John Danvers (died 1449)

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Arms of Danvers (modern) adopted by John Danvers (died 1449), being his maternal arms of Brancestre: Argent, on a bend gules three martlets or. His descendants (including the Danvers baronets and the Earl of Danby) reverted to his paternal arms of Danvers ancient (Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or) BrancestreArms.svg
Arms of Danvers (modern) adopted by John Danvers (died 1449), being his maternal arms of Brancestre: Argent, on a bend gules three martlets or. His descendants (including the Danvers baronets and the Earl of Danby) reverted to his paternal arms of Danvers ancient (Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or)
Arms of Danvers ancient (Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or) DanversArms (Ancient).svg
Arms of Danvers ancient (Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or)

John Danvers (died 1449) [2] of Calthorpe, near Banbury and of Prescote in the parish of Cropredy, both in Oxfordshire served four times as a Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, in 1420, 1421, 1423 and 1435. [3]

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Origins

He was the son and heir of Richard Danvers (c.1330-post 1399) [4] of Epwell (anciently Ipswell) in Oxfordshire, by his wife Agnes Brancestre, daughter and heiress of John Brancestre [5] of Calthorpe.

Marriages and children

He married twice:

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References

  1. MacNamara pp.84, 87-8, 123, 165; Alternatively: Ermine, on a bend gules three martlets or winged vert.
  2. Woodger, L.S., biography of Danvers, John (d.1449), of Calthorpe in Banbury and Prescote in Cropredy, Oxon., Published in History of Parliament: House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
  3. Woodger
  4. MacNamara, pp.92/5
  5. Brancestre spelling adopted by MacNamara, F.N., Memorials of the Danvers Family, London, 1895
  6. Woodger
  7. Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, By John Burke, Bernard Burke, pp.150-2
  8. As blazoned by Burke, p.152
  9. see File:Culworth StMaryV MonumentD'Anvers.jpg
  10. MacNamara, p.87-8; Danvers modern/Brancestre was borne by the Danvers baronets of Swithlands, (As blazoned by Burke, p.152) of which MacNamara (Preface X) states: The Danvers family of Leicestershire are only incidentally mentioned. I may, however, say that it seems probable that the Leicestershire family failed in the male line towards the middle of the fourteenth century, and that the recently extinct Danvers of Swithlands sprang from a younger branch of the Oxfordshire line.
  11. MacNamara, pp.286,513,165,123,84, 87-8
  12. MacNamara, p.227
  13. MacNamara, p.101
  14. Woodger