page_title: John Giffard (1602–1665)
section_title: Family origins and early life
hierarchical_section_title: John Giffard (1602–1665) / Family origins and early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Right: 1625 kneeling effigies of John Giffard (1602-1665), later Colonel Giffard, as a young man aged 23, kneeling opposite his father, Arthur Giffard (d.1616), (left) who kneels at a prie dieu. Above each is an heraldic escutcheon showing arms of Giffard impaling the arms of his respective wife. Above Arthur are shown the arms of Leigh of Burrough/Borough, Northam (Argent, a lion rampant gules on a sinister canton azure an escallop or&#91;1&#93;)and above John are shown the arms of Wyndham (Azure, a chevron between three lion's heads erased or). Detail from base of monument in Chittlehampton Church, Devon, of John Giffard (d.1622) of Brightley, Arthur's father, erected 1625.
context_page_description: Colonel John Giffard (1602–1665), of Brightley in the parish of Chittlehampton, Devon, England, was a Royalist leader during the Civil War. Giffard commanded the Devon Pikemen at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1634, in which his 3rd cousin the Royalist commander of the Cornish forces Sir Bevil Grenville was killed in heroic circumstances. Giffard's loyalty to the Royalist cause led to him being proposed in 1660 as a knight of the intended Order of the Royal Oak. He was personally known to the biographer John Prince who included him as one of his Worthies of Devon. He was buried in Chittlehampton Church, where his small kneeling effigy survives on the base of the monument he erected in 1625 to his grandfather.
context_section_description: The Giffard family of Brightley was a junior branch of Giffard of Halsbury (pron. "Haulsbury") in the parish of Parkham, near Bideford. The Devon branch of the family were originally seated at Weare Giffard, near Great Torrington, at Awliscombe near Honiton and at Halsbury.
  John Giffard was the eldest son and heir of Arthur Giffard (1580–1616) by his wife Agnes Leigh (died 1625), a daughter of Thomas Leigh of Burrough (anciently "Borow", "Borough", etc.) in the parish of Northam, near Bideford. Arthur had predeceased his own father John Giffard (died 1622), of Brightley, and thus Col. Giffard became heir to his grandfather. Arthur's mother was Honor Erle (1555-1638), a daughter of the courtier Walter Erle (d.1581) of Charborough in Dorset.
  Col. Giffard's younger brother was Rev. Arthur Giffard (1605–1666), appointed in 1643 Rector of Bideford by his cousin Sir John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath (1628–1701) of Stowe, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, and lord of the manor of Bideford, but forcefully ejected by the Parliamentarians during the Civil War.
  According to Rev. Prince, who briefly served under Rev. Arthur Giffard at Bideford, John Giffard "had a virtuous and liberal education (and) became a very accomplished gentleman."
caption: Kneeling effigies of (the future Col.) John Giffard aged 23, (right) opposite his father, Arthur Giffard (died 1616), (left) who kneels at a prie dieu. Detail from base of 1625 Giffard monument in Chittlehampton Church[b]
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