John Hopton (about 1405–1478) was an English landowner and administrator with estates in Suffolk and Yorkshire who was active in local government during the reigns of King Henry VI and King Edward IV. Origins John Hopton was a son of Thomas Hopton (died before 1428) and his wife Margaret, daughter of William Pert of Terrington and his wife Joan Scrope. His father was the illegitimate child of Joan Hopton (from a gentry family with lands near Swillington, Yorkshire) and Sir Robert Swillington, Chamberlain of the Household to John of Gaunt. Sir Robert Swillington made his home in his wife's family estate of Kirby Bellars in Leicestershire, where he died in 1391 and was buried in the priory there. His son Roger Swillington inherited the estate, but Sir Robert's will also left 20 pounds to his illegitimate son Thomas Hopton. Sir Robert had previously given lands in Blythburgh, Suffolk, to Blythburgh Priory. An earlier Robert Swillington had acquired two parts (and the reversion of the third part) of the Suffolk manors of Yoxford, Middleton and Burgh. How the estate came to John Hopton Roger Swillington, dying in 1417, made bequests to Blythburgh and its priory, and gave books including graduals and antiphonaries to Blythburgh and Walberswick parish churches. His son John died in the following year, and his sister Margaret (wife of Sir John Gra of South Ingleby) was found to be next heir: but she died without issue in 1419 and, since Thomas Hopton had by then also died, the estates passed to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Swillington and wife of Robert Sampson of Playford, near Ipswich. It was not until the death of Roger Swillington's second wife Joan, who had a life-tenure), in about 1428 that Richard Danyell, parson of Swillington (executor of Roger Swillington), made a declaration that Sir Roger had entailed his estates upon Thomas Hopton and his heirs; further, a release of the manor of Wissett to Sir John and Lady Gra had been forged "by certain children of iniquity" in his name, and that no such release (nor of any other lands) had been made.

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John Hopton (about 1405–1478) was an English landowner and administrator with estates in Suffolk and Yorkshire who was active in local government during the reigns of King Henry VI and King Edward IV. Origins John Hopton was a son of Thomas Hopton (died before 1428) and his wife Margaret, daughter of William Pert of Terrington and his wife Joan Scrope. His father was the illegitimate child of Joan Hopton (from a gentry family with lands near Swillington, Yorkshire) and Sir Robert Swillington, Chamberlain of the Household to John of Gaunt. Sir Robert Swillington made his home in his wife's family estate of Kirby Bellars in Leicestershire, where he died in 1391 and was buried in the priory there. His son Roger Swillington inherited the estate, but Sir Robert's will also left 20 pounds to his illegitimate son Thomas Hopton. Sir Robert had previously given lands in Blythburgh, Suffolk, to Blythburgh Priory. An earlier Robert Swillington had acquired two parts (and the reversion of the third part) of the Suffolk manors of Yoxford, Middleton and Burgh. How the estate came to John Hopton Roger Swillington, dying in 1417, made bequests to Blythburgh and its priory, and gave books including graduals and antiphonaries to Blythburgh and Walberswick parish churches. His son John died in the following year, and his sister Margaret (wife of Sir John Gra of South Ingleby) was found to be next heir: but she died without issue in 1419 and, since Thomas Hopton had by then also died, the estates passed to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Swillington and wife of Robert Sampson of Playford, near Ipswich. It was not until the death of Roger Swillington's second wife Joan, who had a life-tenure), in about 1428 that Richard Danyell, parson of Swillington (executor of Roger Swillington), made a declaration that Sir Roger had entailed his estates upon Thomas Hopton and his heirs; further, a release of the manor of Wissett to Sir John and Lady Gra had been forged "by certain children of iniquity" in his name, and that no such release (nor of any other lands) had been made.

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John Hopton (about 1405–1478) was an English landowner and administrator with estates in Suffolk and Yorkshire who was active in local government during the reigns of King Henry VI and King Edward IV.

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