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Sir John Scudamore
d. 1435
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1435
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Sir John Scudamore of Kentchurch, sheriff and castellan on the Welsh border, secretly married a daughter of the attainted rebel Owain Glyndwr, and sheltered the old prince's family - and, tradition says, the prince himself - in his last years.
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✓ Sir JOHN SCUDAMORE of KENTCHURCH and Monnington, Sheriff of Herefordshire (d.c.1435); m. (secretly, before 1421) ALYS ferch Owain Glyndwr; father of Joan (our line). DOCUMENTED FLOOR of the wired Scudamores; the elder Scudamores of Herefordshire note-only. Standard well-documented late-medieval Welsh genealogy per the cited authorities (web-confirmed 7 Aug 2026); contested rungs note-only, not hardened.