Paternal Family Tree: Cockayne
John Cockayne executor of John of Gaunt 1st Duke Lancaster 1340-1399's will.
Around 1360 John Cockayne was born to John Cockayne [aged 35] and Cecilia Vernon [aged 30] at Ashbourne, Derbyshire [Map].
In 1369 [his father] John Cockayne [aged 44] died at Ashbourne, Derbyshire [Map].
Around 1382 John Cockayne [aged 22] and Ida Grey [aged 14] were married.
Around 1394 [his daughter] Elizabeth Cockayne was born to John Cockayne [aged 34] and [his wife] Ida Grey [aged 26]. She married 1. her half fifth cousin once removed Philip Butler, son of James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Anne Welles Countess Ormonde 2. Lawrence Cheney and had issue.
In 1398 John Cockayne [aged 38] was appointed Chief Steward for the Northern Duchy of Lancaster.
In 1400 John Cockayne [aged 40] was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
In 1405 John Cockayne [aged 45] was appointed Justice of the Common Pleas.
Around 1406 [his son] Reginald Cockayne was born to John Cockayne [aged 46] and [his wife] Ida Grey [aged 38] at Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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In 1422 [his daughter] Elizabeth Cockayne [aged 28] died.
On 1st June 1426 [his wife] Ida Grey [aged 58] died.
On 10th February 1428 [his son] Reginald Cockayne [aged 22] died.
On 22nd May 1429 John Cockayne [aged 69] died at Ashbourne, Derbyshire [Map]. He was buried at Church of St John, Cockayne Hatley.
[his son] Thomas Cockayne was born to John Cockayne and Ida Grey.
[his daughter] Margaret Cockayne was born to John Cockayne and Ida Grey.
Annals of Kings Richard II and Henry IV. At about the same time, a certain thief, a sawyer by trade, was brought before the justice, William1 Cokayne. Knowing for certain that he was to die, and wishing to postpone the hour of his deserved death, he declared that he could render the King a great service, provided that his life were spared for a while. When he was given leave to say what he wished, he accused fifty-nine abbots and priors, together with other honourable churchmen, of having provided financial assistance to Owain Glyndŵr. Among them, he singled out the Abbot of Ramsey, on whose behalf, he claimed, he had often carried money to the King’s enemy.
Per idem tempus, quidam latro, arte serrator, dum coram Justiciario, Willelmo Cokayn, astitisset, et scivisset pro certo se moriturum, ut horam meritæ mortis suspenderet, dixit se magnum commodum Regi procuraturum, si vivere permitteret ad horam. Qui, data sibi copia dicendi quæ vellet, accusavit quinquaginta novem Abbates et Priores, et alias honorabiles personas ecclesiasticas, de subventione pecuniaria, quasi facta per eos, Howeno Gleyndor; inter quos præcipue, Abbatem de Rameseye, de cujus parte, ut asseruit, fuit sæpe nuncius ad deportandam pecuniam hosti Regis.
Note 1. A mistake for John Cockayne, 1360-1429, Recorder of London, Serjeant-at-Law, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Justice of the Common Pleas.
[his son] John Cockayne was born to John Cockayne and Ida Grey.
[his father] John Cockayne and [his mother] Cecilia Vernon were married.
[his son] Henry Cockayne was born to John Cockayne and Ida Grey.
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cockayne 
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Cockayne
Grandfather: John Cockayne
Father: John Cockayne
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Vernon 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Vernon
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Vernon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Vernon
Grandfather: William Vernon
Mother: Cecilia Vernon