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Tunstall, Richard (1427 - 1492)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1427
Death Date: 1492-04 (possibly died in March of this year)

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Frank, Elizabeth ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Siblings

Offspring

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1456/7-02-21
    Vacated: 1492

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Keeper of Lands, Westmorland 1450 -6 -14
King's Carver, England 1450 1460
Esquire of the Body, England 1452 -9 -6
Chamberlain, County Palatine of Chester 1456/7 -2 -21
Commissioner of Array, Lancashire 1457
Chamberlain of the Exchequer, England 1459 -12 -19 1461
Keeper, Hertfordshire 1459 -12 -19
Member, York 1459 -8 -14
Steward, Westmorland 1459/60 -1 -15
Master of the Mint, London 1470 -10 -23
Member, York 1473
JP, Wiltshire 1475
JP, Dorset 1475
JP, Somerset 1475
Steward, Westmorland 1486 -6 -28
Steward, Yorkshire: West Riding 1486
Privy Councillor, England 1486/7 -3 -10
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1489
MP, Yorkshire 1491

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Herefordshire
  • Lancashire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Wales
    Land in the Marches adjacent to Herefordshire
  • Westmorland
  • Worcestershire
  • Yorkshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Mr Richard Tunstall's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Mr Richard Tunstall's Minstrel/s Tunstall, Richard (1427 - 1492) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Thurland Castle Lancashire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Chippindall, W.H. 'Tunstall of Thurland Castle.'. Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society ns 28 (1928): 292--313.
  • Gooder, A. Parliamentary Representation of the County of York, 1258--1832. 2 vols. np: Printed for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1935, 1938
  • Skaife, Robert H., ed. The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York. Durham; London; London; London; Edinburgh: Andrews & Co.; Whittaker & Co.; T. & W. Boone; Bernard Quaritch; Blackwood & Sons, 1872
  • Wedgwood, Josiah C., and Anne D. Holt. The History of Parliament: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House 1439–1509. London: HMSO, 1936