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Hopton, Ralph (1510 - 1571)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1510
Death Date: 1571-12-14

Notes

Attended Lincoln College, Oxford University. Servant of Thomas Cromwell in the 1530s

Parents

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1544-09-30
    Vacated: 1571-12-14

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Knight Marshal of the Household, England 1542 -8 -26 1556 -05 -11
MP, Somerset 1553 -3
MP, Somerset 1553 -10
MP, Somerset 1555 Possibly held this office in this year
Knight Marshal of the Household, England 1558 -12 1560 -05 -20
JP, Somerset 1559
MP, Wiltshire 1559
Marshal of the Household, England 1560 -5 -20 1571 -12 -14 Held jointly with Robert Hopton of Yoxford, Suffolk & St. Mary Mounthaw, London
JP, Somerset 1561/2
JP, Somerset 1564

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Witham Friary, Somerset
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1544
    Divested: 1571-12
    Granted (acquired lease of portion of Witham Friary 1538)

Lands

  • Berkshire: Ashbury
    Acquired: 1540-05
    Leased; other Glastonbury lands acquired 1544
  • Somerset: Ditcheat
    Acquired: 1544

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Bristol, Bristol (city-county) in Gloucestershire Sir Ralph Hopton's Players

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Ralph Hopton's Players Hopton, Ralph (1510 - 1571) Players 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Witham Friary Somerset Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth I [1558–78]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1939--82
  • Collinson, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset. 1st ed. [1791], 1st ed. Index [1898], 1st ed. Supplement [1939]. Gloucester: Sutton, 1983
  • Edgar, F.T.R. Sir Ralph Hopton: The King's Man in the West (1642–1652). Oxford: Clarendon P, 1968
  • Elworthy, F[rederick] T[homas]. 'Withan Friary.'. Somersetshire Archaeological & Natural History Society Proceedings 39 (1893): 1--30.
  • Hasler, P.W. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1558–1603. 3 vols. London: HMSO, 1981
  • Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII [1509--47]. 21 vols and Addenda (2 vols). London: HMSO, 1864--1932
  • 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