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esentative of Roger De Beauchamp, who
was summoned to Parliament as Lord De
Beauchamp, 1363 to 1379. Margaret (De
Beauchamp) St. John married (second) in
1440, John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset,
and was the mother of Margaret, Coun-
tess of Richmond, mother of Henry VII.
(XIV) Sir John De St. John married
AHce, daughter of Sir Thomas Brads-
haigh, of Haigh, County Lancaster ; she
descended in the fourteenth generation
from Sir John Bradshaigh.
(XV) Sir John De St. John, K. B., of
Bletsoe, married Sibyl, daughter of Morgan
ap Jenkins ap Philip.
(XVI) Sir John St. John married Margaret,
daughter of Sir William Walde-
grave, K. B., of Smallbridge, Suffolk.
Margaret Waldegrave traced a most dis-
tinguished ancestry. She was a lineal
descendant of Warine de Waldegrave,
Reginald de Wentworth, Lord Badles-
mere, Guy de Croun, Harold de Vaux, the
Lords of Tibetot, Lords of Ros, William
the Lion of Scotland, King Henry I, the
Empress Matilda, King Henry II, King
John, King Henry III, King Edward I,
the Earls of Gloucester, and Hugh, Earl
of Winchester.
(XVII) Oliver St. John was elevated
to the peerage, January 13, 1558-59, by the
title of Lord St. John, of Bletsoe. The
designation of the barony has been
spelled variously Bletsho, Bletshoe, Blet-
soe, and Bletso, in which latter form it
now appears on the Roll of the Lords.
Oliver St. John was one of the peers who
sat in judgment upon Thomas, Duke of
Norfolk, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
He died sometime before May 23, 1582.
He married (first) before January, 1548-
1549, Agnes, daughter of John Fisher, and
granddaughter and heir of Sir Michael
Fisher, Knight.
(XVIII) Rt. Hon. Thomas St. John,
son of Oliver, ist Lord St. John, was the
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grandfather of Elizabeth (St. John)
Whiting.
(XIX) Rt. Hon. Sir Oliver St. John, of
Cayshoe, Bedfordshire, married Sarah
Bulkley, of Odell, Bedfordshire. She was
a sister of Rev. Edward Bulkley, D. D.,
of Odell, and aunt of Rev. Peter Bulkley,
the first minister of Concord, Massachusetts.
The Bulkleys were of honorable
and noble descent. Sarah Bulkley was
of the ninth generation from Robert Bulk-
ley, one of the English barons, who, in
the reign of King John, was lord of the
manor of Bulkley, in the County Palatine
of Chester.
(XX) Elizabeth St. John, daughter of
the Rt. Hon. Sir Oliver and Sarah (Bulkley)
St. John, was born in Cayshoe, Bedfordshire,
England, in 1605. She became
the wife of Rev. Samuel Whiting, A. M.,
and accompanied him to New England,
where she died in Lynn, Massachusetts,
in 1677.
(The Warren Line).
Arms—Gules, a lion rampant argent, a chief
compony counter-compony or and azure.
Crest—A demi-eagle displayed cheeky argent and
azure.
Motto— Virtus mihi scutum. (Virtue is to me a
shield).
The history of the Warren family is
exceeded in interest and antiquity by that
of no ancient English house. The surname
Warren is of Norman-French
origin, and is derived from Gareme or Gar-
renne. There is at present a village called
Garenne in the same district, and it is
here that the origin of the family has
been fixed by historians. The ancient
baronial seat of the de Warrenes stood on
the west side of the river Garenne, and as
late as the year 1832 some of the ruins
were standing. The surname has assumed
different forms from time to time.
It first appears in England with William
de Warrenne, a Norman nobleman, who
came to England with William the Con-