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Bodrugan, William (1395 - 1441)

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Other Last Name

Trenowith

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1395 (possibly born 1398)
Death Date: 1441-12-24

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Arundel, Philippa ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1415
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1419-03
    Vacated: 1441-12-24

General Lands Note

Came of age in 1419; inherited 14 manors upon the death of grandmother Joan Bodrugan 15 April 1428

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1419
MP, Cornwall 1420
MP, Cornwall 1426
Sheriff, Cornwall 1427 -11 -7 1428 -11 -4
MP, Cornwall 1429
MP, Cornwall 1431
MP, Cornwall 1433
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1435/6

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Newham, Cornwall
    Residence before grandmother's death in 1428
  • Bodrugan Castle, Cornwall
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1416
    Divested: 1441-12
    Patrimony. Residence after grandmother's death in 1428

Lands

  • Cornwall
    Acquired: 1419
    Divested: 1441-12-24
    Major holdings (patrimony)

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Sir William Bodrugan's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir William Bodrugan's Minstrels Bodrugan, William (1395 - 1441) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Bodrugan Castle Cornwall Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910--11
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry V [1413--22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1929--32
  • Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1933--47
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • MacLean, John. The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor in the County of Cornwall. 3 vols. London: Nichols & Sons, 1873-79
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Roskell, J.S., Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, eds. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386–1421. 4 vols. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for The History of Parliament Trust, 1992
  • Whetter, James. The Bodrugans: A Study of a Cornish Medieval Knightly Family. St Austell: Lyfrow Trelyspen, 1995