John Raynsford
Sir John Raynsford (by 1482-1559) was an English politician.
John Raynsford was the only son of Sir John Raynsford of Bradfield Hall, Essex, and his first wife, Anne Starkey (d. 26 December 1488), widow of John Writtle, esquire, and daughter and coheir of Sir Humphrey Starkey of Littlehall in Wouldham, Kent, Chief Baron of the Exchequer. After the death of Anne (née Starkey), Raynsford's father married Margaret Ilam, widow of Sir John Shaa, Lord Mayor of London, and daughter of Thomas Ilam (d.1482) and Jane Verdon, by whom he had a daughter, Julian Raynsford, who married Sir William Waldegrave of Smallbridge, Suffolk.[1][2]
Raynsford succeeded his father in 1521. He was a captain in the army in the French wars and was knighted on 1 July 1523 for his services. He served as a Justice of the Peace for Essex from 1523 to 1530 and from 1536 until his death and was appointed High Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire for 1537–38.
He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Colchester in 1529.[3]
Raynsford married firstly Elizabeth or Isabel Knyvet, the daughter and heiress of Edward Knyvet of Suffolk, and secondly Winifred Pympe, the daughter and heiress of John Pympe of Nettlestead, Kent. He had no issue by either of his marriages.
Notes
- ↑ Richardson I 2011, p. 565.
- ↑ Jane Verdon (d. February 1521+), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: U-V, compiled by Kathy Lynn Emerson to update and correct Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984) Retrieved 11 August 2013.
- ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/raynsford-%28rainforth%29-sir-john-1482-1559
References
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. p. 565. ISBN 1449966373.
- "RAYNSFORD (RAINFORTH), Sir John (by 1482-1559), of Bradfield, Essex.". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 12 June 2013.