Sir John Dinham Lord of Dinham

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁵⁴
Sir John Dinham died in 1457\endash 8 seised of the manors of Eythorpe, Crendwell, and Little Kimble, held of Edward, Prince of Wales, as of the honour of Wallingford, by right of inheritance of Joan his wife, who survived him. [Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Hen. VI, no. 39] His wife was the heiress of the Darches family, who had held the two first-named manors, and probably part of Little Kimble, [Chan. Inq. p.m. 18 Edw. II, no. 18; ibid. 2 Ric. II, no. 57; Assize R. 1458, m. 26 d.] as subtenants, but presumably Sir John's right in the manor came also through his great-grandmother, Muriel de Moels.

He was succeeded by his son John, Lord Dinham, who died leaving his four sisters and their children as his heirs. [Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xv, no. 58] In the inquisition on his lands, however, he was said to be seised only of tenements in Little Kimble, [ibid] but his heirs afterwards appear to have held portions of the manor. These heirs were his sisters, Lady Elizabeth Fitzwarren, a widow, who afterwards married Sir Thomas Brandon, and Lady Joan Zouche, and his nephews, Sir Edmund Carew and Sir John Arundel, sons of his sisters Margaret and Katherine respectively. [ibid.]

~A History of the County of Buckingham, Volume II, pp. 303-307

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir John Dinham, of Hartland, Kingskerswell, Nutwell, Buckland Denharn, Cardinham, &c., son and heir by 3^rd wife, aged 22 and more at his father's death. The King took his fealty, and he had livery of his father's lands, 12 February 1428/9, his homage being respited. He was knighted before 1 May 1430, and in 1430 and 1431 was in France with the King. In August 1444 the Abbot of Hartland charged him with breaking into the Abbot's close and houses at Stoke St. Nectan, and taking his horses, sheep, and cattle.

Sir John Dinham married before 12 July 1434, Joan, sister and heir of John Arches, and daughter of Sir Richard Arches, of Eythrope, Cranwell, and Little Kimble, Bucks, by Lucy, his wife.
Sir John Dinham died 25 January 1457/8, at Nutwell, Dcvon, and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars at Exeter. Joan died in 1497.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, pp. 377-378, XIV, p.265

• Web Reference: Arundell of Lanhern and Trerice From the Corwall Record Office on the U.K. National Archives.
John Dinham (c.1406-58), father of the nine men and women who formed the last generation of the Dinhams, married Joan Arches of Oxfordshire. She outlived her husband by nearly forty years, dying in 1497, only four years before her last son, John Lord Dinham. Joan brought to the family lands in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, a share in which later came from the Dinhams to the Arundells, although they do not seem to have been reckoned part of 'Dinham's lands' and do not appear in the 1566 survey. The Dinhams had already possessed lands in those areas from at least the fourteenth century. The Arundells retained an interest in some of these places although their quarter-shares in others were sold in a tidy-up of the estates in 1576 (AR/1/711, AR/1/713-717, AR/1/837-838).

John married Joan Arches, daughter of Sir Richard Arches Knight and Unknown, before 12 Jul 1434 ¹²⁴.^,1187 (Joan Arches was born about 1415 in Steeple Aston, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England and died in 1497 in England ^141,1187.)