Walter Culpeper

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 24 Jun 1515

Notes:

He was under-marshall of Calais by October 1508, when he is recorded as present for the marriage of Mary, daughter of Henry VII, to the Duke of Burgundy, afterwards the emperor Charles V. At the beginning of Henry VIII's reign he is assigned a Crown tenement in Fisherstrete in Calais and an annuity of £20 out of the revenues of the town. Two years later, in November, 1511, being by then 'squire of the body' of Henry VIII, he was also granted the post of Bailiff of the Scavage of Calais and the Isle of Colne.

From Culpepper Connections:

His crowning hour came in August, 1513, when his young master was engaged in the invasion of France to assert an outworn claim of inheritance of that realm, and it was Walter's fortune to be left for the moment in responsible command of the garrison of Calais. The chronicler Hall records (Holinshed iii, 580) that as the King lay before Therouanne on the Flemish border, the captain of Boulogue made a night foray on Calais seeking booty and to insult the invading English. Arriving with a thousand men at the bridge which defended the causey leading to the town, the Frenchman surprised the guard and captured the ordnance there mounted. Retaining 600 men at the bridge 'for a stale' he then dispatched the remaining 400 'into the marishes and meadows to fetch away the beasts and cattle which they should find there.' Some of these foragers approached so near the walls of Calais as to raise the alarm, whereupon:

"about five of the clocke in the morning the gate of Calis, called Bullongue gate, was opened, and by permission of the deputie one Culpeper, the under marshall, with two hundred archers under a banner of Saint George, issued forth,' and 'set so fiercelie on that finallie the Frenchmen were discomfited and four and twentie of them slaine, besides twelve score that were made prisoners and all the ordnance and bootie again recouered. These prisoners were brought to Calais and there sold in open market."

Family/Spouse: Anne Aucher. Anne (daughter of Henry Aucher) died after 4 Sep 1532. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Culpeper was born about 1499 in Ford Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England; died between 1520 and 1532.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1430
• Alternate death: Bef 1481

Notes:

"Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst esquire and John Culpeper gentleman, his son, appear in the list of adherents of Jack Cade in 1450. [...] John married the heiress of the Bedgeburys and so acquired their estate. He was knighted, was sheriff in 1467 and died in 1480." [The Family of Twysden and Twisden by John Ramskill Twisden, 1939, page 42. A note on page 49 reads: "See a paper on 'Jack Cade's followers in Kent' by William Durrant Cooper F.S.A in the Arch. Cant., Vol VII p.233, to which is appended a list of the names of those pardoned taken from the Patent Rolls of 28 Henry VI."]

"Sir John [iii] Culpeper (d. 1480), had an eventful public and private life. In January 1459, together with his brothers Richard [ii] Culpeper (d. 1516) and Nicholas [ii] (d. 1510), he was ordered to be arrested by the sheriffs of London and brought before chancery to answer allegations of riot and other offences; these may have been politically motivated in the dying days of Lancastrian rule. Certainly, Sir John [iii] proved himself a loyal servant of Edward IV. He was knighted by December 1466, and the following November he appeared on the Kentish bench. In October 1468 he was appointed to the commission to muster Lord Scales's retinue at Gravesend, and the following month he was pricked as sheriff of Kent. From October 1469 until April 1470 he appeared on several commissions of array in the south-east, alongside his brother Richard, but during the readeption of Henry VI he was absent from both commissions of array and the county bench. He returned to public life after Edward's victory at Barnet in April 1471, in which month he was once again arraying soldiers in Kent, and in June he reappeared as a JP. The same month one Thomas Miller, a gentleman of Marden, Kent, and perhaps a Lancastrian die-hard, was alleged to have led a rebellious host against him. He went on to serve on numerous commissions throughout the early 1470s." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Sometime between 1457 and 1461, John Culpepper's brothers Richard and Nicholas travelled from Sussex to Kent with a pair of sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret Wakehurst, daughters of John Culpepper's wife Agnes Gainsford by her deceased previous husband, Richard Wakehurst. At some not much later point, Richard married Margaret and Nicholas married Elizabeth, possibly in London. Shortly thereafter, the sisters' grandmother Elizabeth Wakehurst (maiden name lost to history) alleged in a petition to Chancery court that the two brothers, aided by John Culpepper, had in fact abducted the two sisters through force of arms, and that moreover John Culpepper was further culpable because as their stepfather he had "promysed on the faithe and trouthe of his bodye and as he was a gentylman" that he would protect the sisters.

Of course the allegation was about money. Both sisters were the only remaining heirs of grandmother Elizabeth's husband Richard Wakehurst, MP and justice of the peace, who had died in 1455. His only son, Agnes Gainsford's first husband Richard Wakehurst the younger, had predeceased him. So what you have is:

* Elizabeth, grandmother of the two sisters, widow of Richard Wakehurst the elder;

* Agnes Gainsford, Elizabeth's onetime daughter-in-law, who is now married to...

* John Culpepper, whose two brothers have "abducted"...

* Elizabeth and Margaret Wakehurst, granddaughters of Elizabeth and sole heirs to their grandfather's estate.

Much more detail on this can be read in "Abduction: An Alternative Form of Courtship?" by Julia Pope, a good paper with a misleading title presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2003. The upshot is that the only evidence that the sisters were "abducted" against their will, making "grete and pittious lamentacious and weping" as they were "toke and caried away" "with force and armes, riotously agense the Kinges peas," was the grandmother's claim that they had been. All other evidence points to it having been a voluntary elopement supported by a significant number of the sisters' relatives, including their mother and stepfather.

For several reasons, the grandmother's claim was an astute strategy, both in her legal battle to maintain control of her husband's estate and in the war of local public opinion. The Culpeppers were already a bit notorious for building their family fortune by marrying heiresses, so there was some pre-existing disposition to regard them as upstarts. Also, contrary to modern popular belief, voluntary elopement was not considered illegal under late medieval English law, and according to Pope, the record of actual case law shows that consent, specifically the bride's consent, had great bearing on actual outcomes, notwithstanding the preferences of her family. (Note, however, that in her Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509, published in 2013, Dr. Gwen Seabourne argues in detail that the medieval concept of "consent" cannot be assumed to map reliably onto our own.) At any rate, Elizabeth had plenty of incentives to claim that her granddaughters had been carried off kicking and screaming by armed men.

Yet ultimately Elizabeth lost. The court declined to overturn the marriages. She died in 1464, and both couples returned to Sussex shortly thereafter, where they lived out their lives, managing to inherit substantial portions of their Wakehurst grandfather's estate despite various legal challenges from their grandmother's allies over the next twenty years. To all the evidence, while the marriages divided their kinship network, the larger portion of support went to them. Richard and Margaret left no issue, but the funeral brass commemorating the family of Nicholas and Elizabeth Culpepper, ten sons and eight daughters, has been described as "so crowded as to look like a poster warning against rush hour travel."

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If (as has been plausibly speculated but never proved) John Culpepper (1637-1674), early emigrant to Virginia, was the father of Henry Culpepper (d. 1675), 9X-great grandfather of PNH, this John Culpepper and his wife Agnes Gainsford would be the most recent common ancestors of PNH and TNH.

John Culpepper (d. 1480) = Agnes Gainsford
Walter Culpeper (1475-1524) = Anne Aucher (1480-1533)
William Culpeper (1509-1559) = Cicely Barrett (1512-1559)
John Culpeper (1531-1612) = Elizabeth Sedley (1534-1618)
John Culpeper (1565-1635) = Ursula Woodcock (1566-1612)
John Culpeper (c. 1637 Harrietsham, Kent - c. 1674 Virginia)
possibly father of
Henry Culpepper (1633-1675), 9X-great grandfather of PNH

John married Agnes Gainsford on 7 Jul 1460. Agnes (daughter of John Gainsford) died in Bedgebury, Goudhurst, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

It is possible that she was the sister, rather than the daughter, of the John Gainsford shown as her father here.

From Culpepper Connections:

"It appears also from [the Visitation of Kent, 1619] that this Sir John married Agnes, daughter of John Bedgebury, but no mention whatever is there made of the undoubted fact that some time before 1460 he was the husband of Agnes Gainsford, which is clearly proved by the Proceedings in Chancery relating to the abduction of the two Wakehurst heiresses by Sir John's brothers, Richard and Nicholas, where it is expressly stated that a sister of John and William Gainsford was wedded to John Culpepyr, and later on in the same suit mention is made of John Culpeper and Agnes, his wife. The marriage is also alluded to in De Banco Roll, Trin., 5 Edward IV., m. 118d, and it explains the mention of Ottewell and George Gainsford (grandsons of the above John Gainsford, who married Anne Wakehurst, aunt of the co-heiresses, and sons of Sir John Gainsford, by Anne, daughter of Ottewell Worsley), as cousins in the will Walter Colepeper, of Calais, 1514-1516.

"The question arises, therefore, as to whether the record of Sir John's marriage with Agnes Bedgebury is not due to a mistake on the part of the heralds. In their pedigree they certainly omit these two important facts, viz., that before 1460 Sir John was the husband of Agnes Gainsford, and also that his father Walter's wife, of the same Christian name, was the widow of John Bedgebury. It seems therefore not improbable that these two marriages have been confused; such, indeed, must have been the case unless Sir John was twice married, and of this the Visitation affords no evidence whatever. Sir John Colepeper died 22nd December, 1480, and was buried at Goudhurst."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1400
• Alternate death: 24 Nov 1462

Notes:

Fought at Agincourt. Supposedly, was later known locally as "The Squire of Agincourt."

"Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst is described in his monumental brass in Goudhurst Church as son of Sir Thomas Culpeper. He is there stated to have died in 1462 and his wife Agnes Roper in 1457. [...] Walter appears to be in the list of gentlemen of Kent in the 12 Henry VI (1434), which will be referred to afterwards. Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst esquire and John Culpeper gentleman, his son, appear in the list of adherents of Jack Cade in 1450, which will also be referred to later." [The Family of Twysden and Twisden by John Ramskill Twisden, 1939. Page 42.]

Walter married Agnes Roper before 1429. Agnes (daughter of Edmund Roper) was born before 1410; died on 2 Dec 1457; was buried in St. Mary's, Goudhurst, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sometimes referred to as Anne Roper. Her surname and ancestry are in doubt; see below.

From "The Exhurst Ancestry of the Stoughton Siblings of New England," Part Two, citation details below:

"The Roper pedigree in the 1619–21 visitation of Kent shows Agnes, wife of Walter Culpepper, as the sister of Edmund and John Roper. Their parents are shown as Rodolphus (Ralph) Roper, son of Thomas Roper, and Beatrix, daughter of Thomas Lewknor, Knight. Ralph Roper is shown as the first husband of Beatrix Lewknor, and her second husband is shown as Thomas Kemp of Wye in Kent. Attree and Booker suggest that Agnes was the daughter, not the sister, of Edmund Roper of St. Dunstan's next Canterbury, citing her tomb at Goudhurst. However, Weever quotes the inscription on the Culpepper tomb in Bedgebury as stating Walter Culpepper's wife 'Agnes erat filia Edmundi Robar iuxta Cantuar.' Possibly the 'b' in Robar was a transcription or printing error or a mistake on the tomb itself, but the inscription as reported raises the possibility that the surname of Agnes' father may have been a form of the name Roberts rather than Roper.

"A royal descent via the Lewknor family has been proposed for Walter Culpepper's wife Agnes based on the assumption that she was either the daughter or granddaughter of Ralph Roper and Beatrix Lewknor. Ongoing research raises questions about the identity of Ralph Roper's wife as well as other aspects of the early Roper pedigree. While there is evidence that Thomas Kemp had a wife Beatrix, the marriage of Beatrix and Ralph Roper claimed in the visitation pedigree is called into question by the 1401 will of John Roper of St. Dunstan outside Canterbury. The will implies that Ralph Roper was living and had a wife named Alice and an adult son Edmund in 1401. If so, Ralph could not have had a widow Beatrix who subsequently married Thomas Kemp and was also the mother of Ralph's adult son Edmund."

[Footnote to the above:]

"Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, Who Were Themselves Notable or Left Descendants Notable in American History (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2008), 534–37 shows Ralph Roper and Beatrix Lewknor as the parents of Agnes Roper, wife of Walter Culpepper, and Beatrix Lewknor as a daughter of Sir Thomas Lewknor and a granddaughter of Sir Roger Lewknor and Elizabeth Carew (a descendant of Robert II of France) but suggests on p. 828 that Beatrix may instead have been a daughter of Roger's parents, Sir Thomas Lewknor and Joan D'Oyly. However, in the 2010 printing of the book, pp. 534–37 are revised to show Ralph Roper and Beatrix Lewknor as the parents of Edmund Roper and grandparents of Agnes Roper, wife of Walter Culpepper, and to note the need for additional research on the early Roper and Lewknor families, while on p. 828, Beatrix Lewknor is suggested as possibly the daughter of the earlier Sir Thomas Lewknor's parents, Sir Roger Lewknor and Katherine Bardolf. With either of the changes to Beatrix's parentage, Beatrix would have the descent shown on p. 562 from Adelaide, sister of William the Conqueror, and consequently from Robert I of France, but not the descent from Robert II of France shown on p. 534."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 9 Oct 1450
• Alternate death: Bef 9 Nov 1450

Notes:

Sat in Parliament as a Knight of the shire for Surrey, 12 Jan 1430. Steward for the Duke of Buckingham for the duke's lands in Surrey from 1428 to 1448.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1356
• Alternate death: Bef 8 Mar 1429

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]

Thomas married Joyce Cornard. Joyce (daughter of Thomas Cornard and Margery) was buried in Begham Abbey, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sometimes referred to as "Joyce Baynard," but this appears to be in error.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Dec 1433

Notes:

Justice of the Peace.

Edmund Roper (d. 1433)
John Roper (d. 1487) = Margery Tattershall
John Roper (d. 1524) = Jane Fyneux
William Roper (d. 1578) = Margaret More (d. 1554)
Margaret Roper (d. 1578) = William Dawtrey (d. 1591)
William Dawtrey = Dorothy Stoneley
Henry Dawtrey (d. 1646) = Anne Dunn
William Dawtrey = Amy Strutt
Anne Dawtrey (1651-1729) = James Perrott (1641-1725)
Jane Perrot (1677-1710) = John Walker (d. 1736)
Jane Walker (1705-1768) = Thomas Leigh (1696-1764)
Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827) = George Austen (1731-1805)
Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Crowhurst, Surrey, England

John married Cristina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1377

Notes:

Sheriff of Kent 1364-5, 1365-6, 1368-9 (39, 40 43 Edw III). Commissioner for equipping ships 1370, jointly with sheriffs of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and others.

Unusually divergent dates and facts, albeit with some overlap, can be found for this individual in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article "Culpeper family":

"The family suffered a severe setback late in 1321, when they supported Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere's unsuccessful resistance to the Despensers at Leeds Castle: Sir Thomas Culpeper, the castellan of Leeds, and his younger brother Walter were executed, while their brothers Nicholas and John suffered imprisonment and forfeiture respectively. Recovery ensued in the person of Sir John [i] Culpeper (d. 1414), who in June 1406 was appointed chief justice of common pleas. It was probably this John Culpeper who had been a retainer of John of Gaunt between 1367 and 1382. His first wife, Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir John Hardreshull, brought to the family extensive Warwickshire property, including the manor of Hartshill. Sir John was a Kentish JP, and MP in 1382. In the 1412 tax assessment he figured as one of the wealthiest of Kentish landowners. He died on 30 August 1414, leaving a widow named Katherine, and was buried at West Peckham, where he had been a tenant of the hospitallers."

John married Elizabeth Hardreshull about 1345 in Pembury, Kent, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Hardreshull and Maud Mussenden) was born about 1320; died after 1370. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Margery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Alice. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margery de la Poyle after 1331. Margery (daughter of John de la Poyle and Margery) died about 1348 in Crowhurst, Godstone, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Castellan of Leeds. [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

"Sir Thomas Colepeper, who 'pro bono servicio in partibus Scotie' received a pardon in the 32nd year of Edward for breaking the park of the Prior of Christ Church, Canterbury, at Westwell, and the park of the Prior of Michelham, in the 29th year of that King's reign, took the side of the Earl of Lancaster against Edward I, and being Governor of Winchelsea, was there executed in 1321. [...] It was not long, however, before all these estates were restored to the family. By deed bearing date 1 Jul 1288 (17 Edward I), Margery, widow of Thomas Colepeper, agreed to grant the Pepinbury estate to the King for the term of her life on the payment of 12 marks per annum from the Exchequer. But apparently she soon repented of this bargain, and addressed a petition to the King praying that 'le manoir de la Bayehalle' might be restored to her, the grounds for the request being that the King's ministers had not only neglected to pay the rent, but had let her houses go to ruin, 'a g'nt damage de l'avantdite Marg'ie de xlli.' On this the King issued a commission to Henry de Cobham and others to investigate the matters set forth in the petition, and the direct result of this enquiry was an order for the immediate restoration of all the property." [The Sussex Colepepers, citation details below.]

"Weaver, in his Ancient Funeral Monuments, p. 272, speaks of Sir Thomas Colepeper siding with the Earl of Lancaster and being hanged, drawn and quartered at Winchelsea. The place fatal to the Earl was Pontefract, so it seems certain that both Thomas and John were with Lancaster's forces at Boroughbridge." [The Sussex Colepepers, citation details below.]

"[Thomas Colepeper] was probably a retainer of lord Badlesmere, then warden of the Cinque Ports and keeper of the royal castle of Leeds in Kent, who joined the earl of Lancaster, fought against the King at Boroughbridge in 1322, was taken prisoner, sent into Kent, and hanged at Blean near Canterbury. The previous autumn the governors of Leeds castle, of Winchelsea, and many others, had been executed in that county for treason and shutting their gates against the queen." [History of the Manor and Parish of Saleby]

"The date at which iron-working was begun on Oldlands is unknown, but it was perhaps by the 14th century when the Culpepers of Bayhall in Pembury, Kent, who had iron works near by at Tudeley, owned it. Iron was certainly founded at Buxted in 1492. The frequent changes of ownership in the 16th and early 17th centuries suggest commercial activities connected with the iron industry, either from direct exploitation of the estate or, more likely, through letting it to tenants. The increase in the purchase price, from £563 in 1576 to £2200 in 1609, may indicate that such financial speculation was justified. In 1313 or 1314 Thomas Culpeper of Bayhall (Sir Thomas Culpeper of Bayhall in Pembury, co. Kent) and his wife Margery (Margery Bayhall) acquired a messuage and 60 acres of land in Buxted from Ralph Marescot and in 1319 or 1320 another messuage and 50 acres in Buxted and Maresfield from Reynold Burgess. Culpeper was appointed forester of Rotherfield in Tonbridge chase in 1315, and in 1318, at the request of his patron, Bartholomew de Badlesmere, and others, Edward II granted to him the forestership of Ashdown and the keeping of Maresfield park. He was involved with Badlesmere in the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and was sentenced to death and executed at Winchelsea in 1322. His possessions were forfeited to the Crown, but the lands in Buxted and Maresfield were restored in 1324 to Margery, whose date of death is unknown." [Culpepper Connections, citing Janet H. Stevenson, "Alexander Nesbitt, a Sussex antiquary, and the Oldlands estate", Sussex Archeological Collections, 1999, Volume 137, pages 163-164.]

George Baker's History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton gives this Thomas Colepeper's father as John Colepeper of Kent.

Thomas married Margery Bayhall about 1299. Margery was born about 1265. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "The Sussex Colepepers," by Col. F. W. T. Atree and the Rev. J. H. L. Booker, Sussex Archaeological Collections, volumes 47, pp. 47-81 (1904) and 48, pp. 65-98 (1905), "the following evidence is adduced to show that Margery probably belonged to the Bayhall family:

"In 1299 there is the grant, mentioned before, by Benedicta daughter of Thomas de Chitcroft, which family bore identically the same arms as the Colepepers (and therefore Thomns de Chitcrolt may hnve been a Colepeper himself, or he and Thomas Colepeper may both by marriage with the Bayhall heiresses have adopted their coat of arms) to Thomas, son of Thomas Colepeper, and Margery his wife of lands at Beghall with part of a mill in Pepinbury.

"1308. Charter in which Cecilia, Margeria, Amicia, and Christina, daughters of John atte Bayhalle grant to Thomas the son of Thomas Colepeper, for 5 marcs, all their part of a mill and lands in Pepinbury which they had after the death of their grandfather William atte Bayhalle.

"1309. Johanna quae fuit uxor Johannis atte Beyhalle petit versus Thomas Colepeper juniorem.

"1312. Grant from Ralph Newman and Agnes daughtor and heir of Geoffrey atte Beyhalle to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife of lands in Pepinbery.

"1312. Grant of Walter son of Jeffrey atte Beyhalle and Agnes his daughter and Ralph Neweman to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife for 26 shillings 'quandam granam terrae in Pepingebery.'

"1313. Gilbert ate Beyhalle grants to Thomas Colepeper and Margery for 50 shillings a piece of land in Pepingbery to be held by them and their heirs for ever.

"1314. Charter by which Christina daughter of John atte Bayhalle for 4 marcs grants to Thomas Colepeper lands in Pepingbery.

"1315. Christina de Bayhalle grants to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife for 3s 6d the pension which William Scrivor owes yearly to her.

"1316. Grant from Ralph Newheman to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife of lands at Beahalle in fields called 'Redest' and 'Mesebort' in Pepinbury.

"1316. Charter by which Christina daughter of John atte Bayhalle grants to Thomas Colepeper and Margery for two shillings all that part of wood 'inter Rodgate et stagna de Bayhalle cum placea super quam boscus crescit.'

"1317. Christina daughter of John atte Bayhalle grants to Thomas Colepeper and Margery for 4 marcs a messuage and lands in Peapingbury which she had 'post decessum Willelmi ate Beyhalle avi sui.'

"1317. Quitclaim by Johanna widow of John atte Beyhalle to Thomas Colepeper and Margery his wife of a house and lands at Beyhalle for 3 1/2 marcs."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1291, of Hardreshull, Warwickshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1291
• Alternate birth: 24 Aug 1291, Pachesham, Surrey, England
• Alternate death: Abt 1367, Saleby, Lincolnshire, England
• Alternate death: Bef 18 Jun 1369
• Alternate death: 18 Jun 1369

Notes:

Fought at Bannockburn 1314; taken prisoner; out of captivity before 1317.

Fought at Boroughbridge.

Governor of St. Briavel Castle and of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, 1326 and again in late 1327.

Summoned to Parliament by writ, 1342.

Commanded the English forces in Brittany, 1345. Probably accompanied Edward III in his invasion of Normandy, 1346. Probably at Crecy.

John married Maud Mussenden about 1313. Maud died before 1351. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Probably died in one of the first waves of the Black Death.

Banks, Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 88-89 (sub Hardredeshull) says that Margaret de Stafford, John de Hardreshull's second wife, was the mother of his children. (So do The Wallop Family and George Baker's History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton.) But the much later research of Reginald C. Dudding (citation details below) says the exact opposite.

We find it hard to believe that Hardreshull would have no children in over 35 years of a first marriage and then suddenly have three daughters by a second wife. We also find it easy to believe that, as Dudding notes in his own preface, there were historical resources available to him in the early 20th century that were unavailable to Banks in the early 19th.

Thomas married Margery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Knighted 1306.

John married Margery. Margery died after 1333. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]