Thomas Colepeper

Abt 1356 - Abt 1429  (~ 73 years)

• Name	Thomas Colepeper  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1356	of Bayhall, Pembury, Kent, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1356  [3]
  Death	Abt 1429  [2, 4, 5]
  Alternate death	Bef 8 Mar 1429  [3, 6]
  Burial	Begham Abbey, Sussex, England   [7]
  Person ID	I12361	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of FL, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TS
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	John Colepeper,   b. Abt 1305, of Bayhall, Pembury, Kent, England d. Aft 1370, Kent, England (Age ~ 66 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Hardreshull,   b. Abt 1320   d. Aft 1370 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1345	Pembury, Kent, England   [3]
  Family ID	F8063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Joyce Cornard   bur. Begham Abbey, Sussex, England
  Children	+ 1. Walter Culpepper,   b. Bef 1 Mar 1399   d. 1460 (Age > 60 years)
  Family ID	F8059	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Eleanor Greene,   b. of Exton, Rutland, England d. Bef Jul 1400
  Marriage	Bef 6 Oct 1378  [8, 9]
  Children	+ 1. John Culpepper,   b. of Exton, Rutland, England d. Aft May 1434
  Family ID	F8061	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "Sir Thomas Culpeper was a member of Parliament for Kent in 1382 and 1383 and sheriff in 1393 and 1394." [The Family of Twysden and Twisden by John Ramskill Twisden, 1939. Page 42.] "Sir John [i]'s eldest son, Sir Thomas Culpeper (d. 1429), was a Kentish JP, sheriff in 1394, and MP in 1382 and 1383. His marriage to Eleanor, daughter of Nicholas Green, brought her father's manors of Exton, Rutland, and Isham, Northamptonshire, to the family. By the time he died he was possessed of property in Lincolnshire, as well as in Warwickshire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Kent, and Sussex. His will leaves no doubt as to his wealth. He left his body to be buried in Bayham Abbey, on the Sussex side of the border between Sussex and Kent, where an alabaster tomb had been prepared for him (his son Nicholas was also to seek burial there). As well as making a large number of bequests to religious houses, and leaving a total of £440 in cash to his sons, he provided for legacies to members of his household, who included a butler, a cook, a baker, and 'Malyne my little chambermaid', who received 20s. towards her marriage. A reference to another son, Richard, who had been buried at Pontoise in Normandy, suggests that at least one member of the family had served as a soldier in France. Sir Thomas's will also shows that he had married again; his second wife was Joyce, the widow of John Vyne, and she survived him." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998. [S375] Col. F. W. T. Atree and the Rev. J. H. L. Booker, "The Sussex Colepepers." Sussex Archaeological Collections, 47:47, 1904, and 48:65, 1905. [S241] Culpepper Connections: The Culpepper Family History Site. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S436] History of the Manor and Parish of Saleby with Thoresthorpe in the County of Lincoln, With Some Owners, by Reginald C. Dudding, Rector of Saleby. Horncastle: W. K. Morton and sons, 1922., year only. [S436] History of the Manor and Parish of Saleby with Thoresthorpe in the County of Lincoln, With Some Owners, by Reginald C. Dudding, Rector of Saleby. Horncastle: W. K. Morton and sons, 1922. [S241] Culpepper Connections: The Culpepper Family History Site, year only. [S504] Jan Wolfe, 9 Aug 2015, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.