HAUTE, John (d.c.1410), of Canterbury, Kent.

Family and Education
m. (1) Alice; (2) Alice, s.p.
Offices Held

Jurat, Canterbury Mich. 1398–1400, 1407–9.1Canterbury Cathedral City and Diocesan RO, city accts. FA1, ff. 37, 42, 79, 83.

Tax collector, Canterbury May 1401.

Address
Main residence: Canterbury, Kent.
biography text

Haute was already living in Canterbury when, in the spring of 1389, he acquired two messuages in the city. He is mentioned in 1396 as also having a tenement in Mead Lane, in St. Peter’s parish. A draper, he was assessed for alnage on cloth sold in Kent in 1394-5.2CP25(1)109/233/644; C. Cotton, Grey Friars of Canterbury, 22; E101/339/17. Although he never attained the highest civic office, that of bailiff, he was active as a jurat for two periods of two years each.

In his will, which was brought for enrolment to the city court in August 1410, Haute instructed his executors to make a settlement of his property in Canterbury on his widow for life, with reversion to her child should she prove to be pregnant and if the child lived to maturity; otherwise the property was to be sold to provide religious services for the souls of the testator, his first wife and his parents.3Canterbury burghmote reg. O/A1, f. 27d.

Author
L.S.W.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Notes

He has been distinguished from John Haute (d.c.1431), of Pluckley, Kent, esquire, the s. of James Haute and close kinsman and associate of Sir Nicholas* and William Haute*. This John Haute’s first marriage, c.1397, to Joan, da. and h. of John Surrenden, made him a man of considerable means, and his lands in Kent were assessed in 1412 at pound;31 10s. a year. Harl. Chs. 78F 39-40; C1/9/1-2; Feudal Aids, vi. 469; E. Hasted, Kent, vii. 465.

Notes
  • 1. Canterbury Cathedral City and Diocesan RO, city accts. FA1, ff. 37, 42, 79, 83.
  • 2. CP25(1)109/233/644; C. Cotton, Grey Friars of Canterbury, 22; E101/339/17.
  • 3. Canterbury burghmote reg. O/A1, f. 27d.