John Champneys
title: "John Champneys" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["16th-century-lord-mayors-of-london", "sheriffs-of-the-city-of-london", "16th-century-english-knights", "1495-births", "1556-deaths", "knights-bachelor"] topic_path: "people/1490s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Champneys" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| honorific-prefix | The Right Honourable |
| name | Sir John Champneys |
| image | Arms of Sir John Champneys.png |
| caption | Coat of Arms of Sir John Champneys. |
| Per pale argent and sable, within a bordure engrailed counterchanged a lion rampant gules. | |
| office1 | Lord Mayor of London |
| term_start1 | 1534 |
| term_end1 | 1535 |
| monarch1 | Henry VIII |
| predecessor1 | Sir Christopher Askew |
| successor1 | Sir John Alleyn |
| office2 | Sheriff of London |
| term_start2 | 1522 |
| term_end2 | 1523 |
| monarch2 | Henry VIII |
| predecessor2 | Thomas Pargiter |
| successor2 | Michael English |
| birth_date | 1495 |
| death_date | |
| resting_place | St Mary the Virgin, Bexley, UK |
| restingplacecoordinates | |
| spouse | |
| children | with Meriel: |
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Sir John Champneys (1495–1556) was City of London Sheriff in 1522 and Lord Mayor of London in 1534, when he was knighted.
Life
A merchant, Champneys began the building of Hall Place, Bexley, in about 1537. The son of Robert Champneys of Chew Magna, Somerset, he was a member of the Worshipful Company of Skinners. A contemporary chronicler, John Stow, noted that he was blind in later life: a divine judgment for having added "a high tower of brick" to his house in Mincing Lane, "the first that I ever heard of in any private man's house, to overlook his neighbours in this city."
He married twice. His first wife was Margaret (died by 1515), daughter of Thomas Murfyn, and widow of Roger Hall. His second wife was Merial Barret (died 1534) by whom he had three sons:
- Francis
- Clement
- Justinian
He died on 3 October 1556 and was buried on 8 October at St Mary the Virgin, Bexley.
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