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(Abt 1405 - 10 Nov 1478)
[[Category: Suffolk]] [[Category: Westwood, Suffolk]] } ----- } == Biography == : '''John Hopton''' (c.1405–1478), landowner. : Father: ''Thomas Hopton'' (d. in or before 1427) :Mother: '''Margaret Pert''', daughter of '''William Pert''' of Tiverington, Yorkshire, and '''Joan le Scrope'''. : Nothing more is known of '''John's''' early life until February 1430, at about twenty-five years of age, he came into possession of the Yorkshire and Suffolk estates of the ''Swillington Family''. : He owed his unexpected good fortune to the fact his father was the bastard son of '''Sir Robert Swillington''' (d. 1391), ''Chamberlain'' of '''John of Gaunt's''' household, and consequently, a great man in the ''West Riding'' of ''Yorkshire'' and throughout England. : '''Thomas'''' mother, '''Joan Hopton''', came of a gentle family with lands near to ''Swillington'', in the valley of the ''Aire'', a few miles south-east of ''Leeds''. '''Thomas''' took her family name and was also close to his half-brother, '''Sir Roger Swillington''' (d. 1417), '''Sir Robert's''' legitimate son. It must have been for this reason that in '''Sir Roger's''' settlement of his landed estate he allotted a reversionary interest to '''Thomas''' and his male heirs.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=101227 Contains an entire life history][The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, Watney, Vernon James, (4 volumes. Oxford: John Johnson, 1928), FHL book Q 929.242 W159w; FHL microfilm 1696491 it., vol. 2 p. 442.][Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Richardson, Douglas, (Kimball G. Everingham, editor. 2nd edition, 2011), vol. 2 p. 400.] == Sources ==:# Source: Image Citation: ''Fox & Pheasants'' without border this was the first tapestry to be designed by '''John Dearle''' (1860-1932) who later became ''Morris & Co's'' chief textile designer. '''Dearle''' and others worked on the 'Fox & Pheasants' during the ''Royal Jubilee Exhibition'' held in Manchester in 1887. The tapestry was finished in 1888 and subsequently bought for the ''Whitworth Art Gallery'' in Manchester, where it remains to this day. Accessed: 12 March 2015. Image URL: http://www.llph.co.uk/FlemishWall2/fox-pheasants.jpg Main URL: http://www.llph.co.uk/flemish-tapestry-wall-hangings.htm:# Source: '''Richardson, Douglas'''; '''Everingham, Kimball G., Editor'''. ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families, (2nd edition, 2011), Vol. I'', pg. 400.:# Source: '''Richardson, Douglas'''; '''Everingham, Kimball G., Editor'''. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Vol. III'', pg 402. Salt Lake City, Utah. 2013. :# Source: '''John Hopton'''. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?articleid=101227 Hopton, John (c.1405–1478)]:# Source: '''Sir John Hopton'''. http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I57143&tree=EuropeRoyalNobleHous:# Source: '''Sir John Hopton.''' URL: :# Source: '''Sir John Hopton'''. URL: :# Source: The visitation of the county of Somerset in the year 1623, Colby, Frederic Thomas, (Micro Reproduction of original published: London: [Harleian Society], 1876. viii, 164 p.), FHL microfilm 162048 item 1., vol. 11 p. 56. === Footnotes === === Acknowledgements ===:* This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted January 2014. :* Thank you to [[Raber-23|Lynden Raber Castle Rodriguez]] for her contributions to the development of this profile on behalf of this profile on behalf of the Magna Carta Project on 16 February 2015. ---- ---- ---- ''pre-merge birthplace guess was Swillington ---- This person was created through the import of breesefam.ged on 09 May 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability. === Record ID Number === : Record ID Number: MH:I8228 === User ID === : User ID: 66446D2D-A932-4BFF-B5A3-7228F3B24DAB
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| Birth | Abt 1405 | Blythburgh Manor, Westwood,Suffolk,England | | | |
| Death | 10 Nov 1478 | Blythburgh Manor, Westwood, Suffolk, England | | | |
| Title (Nobility) | | Sir | | | |
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