page_title: John Speke (landowner)
section_title: Marriages and children
hierarchical_section_title: John Speke (landowner) / Marriages and children
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of William Wynard: Argent, on a bend azure three mullets of the first (per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.508,"Winard of Woonford" ), Recorder of Exeter (1404-1442), whose house was in South Street on the site of the present White Hart Inn, who founded Wynard's Almshouse or Hospital in Magdalen Street, Exeter (still standing), on 20 January 1436 together with the attached chapel of the Holy Trinity and Maison Dieu
context_page_description: Sir John Speke of Whitelackington, Somerset and of Heywood in the parish of Wembworthy and of Bramford Speke both in Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1517 and a Member of Parliament. He was knighted in 1501. His monument is the Speke Chantry in Exeter Cathedral in which survives his recumbent effigy.
context_section_description: Speke married three times. His first marriage was to Joan Wynard, daughter and heiress of John Wynard of Exeter. Her ancestor was William Wynard (alias Wonard or Wenar), Recorder of Exeter (1404–1442), whose house was in South Street on the site of the present White Hart Inn, who founded Wynard's Almshouse or Hospital in Magdalen Street, Exeter (still standing), on 20 January 1436 together with the attached chapel of the Holy Trinity and Maison Dieu. The patronage of this hospital was inherited by John Speke from his first wife, and the arms of Speke quartering Wynard (Argent, on a bend azure three mullets of the first), occur on a shield in Wynard's Hospital in Exeter and in Seaton Church, Devon. By Joan Wynard he had three sons and one daughter:
  John Speke (c. 1468 – 1524), eldest son and heir, of Haywood and Whitelackington.  He was harshly treated in his father's will by clauses attempting to prevent him from ejecting his father's widow from the lands he bequeathed to her. He married Alice Arundell, daughter of Sir Thomas Arundell of Lanherne, Cornwall, by whom he had a son and heir Thomas Speke (1508–1551), MP, father of George Speke (died 1584), KB, whose monumental brass survives in Whitelackington Church.
  Sir George Speke (died 1528) of Dowlish Wake, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1526. He married Elizabeth Ratcliff but died without issue. He was appointed by his father as executor of his will.
  Christopher Speke
  Alice Speke
  Speke's second marriage, in about 1494, was to Isobel Calwodley, daughter of Thomas Calwodley and widow of John Beaumont; and his third wife was Elizabeth Somester, daughter of Adam Somester of Widecombe and widow successively of John Coleshill and Richard Unde, both of Exeter. By Elizabeth Somester he had a daughter, Anne.
caption: Arms of Wynard: Argent, on a bend azure three mullets of the first,[12] ), exterior wall of Wynard's Hospital, Exeter
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