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Sir Edmund Cheyne (d.1374/83) of

Poyntington Poyntington is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about north of Sherborne. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 128. Poyntington shares a grouped pa ...

in Somerset, was a Member of Parliament and served as Warden of the Channel Islands 1358–1367.

Origins

He was the eldest son and heir (by his first wife) of Sir William Cheyne (d.1345) of Poyntington. His younger half-brother (by his father's second wife Joan Gorges, a daughter of Ralph Gorges of

Bradpole Bradpole is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, in the Brit valley, outside Bridport. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was 2,339. In 1651 Charles II passed through Bradpole in his efforts to evade captur ...

in Dorset) was Sir

Ralph Cheyne Sir Ralph Cheyne (c. 1337 – 1400) (''alias'' Cheney), of Brooke, in the parish of Westbury in Wiltshire, was three times a Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and was Deputy Justiciar of Ireland in 1373 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1383–4 ...

(–1400) of

Brook A brook is a small river or natural stream of fresh water. It may also refer to: Computing *Brook, a programming language for GPU programming based on C *Brook+, an explicit data-parallel C compiler *BrookGPU, a framework for GPGPU programming ...

in the parish of Westbury in Wiltshire, thrice a Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and Deputy Justiciar of Ireland in 1373 and

Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of ...

1383-4 and Deputy Warden of the Cinque Ports. The Cheney family (''alias'' Cheyney, Cheyne, etc.) Latinized to ''de Caineto'', possibly from the French ''chêne'', an oak-tree, was an ancient family, branches of which were scattered throughout southern England, from Kent to Cornwall, and in the Midlands. Their name survives attached to several of their former manors. The family which inherited Brook was seated at

Upottery Upottery (originally Up Ottery) is a rural village, civil parish and former manor in East Devon, England. Location Upottery takes up both sides of the upper vale of the Otter which flows to the English Channel south of Ottery St Mary and is a ...

in Devon from the time of King Henry III (1216-1272).

Career

Edmund was Warden of the Channel Islands 1358–1367.

Marriage

He married a certain Katherine (d.1422), step-mother of the Devonshire heiress Cecily Stretche (c. 1371 – 1430), the wife of his nephew Sir William Cheyne (1374-1420) of

, MP for Dorset in 1402, and younger daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Stretch, of Pinhoe and Hempston Arundel in Devon, three times MP for Devon. The marriage was without progeny.

Death and succession

He died childless in 1374 or 1383, leaving as his heir his younger half-brother Sir Ralph Cheyne of Brook.Woodger

References

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