Victoria County History for Northamptonshire.^[7][8]

Children

The Harleian Society edition of Flower's 1563-4 Yorkshire Visitation gives John a child Joys.^[1] This may be a mis-transcription of John.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Charles Best Norcliffe (ed.). The Visitation of Yorkshire in the Years 1563 and 1564 made by William Flower, Esquire, Harleian Society, 1881, pp. 279-280, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. I, p. 186, BERNARD 12, Google Books
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, p. 344, BERNARD 14
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Post of 27 April 2014 by Douglas Richardson in the thread 'Bernard of Abington', soc.genealogy.medieval
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Walter C Metcalfe (ed.). The Visitations of Northamptonshire, made in 1564 and 1618-19, Mitchell and Hughes, 1887, p. 3, Internet Archive
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} Inquisition Post Mortem for his father, Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and A. C. Wood, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 551-600', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII (London, 1955), pp. 326-355, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} 'Parishes: Great Doddington', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 113-116, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} 'Parishes: Earls Barton', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 4, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1937), pp. 116-122, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
9. ↑ Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and A. C. Wood, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 551-600', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 3, Henry VII (London, 1955), pp. 326-355, British History Online, accessed 23 October 2022
10. ↑ Sophia Elizabeth. The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon, Longmans, Green and Company, 1903, pp. 20-24, Internet Archive

See also:

• Weis, Frederick Lewis (with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard and William R Beall). The Magna Carta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1999, p. 66, line 46/11

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was re-reviewed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 23 October 2022.

John Bernard was identified by the Magna Carta Project in a trail from Gateway Ancestors Richard Bernard and William Bernard to Magna Carta Surety Baron John FitzRobert that was project approved/badged in March 2015. Over time, the project identified this profile in other badged trails from the Bernard cousins to surety barons Roger le Bigod, Hugh le Bigod, Richard de Clare, Gilbert de Clare, John de Lacy and Saher de Quincy. This profile also appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from the Bernard cousins to surety baron Robert de Ros (vol. 1, pages 186-188 BERNARD) and another trail, to surety William d'Aubigny branches off the Ros trail. These trails were badged in October 2022. All the trails named above are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails sections of the profiles of Richard Bernard and William Bernard.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".