Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameSir John Hody 
[23, Bond: Vol I, p.241], [54, His own article]
[23, Bond: Vol I, p.241], [54, His own article]Death1441
GeneralOf Pillesdon, Dorset. Chief justice of King's Bench: 18 H VI (1440).
MotherMargaret Cole
Spouses
Notes for Sir John Hody
They had 5 sons and several daus - DNB.
DNB Main notes for Sir John Hody
Hody, Sir John d. 1441
Name: Hody, Sir John
Dates: d. 1441
Active Date: 1421
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Chief justice of the king's bench
Place of
Burial: Woolavington, Somersetshire
Spouse: Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Jewe
Sources: Foss's Lives of the Judges; Prince's Worthies; Hutchins's Dorset, i...
Contributor: J. A. H. [John Andrew Hamilton]
Article
Hody, Sir John d. 1441, chief justice of the king's bench, of an old Devonshire family, was son of Thomas Hody, lord of the manor of Kington Magna, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, and king's escheator there under Henry V, by Margaret, daughter of John Cole of Nitheway, Torbay. From 1425 his name often occurs in the year-books, and he must have become a serjeant-at-law before 1436, for in that year he contributed as a serjeant to the equipment of the army sent into France. He represented Shaftesbury in parliament in 1423, 1425, 1428, and 1438, and the county of Somerset in 1434 and 1440. On 13 April 1440 he succeeded Sir John Juyn as chief justice of the king's bench, died in December 1441, and was buried at Woolavington, Somersetshire. Prince says of him that he won golden opinions, and Coke (Institutes, pref.) says he was one of the ‘famous and expert sages of the law’ who assisted Lyttelton. He had estates at Stowell in Somerset and Pillesden in Dorset, the latter acquired through his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Jewe, by whom he had five sons, including William Hody [q.v.], who became chief baron in 1486, and several daughters.
Sources
Foss's Lives of the Judges; Prince's Worthies; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 317; Risdon's Devon, xvi. 60; Collect. Topogr. vii. 22; Register Chichele Lambeth, 481 b.; Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc.), p. 60; Rot. Parl. iv. 285, v. 477; Pat. 18 Hen. VI, p. 3, m. 5.
Contributor: J. A. H.
published 1891
Name: Hody, Sir John
Dates: d. 1441
Active Date: 1421
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Chief justice of the king's bench
Place of
Burial: Woolavington, Somersetshire
Spouse: Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Jewe
Sources: Foss's Lives of the Judges; Prince's Worthies; Hutchins's Dorset, i...
Contributor: J. A. H. [John Andrew Hamilton]
Article
Hody, Sir John d. 1441, chief justice of the king's bench, of an old Devonshire family, was son of Thomas Hody, lord of the manor of Kington Magna, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, and king's escheator there under Henry V, by Margaret, daughter of John Cole of Nitheway, Torbay. From 1425 his name often occurs in the year-books, and he must have become a serjeant-at-law before 1436, for in that year he contributed as a serjeant to the equipment of the army sent into France. He represented Shaftesbury in parliament in 1423, 1425, 1428, and 1438, and the county of Somerset in 1434 and 1440. On 13 April 1440 he succeeded Sir John Juyn as chief justice of the king's bench, died in December 1441, and was buried at Woolavington, Somersetshire. Prince says of him that he won golden opinions, and Coke (Institutes, pref.) says he was one of the ‘famous and expert sages of the law’ who assisted Lyttelton. He had estates at Stowell in Somerset and Pillesden in Dorset, the latter acquired through his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Jewe, by whom he had five sons, including William Hody [q.v.], who became chief baron in 1486, and several daughters.
Sources
Foss's Lives of the Judges; Prince's Worthies; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 317; Risdon's Devon, xvi. 60; Collect. Topogr. vii. 22; Register Chichele Lambeth, 481 b.; Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc.), p. 60; Rot. Parl. iv. 285, v. 477; Pat. 18 Hen. VI, p. 3, m. 5.
Contributor: J. A. H.
published 1891