Family and Education
Illegit. s. of Piers Griffith (d.1541), serjeant-at-arms to Henry VIII and (prob.) doorkeeper of Rhuddlan castle, of Caerwys by Margaret, da. of John ap Tudor. m. Ellin, da. of William Hanmer of The Fenns by Elena or Eleanor, da. of Sir Thomas Hanmer, of Hanmer.Dwnn, Vis. Wales, ii. 298; Harl. 1969, f. 323; 1972, f. 290; 1977, ff. 71, 131; LP Hen. VIII, xvi. 53, 175, 464; Old Wales, ed. Williams, ii. 378-9; iii. 120.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Flints. 1547 – 48, 1556 – 57, 1564 – 65, 1571 – 72, j.p.q. from c. 1559, custos rot. 1559, escheator 1561, 1572.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Caerwys, Flints.
Volume
Commons 1558-1603
Web Title
GRIFFITH, John I (-d.1580)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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