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Tiptoft, John (1378 - 1442/3)

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Other Last Name

Tybetot, Tibetot

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1378
Death Date: 1443-01-27

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1408-2-24
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Cherleton, Joyce (1403 - 1446)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1421-2-28
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • 1st Baron Tiptoft

Titles

  • 1st Baron Tiptoft
    Assumed: 1425/6-01-07 (date summoned to parliament by this title)
    Vacated: 1442/3-01-27

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Keeper, Cambridgeshire
Seneschal, -5 -8 -07 -13 date of his successor's appointment
Speaker, -3 -2 -12 -22
Commissioner of Array, Huntingdonshire 1402
MP, Huntingdonshire 1404
Commissioner of Array, Huntingdonshire 1405
Commissioner of Array, Cambridgeshire 1405
Steward, Cambridgeshire 1405 -11 -1
JP, Cambridgeshire 1405/6 1407
JP, Huntingdonshire 1405/6 1407
Keeper, Huntingdonshire 1406 -12 -8 1442/3 -01 -27
MP, Huntingdonshire 1406
Treasurer of the Household, England 1406 -12 -8 1408 -07
JP, Somerset 1408 1409
Treasurer of the Exchequer, England 1408 -7 -14 1409 -12 -11
JP, Huntingdonshire 1408/9
JP, Cambridgeshire 1410
JP, Huntingdonshire 1410/11
Constable & Steward, Brecknockshire 1412 -5 -20
Constable & Steward, Monmouthshire 1412 -5 -20
JP, Cambridgeshire 1412 1414
JP, Huntingdonshire 1412/13
MP, Somerset 1414
JP, Huntingdonshire 1416
JP, Cambridgeshire 1421/2 1425
Councillor of Regency, England 1422 -8 -22
JP, Worcestershire 1422
JP, Herefordshire 1422
JP, Shropshire 1422
Privy Councillor, England 1422 -12 -9 1442 -08 -24
Steward of the Household, England 1426 -7 -28 1431/2 -03 -1
JP, Cambridgeshire 1428/9
JP, Cambridgeshire 1429 1430
JP, Huntingdonshire 1429
JP, Cambridgeshire 1431
JP, Huntingdonshire 1431/2
JP, Cambridgeshire 1435
JP, Cambridgeshire 1436/7
JP, Cambridgeshire 1437 1438
JP, Huntingdonshire 1437
JP, Cambridgeshire 1438/9
JP, Huntingdonshire 1439 1442
JP, Cambridgeshire 1441 1442

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Burwell Castle, Cambridgeshire

Lands

  • Cambridgeshire
  • Leicestershire
  • Wales

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lord John Tiptoft's Entertainer
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lord John Tiptoft's Entertainer/s
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Lord Tiptoft's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord John Tiptoft's Entertainer Tiptoft, John (1378 - 1443) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord John Tiptoft's Entertainer/s Tiptoft, John (1378 - 1443) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Tiptoft's Minstrel/s Tiptoft, John (1378 - 1443) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • 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.