Richard Hankford

Sir Richard Hankford (1397-1431) was an English landowner and soldier from Devon.^[2]

Origins

Born about 21 July 1397, he was the son of Richard Hankford (died 1419),

Nonnington in Somerset.^[2]

Career

After the death of his father in 1419, he inherited his late mother's lands and in 1420 the lands brought to him by his wife, followed in 1424 by the lands of his paternal grandfather, Sir

Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury and was knighted at St Albans between 8 July and 6 October 1429. He died on 8 February 1431 aged 33, holding properties in Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, London (where he and his wife owned four retail shops in Holborn), Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset; Staffordshire, Wiltshire and Yorkshire.^[2]

Family

At some time before 1420 he married Elizabeth FitzWarin (died before 16 January 1428), daughter of Fulk FitzWarin, 6th Baron FitzWarin (1389–1407) and sole heiress of her brother Fulk FitzWarin, 7th Baron FitzWarin (1406–1420).^[2] They had three daughters:

Thomasine Hankford (1423–1453), who inherited extensive lands from her mother and in 1437 married William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin (1407–1469).^[2]
Elizabeth Hankford (1424-1433), who died unmarried.^[2]
Joan Hankford, who died young before her father.^[2]

Elizabeth had died by 16 January 1428 and he then married Anne Montagu (died 1457), daughter of the executed

John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and sister of his patron, the 4th Earl.^[2]

They had one daughter:

Anne Hankford (died 1485),^[2] who inherited Annery from her father. About 1445 she married Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (died 1515).

His widow Anne married again to Sir Lewis John (died 1442) and then to John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (died 1447). She was buried with her third husband in the church of St Katharine by the Tower in the City of London.^[2]

References

^ Blazoned as Sable, a chevron barry nebuly argent and gules in The Note-book of Tristram Risdon, 1608-1629. London: Elliot Stock. 1897. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Cokayne, G. E. (1926). Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A. (eds.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat). Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). London: The St Catherine Press. pp. 504–506.
^ "Hankford, Richard (d.1419), of Hewish, Devon".

[1] Blazoned as Sable, a chevron barry nebuly argent and gules in The Note-book of Tristram Risdon, 1608-1629. London: Elliot Stock. 1897. Retrieved 24 June 2013.

[Cokayne-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Cokayne, G. E. (1926). Gibbs, Vicary; Doubleday, H. A. (eds.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Eardley of Spalding to Goojerat). Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). London: The St Catherine Press. pp. 504–506.

[3] "Hankford, Richard (d.1419), of Hewish, Devon".

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