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Willoughby, Robert (1452 - 1502)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1452
Death Date: 1502-09-28

Notes

Supported Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham’s plot to place Henry Tudor, 14th Earl of Richmond, on the throne Oct. 1483; fled to Brittany; attainted & lands granted away 1483/4; returned to England 7 Aug. 1485; attainder reversed 7 Nov. 1485

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Type: marriage
    Union began: 1475
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: CP says ca. 1472

Offspring

  1. Mother unknown

Titles

  • 9th Baron Latimer
    Assumed: 1477-08-28
    Vacated: 1502-09-28
  • 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke
    Assumed: 1491-08-12 (date summoned to parliament by this title)
    Vacated: 1502-09-28
  • Knight
    Assumed: 1471/2-02-12
    Vacated: 1502-09-28
  • Knight of the Garter
    Assumed: 1489
    Vacated: 1502-09-28

General Lands Note

Licence to enter into his father’s lands 1478; licence to enter share of inheritance from kinswoman Isabella, Countess of Devon April 1489

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Commissioner of Array, Somerset 1470
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1470 1472
Commissioner of Array, Devon 1470 1472
Sheriff, Cornwall 1478 1479
Sheriff, Devon 1480 -11 -5 1481 -11 -5
JP, Devon 1482 1483
Receiver, Duchy of Cornwall 1485 -9 -24
Steward, Wiltshire 1485 -10 -2 Cecily (d 31 May 1495), Duchess of York (wife of the 3rd Duke)
Steward of the Silver & Gold Mines, Cornwall 1485 -9 -24 Mines also in Devon
JP, Cornwall 1485/6 1488
Keeper, Wiltshire 1486 -6 -20
Lieut, Wiltshire 1486 -6 -20
Member, King's Council, England 1486 -6 -20
JP, Devon 1486/7
Sheriff, Devon 1487 -11 -4 1488 -11 -4
Steward of the Household, England 1488 -5 1502 -08 -23
JP, Devon 1491 1492
JP, Cornwall 1492 1497
JP, Wiltshire 1492/3 1494
JP, Dorset 1492/3 1494
Steward, Wiltshire 1492/3 -2 -18 1502 -08 -23 Held jointly, for life; Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster lands of the Earldoms of Warwick & Salisbury in Wiltshire
JP, Staffordshire 1493
JP, Yorkshire 1493
JP, Worcestershire 1493
JP, Rutland 1493
JP, Oxfordshire 1493
JP, Northamptonshire 1493
JP, Buckinghamshire 1493
JP, Cambridgeshire 1493
JP, Derbyshire 1493
JP, Hertfordshire 1493
JP, Huntingdonshire 1493
JP, Leicestershire 1493
JP, Lincolnshire 1493
JP, Nottinghamshire 1493
JP, Devon 1494 -5 -22 1496
JP, Wiltshire 1496
JP, Dorset 1497 1502
JP, Wiltshire 1498 1499
JP, Cornwall 1498 Possibly held office in this year
JP, Wiltshire 1500/1 1502
JP, Devon 1501 1502
JP, Cornwall 1502

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Bere Ferrers, Devon
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1472
    Via wife
  • Brook, Wiltshire
    Acquired: 1479
    Patrimony via mother; residence after reversal of attainder (7 Nov. 1485)

Lands

  • Cornwall: Callington Manor
  • Devon: Bere Ferrers & Hook Manors
  • Gloucestershire
  • Somerset: Castle Cary Manor
    Acquired: 1486-06-20
    Granted this manor and 2 others
  • Staffordshire
  • Wiltshire: Brook & Southwick Manors
    Patrimony via mother

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall (1), Barnstaple, Devon Robert Willoughby's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Robert Willoughby's Minstrel/s Willoughby, Robert (1452 - 1502) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Bere Ferrers Devon Private Residence

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
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.