LEVENTHORPE, John I

More may be added to the earlier biography. The Commons 1386-1421, iii. 591-5.

The Lord Poynings who challenged Leventhorpe’s right to the custody of a royal ward in February 1425 was Robert, 4th Lord Poynings of Poynings, not Thomas Poynings, Lord St. John, as was assumed in the earlier biography. The ward concerned was the male heir to the Waleys family of Glynde in Sussex, to whose estates Leventhorpe’s daughter-in-law Joan (wife of his son Robert) now had a claim as coheir general. Robert Leventhorpe managed to secure joint custody of the property at the Exchequer on 1 Mar. following, but after his death in 1426 his father continued to challenge Lord Poynings’s right to the wardship. PPC, iii. 165-6; CFR, xv. 97; CCR, 1422-9, pp. 402, 410; Cat. Glynde Place Archs. ed. Dell, pp. xii-xiii. The earlier biography also assumed that it was our MP’s son and heir, John, who later sat in the Parliament of 1453, for the borough of Horsham, but it seems much more likely that John Leventhorpe II* was the esquire then serving as marshal of the Marshalsea prison.