Sir John de EVERINGHAM
Knight
AKA John of Birkin Manor3, Yorkshire
Riskington, Lincolnshire
b.about 1234 in Laxton
died by 1285
married:
Ela de BIRKIN2

a possible other wife:
Joan De MEYNELL ?

parents:
Robert EVERINGHAM (b.1205)
Isabel de BIRKIN (b.1209)
children: EVERINGHAM

  • Adam (b.~1260)
  • Alison
  • siblings:
    1. Adam (b.1231)
    2. Robert (b.1237)

    fact sources and writings about this individual:

    2The History of Sherburn and Cawood, 2nd edition by William Wheater 1818
    Sir John Everingham of Birkin, Knight, married Ela, daughter of and heir of Sir Adam de Birkin. Issue: Sir Adam. He got the manor of Birkin and other lands by his wife Ela, where he got a charter of free warren in 1271.

    3Given the manor at BIRKIN by his mother, who's family "de BIRKIN" formerly owned. (see his mother's page)
    Also see: Record 235

    4 John de Everingham died before 1285-6, when his son Adam was holding 2 bovates of land in Birkin, formerly of John de Everingham.
    Surtees Society, Vol. 49, Kirkby's Inquest (Durham: 1867) p. 49

    5 On 2 May 1249, Isabella de Birkin, gave to her son John, the moiety of the manor of Riskington, and the advowson of the mediety of the church of the same manor in Lincolnshire, and the manor of Birkin and the advowson of the church of the same manor, in Yorkshire.
    Final Concords of the County of Lincoln: 1244-1272 (1920), pp.280-294

    according to record: AFN: 9TGQ-1N, GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT MEDIEVAL FAMILIES UNIT, 50 EAST NORTH TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY UT, Microfilm: 1512601
    John's wife may have been Joan De MEYNELL (b.1236), daughter of Stephen De MEYNELL of Whorlton in Cleveland, Yorks, England.

    1255 "In 1255, 38th Henry the Third, Sir John de Everingham, Lord of Birkin, quit-claimed all the waste next to the town by Northboys, betwixt Birkin, and Hillam, according to the boundaries, with all the right of him, the said Sir John, and of Lady Isabel de Navil, or her ancestors. The said Sir John also quit-claimed all his right in a place called the Bure, and all waste near Hillam, which was the Monks part of Northboys." -The History of Selby, Ancient and Modern, by James Mountain, Selby 1800.

    The Publications of the Thoresby Society Research of Birkin. "The Everingham lands came to Adam, while his mother had given her own manor of Birkin to her 2nd son John."

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