Sone/Ackerman/Potter/Ruggles Family Tree » Richard de Wydeville, Sheriff of Kent (± 1387-1441)

Persoonlijke gegevens Richard de Wydeville, Sheriff of Kent 

• Hij is geboren rond 1387 in La Mote, Maidstone, Kent, England.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1441 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England.
• Een kind van Sir John de Wydeville, en Isabel Goddard

Gezin van Richard de Wydeville, Sheriff of Kent

Hij is getrouwd met Joan Bedlisgate.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1403 te Maidstone, Kent, England.

Kind(eren):

1. Elizabeth de Wydeville,  ± 1400-1453 
2. Sir Richard Woodville, KG.  ± 1405-1469 

Notities over Richard de Wydeville, Sheriff of Kent

Notes:

Constable of the Tower, Sheriff of Kent. Succeeded to Grafton under his elder half brother Thomas's will. He had therefore been seated at the manor of La Mote, near Maidstone - a property leased in 1428 for 50 years by Richard and his wife from Archbishop Chicheley. In early life he was very probably in the service of Henry, Earl of Derby, afterwards Henry IV. In 1411 he was in the retinue of the King's son, Thomas of Lancaster, captain of Guînes; in 1419 he had a grant of the lands and lordships of Préaux, Dangu and Neuville, and in Nov was appointed bailiff of Gisors, Vernon, Andely and Lions; bailiff of Chaumont in Feb 1419/20; promoted seneschal of Normandy, Jan 1420/1; in Mar 1422/3, a commissioner to receive the surrender of Meulan; in 1423 he was chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford, treasurer-general of Normandy, and captain of Caen. He was appointed, Feb 1424/5, during pleasure, at a time of disturbances in the City, to attend to the safe keeping of the Tower of London. In Jun 1427 and Jun 1429 he was Lieutenant of Calais, and in Mar 1430/1 was appointed to attend the young King's person for half a year in France; in May 1434 hewas retained to serve the King in the wars in France with 20 men at arms. In Jul 1433, Knight of the shire, Kent; J.P., 1433-41. He was present at the Great Council meeting at Westminster in Apr and May 1434, at which the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester contended as to the conduct of the war in France, and, in Feb 1434/5, one of the commissioners to treat with the Duke of Burgundy as to the statutes of the Staple of Calais. On the death of the Duke of Bedford he was appointed Lieutenant of Calais, 1 Oct 1435. As the King's esquire he was appointed, 25 Jan 1436/7, during pleasure, constable of Rochester castle; and 1437-39, took part in various commissions in Kent. In 1437 he was sheriff of Northants, and a commissioner to raise a loan there, 1439

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