Sir John Guildford

Before 1508 - 1565  (~ 57 years)

• Name	John Guildford  [1]
  Prefix	Sir
  Born	Before 1508  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Office	Bailiff of Winchelsea  [1]
  Office	1552–53  [1]
  	Sheriff of Kent
  Office	1529  [1]
  	Burgess (M.P.) for Gatton
  Office	1542  [1]
  	Knight of the Shire for Kent
  Office	1546  [1]
  	Chamberlain of the Household of Anne of Cleves
  Office	1553  [1]
  	Burgess (M.P.) for ?New Romney
  Will	4 May 1560  [1]
  	P.C.C. 25 Morrison [1] Requested burial beside his first wife at Benenden, Kent, England. [1]
  Died	5 July 1565  [1]
  Probate	11 July 1565  [1]
  	P.C.C. 25 Morrison [1]
  Residence	Hempsted, Benenden, Kent, England   [1]
  Residence	Great Bromley, Essex, England   [1]
  Person ID	I717	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	6 Aug. 2018

  
  

  Father	George Guildford,   b. circa 1477,   d. After 1534  (Age ~ 58 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Mortimer,   b. circa 1475–8
  Married	After 14 July 1487  [2]
  Family ID	F390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Hon. Barbara West
  Married	Before 1534  [1]
  Children	1. Sir Thomas Guildford   2. George Guildford   3. Henry Guildford   4. James Guildford   5. Dorothy Guildford   6. Mary Guildford   7. Elizabeth Guildford
  Last Modified	6 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F396	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Fitz William
  Last Modified	6 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Guildford Or a saltire between four martlets Sable. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 433.

  
  

• Notes

  He was heir male in 1534 to his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, of Halden and Hempsted (in Benenden), Kent. In 1536 he reached agreement with Sir John Dudley and his wife, Jane, daughter of his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, regarding settlement of his uncle's estate, by which he received the manors of Brocket, Upper Forsham, Lower Forsham, and Frencham, Kent. [1] "In 1542 he and his wife, Barbara, conveyed the manor and the advowson of the church of Great Bromley, Essex, to William Cardinal, Gent." [1] Sources cited in Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), volume 2, pages 181–2: Morant, Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex, 1 (1768): 441. Blore, Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland, 1(2) (1811): 100–102 (La Warre / West ped.). Brydges Collins’ Peerage of England, 5 (1812): 1–28 (sub West, Earl Delawarr). Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 2 (1826): 605–608 (will of Thomas West, Lord La Warre). Bentley, Excerpta Historica (1833): 309–310. Coll. Top. et Gen., 2 (1835): 8–9. Watson, Tendring Hundred in Olden Time (1877): 161–164. Birch, Cat. Seals in the British Museum, 3 (1894): 46 (seal of Sir John Guldeford dated 1543 — A firebrand flamant.  Crest of GULDEFORD). Clutterbuck, Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Panton Mewsey, Weyhill & Wherwell (1898): 181–185 (will of Thomas West, K.G.). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 69. Benolte & Cooke, Vis. of Kent 1530–1, 1574, & 1592 (H.S.P. 74) (1923): 11 (1530–1 Vis.) (Guyldeforde ped.: "John [Guildford] = Barbara d. to the lorde Delawarre"), 77 (Add'l Peds.) (Guildford ped.: "Sr. John Guldeford, Knt. = Barbara dau. to Thomas West Lord La Ware"). Comber, Sussex Gens., 3 (1933): 304–306 (sub Lords West). Davis, Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 92–93. VCH, Sussex, 6(1) (1980): 10–21. Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509–1558, 2 (1982): 265–266 (biog. of John Guildford). National Archives, E 328/52 (Indenture of agreement dated 23 Nov. 1538 between John Duddeley Knt., and Dame Jane, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Edward Guldeford Knt., son and heir of Sir Richard Guldeford, Knt., deceased, and (2) John Guldeford Esq., son and heir of George Guldeford Esq., second son of said Sir Richard, re. a dispute between the parties on right to manors etc. in cos. Kent and Suss., late of Sir Richard Guldeford). [1]

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., Douglas Richardson, (2011), volume 2, page 181. [S15] Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., Douglas Richardson, (2011), volume 2, page 180.