John Militon


John Militon of Pengersick Castle in the parish of Breage in Cornwall, was Governor of Saint Michael's Mount, Cornwall, in 1547.

Career

The Militon family, which originated in Devon, inherited Pengersick, and enlarged the building. Sabine Baring-Gould wrote as follows:
During the reign of Henry VIII, John's father had purchased
The manor of Pengersick. On 4 February 1534 John Militon and his son William obtained a grant from the Abbess of Syon Monastery of a 30-year farm of Saint Michael's Mount, on condition of maintaining an arch-priest and two other priests. The Militons are mentioned frequently in this connection in the "Minister's Accounts of Cornwall".
John Militon was made governor of St. Michael's Mount in the year 1547, in the room of Sir Humphrey Arundell, who was later executed for his part in the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.

Marriage and children

Militon married and had a son and heir, William, who became Sheriff of Cornwall in 1565, and married Honor Godolphin, a daughter of Sir William Godolphin of Godolphin, Cornwall. Of William and his wife, Sabine Baring-Gould relates as follows:
William had a son and heir apparent also named William, who died at sea without children shortly before his father's death, when William's six daughters therefore became his co-heiresses. They married into the families of Erisey, Lanyon, Trefusis, Arundel, Bonython, and Abbot of Hartland Abbey.