Sir John Davenport Knight

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. III, p. 68, Sir John de Davenport, living 1301, 16 & 21 Edward III, was the founder of the chapel of Marton and married Margery, daughter of William de Brereton and his wife, Roese, daughter of Sir Ralph de Vernon.
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  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁶⁸²
Sir John Davenport, knight, maried for his first wife, Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton, by Rosesia, the daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon. She was the mother of his issue. His second wife was Agnes de Bradford. Sir John founed a chantry in the Chapel of Marton, in 1343, which was dissolved after the Reformation. His second wife survived him, and was remarried to Robert Massey, senior of Sale, in 1358.

~A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family, pg. 67

John married Margery Brereton, daughter of Sir William I, Lord of Brereton Knight and Rose de Vernon of Shipbrook, in 1301 in Cheshire, England ⁶⁸².^,713

  Marriage Notes:

Sir John and Margery had their marriage contracted in 1301, and they were divorced by 1305.

~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. III, p. 88 ⁷¹³