(Sir) John ARDERNE #77563

ABT 1326 - ABT 1379
TITLE Sir-
BIRTH ABT 1326, Aldford, Cheshire, England
DEATH ABT 1379, Alvanley, Cheshire, England

Historical Notes

Founder of the House of Arden

The Arden family is an English gentry family that can be traced back in the male line to Anglo-Saxon landholders who managed to maintain status after the 1066 invasion of England by the Normans of France.

The family held lands in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcester, Cheshire and Shropshire. The family shares its name with the Forest of Arden, a culturally defined area ranging across these counties south of Watling Street which is associated with the setting of the action in Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

By the 14th century, under Sir John de Arderne, the most senior line of the Arden family had their primary estate near Solihull at Park Hall, Castle Bromwich. A branch of the Arden family were in Stockport in 1500s at Underbank Hall, Arden Hall (also known as Harden or Hawarden).

Parents

Father : John ARDERNE #77562

Mother : Ellen VENABLES #77564

No known children

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