NameSir John Heydon [135, Willoughby, p. 586], [56, Norfolk, 1563, 89 & 1613, p. 152], [56, Essex of 1558, pub Harleian 1878, Darcy p. 46], [56, Essex of 1634, pub Harleian 1878, Darcy p. 387]
GeneralOf Baconsthorpe, Norfolk.
Notes for Sir John Heydon
Did he have a daughter Elizabeth who m. Robert Bedingfeld, possibly solicitor-general in the time of Eliz I? (Burke's Commoners III, p. 509)
Did he also have a daughter Elizabeth who was dau. of John Heydon and sister to Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorpe and which Elizabeth was 3rd wife of Thomas Darcy of Tolleshunt Tregoz.
Did he also have a daughter Margaret who m. Sir Everard Digby of Drystoke, Rutlands. cf Lipscomb’s Bucks, Vol IV, p. 145.
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He is almost certainly the Sir J Heydon of Norfolk who is listed as being at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 as knight bachelor in the king’s retinue.
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