William Calthorpe
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William Calthorpe | |
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| Born | 30 January 1410 Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk |
| Died | 15 November 1494 (aged 84) |
| Buried | White Friars, Norwich |
| Noble family | Calthorpe |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Grey; Elizabeth Stapleton |
| Father | Sir John Calthorpe |
| Mother | Amy (Amice) Wythe |
Sir William Calthorpe
Family
Sir William Calthorpe was born on 30 January 1410 at Burnham Thorpe, in the English county of Norfolk. He was the son of Sir John Calthorpe and his wife Amy (Amice) Wythe.[1]
Career
Sir William Calthorpe was a Norfolk sheep farmer. He became the heir to his grandfather's lands in 1431, and his children inherited the manor at Ingham, in north-east Norfolk.[2] He is recorded on 28 June 1443, when he released one of his villeins, from serfdom and set him free from all future services.
He was a
He became
A
Calthorpe made Presentations to the Rectory of
In June 1469, he was "sworn one of my lord of Gloucester's men", but the following year was recorded as being a supporter of the
In the church of St Martin at Palace, Norwich, is a tablet showing that in 1550 Lady Calthorp (Sir William's daughter-in-law) gave a silver cup and a velvet carpet to that church. It appears that the Calthorpes had their townhouse in this parish for many years, and Sir William Calthorp certainly lived there in 1492, and probably long before then, for it is recorded that in 1447 the Executors of Joan Lady Bardolph, sold the old seat of the Erpinghams, in St.Martin's at the Palace, to William Calthorp, Esq., and the receivership of the Erpingham manor was vested in Sir Philip Calthorp (d. 1535 - grandson of Sir William) and his wife Joan (née Blennerhasset), in 1487.
Marriage and issue
Calthorpe's first wife was Elizabeth (1406-1437),[
His second wife was Elizabeth (c. 1441-18 February 1505),[
One of Sir William's daughters by his second marriage, Anne (d. before March 1558), married Sir
Will and death
One of the
Notes
- ^ The will of Sir William Calthorpe is given in full in East Anglian Notes & Queries (vol.ii, p. 210), as an interesting specimen of wills of that date.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Richardson 2011, pp. 210–211.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Wedgwood & Holt 1936, p. 149.
- ^ Richardson 2011, pp. 96–97.
Sources
- Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson. ISBN 978-14499-6-631-7.
- Wedgwood, Josiah Clement; Holt, Anne (1936). History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House. London: H.M. Stationery Office.
Further reading
- Banks, Sir T. C., Bt., Baronia Anglica Concentrata; or Baronies in Fee, London, 1844. Elizabeth Stapleton and her husband, Sir William Calthorpe, with their immediate successors, can be found in the summary pedigree of the Stapleton family on p. 267.
- Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563/4 by William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, published London, 1881, p. 295 (outline pedigree of the Stapleton family)..
- Burke, John, and John Bernard, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, London, 1851, vol. 2, pedigree CXVII.
- Burke, Sir Bernard, Ulster King of Arms, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London, 1883, p. 504, where Sir William is erroneously named as Sir Philip.
- Carr-Calthorpe, Christopher William (1933) [1905]. Notes on the Families of Calthorpe and Calthrop (3rd ed.). London: F.A. Perry (privately published). OCLC 505064982.
- Shaw, William A., Litt.D., The Knights of England, London, 1906.
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, et al., (editor), The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th edition, Baltimore, 2002, p. 7.