John Kingsmill, Esq. was born on an unknown date to Richard Kingsmill and died 1504 of unspecified causes. He married Joan Gifford (c1480-) .
"John Kingsmill, Esq. one of the justices of the Common Pleas, who married Joan, daughter of Sir John Gifford, of Ishill, Knt. and dying 1504, left one son." -- The Baronetage of England, Or the History of the English Baronets, and Such Baronets of Scotland, as are of English Families: With Genealogical Tables, and Engravings of Their Armorial Bearings, Volume 4 by William Betham
"KINGSMILL, John, was the son of John Kingsmill, of Barkham, Berks, and was himself afterwards seated at Sidmanton in Hampshire. He had his legal education at the Middle Temple, and having been noticed in the Year Books from Michaelmas 1489, was called from that society to take the degree of the coif in 1494, and in 1497 he was made one of the king's serjeants. That he was held in high estimation at the bar is proved by the following letter from one of the correspondents of Sir Robert Plumpton, for whom the serjeant was professionally engaged: -"Sir, for Mr. Kingsmel, it were wel doon that he were with you, for his authority and worship; for he may speke more plainly in the matter than any counsel in this country will, for he knowes the crafty labour that hath been made in this matter, and also he will not let for no maugre. And yf the enquest passe against you, he may show you summ comfortable remedy, for I suppose with good counsell you have remedy, but, sir, his coming will be costly to you."
On July 3, 1503, he was preferred to a judicial seat in the Common Pleas; and fines were levied before him as late as February 1509, two months before the king's death. His own death probably occurred about the same period, as his name does not appear in the reign of Henry VIII.
He married Joan, daughter of Sir John Gifford, of Ishill, and had a son John, whose second son, George is the next judge noticed." --Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England from the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870 by Edward Foss
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
John Kingsmill (-1536) | 1536 England | Constance Goring (c1502-1580) |
Siblings