Sir John VI Lisle (1406-1471) was an

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landowner, soldier, administrator, and politician from Wootton on the

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Origins

Born about 1406,Aged 22 or more on 17 February 1429, according to his father's IPM. he was the son and heir of the MP Sir John V Lisle and his wife Margaret Bramshott, daughter of John Bramshott. Prominent since the time of King Stephen on the Isle of Wight, then part of

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, the Lisle family wrote their name in Latin as “de Insula” and in French as “de l'Isle”, both meaning “of the Island”. As well as supplying Sheriffs and MPs for the county, two of his ancestors had been summoned to Parliament as barons under King

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Career

By 1427 he reached majority, in that year being first included in the electoral roll for

and in 1433 being elected as the county's

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. Knighted in 1436, he served as

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in 1438 and then as

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in 1439. From 1440 to 1470 he was appointed to at least 40 royal commissions in Hampshire and sat as a

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for the county from 1441 until his death. After military service in the Duke of Somerset's expedition that sailed to France in 1443, he returned to England and in 1448 acquired the wardship of John Philpot, who he married to one of his daughters. After serving a second term as MP for Hampshire in the Parliament of February 1449, he went back to the war in France, serving in 1453 as a King's knight in Aquitaine with a force of 20 spearmen and 200 archers. In 1461 he rallied to Yorkist rule and, pardoned with other Lancastrians in 1462, then served on Yorkist royal commissions. He made his will on 21 October 1468, asking to be buried at Thruxton in

, and died on 21 January 1471, leaving to his son lands in the Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, and Devon. His will was proved on 6 November 1471.

Family

He married Anne Botreaux, daughter and heiress of John Botreaux and niece of William VI Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux, with whom he had the four children named in his will: * Sir Nicholas Lisle, who married Elizabeth Rogers. * Margaret Lisle, who married John Rogers. * Elizabeth Lisle, who married John Philpot (one of his executors). * Anne Lisle, who became a nun at

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. After his first wife's death, he married Isabel, widow of Richard Horne and mother of Gervase Horne (born about 1454), who survived him and acted as one of his executors. They had two children named in his will: * Jane Lisle. * William Lisle. She married a third time to Thomas Beauchamp and died on 7 October 1484.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lisle, John 1406 births 1471 deaths Politicians from the Isle of Wight 15th-century English people English MPs 1433 English MPs February 1449 Knights Bachelor People of the Hundred Years' War 15th-century English soldiers