John de Peyton

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: Ribert de Ufrord.
Robert de Ufford (d. 1298), was the founder of the greatness of the family. A younger son of a Suffolk landowner, John de Peyton, Robert assumed his surname from his lordship of Ufford in Suffolk, and attended Edward I on his crusade.

Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 58, p. 10

• Background Information. ¹³⁵⁰
The Peyton family derived their descent from William de Mallet, a noble Norman, who came into England with the Conqueror, whose eldest son and heir John, was lord of the manor of Peyton-hall, in Suffolk, who left Robert de Ufford, his eldest son, so surnamed from his manor of Ufford, in that county, ancestor to the earls of Suffolk of that name, and other eminent persons in the several ages in which they lived.

~The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, Volume X., p. 90

• Background Information. ⁷³⁹
The Peytons are the same family as the Uffords, earls of Suffolk who descended from William Malet, a Norman baron, who was sheriff of Yorkshire in 3 Wm. I and from him received the grants of many lordships and manors ; and among others he possessed those of Sibton and Payton-Hall, in Suffolk, at the time of the Domesday Survey.

The first of this family by the name of Peyton, is Reginald de Peyton, second son to Walter, lord of Suffolk, younger brother to Mallet sheriff of Yorkshire, and lord of the manor of Eye, in Suffolk. This Reginald held the lorships of Peyton-Hall in Ramshold and Boxford, in Suffolk, of Hugh de Bigod. Reginald had two sons, John, his eldist and William.

John de Peyton had four sons, John the elder, Robert, Peter and John the younger. Robert was lord justice of Ireland in the time of Henry III and Edward I, and being from Ufford, assumed his surname from that place : whose son Robert de Ufford, was created the earl of Suffolk 11 Edward III, 1336, and made knight of the garter.

~William Betham's, The Baronetage of England, Volume I, p. 42