Editing John Cavendish (section)

==Biography==
John Cavendish was descended from the [[Normans|Norman]] noble [[Robert de Guernon]], who lived during the reign of [[Henry I of England|Henry I]] and who gave a large amount of property to the Abbey of [[Gloucester]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cheshirenow.co.uk/cavendish_family.html|title=The Cavendish Family: Dukes of Devonshire|website=cheshirenow.co.uk|access-date=9 August 2017}}</ref> A little later a son of a Robert de Gernon, Roger de Gernon, of Grimston Hall, in [[Trimley St Martin]], [[Suffolk]], married the heiress of John Potton of Cavendish and obtained a landed estate in the lordship and manor of Cavendish. In consequence, his four sons exchanged their father's name for that of the estate each inherited. Until about 1500, this family are recorded as Gernon ''alias'' Cavendish.<ref>''The Visitation of Suffolk 1561'', made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, edited by Joan Corder, F.S.A., Harleian Society, London, 1984, part 2, p.209.</ref><ref>The father of Sir John Cavendish (senior) was not Robert de Gernon, it was Roger Gernon of Grimston Hall. Roger Gernon was born in Stansted, Essex, in 1274. His father Geoffrey was born at the Gernon Lordship of Bakewell, Derbyshire, in 1231. The first family seat of the Gernons was at Stansted Mountfitchet in Essex. They held the Lordship of Bakewell. Chatsworth which became the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, ran adjacent to Bakewell. The Gernons also held the Lordship of Lexden in Essex. Sir John Cavendish was born long before 1346, it was more likely his son, John who was born then.</ref>

Sir John Cavendish married Alice de Odingsells, became a lawyer and was appointed as a [[Justice of the Common Pleas]] in 1371 and [[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales|Chief Justice of the King's Bench]] in 1372.<ref>Sir John Sainty (comp.) ''The Judges of England, 1272-1990: a list of the judges of the Superior courts'' (Selden Society: Supplementary Series 1993), p. 88.</ref> He had one son, Andrew, who succeeded his father in the manor of Overhall, together with the [[advowson]] of Cavendish church, and the Suffolk manor of Fakenham Aspes. <ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Cavendish, John (d.1381)}}</ref>
[[File:Peasants' Revolt (death of Wat Tyler).jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|right|[[Wat Tyler]]'s death in the [[Peasants' Revolt]] in 1381 – left to right: Sir [[William Walworth]], Mayor of London (wielding sword); [[Wat Tyler]]; the boy king [[Richard II of England|Richard II]]; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the King (bearing lance), from [[Jean Froissart|Froissart]]'s [[Froissart's Chronicles|''Chroniques'']]]]

On 15 June 1381, he was killed during the [[Peasants' Revolt]] at [[Bury St Edmunds]].<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Cavendish, John (d.1381)}}</ref>