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Copplestone, John ( - 1433)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: n.d.
Death Date: 1433

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Graas, Katherine ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: n.d.
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Titles

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1384
Warden of the Stannaries, Devon 1387/8 -3 -16
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1393 1394
JP, Devon 1394
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1396 1398
JP, Devon 1397
Receiver, Duchy of Cornwall 1398 -11 1399 -08
JP, Devon 1399
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1399/1400
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1402 1403
JP, Devon 1402
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1403
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1404/5
JP, Devon 1404/5 1406
Steward, Exeter Diocese 1407 1413 -09 -26
JP, Devon 1408
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1409
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1411
JP, Devon 1412/13
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Devon 1413
JP, Devon 1421/2 1424
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1423
JP, Devon 1427
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1427/8

Details of Properties

Residence

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon John Copplestone's Entertainer
Performance - Mayor's House, Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon John Copplestone's Minstrel

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
John Copplestone's Minstrel Copplestone, John (0 - 1433) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
John Copplestone's Entertainer Copplestone, John (0 - 1433) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Copplestone House Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Alexander, J.J. 'Devon County Members of Parliament Part III: The Later Plantagenet Period (1399--1485).'. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art 46 (1914):
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV [1399–1413]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1903--9
  • 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 Patent Rolls, Richard II [1377–99]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1895--1905
  • 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
  • Radford, G.H. 'Nicholas Radford (1385?--1455).'. Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art 35 (1903): np.
  • 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
  • The Visitations of the County of Devon, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, with additions by Lieut-Col J.L. Vivian. Exeter: For the Author by H.S. Eland, [1895]
  • Wedgwood, Josiah C., and Anne D. Holt. The History of Parliament: Biographies of the Members of the Commons House 1439–1509. London: HMSO, 1936