Tunstall, Richard (1427 - 1492)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 1
Properties - 9
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Venues - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 4
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Born / Died

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

Siblings

Male

Tunstall, William (1430 - 1501)
Tunstall, Thomas ( - 1499)

Female

Tunstall, Margaret ( - )
Tunstall, Elizabeth ( - )

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Offspring

From Frank, Elizabeth ( - )

  1. Female offspring: Tunstall, Margaret (n.d.)
  2. Female offspring: Tunstall, Eleanor (n.d.)
  3. Male offspring: Tunstall, Henry (n.d.)
  4. Male offspring: Tunstall, John (n.d.)
  5. Male offspring: Tunstall, Thomas (n.d.)
  6. Male offspring: Tunstall, William (d. 1499)

Titles

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

Details of Offices

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

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Residence

Lands

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

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1447-1447 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 Venue 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. Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 91, 96. 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. Surtees Society 57. 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.