William Coggeshall

1358 - 1426  (67 years)

• Name	William Coggeshall  [1, 2]
  Birth	20 Jul 1358	Codham Hall, Essex, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Mar 1426  [3, 6]
  Person ID	I18145	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	8 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Henry Coggeshall,   b. Abt 1331   d. 29 Sep 1375 (Age ~ 44 years)
  Mother	Joan de Welle,   b. Bef 8 Sep 1335, Great Sampford, Essex, England d. 27 Sep 1375 (Age > 40 years)
  Marriage	Bef 23 Jun 1351  [7]
  Family ID	F11283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Antiocha Hawkwood,   b. Bef 1361   d. Bef Jun 1388 (Age < 27 years)
  Marriage	Bef Mar 1379	Milan, Lombardy, Italy   [3, 4, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Alice Coggeshall   d. 1422
  Family ID	F11262	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Nov 2017

  
  

• Notes

  Sheriff of Essex, 1391. Knight of the shire for Essex 1391, January 1397, 1401, 1402, October 1404, 1411, April 1414, 1420, December 1421 and 1422. Justice of the Peace for Essex from 1401-7, 1417–19 and 1422-26. In 1381 he was one of the commissioners appointed to suppress the Peasants' Revolt. "[Sir John Hawkwood] also had a daughter, Antiocha or Mary, who by March 1379 was married to Sir William Coggeshall, apparently the cousin of Sir Thomas, afterwards of Codham Hall, Essex, then in Hawkwood's service in Italy and residing in Milan." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, article about Sir John Hawkwood.] "In the summer of 1404 came his opportunity to prove his allegiance to Henry IV by the zeal with which he helped suppress disaffection and incipient rebellion in Essex fomented by the plots of Maud, dowager countess of Oxford, and the heads of certain religious houses, who had spread rumours that Richard II was still alive. Coggeshall acted swiftly in arresting conspirators and holding inquiries into their treasons. He was re-appointed sheriff later in the year, and for his good service he was subsequently exonerated from payment of half of the arrears of £200 owing on his account." [History of Parliament]

  
  

• Sources

  [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S160] Wikipedia. [S1773] A History of Coggeshall, in Essex by Geo. Fred Beaumont. London: Marshall Brothers, 1890., year only. [S160] Wikipedia., year only. [S775] Powys-Lybbe Ancestry, by Tim Powys-Lybbe. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., date only.