Person:John Pelham (11)

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Sir John Pelham
b.1537
bur.13 Oct 1580 London, England
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Sir John Pelham1537 - 1580
  2. Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st BaronetAbt 1540 - 1624
Spouse and Children
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m. Bef 1580
  1. Oliver Pelham1579/80 - 1584/85
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Facts and Events
Name Sir John Pelham
Gender Male
Birth? 1537
Marriage Bef 1580 Englandto Judith St. John
Will[1] 28 Jul 1580 Laughton, Sussex, England
Burial[3] 13 Oct 1580 London, England
Probate[1] 15 Nov 1580 London, England
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Personal History

John Pelham, first son of Nicholas Pelham (afterward a knight) by Anne, daughter of John Sackville,[4] was born in 1537.

John Pelham in a will dated 6 February 1559/60 was named as the oldest son and heir of Sir Nicholas Pelham of Laughton, Sussex, and was appointed sole executor of the will.[7]

John was knighted by Queen Elizabeth on 12 August 1573 at Rye, Sussex.[2]

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Marriage and Family

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John Pelham of Sandhurst, Sussex, married Judith, daughter of Oliver Baron Saint John of Bletso, Bedfordshire.

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Death and Probate

John died and was buried by torchlight on the morning of 13 October 1580 in the parish of Holy Trinity Minories, city of London.[3] A monument was erected in the church to him and his son Oliver (who died in 1584),[6] but in 1888 it was moved to Stanmer Church, near Brighton, in Sussex.[5]

In his will dated 28 July, 22 Eliz. [1580],[1] Sir John Pelham of Laughton, Sussex, named his wife Judithe to be sole executrix, with oversight by his brother-in-law John St Johns, uncle Sir William Pelham, cousin Herberte Pelham, and brother Thomas Pelham. The will was proved on 15 November 1580, in London.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “Will of Sir John Pelham of Laughton, Sussex”, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions: Will registers. (Kew, England: The National Archives)
    PROB 11/62/485; register Arundell (1580), qr 46, f 369.

    Digital image in England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384–1858 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/5111/40611_311328-00752 : accessed 8 Sept. 2019).

    The last will and testament of “John Pelham of Lawghton in the countie of Sussex knight beinge sicke in bodie” dated 28 July, 22 Eliz. [1580], in 5 sheets of paper fastened with a label where upon he set his seal of arms; sole exix. wife Judithe, overseers brother-in-law John St Johns, uncle Sr William Pelham knight, cousin Herberte Pelham, brother Thomas Pelham; no witnesses named. Names only one child, Oliver Pelham his heir. Proved 15 Nov. 1580, London.

  2. ↑ Shaw, William A. (William Arthur), and G. D. (George Dames) Burtchaell. The knights of England: a complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors. (London: Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, 1906)
    vol 2, p 75.

    “1573, Aug. 12. John Pelham ([at Rye]).”

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Church of England. Parish Registers of Holy Trinity Minories Church (London), 1563-1898. (London: London Metropolitan Archives)
    London Metropolitan Archives, P69/TRI2/A/001/MS09238 (Register of baptisms 1563–1717, marriages 1579–1644 and burials 1566–1714), Burials, p 3.

    Digital image in London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31281_a100785-00079 : accessed 8 Sept. 2019).

    “Sr John Pellam Knight was buried by torche light the 13 Daye of october betwene the hours of 5 and 6 in the mornynge 1580.”

  4. ↑ Bannerman, William Bruce (ed.). The visitations of the county of Sussex: made and taken in the years 1530 by Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms; and 1633–4 by John Philipot, Somerset Herald, and George Owen, York Herald, for Sir John Burroughs, Garter, and Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux. (London: Mitchell & Hughes [for the Harleian Society], 1905)
    p 21, pedigree of Pelham, citing Harl. MS 1562, fols. 17 and 17a.

    “John Pelham of Sandhurst in Sussex [mar.] Judith d. of Oliver, Lord St John of Bletshow”

  5. ↑ Stanmer, Sussex, in West Gallery Churches.

    (http://www.westgallerychurches.com/Sussex/Stanmer/Stanmer.html : accessed 10 Sept. 2019)

  6. ↑ Monument to Sir John Pelham and his son Oliver Pelham, Stanmer Church, in Wikimedia Commons.

    Digital photograph (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stanmer_Church,_Stanmer_Park,_near_Brighton_(April_2013)_(Interior)_(3).JPG : accessed 10 Sept. 2019).

    “DEATHE FIRST DID STRIKE SR. JOHN HEARE TOMB'D IN CLAYE, / AND THEN ENFORST HIS SONNE TO FOLLOWE FASTE, / OF PELHAM'S LINE THIS KNYGHTE WAS CHIEFE AND STAYE, / BY THIS BEHOLD ALL FLESHE MVST DYE AT LASTE. / BVT BLETSOWE'S LORD THY SISTER MOST MAY MOANE, / BOTHE MATE AND SONN HATHE LEFTE HER HEARE ALONE. / SIR JOHN PELHAM DIED THE 13. OF OCTOBER 1580. OLLIVER PELHAM, HIS SONNE DYED YE 19. OF JANVARIE 1584.”

  7. ↑ See the references for the will of Sir Nicholas Pelham.
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