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Katherine Chidiock

Female Abt 1428 - 1479  (~ 51 years)


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  • Name Katherine Chidiock 
    Born Abt 1428 
    Gender Female 
    Died 9 Apr 1479  of Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5976  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Roger Lewknor,   b. From 1412 to 1422, of Broadhurst, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1478, Trotton, Sussex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Married May 1477  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F2543  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, Whatton, Leicestershire, Stoke Doyle and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40, 1467-8, Keeper of the temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Trotton, Bevendean (in Falmer), Broadwater, and Camoys Court (in Barcombe), Sussex, Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, etc., son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born c.1412-22 (aged 30 [and more] in 1452, 50 [and more] in 1471). He married (1st) before 1426 ELEANOR CAMOYS, daughter of Richard Camoys, Knt., of Camoys (in Great Milton), Oxfordshire, by Joan, daughter of Richard Poynings, Knt., 3rd Lord Poynings [see CAMOYS 9 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1408 (aged 18 in 1426). They had seven sons, Thomas, Knt., Roger the elder (1st of name), William, Edward, Richard, John, and John, and four daughters, Margaret (or Margery), Mary, Amy, and Elizabeth. In 1426 she was co-heiress to her brother, Hugh Camoys, by which she inherited the manors of Tythrop (in Kingsey), Buckinghamshire, Lasham, Hampshire, Tansor, Northamptonshire, and Barcombe and Broadwater, Sussex, and a moiety of the manors of Camoys (in Great Stukeley), Huntingdonshire, Baldon St. Lawrence (in Toot Balden), Chiselhampton, and Wheatley in Cuddesdon), Oxfordshire, and Bevendean (in Falmer) and Trotton, Sussex. In 1428 he and his wife, Eleanor, and her sister, Margaret, were plaintiffs in a suit for the manors of Didling, Elsted, and Trotton, Sussex. In 1432 he and Ralph Radmyld disputed the right of presentation to the church of Broadwater, Sussex; the claim of Roger's presentee was confirmed. His wife, Eleanor, was living in 1433, and allegedly died in 1445. He and Ralph Radmyll, Esq., presented to the churches of of Trotton, Sussex, 1439, 1442, and Itchingfield, Sussex, 1440, and to the chantry of St. Mary in Broadwater, Sussex, 1439. He presented to the churches of Broadwater, Sussex, 1445; Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, 1453 and 1461; and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, 1467, 1468, 1477. He married (2nd) before 1468-9 MARY WEST, daughter of Reynold West, Knt., 6th Lord la Warre, 3rd Lord West, by his 1st wife, Margaret, daughter of Robert Thorley, Esq., Treasurer of Calais [see WEST 10 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Reynold, Roger, Esq., and George. In 1468-9 he and his wife, Mary, conveyed lands in South Mimms, Middlesex to Richard Carpenter. In 1471 he was heir to his uncle, Richard Dallingridge, Esq., of Lymbourne, Hampshire, by which he inherited Bodiam Castle, Iford, Iden, Raddingdean, and Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Sussex, and Lockerlev, Hampshire. In the period, 1471-2, John Wode sued Roger Lewknor, Knt., executor of Richard Dalyngrigge, in Chancery regarding the reversion of the castle and manor of Bodiham, Sussex. In 1472 Richard Adam sued him for land in Torryng, Sussex. In 1473 he and his son, Thomas, Esq., and Richard Lewknor, Esq., of Brambletye, Sussex, owed a debt of £450 to Thomas Frowick, Esq. His wife, Mary, died 24 July 1473. In the period, 1475-80, or 1483-85, as “Roger Lewkenore, knight, son of Philippa, sister of Richard Dalyngrygge, late of Lymbourne, esquire,” he sued Thomas Pounde, executor of the said Richard Dalyngrygge, in Chancery regarding the manor of Lymbourne, Hampshire, pledged by the said Dalyngrygge with the said Pounde, and other property. He married (3rd) by settlement dated May 1477 KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK, widow successively of William Stafford, Esq. (died 18 June 1450), of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset [see SOUTHWICK 10.iii; CHIDIOCK 14], and John Arundell (died 1473), of Lanherne, Cornwall [see CHIDIOCK 14; MORLEY 14], and daughter and co-heiress of John Chidiock, of Chideock, Buckham (in Beaminster), Caundle Haddon, etc., Dorset, by Katherine, daughter of Ralph Lumley, Knt., 1st Lord Lumley [see CHIDIOCK 13 for her ancestry]. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 Aug. 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in Trotton, Sussex. In the period, 1478-9, his widow, Katherine, sued Giles Daubeney and others, feoffees to uses, in Chancery regarding several manors, including Dedisham (in Slinfold), Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. Katherine died 9 April 1479.
      Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. Of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 1(2) (1832): 217 (Camoys ped.). Banks Baronies in Fee 2 (1843): 146-147 (sub Tregoz). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102; 9 (1857): 275-302; 41 (1898): 123-124, 136. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 30 (1874): 59-61. Carthew Hundred of Launditch & Deanery of Brisky 1 (1878): 238-241 (Camoys ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 1 (1880): 234-235, 298-299, 341. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor Knt 10, 38 E. 4 [1] = Ellinor da. & heire to Ric. Camoys, 1 wiffe, sepult. 1445, [2] = Issabell da. of Roger Ichingham, 2 wiffe."). Hurst Hist. & Antiqs. of Horsham (1889): 148. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.P.R. 1467-1477 (1900): 633. C.P.R. 1476-1485 (1901): 575. English Rpts.: House of Lords 7 (1901): 895-924 (Camoys Peerage). Genealogist n.s. 17 (1901): 115; n.s. 31 (1915): 173-178 (re. Stafford fam.). Revised Rpts. of Cases in the English Courts of Common Law & Equity 49 (1901): 195-250 (Camoys Peerage). List of Early Chancery Procs. 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 16) (1903): 37, 440. Benolte et al. Vis. of Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Sr Roger Lewknor knight 10 [sic] 38 E. 4, 1477, [1] = Ellianor ["Allice" erased] d. & heire of Ric. Camoys sepl 1445 1 wiff, [2] = Issabell d. of Roger Ickingham 2 wiffe.") (Camoys arms: Or, on a chief gules three bezants). Deedes Extracts from the Episcopal Regs. of Richard Paty, S.T.P., Lord Bishop of Chichester (Sussex Rec. Soc. 4) (1905): 112-113, 114-115, 124-125. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 332, 432. VCH Northampton 2 (1906): 595-596. VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 126; 4 (1911): 81-82, 501 (Camoys arms: Argent a chief gules with three roundels argent therein). C.P.R. 1452-1461 (1910): 679. C.P. 2 (1912): 508, 510. VCH Bedfordshire 3 (1912): 189-202. Kingsford Stoner Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (nee Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). VCH Buckingham 4 (1927): 63-68. VCH Northampton 3 (1930): 132-133. VCH Huntingdon 2 (1932): 232. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor), 304-308 (sub Lords West). Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 541-542 (biog. of Roger Lewknor). VCH Sussex 4 (1953): 34-35 (Camoys arms: Or on a chief gules three roundels argent) (Lewknor arms: Azure three cheverons argent); 6(1) (1980): 69-70, 77; 7 (1940): 52-57, 81, 226, 257-258. CC.R. 1476-1485 (1954): 134-138. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 110; 7 (1962): 11-12, 123. Paget (1957) 114: 1-7 (sub Camoys). VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Gloucester 10 (1972): 143-148. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. VCH Middlesex 5 (1976): 282-285. Roskell Parl & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). Roskell Pad & Politics in Late Medieval England (1981): 383-396 (biog. of Sir John Wood). National Archives, C 1/41/35; C 1/56/268; C 241/255/7; E 210/1557 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Eleanor Camoys:
      i. THOMAS LEWKNOR, Knt. [see next].
      ii. MARGARET (or MARGERY) LEWKNOR, married (1st) JOHN WOOD, Knt., of East Molesey, Surrey [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix]; (2nd) THOMAS GARTH, Esq., of Boxted, Essex, and London [see KIRTON 13; SOMERSET 12.ix].
      iii. ELIZABETH LEWKNOR, married JOHN WROTH, Esq., of Durants (in Enfield), Middlesex [see WROTH 16].
      Child of Roger Lewknor, Knt., by Mary West:
      i. ROGER LEWKNOR, Esq., of Tangmere, Sussex, married ANNE ___ [see STOUGHTON 16].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM STAFFORD, Esq., of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset, and Compton Dundon, Somerset, and, in right of his wife, of Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1437-8, 1441-2, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1438-9, Knight of the Shire for Dorset, 1439-40, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1446-7, 3rd son. He married by contract dated 11 March 1436/7 KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK [see CHIDIOCK 14], daughter and co-heiress of John Chidiock, Knt., of Chideock, Buckham (in Bearninster), Caundle Haddon, East Chelborough, Kingston (in Yeovil), Lydlinch, and More Crichel, Dorset, etc., Knight of the Shire for Dorset, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, by Katherine, daughter of Ralph Lumley, Knt., 1st Lord Lumley [see CHIDIOCK 13 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1428 (aged 22 in 1450). They had one son, Humphrey Stafford, Knt. [Earl of Devon, Lord Stafford of Southwick]. He took a force of 30 men-at-arms and 150 archers to France in 1432, serving there under John, Duke of Bedford. After the rising of the 1439-40 Parliament, he obtained the reversion of Fordington, Dorset, in place of a £40 rent out of Frampton which he previously held. He was a legatee and appointed one of the executors in the 1442 will of his father. He had trouble with Edmund Beaufort, Earl of Dorset in 1445/6, but was pardoned. In May 1446 he was one of those pardoned for riots and insurrections. WILLIAM STAFFORD, Esq., was slain in an encounter with Jack Cade at Sevenoaks, Kent 18 June 1450. His widow, Katherine, married (2nd) by settlement dated 5 March 1450/1 (as his 2nd wife) JOHN ARUNDELL, Knt. [see CHIDIOCK 14, MORLEY 24], of Lartheme, Penpoll (in Phillack), Trenoweth (in Crowan), etc., Tregear (in Crowan), etc., Cornwall, Ravr-n-thury, Surrey, etc., Vice Admiral of Cornwall, Under-Sheriff of Cornwall, 1457, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1469-70, son of John Arundell, Esq., Sheriff of Cornwall, by Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of John de Burghersh Knt. [see GANT 11 for his ancestry]. He was born at Bideford, Devon 9 June 1421. They had one son, Thomas, KB., and six daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Giles Daubeney, KG., Lord Daubeney and [Lord] Leonard Grey, Viscount Grane), Katherine (wife of Walter Courtenay, Knt., and John Moyle, Esq.), Ellen (wife of Ralph Coppleston), Margaret, Thomasine (wife of Henry Mamey, KG., KB., 1st Lord Marney), and Dorothy (wife of Henry Strangeways, Knt.). He served in France, and was knighted by King Edward IV in 1463. He fought at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. In 1472-3 he and his wife, Katherine, conveyed the manor of Ravensbury, Surrey to Thomas Stonor, Esq., Humphrey Forster, Thomas Hampden, Esq., etc. SIR JOHN ARUNDELL died 12 Nov. 1473. His widow, Katherine, married (3rd) (as his 3rd wife) ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt. [see LEWKNOR 15], of Trotton, Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40, 1467-8, Keeper of the temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury. He presented to the churches of Broadwater, Sussex, 1445; Stoke Doyle, Northamptonshire, 1453 and 1461; and Greatworth, Northamptonshire, 1467, 1468, 1477. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 August 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in Trotton, Sussex. Katherine died 9 April 1479. Strachey Rotuli Parl. 6 (1777): 325-326. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 304-305 (sub Fitz-Warine); 2 (1808): 541-543 (sub Stafford). Brydges Collins Peerage of England 7 (1812): 40-57 (sub Arundel, Lord Arundel of Wardour) ("Sir John Arundel, Knt. one of those valiant commanders who served King Henry VI. in France"). Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 492-493 (sub Stafford). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 306-307 (Arundell ped.: "Sir John Arundell [1] = Dau. of the Lord Morley, [2]= Dame Katherine, dau. of Sir John Chideoke, and widow of William Stafford"). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.); 3 (1868): 431. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 154-156 (Hastings ped.: "Elsabeth [Morley] wyff to Sir John Arundell who had a doughter wyff to James Tyrrell of Gyppynge."). Cooke & St. George Vis. of Herfordshire 1572, 1634 & 1546 (H.S.P. 22) (1886): 113-114 (Capell ped.: "Sir John Arundell, Kt. = Katherin, da. to Sir John Chidioke, Kt."). Lawson Gen. Colls. Ill. the Hist. of Roman Catholic Fams. in England 3 (1887): 151-152, 221-232. Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (1887): 2-5 (Arundell ped.). Rogers Strife of the Roses & Days of the Tudors in the West (1890): 137-154. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 557-559; 2 (1896-8): 255-261; 3 (1899-1901): 193-202. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rd. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 195. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 22, 50, 123, 136, 153. C.P.R. 1422-1429 (1901): 486. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 472. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 217-218. Genealogist n.s. 31(1915): 173-178. C.P. 4(1916): 102-105 (sub Daubeney), 327-328 (sub Devon); 5 (1926): 459-462 (sub FitzPayn); 8 (1932): 523 (sub Marney); 14 (1998): 348-349 (sub Grane). Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (née Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 384-390. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 106-109 (Strangwais ped.). Beckington Reg. of Thomas Bekynton Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 49) (1934): 119, 237, 259. Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 795 (biog. of William Stafford). Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury 2 ( Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 620-624 (will of Humphrey Stafford, Knt.). Bridgwater Borough Archives 4 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 60) (1948): 50-55. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 26-28. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 224: 2. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Gloucester 10 (1972): 143-148. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120; 9 (2006): 103-120. Cal. IPM 23 (2004): 29-30. Cornwall Rec. Office: Arundell of Lanherne & Trerice, AR/19/10 - lease dated 5 Mar. 1451 (available at at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Child of William Stafford, Esq., by Katherine Chideock:
      a. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Enmore by Bridgwater, Somerset, Bomston and Stinsford, Dorset, etc., Knight of the Shire for Somerset, 1460-1, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1460-1, High Steward of Cornwall, 1461, Constable of Bristol, 1461, Warden of Kingswood Forest, Keeper of Dartnoor, 1464, Constable of Bridgwater, 1465, son and heir, born in 1439. He fought at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross 2 Feb. 1461. He was knighted at Battle of Towton 29 March 1461. Either he or his cousin, Humphrey Stafford, was summoned to Parliament as Lord Stafford of Southwick 21 July 1461. He was heir in 1461 to his cousin, Humphrey Stafford, by which he inherited the manors of Long Wittenham, Berkshire, Hooke, Dorset, Kingsdon Cary and Middle Chinnock, Somerset, La Hyde (in Coppenhall), Staffordshire, Burmington, Warwickshire, Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, Amblecote (in Old Swinford), Worcestershire, etc. In 1462 he was made commissioner of array to raise forces in view of an expected Scottish invasion. He married presumably after 3 Sept. 1463 (date of his will) ISABEL BARRE, daughter and heiress of John Barre, Knt., of Knebworth, Ayot St. Lawrence, and Panshanger (in St. Andrew Rural), Hertfordshire, by Idoine, daughter and heiress of John Hotofte, Esq. She was born about 1453 (aged 30 in 1483). They had no issue. He was arbitrating at Salisbury for the bishop in 1466. He presented to the churches of Elm, Somerset, 1466, and Chiselborough, Somerset, 1467. In 1468 he was treating for peace with Brittany. He was created Earl of Devon 17 May 1469. In 1469 he led 7,000 men to intercept Robin of Redesdale and the Nevins. However, he quarreled with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, and retired with all his troops, with the result that Pembroke was subsequently defeated at Banbury and Edgecote in August 1469. King Edward IV thereupon ordered the sheriffs of Devonshire and Somerset to put him to death as soon as he was captured. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Earl of Devon, Lord Stafford of Southwick, got to Bridgwater, Somerset, and was there taken and beheaded by the people 17 August 1469. He was buried at Glastonbury Abbey. He left a will dated 3 Sept. 1463, proved 29 Feb. 1469/70 (P.C.C. 29 Godyn). His widow, Isabel, married (2nd) in or before 1472 (as his 1st wife) THOMAS BOURGCHIER (or BOURGHCHIER), Knt., of Three Houses and Waters (in Ware), Hertfordshire, Woodhall (in Isleworth), Middlesex, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Knebworth, Ayot St. Lawrence and Panshanger (in St. Andrew Rural), Hertfordshire, Constable of Leeds Castle, 5th son of Henry Bourgchier, KG., Earl of Essex, Viscount Bourchier, 2nd Count of Eu, by Isabel, daughter of Richard of York, Knt., Earl of Cambridge [see YORK 11.i for his ancestry]. He was baptized in 1437-8. They had two daughters, Joan and Isabel, both of whom died without issue. His wife, Isabel, Countess of Devon, died 1 March 1488/9. Thomas married (2nd) before 20 April 1490 ANNE ANDREW (or ANDREWS), widow of John Sulliard (or Sulyard)), Knt. (died 18 March 1487/8) [see LUDLOW 11.ii], of Wetherden, Eye, and Welby, Suffolk, Weston, Norfolk, and of London, Tutor to the Prince of Wales, 1473-83, Serjeant-at-law, 1478-84, Justice of the King's Bench, 1484-8, Burgess (M.P.) for Dunwich and Hindon, and younger daughter and co-heiress of John Andrew, Esq., of Baylham, Suffolk, lawyer, Burgess (M.P.) for Ipswich and Bletchingley, Suffolk, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Stratton, Esq. [see LUDLOW 11 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1491 he was sued by Roger Bodenham regarding land in Great Tarrington, Herefordshire. SIR THOMAS BOURGCHIER died 26 October 1491. He left a will proved 16 Nov. 1491 (P.C.C. 1 Dogett), requesting burial in the parish church of Ware, Hertfordshire, and that the bones of Isabel, his late wife, be taken up and laid by his bones. His widow, Anne, was mentioned in the 1500 will of her husband's niece, Isabel Bourchier. Anne died 25 July 1520. She left a will proved 24 August 1520 (P.C.C. 32 Ayloffe). Weever Ancient Funeral Monuments (1767): 311. Strachey Rotuli Parl. 6 (1777): 325-326. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 2 (1808): 541-543 (sub Stafford). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 405 (will of Thomas Bourgchier, the elder, Knt.), 440 (will of Isabel Bourchier). Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England Ireland & Scotland (1831): 492-493 (sub Stafford). Warkworth Chron. of King dward IV (Camden Soc. 10) (1839): 1, 6, 7, 30, 46-48. Foss Judges of England 5 (1857): 74-75 (biog. of John Sulyard). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.). Hutchins Hist. & Anti qs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 431. Robinson Hist. of the Mansions & Manors of Herefordshire (1873): 64. Clode Mems. of the Guild of Merchant Taylors (1875): 619 (baptismal rec. of Thomas Bourgchier). Ellacombe Hist. of Bitton 2 (1883): 302-316. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 578-579 (sub Devonshire). Yorkshire Arch. Jour. 9 (1886): 401-420. Rogers Strife of the Roses & Days of the Tudors in the West (1890): 137-154. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 557-559; 2 (1896-8): 255-261; 3 (1899-1901): 193-202. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898):124. C.P.R. 1467-1477 (1900): 425. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 16) (1901): 196-201 (will of Humphrey Stafford, Knt.). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 472. Rpt. on MSS in Various Colls. 4 (Hist. MSS Com. 55) (1907): 206-207. D.N.B. 18 (1909): 861-862 (biog. of Humphrey Stafford). VCH Hampshire 5 (1912): 156-170. VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 59-63, 111-118, 380-397, 468-472. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 217-218. Genealogist n.s. 31(1915): 173-178. CP. 4 (1916): 327-328 (sub Devon). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 384-390. Beckington Reg. of Thomas Bekynton Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 49) (1934): 384. Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 793-794 (biog. of Humphrey Stafford), 827-828 (biog. of John Sulyard). Stillington & Fox Regs. of Robert Stillington & Richard Fox (Somerset Rec. Soc. 52) (1937): 4, 11-12, 39, 46, 67, 76-77, 120, 139, 148. Bridgwater Borough Archives 4 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 60) (1948): 116-117, 120-126, 139. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 26-28. VCH Stafford 5 (1959): 138-143. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. Greatrex Reg. of the Common Seal (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 2) (1978): 122. Sutton Coronation of Richard III (1983): 315 (biog. of Sir Thomas Bourchier). Acheson Gentry Community (1992): 160. Biancalana Fee Tail & the Common Recovery in Medieval England (2001): 355. Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies: Title deeds and estate papers of the Lytton fam. of Knebworth House, Knebworth, c1279-1910, DE/K/22825 (grant dated 20 April 1490 by Thomas Jurdan, clerk, to Thomas Bourgchier the elder, Knt., and Anne Suliard, widow of John Suliard, Knt., and wife of the same Thomas, of the manors of Knebworth and Three Houses, the advowson of the church of Knebworth and lands and tenements called Dardes previously granted to him by the same omas Bourgchier) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp)."

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK, daughter and co-heiress, born about 1428 (aged 22 in 1450). She married (1st) by contract dated 11 March 1436/7 WILLIAM STAFFORD., Esq. [see SOUTHWICK 10.iii], of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset, etc., and, in right of wife, of Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1437-8, 1441-2, Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1438-9, Knight of the Shire for Dorset, 1439-40, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1446-7, 3rd son of Humphrey Stafford, Knt., of Hooke, Dorset, Perton, Staffordshire, and Southwick (in North Bradley), Wiltshire, by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of John Mautravers; Knt. [see SOUTHWICK 10 for his ancestry]. They had one son, Humphrey Stafford, Knt. [Earl of Devon]. WILLIAM STAFFORD, Esq., was slain 18 June 1450. She married (2nd) by settlement dated 5 March 1450/1 (as his 2nd wife) JOHN ARUNDELL, Knt., of Lanherne, Penpoll (in Phillack), Trenoweth (in Crowan), etc., Tregear (in Crowan), etc., Cornwall, Ravensbury, Surrey, etc.. Vice Admiral of Cornwall, Under-Sheriff of Cornwall, 1457, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1469-70, son of John Arundell, Esq., of Lanherne, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, by Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of John de Burghersh, Knt. [see GANT 11 for his ancestry]. He was born at Bideford, Devon 9 June 1421. They had one son, Thomas, K.B., and six daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Giles Daubeney, KG., Lord Daubeney), Katherine (wife of Walter Courtenay, Knt., and John Moyle, Esq.), Ellen (wife of Ralph Coppleston), Margaret, Thomasine (wife of Henry Marney, K.G., K.B, 1st Lord Marney), and Dorothy (wife of Henry Strangeways, Knt.). John Arundell married (1st) ELIZABETH MORLEY, daughter of Thomas Morley, Knt., 5th Lord Morley, de jure Lord Marshal [see MORLEY 14 for issue of this marriage]. He served in France, and was knighted by King Edward IV in 1463. He fought at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. In 1472-3 he and his wife, Katherine, conveyed the manor of Ravensbury, Surrey to Thomas Stonor, Esq., Humphrey Forster, Thomas Hampden, Esq., etc. SIR JOHN ARUNDELL died 12 Nov. 1473. His widow, Katherine, married (3rd) (as his 3id wife) ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt. [see LEWKNOR 15], of Trotton, Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40, 1467-8, Keeper of the Temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 August 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in St. George's, Trotton, Sussex. In the period, 1478-9, his widow, Katherine, sued Giles Daubeney and others, feoffees to uses, in Chancery regarding several manors, including Dedisham (in Slinfold), Solebrook (in Hartfield), Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Iteford, and Selmeston., Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. Katherine died 9 April 1479.
      Strachey Ratuli Parl. 6 (1777): 325-326. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 304-305 (sub Fitz-Warine). Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 7 (1812): 40-57 (sub Arundel, Lord Arundel of Wardour) ("Sir John Arundel, Knt. ... one of those valiant commanders who served King Henry VI. in France"). Burke Gen'I & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 492-493 (sub Stafford). Coll Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 306-307 (Arundell ped.: "Sir John Arundell [1] = Dau. of the Lord Morley, [2] = Dame Katherine, dau. of Sir John Chideoke, and widow of William Stafford"). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.); 3 (1868): 431. Rogers Ancient Sepulchral Effigies (1877): 374 (ped. chart). Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 154-156 (Hastings ped.: "Elsabeth [Morley] wyff to Sir John Arundell who had a doughter wyff to James Tyrrell of Gyppynge."). Cooke & St. George Vis. of Hertfordshire 1572, 1634 & 1346 (H.S.P. 22) (1886): 113-114 (Capell ped.: "Sir John Arundell, Kt. = Katherin, da. to Sir John Chidioke, Kt."). Lawson Gen. Colls. Ill. the Hist. of Roman Catholic Fams. in England 3 (1887): 151-152, 221-232. Misc. Gen. et Heraldica n.s. 2 (1887): 73-76. Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (1887): 2-5 (Arundell ped.). Rogers Strife of the Roses & Days of the Tudors in the West (1890): 137-154. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 556-560; 2 (1896-8): 255-261; 3 (1899-1901): 193-202. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 195. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 22, 50, 123, 136, 153. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 472. VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 217-218. Genealogist n.s. 31 (1915): 173-178 (re. Stafford fam.). C.P. 4 (1916): 102-105 (sub Daubeney), 327-328 (sub Devon); 5 (1926): 459-462 (sub FitzPayn); 8 (1932): 523 (sub Manley); 14 (1998): 348-349 (sub Grane). Kingsford Stoner Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (née Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 106-109 (Strangwais ped.). Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 (sub Lewknor). Beckington Reg. of Thomas Bekynton Bishop of Bath & Wells 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 49) (1934): 119, 237, 259. Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1 (1936): 795 (biog. of William Stafford). Chichele Reg. of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 42) (1937): 620-624 (will of Humphrey Stafford, Knt.). Bridgwater Borough Archives 4 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 60) (1948): 50-55. VCH Warwick 5 (1949): 26-28. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 224: 2. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Gloucester 10 (1972): 143-148. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. VCH Cambridge 8 (1982): 34. Cornwall Rec. Office: Arundell of Lanherne & Trerice, AR/19/10 - lease dated 5 Mar. 1451; AR/39/2 (ped. of Fitz Warin-Chidiock fams.) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).
      Children of Katherine Chidiock, by John Arundell, Knt.:
      i. THOMAS ARUNDELL, K.B. [see next].
      ii. MARGARET ARUNDELL, married before 1485 WILLIAM CAPELL (or CAPEL), Knt., of London, Essex, Master of the Drapers Company, Alderman of London, 1485-1515, Sheriff of London, 1489-90, M.P. for London, 1491-2, 1512-4, 1515, Lord Mayor of London, 1503-4, 1509-10, 2nd son of John Capell, of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk, by his wife, Joan (or Jane). They had one son, Giles, Knt., and three daughters, Dorothy (wife of John Zouche Lord Zouche of Harringworth), Cecily, and Elizabeth. In 1478 he was in custody for vilifying alderman Robert Drope, and the Chancellor remitted him to be punished at the discretion of the Mayor and aldermen of London. In 1484 he was elected one of the auditors of the accounts of the Chamber. In 1486 he purchased the manor of Little Raynes, Essex. The same year he was shipping wool to the Mediterranean. He was committed to the Tower by Dudley and Empson in 1509. SIR WILLIAM CAPELL died 7 Sept. 1515, and was buried in the south chapel of St. Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange which he had rebuilt. He left a will dated 1 Sept. 1515, proved 17 March 1516 (P.C.C. 13 Holder), requesting that four clerks be present at his funeral and 4d paid to each clerk present at his trental of diriges and masses after burial. His widow, Margaret, was living in 1517. Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 7 (1812): 40-57 (sub Arundel, Lord Arundel of Wardour). Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 243 (Capel ped.). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 532-533 (will of Sir William Capel). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 306-307 (Arundell ped.: "Margaret [Arundell], wedd. to Sir Will. Capel of London."). Dingley Hist. from Marble 2 (Camden Soc. 97) (1868): 137. Hawley et al. Vis. of Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 & 1634 1 (H.S.P. 13) (1878): 171-172 (Capell ped.: "Sr William Capell of London Shrive ao 1489 and twice Lord Mayor ao 1503 and 1509 = Margarett daugh. to Sr Thomas Arundell Knight.") (Capel arms: Gules, lion rampant between three cross crosslets fitchee or). Cooke & St. George Vis. of Hertfordshire 1572, 1634 & 1546 (H.S.P. 22) (1886): 113-114 (Capell ped.: "Sir William Capell, Kt., Lord Maior of London and Draper 1503, knighted by H. 7. = Margaret, da. to Sir Thomas Arundell, Kt."). Lawson Gen. Colls. Ill. the Hist. of Roman Catholic Fams. in England 3 (1887): 151-152, 221-232. Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (1887): 2-5 (Arundell ped.). Harvey Vicci Wiltshire 1 565 (1897): 43-44 (Sowche ped.). Sharpe Cal. Letter-Books of London: L (1912): 210-227. Wedgwood Hist. of Parl. 1(1936): 153-154 (biog. of William Capel). CP. 12(2) (1959): 948 (sub Zouche). Ancient Deeds - B 2 (List & Index Soc. 101) (1974): B.7140, B.8726. James Bede Roll of the Fraternity of St. Nicholas 1 (London Rec. Soc. Pubs. 39) (2004): 254, 256, 257, 259.
      Child of Margaret Arundell, by William Capell, Knt.:
      a. ELIZABETH CAPELL, married WILLIAM PAULET, K.G., 1st Marquess of Winchester [see PAULET 16].”

      4. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ELIZABETH MORLEY, married by jointure dated 25 April 1446 (as his 1st wife) JOHN ARUNDELL, Knt., of Lanherne, Penpoll (in Phillack), Trenoweth (in Crowan), etc., Tregear (in Crowan), Cornwall, Vice Admiral of Cornwall, Under-Sheriff of Cornwall, 1457, Sheriff of Cornwall, 1469-70, son and heir of John Arundell, of Lanherne, Cornwall and Bideford, Devon, by Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of John de Burghersh, Knt. [see GANT 11 for his ancestry]. He was born at Bideford, Devon 9 June 1421. They had one daughter, Anne. His wife, Elizabeth, was living 12 Nov. 1446. He married (2nd) by settlement dated 5 March 1450/1 KATHERINE (or CATHERINE) CHIDIOCK [see CHIDIOCK 14], widow of William Stafford, Esq. (died 18 June 1450), of Stinsford, Bomston, and Puriton, Dorset [see SOUTHWICK 10.iii], and daughter and co-heiress of John Chidiock, Knt., of Chideock, Buckham (in Beaminster), Caundle Haddon, etc., Dorset, by Katherine, daughter of Ralph Lumley, Knt., 1st Lord Lumley [see CHIDIOCK 13 for her ancestry]. He served in France, and was knighted by King Edward IV in 1463. SIR JOHN ARUNDELL died 12 Nov. 1473. His widow, Katherine, married (3rd) (as his 3rd wife) ROGER LEWKNOR, Knt. [see LEWKNOR 15], of Trotton, Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Dedisham (in Slinfold), Iteford, and Selrneston., Sussex, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1439-40,1467-8, Keeper of the Temporalities of the Archbishopric of Canterbury. SIR ROGER LEWKNOR died 4 August 1478. He left a will dated 23 July 1478, proved 28 Nov. 1478 (P.C.C. 1 Logge), requesting burial in Trotton, Sussex. In the period, 1478-9, his widow, Katherine, sued Giles Daubeney and others, feoffees to uses, in Chancery regarding several manors, including Dedisham (in Slinfold), Bolebrook (in Hartfield), Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Middlesex, etc. Katherine died 9 April 1479.
      Brydges Collins' Peerage of England 7 (1812): 40-57 (sub Arundel, Lord Arundel of Wardour). Burke Gen'l & Heraldic Dict. of the Peerages of England, Ireland & Scotland (1831): 492-493 (sub Stafford). Coll. Top. et Gen. 1 (1834): 306-307 (Arundell ped.: "Sir John Arundell [1] = Dau. of the Lord Morley, [2] = Dame Katherine, dau. of Sir John Chideoke, and widow of William Stafford"). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 2 (1863): 178-182 (Stafford ped.). Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 154-156 (Hastings ped.: "Elsabeth [Morley] wyff to Sir John Arundell who had a doughter wyff to James Tyrrell of Gyppynge."). Cooke & St. George Vis. of Hertfordshire 1372, 1634 & 1346 (H.S.P. 22) (1886): 113-114 (Capell ped.: "Sir John Arundell, Kt. = Katherin, da. to Sir John Chidioke, Kt."). Lawson Gen. Colls. Ill. the Hist. of Roman Catholic Fams. in England 3 (1887): 151-152, 221-232. Vivian Vis. of Cornwall (1887): 2-5 (Arundell ped.). Rogers Strife of the Roses & Day of the Tudors in the West (1890): 137-154. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 556-560; 3 (1899-1901): 193-202. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Volume 1) (1894): 195. List of Sherriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 22, 136. Genealogist n.s. 31 (1915): 173-178 (re. Stafford fam.). C.P. 4 (1916): 102-105 (sub Daubeney), 327-328 (sub Devon); 5 (1926): 459-462 (sub FitzPayn); 8 (1932): 523 (sub Marney). Kingsford Stonor Letters & Papers 1290-1483 1 (Camden Soc. 3rd Ser. 29) (1919): 128-129 (letter of Lady Katherine Arundell (née Chidiock) dated ?1473 names her cousins, Thomas Stonor, Esq. [see DE LA POLE 10], and Richard Harcourt, Knt. [see WITHAM 9]). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 384-390. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 224: 2. VCH Wiltshire 8 (1965): 218-234. VCH Somerset 3 (1974): 111-120. McFarlane England in the 15th Cent. (1981): 98 (chart). Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 61-62 (biog. of John Arundell, Sr.). Cornwall Rec. Office, Arundell of Lanherne & Trerice, AR/19/4 (gift in fee to trustees dated 25 April 1446 between John Arundell, Esq., and William de la Pole, Marquis of Suffolk, et al); AR/19/5 (lease dated 25 April 1446 between John Arundell, Esq., and William de la Pole, Marquis of Suffolk, et al); AR/19/7/1 (gift in fee dated 12 Nov. 1446 between William de la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, et al. and John Arundell, Esq.) (available at www.a2a.org.uk/search/index.asp).”