Editing John Popham (judge) (section)

==Marriage and children==
[[File:SirJohnPopham Died1607 AndWife WellingtonChurch Somerset.JPG|thumb|200px|Effigies of Sir John Popham and his wife Amy Adams, Wellington Church]]

John Popham married Amy Adams<ref name="History of Parliament">History of Parliament</ref> (''alias'' Games), daughter and heiress of Hugh (''alias'' Howel) Adams (''alias'' Games) of Castleton, [[Glamorgan]], a fortified [[manor house]] 800 metres north-east of the village of [[St Athan]]. Castleton was from the early 12th century the [[caput]] of the lordship of St Athan established by the Nerber family, and held from the overlords the Earls of Gloucester, comprising 4 [[knight's fee]]s.<ref>''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan'', Volume 3, Part 1b, ''Medieval Secular Monuments: The Later Castles from 1217 to the Present'', published by [[Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales]], Landudno, 2000, pp. 468–471 [https://books.google.com/books?id=mhnYtVAUhQEC&dq=castleton+st+athans&pg=PA468]</ref> John de Nerber was the last in the line, and died in the early 16th century. In 1528, "by corrupt dealings",<ref>[[G. T. Clark|Clark, G. T.]], Arch. Camb., 1864, pp. 287–8, quoted in ''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan''.</ref> Castleton was acquired by Howel Adams. In 1538 [[John Leland (antiquary)|Leland]] (died 1552) recorded: ''"Castleton, a manor place on a hille ascending from the ripe.<ref>Ripe, river bank.</ref> And late it (be)longgid to one Hugh Adam, a man of mene lands whos doughter is now heir of it"''.<ref>Leland, ''Itinerary'', section on Wales, quoted in ''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan''.</ref> By his marriage Popham inherited Castleton and sold it to his maternal relative Sir Thomas Stradling of St Donat's Castle.<ref>Lewis, ''Breviat'', p. 115, quoted in ''An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan''.</ref> By his wife he had issue one son and six daughters including:
*Sir [[Francis Popham (1573–1644)|Francis Popham]] (c. 1573 – 1644), only son, and heir, MP, of Wellington, Somerset and [[Littlecote House|Littlecote]], Wiltshire, who married Anne Gardiner Dudley and was the father of [[Edward Popham]] (1610–1651), General-at-Sea, and of Colonel [[Alexander Popham]] (1605–1669), JP, MP, who fought for the Parliamentarians during the Civil War and had a garrison stationed at [[Littlecote House]]. Another of his descendants was Admiral Sir [[Home Riggs Popham]] (1762–1820), who developed the Signal Code adopted by the Navy in 1803.
*Penelope Popham; 
*Elinor Popham; married Sir Roger Warre of Hestercombe (d. 1616).
*Elizabeth Popham (d.1637), wife of Sir Richard Champernowne (1558–1622), [[lord of the manor]] of [[Modbury]] in Devon, [[Sheriff of Devon]] in 1591, created a [[knight of the Bath]] in 1599.<ref>[[John Lambrick Vivian|Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L.]], (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the [[Heraldic visitation|Heralds' Visitations]] of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.165</ref>
*Mary Popham; 
*Amy Popham.