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Arundell, John (1474 - 1544/5)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1474
Death Date: 1545-02-08

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Grey, Eleanor ( - 1503)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Grenville, Katherine (1489 - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1507
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: date of settlement made after marriage

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1513-08-16
    Vacated: 1544/5-02-08
  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1494-10-31
    Vacated: 1544/5-02-08

General Lands Note

Acquired share of 'Dinham's Lands' via marriage

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
JP, Cornwall 1504
JP, Cornwall 1506
Receiver, Duchy of Cornwall 1507 -11 -24 1533 Relinquished to younger son Sir Thomas Arundell of Wardour, Wilts (ca. 1502--1552)
JP, Cornwall 1509 1515
JP, Devon 1510
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1511
JP, Cornwall 1520 1522
JP, Cornwall 1523/4
JP, Cornwall 1525/6
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Cornwall 1530
JP, Cornwall 1530
JP, Cornwall 1531/2
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Cornwall 1532
JP, Cornwall 1536 1540
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Cornwall 1537
Member, Council in the West, England 1539 -4 -12 For the counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset & Somerset
JP, Cornwall 1543/4 Possibly held this office at this time

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Cornwall

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Plymouth, Devon Sir John Arundell's Minstrel

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Arundell's Minstrel Arundell, John (1474 - 1545) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Lanherne House Cornwall Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Bindoff, S.T. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1509–1558. 3 vols. London: Secker & Warburg, 1982
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VII [1485–1509]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1914--16
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Fox, H.S.A. & O.J. Padel, eds. The Cornish Lands of the Arundells of Lanherne, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. Exeter: Printed for the Society, 2000
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Shaw, William Arthur. The Knights of England: A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland. 2 vols. London: Sherratt & Hughes, 1906
  • The Visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., 1887