• Born: Abt 1360, Hartland, Devon, England
• Married (1): Before 3 Feb 1380
• Married (2): Before 16 May 1386
• Married (3): After 1 Nov 1402, Titchmarsh, Thrapston, Northamptonshire, England
• Died: 25 Dec 1428

  Research Notes:

In 1369 John Dynham, son of Muriel nephew of Hugh de Courtenay who was the son and heir of Thomas de Courtenay, was aged 10 years and more.

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"Sir John de Dinham, of Hartland, Buckland, Denham, and Cardinham, son and heir, aged 22 years at his father's death. When he had proved his age, the king took his homage and fealty, and he had livery of the lands, &c., which he inherited as heir of his mother, 19 Feb 1380/1. The King again took his homage and fealty, and he had livery of his father's lands, 1 Mar 1382/3."

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2 Jul 1380, Westminster

Presentation of Thomas de Eyton, parson of the church of Great Shelford, in the diocese of Ely, to the church of Southpolien, the diocese of Exeter, in the king's gift by reason of the minority of John de Dynham, son and heir of Muriel, daughter and one of the heirs of Thomas de Courteneye, tenant in chief, on an exchange of benefices with William de Donnebrugge.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric. II, vol1, p. 524

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3 Jun 1389, Westminster

Commission to Lewis de Clifford, Richard Starry, knights, and Master Roger Page, doctor of laws, to hear and determine the appeal of John Dynham, knight, of Devon, in a cause between William Asthorpe, knight, plaintiff, and the said John, defendant, in the court of chivalry before John Lakenhythe and John Peyto, knights, supplying the place of the constable and marshal of England,touching the non-payment of a sum of 250l. yearly due from the said John to the said William.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric. II, vol. 4, p. 51

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Feet of Fines, CP 25/1/44/66, number 113.

County:	Devon.
Place:	Westminster.
Date:	The day after St Martin, 14 Richard [II] [12 November 1390].
Parties:	John Dynham, knight, John Wattecombe, the parson of the church of Hemyok', Walter Salterne, the parson of the church of Samp[ford'] Peuerell' and Richard Michel, chaplain, querents, and William Hasthorp', knight, and Margaret, his wife, deforciants.
Property:	The manors of Hemyok' and [...] and the hundred of Hemyok'.
Action:	Plea of covenant.
Agreement:	William and Margaret have acknowledged the manors and hundred to be the right of John Dynham, as those which the same John, John Wattecombe, Walter and Richard have of their gift.
For this:	John, John, Walter and Richard have granted to William and Margaret the manors and hundred and have rendered them to them in the same court, to hold to William and Margaret and the heirs of their bodies, of John, John, Walter and Richard and the heirs of John Dynham for ever, rendering yearly a rose at the Nativity of St John the Baptist for all service, and doing to the chief lords all other services. In default of such heirs, the manors and hundred shall remain to the heirs of the body of Margaret. In default of such heirs, the manors and tenements shall revert to John, John, Walter and Richard and the heirs of John Dynham, quit of the other heirs of William and Margaret, and also of the other heirs of Margaret, to hold of the chief lords for ever.

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20 Aug 1397, Westminster

Commission of oyer and terminer to John de Holand, earl of Huntingdon, Peter de Courtenay, knight, John Hull, William. Rykhill, John Wadham, William Brynchesle, John Copleston and Otto Chambernoun, on complaint by the abbot of Hertylond that whereas he as lord of the manor of Stoke St. Nectan ought to have view of frankpledge from his men and tenants and others resident within the manor as from time immemorial he and his predecessors have had, John Dynham, knight, John Frensshe, James Baucombe, Robert Spirwhyt, Robert Salle, Robert Maynard, Baldwin Gyffard, John Luce, Henry Raydon, John Titemerssh, Hugh Palmere, John Dorant, William Hilman, John Robyn, Roger Wyse and other malefactors came in armed array and prevented him from having the same, and broke his close and houses, assaulted and chased him into his chamber and so ill-used him that his life was despaired of, took timber and goods to the value of 20l. from his houses at Hertylond, killed 22 sheep, value 5 marks, at Stoke St. Nectan, carried off two cows, value 40s. depastured corn and grass at Hertylond to the value of 20l., imprisoned his servant Robert Person at Stoke St. Nectan, assaulted and ill-used his men, servants and bondmen there, and so threatened them as well as several strangers wanting to go to church for their devotions,and divers persons wanting to buy their tithes arising from the church, that neither he, the abbot, nor his said men &c. could attend the cultivation of his land or gain other profit for a long time, or 'the tenants remain or strangers come to church, whether for their devotions or for the purchase of tithes.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Ric. II, vol. 6, p. 242 (following on from commission dated 6 November)

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15 Jun 1402, Westminster

Revocation of the protection with clause volumus, for one year, lately granted by letters patent to John Dynham, knight, going on the king's service with the king's firstborn daughter Blanche to the parts of Almain, because he delays in the county of Devon, as the sheriff has certified.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. IV, vol. 2, p. 99

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28 Apr 1407, Westminster

Whereas the king's knight John Dynham has shown the king how on Wednesday after St. Matthias the Apostle, 21 Richard II, by the name of John Dynham, 'chivaler,' he came before William Rikhill and William Brenchele, justices of assize in the county of Devon, and acknowledged himself bound to the said late king in 1,000 marks to be levied on his lands and goods in case he should do any bodily harm to Philip, abbot of Hertylond, or any of the king's people, and on this John Prideaux, 'chivaler,' deceased, John de la Pomeray, 'chivaler,' Giles Ayssh and John Stantore made mainprise for him in 200l. each ; and afterwards the king was given to understand in the court of the Exchequer that the said John Dynham assaulted one Richard Eust at Notewell, co. Devon,on Thursday before the Epiphany, 8 Henry IV,wounded and ill-treated him and imprisoned him there for three days and also assaulted one John Sors of Bridport at Notewell on Monday before St. Nicholas, 6 HenryIV, and judgement was given that the said John Dynham and his mainpernors should be summoned to show cause why they should not satisfy the king of the said sums and the sheriff was ordered to summon them to appear accordingly at a certain day now past, and he returned that he summoned the said John Dynham, John de la Pomeray, Giles and John Stantore and John Prideaux was dead, and the said John, John, Giles and John did not appear and judgement was given that the king should recover the sums against them ; the king, with the assent of the council and for 700 marks paid to him by the said John Dynham and delivered to the king's knight John Typtoft, treasurer of the household, for the expenses of the same, pardons to the said John Dynham and his mainpernors the said sums.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. IV, vol. 3, p. 322

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28 Dec 1428, Westminster

Writs of diem clausit extremum after the death of the following persons, directed to the escheators in the counties named...

John Dynham, knight; Oxford; Southampton; Somerset; Devon and Cornwall.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 7 Hen. VI, p. 236

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Inquisition Post Mortem (abridged)

257-261. John Dynham, Knight

Writ. 28 December 1428. [Wymbyssh]

Hampshire. Inq. Andover, 21 Jan 1429 [Longe]

He held the following in demesne as of fee.

Over Wallop, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight's service. There are 10 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 2 carucates of land, worth 100s. yearly; 5 acres meadow, worth 10s. yearly; 200 acres pasture, worth 40s. yearly; £8 assize rent, payable at four terms of the year by equal parts, delivered by free tenants.

He died on 25 December last, at about the twelfth hour. John Dynham, esquire, is his son and next heir, and aged 22 and more.

Oxfordshire. Inq. Henley-on-Thames, 28 Jan 1429 [Rede]

He held the following in demesne as of fee.

Over Worton, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight's service. There are 16 messuages, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land, worth 53s. 4d. yearly; 6 acres meadow, worth 6s. yearly; 40 acres pasture, worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 100s. assize rent, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts, delivered by free tenants.
Stoke Moeles. ½ manor, held of Katherine, queen of England, as of her honour of Wallingford by knight service. There are 12 messuages worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land, worth 50s. yearly; 20 acres meadow, worth 20s. yearly; 100 acres wood, its pasture worth 8s. 4d. yearly; and 26s. 8d. assize rent, payable as above, delivered by free tenants.

Somerset. Inq. Queen Camel, 25 Jan 1429 [Mylborne]

He held the following in demesne as of fee.

Buckland Dinham, the manor, held of the king in chief by knight's service. There are 20 messuages worth nothing yearly; 2 dovecots, worth 6s. yearly; 2 carucates land, worth 53s. 4d. yearly; 20 acres meadow, worth 50s. yearly; 40 acres pasture, worth 4s. and no more as common pasture; one park without game animals, its pasture worth 4s. yearly; 24 acres wood, its pasture worth 4s. yearly; 1 mill for grain and another for fulling, worth 16s. yearly; £10 4s. 2d. assize rent, payable [as above], delivered by free tenants; and assize rent of 2lb. pepper, payable at Michaelmas only.
Corton Denham, a carucate of land, worth 53s. 4d. yearly, with advowson of the church there, worth nothing yearly, held of the king in chief by knight's service.
He died seised of the following in fee and by right.
Blackford, 1/24 knight's fee...held of William Rous...
North Cheriton, 1/32 knight's fee...held of William Rous...
Compton Pauncefoot, ½ knight's fee...held of William Fethrpayn...
He held no other nor more lands or tenements of the king any other in demesne or service.
Long before his death, by his charter dated Nutwell 1 Jun 1401 where he is described as John Dynham, knight, he granted the following, among other things, to James Aumarle, Robert Maynard, and John Bole, all now deceased, and to John Pole and Thomas Hertyscote, still living, to hold to James, John Pole, Robert, Thomas and John Bole and to their heirs and assigns in perpetuity. The charter was shown to the jurors.
Northover (Northome), the manor, held of the bishop of Bath...
Cricket Malherbie, the manor and advowson, held of Richard Nevell, knight...
Stoford, Bincombe (Bounecombe), Wellington, and Ilminster, lands, tenements, rents, services and reversions, held of William Fethrpayn...
Dunkerton, Wanstrow (Wancestre), Mageryston, and Stathe, knights' fees, held of Alan Harry.
Maperton, advowson, held of John Rous...

Devon. Inq. Exeter, 10 Jan., 1429 [Bamfild]

He held the following in demesne as of fee.

Hartland, the manor with the hundred of Hartland pertaining to the same, held of the king in chief by knight's service. There are 34 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 2 parks with game animals, the pasture worth 6s. 8d. yearly; 12 carucates of land, worth £29 6s. 8d. yearly; 8 acres meadow, worth 4s. yearly; 20 acres pasture, worth 40d. yearly; a dovecot, worth nothing yearly; £40 5s. 1¾d. assize rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts, delivered by free tenants; 1lb. pepper, payable at Michaelmas only; and perquisites of the hundred court, worth 40s. yearly.
Nutwell, the manor with the hamlet of Coombe attached to the same, held of the king in chief by knight's service. There are 8 messuages in the manor, worth nothing yearly; 2 carucates of land, worth £4 yearly; 8 acres meadow in the manor, worth 8s. yearly; and 40s. assize rent, payable at the four terms of the year by equal parts, delivered by free tenants. There is a grange with a byre in the hamlet, worth nothing yearly; 100 acres arable, worth 20s. yearly; 12 acres waste, worth 2s. yearly; 16s. 8d. assize rent, payable [as above], delivered by free tenants.
Exton, 20s. 20d. rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts, held of Joan de la Hulle... and 2½ acres meadow, worth 2s. 6d. yearly, held of Adam Serle by one grain of pepper.
Woodbury, 30 acres furze in the manor, worth 12d. yearly, held of William Bonevyle, knight, by one grain of pepper.
Littleham, 32s. rent from the manor, held of the abbot of Sherborne...
Southdon, the hamlet, held of William Bonevyle, knight... There are 30 acres land, annual value 10s.
Harpford, the manor, held of the king in chief by homage and fealty only. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land, worth 13s. 4d. yearly; 12 acres meadow, worth 12s. yearly; 60 acres pasture where free tenants have common pasture, worth 12d. yearly; 60 acres wood, the pasture worth 3s. yearly; and £9 11s. 9d. assize rent, payable and delivered as above.
Simonsburrow, a carucate of land, worth 24s. yearly, held of Anne, countess of Devon...
Venn Ottery, a carucate of land, worth 10s. yearly; and 105s. 3d. rent, payable as above, held of the king as of his castle of Exeter in socage by rent of £4 4s. 8d. at Michaelmas.
Kingskerwell, the manor with the hundred of Haytor pertaining to the same, held of the king in chief by knight's service. There is a capital messuage, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land, worth 20s. yearly; a mill for grain, worth 20s. yearly; £20 6s. 4d. assize rent, payable and delivered as above; and perquisites of the hundred court, worth 40s. yearly.
Wrey, Langford, Wodehous, £9 rent, payable at Easter and Michaelmas by equal parts, held of the king in chief in socage.
Diptford, a mill, worth 12d. yearly, held of the king in chief in socage.
Whiteheathfield Barton, the manor, held of Elizabeth wife of John Cheseldon by 1lb. cumin yearly. There is a capital messuage and 5 messuages, worth nothing yearly; 60 acres land worth 60s. yearly; 3 acres meadow, worth 4s. yearly; and 3 acres wood, its pasture worth 12d. yearly.
Southbroke, the manor, held of Philip Courtenay... There are 6 messuages, worth nothing yearly; a carucate of land, worth 40s. yearly; and 40s. assize rent, payable and delivered as above.
Offwell, ½ manor with advowson of the church there, held of Anne, countess of Devon... There are 6 messuages, worth nothing yearly; a carucate land, worth 20s. yearly; 4 acres wood, its pasture worth 6d. yearly; and 13s. 4d. assize rent, payable and delivered as above. The advowson is of no annual value.
Matford, the manor, held of Anne, countess of Devon... There are 3 messuages, worth nothing yearly; ½ carucate of land, worth 20s. yearly, and 13s. 4d. assize rent, payable and delivered as above.
He held no other nor more lands or tenements of the king or any other in demesne or service.

Cornwall. Inq. Saltash, 15 Jan., 1429 [Baunfyld]

Cardinham, Bodardle, Downinney, Gurlyn, Brygge, and Cross in Milton, the manors, with all lands and tenements in Roche and appurtenant knights' fees and advowsons, held of the king as of his duchy of Cornwall by knight service.

He died seised of the rent of a rose, with reversion of the manors, lands, tenements, fees and advowsons.

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12 Feb 1439, Westminster

Order to the escheator in the county of Devon to cause John Dynham, esquire, son and heir of John Dynham, knight, to have full seisin of all the lands in his bailiwick which the said John the father held of the king in chief or was seised of in his demesne as of fee on the day of his death ; as the king has taken the fealty of John the son and for one mark paid in the hanaper has respited his homage until the feast of St. Peter in Cathedra next.

Order in like terms to the escheator in the county of Somerset. The like to the following :

The escheator in the county of Oxford.

The escheator in the county of Southampton.

Calendar of Fine Rolls, 7 Hen. VI, p. 258

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16 Jul 1439, Westminster

Commission to Richard Neuton, John Botreaux, esquire, John Fortescu, John Wodeland, clerk, John Holcote, clerk, and John Copleston, to make inquisition in the county of Devon touching information on behalf of Thomas Brook, esquire, and Maud, his wife, daughter of the late John Dynham, knight, that the last named when ill, but long before his death, is said to have declared by word of mouth to Philippa, late his wife, Thomas Gille and others, as his will, that 500l. in money should be given to the said Maud for her marriage and 100l. worth of goods for her chamber, and that his executors refused the charge of his will, and his goods came to John Dynham, knight, his son, who undertook the administration of them but refuses to pay Maud anything, denying that his said father declared any such will.

Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. VI, vol. 3, p. 316