John Dod of Cloverley Hall
c
1420 to c 1510 (estimated)
DOD00055
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1420
John Dod, the son Hugh Dod (DOD00051) or William Dod (DOD00050), may have been born in or about
1420.
1450
John Dod of Cloverley Hall
married Matilda, daughter of Ludovic Eyton of Eyton, Shropshire, cementing
their status among the Shropshire elite.
At an unknown date, perhaps in
about 1450, John Dod, of Cloverley Hall, married Matilda, daughter of
Ludovic Eyton, of Eyton, Shropshire (see that family separately in Burke’s),
and had issue (Burke, John and Burke,
Sir Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth Edition, 1972), Bellyse Baker of Highfields
in Burke’s Landed Gentry, Volume 3, pages
35 to 38).
Ludovic Eyton, also recorded
in historical genealogies as Lodovicus, Lewis, or Lewys
Eyton, was an English landowner and member of the Shropshire gentry. He
eventually became the Lord of the Manor of Eyton upon the Weald Moors in
Shropshire. He was the second son of Nicholas Eyton of Eyton, who served as a
tax assessor and local official in Shropshire, and Katherine Talbot, a daughter
of the Earl of Shrewsbury. He
married Anne Savage, the daughter of Sir John Savage of Rock Savage. Together
they had several children, including Frances, Anne, Fulk, and his eldest son
and heir, Henry Eyton.
John Burke’s History
of the Commoners and certain historic
pedigree charts of the Dod Family of Highfields explicitly state that John Dod
of Cloverley (who lived in the late 1450s to early 1500s) married Matilda,
daughter of Ludovic (Lewis) Eyton of Eyton. Conversely, the official Visitation of Shropshire by the heralds records
her name as Anna (or Anne) Eyton. Furthermore, the heralds place her one
generation earlier, stating she married John’s father, who they say was William
Dod of Cloverley.
Because Matilda and
Anna were frequently switched or conflated in these distinct versions of
the Shropshire gentry family trees, she is considered the same individual in
fluid fifteenth century historical tracking. Either way, a direct matrimonial
alliance firmly bonded Ludovic Eyton's house with the Dods of Cloverley during
this era.
1455
Their son, John Dod (DOD00058), may have been born in or about
1455.
1510
He may have lived until about
1510.