Sir William Martyn of Athelhampton

Athelhampton

Athelhampton is a Grade I listed 15th-century manor house in England. It is a privately owned country house on 160 acres of parkland, located five miles east of Dorchester, Dorset...

, near Dorchester, Dorset (c. 1446 – 14 January 1503).

Sir William Martyn, Sheriff of London in 1484 and Lord Mayor of London

Lord Mayor of London

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 in 1492, built the current Great Hall of Athelhampton

Athelhampton

Athelhampton is a Grade I listed 15th-century manor house in England. It is a privately owned country house on 160 acres of parkland, located five miles east of Dorchester, Dorset...

 in or around 1485. He also received licence to enclose 160 acres (647,000 m²) of deer park and to fortify his manor. Effigies of him and his family can be seen in the Church of Saint Mary in nearby Puddletown

Puddletown

Puddletown is a village in Dorset, England, 5 miles east of Dorchester in the River Piddle valley. The village has a population of 1,177 , of which 30.3% are retired....

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Genealogy: Martyn of Athelhampton

Sir Robert Martin of Waterston, 2nd son of Sir Nicholas FitzMartin

FitzMartin

FitzMartin was the surname of a Norman family based in England and Wales between 1085 and 1342.-Family origins:The first known member of the family was an obscure man called Martin, who appears to have died prior to 1100. Little is known for certain of him; he was husband to Geva de Burci, and by...

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Nicholas of Waterston, d. Dec. 1326. Edmund of Withycomb Sir Robert of Yeovilton, d.1355.
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Sir Robert of Waterston, c. 1301-Sept. 1375. Joan
=Agnes de Loundres =John Gouytz/Govis
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Robert Richard, fl. 1389. William, dead by 1428
d.s.p. 1405. =Elizabeth =Johanna, alive 1428.
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John of Athelhampton Thomas of Athelhampton, d. 14th Sept. 1485.
alive 1431 =dau. of Sir John Clevedon
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Henry Sir William, c. 1446-1503. Edmund, Rector of Athelhampton; d. by 1504.
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Thomas of Athelhampton Jone
=Mary Dawbeney =Nicholas Smith
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Robert of Athelhampton, c.1508-c.1549 John Henry Ellen
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Sir Nicholas Martyn, died 1595.