BRETON, John I, of Bodmin, Cornw.

It is unlikely that he was the John Breton who served the Black Prince and his son Richard II in the capacity of a yeoman of the chamber. In the course of his career, between 1374 and his death in 1398/9, that John was granted annuities amounting to 25 marks, charged mostly on the duchy of Cornw. He discharged the offices of bailiff-itinerant of the honour of Wallingford (1382-6), porter of Wallingford castle (1385) and forester and tin bailiff of Dartmoor (1392); and he shared with Richard Breton (who also filled posts by appointment of the Black Prince) a grant of the houses within the Tower of London.