John Cheyne (Master of the Horse)
- John Cheyne (Master of the Horse)
Sir John Cheyne ( c1445[cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cheyne/p11302.htm|title=Sir John Cheyney of Shurland|accessdate=2008-09-13|publisher=Rootsweb] -1499][cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p21644.htm|title=Person Page - 21644|accessdate=2008-09-13|publisher=thepeerage.com] ) was Master of the Horse to King Edward IV of England][.]He was at Treaty of Picquigny in 1475, and remained behind as a hostage of King Louis XI of France until King Edward IV had gone back to Calais and thence to England[cite web|url=http://www.r3.org/bookcase/de_commynes/decom_6.html|title=Memories book 4 - The war of 1475|accessdate=2008-09-13|publisher=Richard the third society] . He fought at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and at the Battle of Stoke in 1487][.]The inherited some land from the his father's widow in a contested will [cite web|url=http://www.cb5.co.uk/annsemark.htm|title=Ann Semark|accessdate=2008-09-13] , but which did not include Chenies Manor House which his father had built[cite web|url=http://www.cheniesmanorhouse.co.uk/the_house.htm|title=Chenies Manor House website|accessdate=2007-12-31] .]He died without issue leaving his lands to his nephew, Thomas Cheyne[.]ee also
*Chenies
*Chesham Bois
*Thomas Cheney
External links
* [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42548 Details of Cheyne Family from about 1430 until 1735]
* [http://www.britishplate.org.uk/johncheney/johncheney.html Details of the Cheyne family history]
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cheyne/p11302.htm Further information on rootsweb]
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