Sir John Say

  General Notes:

Sir John Say was King's Serjeant, Coroner of the Marshalsea, Yeoman of the Chamber and Crown, Keeper of Westminster Palace, Squire of the Body, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Privy Councillor, Under-Treasurer of England, Knight of the Shire for the Counties of Cambridge and Hertford, and Speaker of the House of Commons. He was knighted in 1465.

Sir John Say was an ancestor of Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII.

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  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Elizabeth Cheney, 1448, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

• Marriage: to Agnes Danvers, October 1474, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

• Residence: Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire.

John married Lady Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Sir Lawrence Cheney and Elizabeth Cockayne, in 1448 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. (Lady Elizabeth Cheney was born in 1422 in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire and died on 25 September 1473 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.)