Gilbert Debenham

Abt 1402 - 1481  (79 years)

• Name	Gilbert Debenham
  Birth	Abt 1402  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1405	of Little Wenham, Suffolk, England   [2]
  Death	10 May 1481  [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I16828	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Gilbert Debenham,   b. Abt 1349, of Little Wenham, Suffolk, England d. Between 27 Aug 1417 and Oct 1417 (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Ellen Jernegan,   b. Aft 1364   d. Aft May 1421 (Age > 56 years)
  Family ID	F10292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Hastings,   b. Bef 1414
  Marriage	1432  [2, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Debenham,   b. Abt 1436   d. Abt 1503 (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F10291	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Knight of the shire for Suffolk 1427; 1432; 1437; 1442; 1449; 1453-54. Sheriff of Suffolk 1427-28. Like his son Sir Gilbert Debenham, he was a retainer for the Duke of Norfolk.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7425] Michael Andrews-Reading and Rosie Bevan, "A Proposed Reworking of the Debenham Pedigree." Foundations 16:1, 2023. [S2166] Brad Verity, Edward I Descents for Erasmus Paston. 11 Nov 2015. [S2164] The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling ed. Norman Davis. 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983., year only. [S7425] Michael Andrews-Reading and Rosie Bevan, "A Proposed Reworking of the Debenham Pedigree." Foundations 16:1, 2023., year only. [S7425] Michael Andrews-Reading and Rosie Bevan, "A Proposed Reworking of the Debenham Pedigree." Foundations 16:1, 2023., says "by 1432".