Editing John Fortescue (judge) (section)

==Origins==
Born about 1397, he was the second son of [[John Fortescue (Devon lawyer)|John Fortescue]] and his first wife Clarice. His elder brother was [[Henry Fortescue (Lord Chief Justice)|Henry Fortescue]].
The earliest surviving record of the Fortescue family relates to their manor of [[Whympston, Modbury|Whympston]] in the parish of [[Modbury]], Devon.<ref>{{citation|author=Edward Foss|author-link=Edward Foss|title=The Judges of England: With Sketches of their Lives, and Miscellaneous Notices Connected with the Courts at Westminster, from the Time of the Conquest|url=https://archive.org/details/judgesenglandwi08fossgoog|location=London|publisher=[[Longman|Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans]]|year=1851|volume=4|pages=308–315 at 308–309|oclc=23361486}}.</ref>