Richard II Hankford
Sir Richard II Hankford (c.1397-1431)[3] was jure uxoris feudal baron of Bampton and baron of part of the feudal barony of Barnstaple, in Devon.
Origins
He was the son of Richard I Hankford (d.1419),[4] MP for Devon in 1414 and 1416,[5] the son of Sir William Hankford (ca. 1350 – 1423) KB, of Annery in Devon, Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1413 until 1423. As Richard I had predeceased his own father, Richard II became heir to his grandfather Sir William Hankford on his death in 1423. The Hankford family had been long established at the estate of Hankford, from which they took their name, near Bulkworthy in the parish of Buckland Brewer, North Devon.[6][7]
Marriages & progeny
Richard II Hankford married twice:
- Firstly at some time before 1420 to Elizabeth FitzWarin (1403-1426/8)[8] (or "FitzWarren"), daughter of Fulk FitzWarin, 6th Baron FitzWarin (1389-1407) and sole heiress of her brother Fulk FitzWarin, 7th Baron FitzWarin (1406–1420),[9] feudal baron of Bampton[10][11] and holder of part of the feudal barony of Barnstaple, including that barony's seat of Tawstock.[lower-alpha 1] By Elizabeth FitzWarin he had the following progeny, two daughters and co-heiresses:
- Thomasine Hankford (1422/3-1453), eldest daughter, born at Tawstock,[12] who inherited from her mother Bampton and Tawstock and many other manors and married William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin (1407-1470). Her eventual descendants the Wrey Baronets still reside within the parish of Tawstock in 2014, albeit having sold most of the lands of the manor.[13][lower-alpha 2]
- Elizabeth Hankford (c.1424-1433), died young, unmarried, aged about 9.[15]
- Secondly Sir Richard II Hankford married Anne de Montagu (d.1457), a daughter of John de Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c.1350-1400).[16] She survived him and remarried twice: secondly (as his 2nd wife) to Sir Lewis Johan (d.1442) (or John) of West Horndon and Dunton in Essex; thirdly (as his 3rd wife) to John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter (1395–1447). She died on 28 November 1457 and was buried with her 3rd husband in the church of St Catherine by the Tower in the City of London.[17] Sir Richard Hankford had by his 2nd wife Anne de Montagu a daughter:
- Anne Hankford (c. 1431 – 1485), who inherited Annery from her father. She married the extremely wealthy[lower-alpha 3] Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (d.1515).[20][21]
Inheritances
On 22 June 1419 the king took his fealty, his homage being respited, and he obtained livery of the estates of his paternal inheritance in Devon and Somerset. On 5 December 1420 the king took his fealty for the lands inherited by his first wife Elizabeth FitzWarin. On 5 June 1424 he obtained lands from inheritance from his grandfather Sir William Hankford in Devon, Cornwall, Wiltshire and Middlesex. On 20 May 1425 the king took his fealty for his further inheritance of lands in Devon and Somerset inherited by his wife from her grandmother Elizabeth Cogan (d.1397), heiress of the feudal barony of Bampton.[lower-alpha 4]
Career
Richard served in France during the Hundred Years' War in the retinue of his brother-in-law Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury (c. 1388–1428), and was knighted at St Albans between 8 July and 6 October 1429,[8] aged about 32.
Death
He died in 1431 at the age of about 34.
Sources
- GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, pp. 504–8 (Baron FitzWarin)
- Lauder, Rosemary, Devon Families, Tiverton, 2002, pp. 151–156, Wrey of Tawstock, p. 152
- Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p. 16, feudal barony of Barnstaple; p. 23, feudal barony of Bampton
- Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 106, pedigree of Bourchier
References
- ↑ Inherited by marriage of his great-grandfather Fulk FitzWarin 3rd Baron FitzWarin (d.1349) to Margaret Audley, heiress of Tawstock and co-heiress of the feudal barony of Barnstaple
- ↑ Residence of Wrey baronets in 2014: Hollamoor farm, Tawstock. "Sir Bourchier and Lady Caroline Wrey’s home was built in 1740 by the Wrey family who lived on a large estate locally (i.e. Tawstock Court); the family arrived in Tawstock, from St Ives in Cornwall in 1640 when the Wreys married Lady Anne Bourchier from a very old Norman family who came over in 1066 (sic). Sir Bourchier is the 15th baronet and has 2 sons and a daughter. George runs a property company and a private shoot, while Caroline is an interior designer and presently teaches dyslexic children when not running the farm and runs the livery yard". [14]
- ↑ The Irish called him The Earl of Wool, due to his being one of the wealthiest of the King's subjects in the realm.[18] In addition to the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England.[19]
- ↑ Elizabeth Cogan had married firstly Fulk FitzWarin, 5th Baron FitzWarin (1362-1391) and secondly Sir Hugh Courtenay (d.1425) of Godrington, who retained her lands during his life by the Courtesy of England
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- ↑ Pole, p.486, with undée for nebuly
- ↑ GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, pp.505-6, (Baron FitzWarin)
- ↑ GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, pp.504-5, (Baron FitzWarin)
- ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/hankford-richard-1419
- ↑ Virgoe, Roger, biography of "Hankeford , Sir William (c.1350–1423)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.506 (Baron FitzWarin)
- ↑ GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.504, (Baron FitzWarin)
- ↑ Risdon, Tristram, Survey of Devon, pp. 276-277
- ↑ Vivian, p.106, pedigree of Bourchier
- ↑ GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, pp.507-8 (Baron FitzWarin)
- ↑ Lauder, p.156
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, p.507 (Baron FitzWarin)
- ↑ Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.462, biography of Sir William Hankford
- ↑ GEC Complete Peerage, vol.V, pp.506-7 (Baron FitzWarin)
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- ↑ Marie Louise Bruce, Anne Boleyn, p. 11
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