John Fortescue
- Born: Abt 1420, Wimpston, Modbury, Devonshire, England 160
- Marriage: Jane Preston 160,1459
- Died: 11 Mar 1481, Devonshire, England about age 61 160
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 160
John Fortescue, son and heir, lord of Whypston, co. Devon, died 11 Mar 1481, Inq.p.m 4 Nov 1481, married by 1540, Joan Prutteston, daughter and heir of John Prutteston of rutteston (or Preston) in the parish of Ermington, co. Devon. Joan is mentioned in the Inq.p.m. on her father's lands in 1468. She died 23 May 1501, Inq.p.m. 26 Oct 1501.
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 246E:35
• Background Information. 1459
William and his wife, Alice, had a son, William Fortescue, who was alive in 1394 and was the father of the William Fortescue who married Elizabeth Beauchamp. (According to this article, this William was omitted on the Pedigree in Vivian's Visitation of Devon on p. 352.) This William was succeeded by another William Fortescue who married Elizabeth Branscombe, widow, who was a daughter of Sir John Beauchamp, and sister and co-heir of Thomas Beauchamp, of Ryme, co. Somerset. William Fortescue and Elizabeth Beauchamp were the parents of William and John. The eldest son, William, married Isabel Falwell, and was the father of John Fortescue of Wimpston who married Jane Preston.
~Devonshire Wills, pp. 456-460
John married Jane Preston, daughter of John Preston and Unknown 160.,1459 (Jane Preston was born about 1430 in Preston, Devonshire, England 160 and died on 23 May 1501 in Devonshire, England 160.)
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