England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages
| Surname: | Peryan [Perient] |
| Forename: | John |
| Gender: | Male |
| Place of Origin: | Brittany [modern: France] |
| Origin: Nationality: | [Breton] |
| Occupation(s): | king's esquire |
| Original Document: | CPR 1408-13, p. 368 (letters of denization, 19 December 1411) |
| Notes: | No Notes |
| Biographical Notes: | Esquire of the body and pennon-bearer of Richard II, esquire of Henry IV and Henry V and Master of the Horse of Queen Joan of Navarre. His wife Joan was Queen Joan's principal lady-in waiting. Commemorated by a brass in the church at Digswell, Hertfordshire (Brian Kemp, ‘English Church Monuments during the Period of the Hundred Years War’, in Arms, Armies and Fortifications in the Hundred Years War, ed. Anne Curry and Michael Hughes (Woodbridge 1994). A man of this name made his will, as John Perient of Digswell, in April 1432 (TNA PROB 11/3/288). |
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