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
  1. Jeffrey Josselyn ,   b. Abt 1411, Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England d. 2 Jan 1471  (Age ~ 60 years)   2. Sir Ralph Jocelyn, Mayor of London ,   b. Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England d. 25 Oct 1478
  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

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3909] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 71:227, July 1917.