The Hendee Family Tree - Lord Mayor John Hende II

Person Chart

Additional Names

Additional Names	Name
Stage/Pen Name	Lord Mayor of London

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
John Hende	about 1325	Mrs Katherine Hende (Hend)	about 1330

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
		Alice Millicent Hende
Elizabeth Butler (Norbury)	about 1377	John Hende III John Hende IV
Katherine Baynard	1352	Alice Millicent Hende

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place
Birth	about 1350
Marriage	1379	London, England
Death	01 Aug 1418	London, England, United Kingdom

Notes


A citizen of London, as a draper (Involved in the selling of cloth). Sheriff of London in 1381 and Lord mayor of London in 1391 and 1404. He died 1 August 1418 and was buried at Bradwell by Coggeshall. He had a PCC will which survives. His IPM also survives and can be seen online.[1] He was one of the wealthiest men in England in his time as shown by his great lendings to the cash strapped kings of his period.[2] He was obviously a friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, who went surety for Hende in a court case where Hende was against the court itself. Hende's family was, says a book about Chaucer, "like Chaucer's own, of property, wealth, trade and gentry, with close relationships to the court and learned professions". He appears to have had "Lancastrian" leanings in English politics, meaning he was of the party of John of Gaunt, and came into trouble with Richard II at one point.[3] John Hende had no less than two sons both named John, at least one of whom was a Sherriff of Essex. The eldest one had a daughter Joan, who married Walter Writtle Esq. It is because Joan had no heir, that we know from the claims then made that John Hende (this profile) had the following other relatives: A sister Amicia, who had married William Andrews Esq. and their daughter married John Bassett Esq. of Great Chisull. A daughter Alice, who had married Robert de Laynham and had a daughter with him named Millicent, who had in turn married John Smith of the Cressing Temple family. Ashdown Hill says that John's father was also named John and that his mother was possibly named Elizabeth. He names his two wives as: Katherine (maiden name unknown), widow of Thomas Baynarde of Suffolk. Elizabeth Norbury, daughter of Sir John Norbury I of Norbury, Cheshire, Treasurer of England. Ashdown Hill writes that... "thanks to her father’s business connections, in about 1408, Elizabeth, who was then probably about fifteen years of age, was married to the much older but very wealthy widower, John Hende II, draper and past mayor (1391-92 and 1404-05). John was probablyaged about fifty-eight at the time of the marriage, and seems to have had no surviving sons by his previous wife, Katharine Baynarde, whom he had married in about 1380. Elizabeth, however, bore John two sons, one in 1409 and one in 1412. Both were christened ‘John’ after their father, and they were later known as ‘John the elder’ and ‘'John the younger’ respectively
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A citizen of London, as a draper (Involved in the selling of cloth). Sheriff of London in 1381 and Lord mayor of London in 1391 and 1404. He died 1 August 1418 and was buried at Bradwell by Coggeshall. He had a PCC will which survives. His IPM also survives and can be seen online.[1]

He was one of the wealthiest men in England in his time as shown by his great lendings to the cash strapped kings of his period.[2]

He was obviously a friend of Geoffrey Chaucer, who went surety for Hende in a court case where Hende was against the court itself. Hende's family was, says a book about Chaucer, "like Chaucer's own, of property, wealth, trade and gentry, with close relationships to the court and learned professions". He appears to have had "Lancastrian" leanings in English politics, meaning he was of the party of John of Gaunt, and came into trouble with Richard II at one point.[3]

John Hende had no less than two sons both named John, at least one of whom was a Sherriff of Essex. The eldest one had a daughter Joan, who married Walter Writtle Esq.

It is because Joan had no heir, that we know from the claims then made that John Hende (this profile) had the following other relatives:

A sister Amicia, who had married William Andrews Esq. and their daughter married John Bassett Esq. of Great Chisull.
A daughter Alice, who had married Robert de Laynham and had a daughter with him named Millicent, who had in turn married John Smith of the Cressing Temple family.
Ashdown Hill says that John's father was also named John and that his mother was possibly named Elizabeth. He names his two wives as:

Katherine (maiden name unknown), widow of Thomas Baynarde of Suffolk.
Elizabeth Norbury, daughter of Sir John Norbury I of Norbury, Cheshire, Treasurer of England. Ashdown Hill writes that...
"thanks to her father’s business connections, in about 1408, Elizabeth, who was then probably about fifteen years of age, was married to the much older but very wealthy widower, John Hende II, draper and past mayor (1391-92 and 1404-05). John was probablyaged about fifty-eight at the time of the marriage, and seems to have had no surviving sons by his previous wife, Katharine Baynarde, whom he had married in about 1380. Elizabeth, however, bore John two sons, one in 1409 and one in 1412. Both were christened ‘John’ after their father, and they were later known as ‘John the elder’ and ‘'John the younger’ respectively

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Sources

Description	Quality	Information	Evidence
Anthony Steel "The Receipt of the Exchequer: 1377-1485" https://books.google.be/books?id=qrJvbNkeAw8C&q=hende	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Derek Brewer "Chaucer and his World" https://books.google.be/books?id=_l3StHI3nBUC&pg=PA115	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
https://books.google.be/books?id=yWPJ0etAALUC&pg=PA31	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
John Ashdown Hill "Lady Eleanor Talbot’s Other Husband: Sir Thomas Butler, heir of Sudeley, and his family" http://www.richardiii.net/downloads/Ricardian/2004_vol14_ashdown_hill_lady_eleanor_talbot.pdf	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Thomas Wright "History of Essex" https://books.google.be/books?id=SgQVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA264	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know
Thrupp "Merchant Class of Medieval London" https://books.google.be/books?id=99V2omf9odQC See pages 127 and 267	Don't know	Don't know	Don't know

Media

Pictures

Hendee Crest

1931 Milwaulki, Wisconsin Interview

PDF

Hende, John

From Chaucer and His World

John Hende _ Family tree by J H GARNER - Geneanet

HENDE Last will And Papers