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Hankeford, William (1350 - 1423)

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Born / Died

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

Notes

Educated Middle Temple; Serjeant at law 1388

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Offspring

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

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

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - 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 Type
Annery House Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Baring-Gould, S. 'Sir William Hankford.'. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1908 Devonshire Characters and Strange Events 181--4.
  • 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.
  • 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