Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Sir Ralph Jocelyn, Mayor of London
- 1478-
Name Sir Ralph Jocelyn Suffix Mayor of London Birth Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England [1] Gender Male Death 25 Oct 1478 [1] Siblings 1 sibling Person ID I27721 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 28 Aug 2016
Father Jeffrey Jocelyn, b. Abt 1380, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England d. 1425 (Age ~ 45 years) Family ID F16533 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - A member of the Company of Drapers. Lord Mayor of London in 1464-65 and again in 1476. Member of Parliament for London in 1467. Created a Knight of the Bath by Edward IV at the coronation of his queen, Elizabeth Woodville.
"In his mayoralty Sir Ralph had the wall of London repaired between Aldgate and Aldersgate and the Fleet Ditch cleaned. He also corrected the abuses of the bakers and victuallers. In 1471, in the Wars of the Roses, when the Kentish levies under Thomas Neville, the Bastard of Fauconbridge, attacked Bishopsgate and Aldgate, London, in an attempt to rescue Henry VI from his imprisonment in the Tower, Sir Ralph raised forces and, sallying forth, defeated Neville and his men." [French, citation details below.]
The church at Long Melford, Suffolk has a stained glass window depciting Sir Robert Clifford, his wife Elizabeth, and her first husband, Sir Ralph Jocelyn.
- A member of the Company of Drapers. Lord Mayor of London in 1464-65 and again in 1476. Member of Parliament for London in 1467. Created a Knight of the Bath by Edward IV at the coronation of his queen, Elizabeth Woodville.
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Sources - [S3909] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 71:227, July 1917.
- [S3909] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 71:227, July 1917.