BELKNAP, John
- Born: Abt 1305
- Marriage (1): UNKNOWN, Alice unknwn
- Died: After 1367
General Notes:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Belknap-166
Biography
"ALTHOUGH Robert Bealknap had very considerable possessions in the county of Kent before he could have acquired them from the profits of his profession, we do not find with certainty who his parents were, except that their names were John and Alice.2 It is not improbable that his father was a lawyer, as an advocate of that name occurs in the Year Book of 20 Edward III."[1]
"The earliest documentary reference to someone of this name is to John de Belknap, who first appears in Wiltshire in 1327. He later appears to have moved to London around the time the Black Death arrived in England.[2] John was the father of Sir Robert Belknap, who served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of England from 1377 to 1388."[2]
Sources
? Edward Foss, The Judges of England; with sketches of their lives (1851), p. 31. Transcribed at Brent J. Belnap's website for the Belknap family.
? Wikipedia article on the Belknap family
John married Alice UNKNOWN unknwn. (Alice UNKNOWN was born about 1312 in England and died about 1375 in Kennington, Kent, England.)
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