Wilford, Robert (b. , d. 1396)

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Robert

Death: 1396

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Elizabeth

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Sir Robert Cornu lived at Thornbury, Devonshire. He served as a tax collector and member of Parliament.

Although the family cannot be traced back beyond this generation with certainty, it had been seated at Thornbury since at least 1135, when Roger Cornu held it and other lands of the Abbot of Tavistock.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Robert

Death: 1399

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Thomas betenham lived at Shurland, Pleckley, Kent.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Thomas

Event: Type: Living
Date: BET 1415 AND 1419

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: ----------

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: George

Event: Type: Living
Date: BET 1428 AND 1480

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Maud

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Richard

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1390

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Anne

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: William Bromley lived at Blymhill and Ashley Bromley, Staffordshire.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: William

Death: BEF 1419

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: William

Death: 1434

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Margaret

Death: 1446

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: RD500
Title: RD500

Page: pp. 429-430

Given Name: Elizabeth

Event: Type: Living
Date: BET 1448 AND 1459

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: William

Death: 1464

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Note: Sir James Fiennes rose to prominence under King Henry V in the French wars and was granted much property in France as a result. In 1419 he was made Governor of Arques. In 1430 he accompanied Henry VI to France for his coronation in Paris and was created Sheriff of Kent in 1437 and Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex two years later.

In 1440 he was an esquire to the body of the King and received a grant of 100 pounds per annum. He received further grants and on Feb 24 1447 he and his heirs male were made Constable of Dover and Warden of the Cinque Ports, which were highly remunerative posts. In 1449, however, he relinquished them to the Duke of Buckingham. In March 1447 he was created Baron Say and Sele and summoned to the Parliament being held at Bury St. Edmunds.

As an adherent of the Duke of Suffolk, Lord Say and Sele was becoming very unpopular and it is altogether likely that the charges of extortion and maladministration of which he was accused were not without merit. He was a specific target during Cade's rebellion, and Henry VI sent him to the Tower. But Lord Scales, who was in charge of the Tower, handed him over to Cade, who had him arraigned by the Lord Mayor and judges. Lord Say and Sele demanded a trial by his peers, but Cade took him to the Standard in Cheap and there had him beheaded, hanged, drawn and quartered. His body was dragged behind a horse and his head, along with that of his son-in-law William Cromer (No. XXX), were carried on poles through the City of London.

Lord Say and Sele is a minor character in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II (Act 4, Scene 7), where his last moments are depicted. Shakespeare anacronistically credits him with introducing printing to England. Among his descendants was Edward Gibbon, the 18th century historian of the fall of Rome.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: RD500
Title: RD500

Page: pp. 429-430

Given Name: James

Death: 1450

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: John de Peckham lived at peckham in Hadlow and Yaldham in Wrotham, both in County Kent.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: John

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1350

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Ellen

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Sir Thomas de Moraunt lived at Moraunt's Court and Donnington, both in Chevening, and at Bursted in Bishopsbourne, and Wareborne, all in County Kent.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Thomas

Event: Type: Living
Date: 1350

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Note: Sir henry Aucher lived at Losenham and Mayham Magna, both in Newenden, County Kent.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Henry

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Clagett
Title: Brice M. Clagett, Seven Centuries

Given Name: Elizabeth

Change: Date: 9 Feb 2003