Walter Culpeper

- 1516

• Name	Walter Culpeper
  Birth	of Wigsell, Sussex, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 14 Sep 1514 and 28 Apr 1516  [2]
  Alternate death	Bef 24 Jun 1515  [3]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. Isabel Culpepper   d. 17 Jan 1491, Cranbrook, Kent, England ▻ Walter Roberts ,  m. 20 Nov 1480 + 2. Walter Culpeper ,   b. of Wigsell, Sussex, England d. Between 14 Sep 1514 and 28 Apr 1516 ▻ Anne Aucher + 3. Alexander Culpepper ,   b. Abt 1470   d. Between 1 Jan 1541 and 21 Jun 1541  (Age ~ 71 years) ▻ Constantia Chamberlayn ,  m. Abt 1495
  Person ID	I19489	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	John Culpepper,   b. Abt 1430, of Bedgebury, Goudhurst, Kent, England d. 22 Dec 1480 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Agnes Gainsford   d. Bedgebury, Goudhurst, Kent, England
  Marriage	7 Jul 1460  [4]
  Family ID	F8038	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Aucher   d. Aft 4 Sep 1532
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Culpeper,   b. Abt 1499, Ford Hall, Wrotham, Kent, England d. Between 1520 and 1532 (Age ~ 21 years)
  Family ID	F12067	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Sep 2018

  
  

• 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."

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S375] Col. F. W. T. Atree and the Rev. J. H. L. Booker, "The Sussex Colepepers." Sussex Archaeological Collections, 47:47, 1904, and 48:65, 1905. [S241] Culpepper Connections: The Culpepper Family History Site. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy.