Hankeford, William (1350 - 1423)

Biographical Overview

Titles - 1
Properties - 11
Total events naming patron - 1
Troupes - 1
Venues - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 8
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Born / Died

Birth Date: ca. 1350
Death Date: 1423-12-12

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Educated Middle Temple; Serjeant at law 1388

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Marriages/Other Unions

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

Primary Title

Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed 1399/1400-03-17
    Vacated 1422-12-20

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Counsel to Edward, 11th Earl Devon, Devon 1384 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hertfordshire 1388 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1388 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Surrey 1388/9 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1389 1390
JP, Devon 1389 1392
JP, Middlesex 1389 1390
JP, Essex 1389 1390
JP, Kent 1389 1390
JP, Southampton 1389 1390
JP, Hertfordshire 1389 1392
JP, Wiltshire 1389 n.d.
JP, Sussex 1389 n.d.
King's Serjeant, England 1389 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Ilchester 1389/90 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Wiltshire 1389/90 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hampshire 1389/90 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Devon 1389/90 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex 1390 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Middlesex 1390 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1390 1392
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hertfordshire 1390 1392
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Southampton 1390 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Surrey 1390 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Surrey 1392 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Kent 1393 1394
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset 1393 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1393 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Sussex 1393 1394
JP, Sussex 1393 1394
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Surrey 1393/4 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1393/4 n.d.
JP, Devon 1393/4 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hertfordshire 1394 1395
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hertfordshire 1394 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hertfordshire 1394 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Surrey 1394 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1394 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex 1394 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1394 n.d.
JP, Essex 1394 n.d.
JP, Kent 1394 n.d.
JP, Hertfordshire 1394 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1396 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1396 1397
JP, Kent 1396 1397
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hampshire 1396/7 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hertfordshire 1396/7 n.d.
JP, Hertfordshire 1396/7 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Surrey 1397 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1397 1398
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Middlesex 1397 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Sussex 1397 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex 1397 n.d.
JP, Essex 1397 n.d.
JP, Devon 1397 n.d.
JP, Sussex 1397 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1397 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1397 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, London 1398 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hertfordshire 1398 1399
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Hertfordshire 1398 n.d.
Justice of the Common Bench, England 1398-5-6 n.d. Reappointed Oct. 1399
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset 1398/9 n.d.
Commissioner of Gaol Delivery, Devon 1399 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Warwickshire 1399 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Coventry 1399 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1399 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1399 n.d.
JP, Coventry 1399 n.d.
JP, Essex 1399 n.d.
JP, Kent 1399 1401
JP, Hertfordshire 1399 n.d.
JP, Devon 1399 1401
JP, Sussex 1399 1401
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset 1400 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bristol 1400 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1400 1405
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex 1401 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1401 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1401 n.d.
JP, Essex 1401 1402
JP, Hertfordshire 1401 n.d.
JP, Sussex 1402/3 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1402/3 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hertfordshire 1403 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Dorset 1403/4 n.d.
JP, Kent 1403/4 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Essex 1404 n.d.
JP, Essex 1404 1406
JP, Middlesex 1404 n.d.
JP, Cornwall 1405 n.d.
JP, Devon 1405 1408
JP, Kent 1405/6 n.d.
JP, Surrey 1405/6 n.d.
JP, Hertfordshire 1405/6 n.d.
JP, Sussex 1405/6 n.d.
JP, Middlesex 1405/6 n.d.
JP, Dorset 1406/7 n.d.
JP, Cornwall 1406/7 n.d.
JP, Southampton 1406/7 n.d.
JP, Somerset 1407 1410
JP, Wiltshire 1407 1408
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1409 1412
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1409 1410
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Wiltshire 1409 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset 1409/10 n.d.
JP, Cornwall 1409/10 n.d.
JP, Wiltshire 1409/10 n.d.
JP, Dorset 1409/10 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1411 n.d. Cinque Ports also in Sussex.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bedfordshire 1411 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Kent 1411 n.d.
JP, Essex 1412 1413
JP, Surrey 1412 1413
Chief Justice of the King's Bench, England by 1413-3-29 1422
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, South Wales 1413 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Marches of Wales 1413 n.d.
JP, Devon 1413 1415
JP, Somerset 1413 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Gloucestershire 1414 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bedfordshire 1414 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Bedfordshire 1416 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1416/17 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Hertfordshire 1416/17 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Worcestershire 1417/18 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Oxfordshire 1418 n.d.
JP, Devon 1418 n.d.
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Sussex 1419/20 n.d.
JP, Devon 1420 n.d.
Keeper, Devon 1421-7-14 n.d. Held jointly
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Cornwall 1421/2 n.d.
JP, Devon 1421/2 1423
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1424 n.d.

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Berkshire: Eastbury Manor
  • Cornwall: Kelynack Manor
  • Devon: Hankford
    Patrimony
  • Devon: Yarnscombe Manor
  • London (city-county)
  • Middlesex
  • Oxfordshire
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Wiltshire

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1413-1414 Exeter (Unknown), Exeter , Exeter (city-county) in Devon Sir William Hankeford's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir William Hankeford's Minstrel/s Hankeford, William (1350 - 1423) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Venue Type
Annery House Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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Baring-Gould, S. 'Sir William Hankford.' . Devonshire Characters and Strange Events. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1908.
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.
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.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)
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.