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Arundell, John (1421 - 1473)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1421-06-09
Death Date: 1473-11-12

Notes

Ward of William de la Pole, 8th Earl of Suffolk 1434/5; proved age May 1443

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Morley, Elizabeth ( - 1451)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1446
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Chideoak, Katherine (1428 - 1479)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1451
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight of the Bath

Titles

  • Knight of the Bath
    Assumed: 1465-05-26
    Vacated: 1473-12

Details of Offices

Began Ended
Sheriff, Cornwall 1443 -11 -4 1444 -11 -6
Keeper, Cornwall 1445 -9 -12 1473 -12 reappointed for life 19 July 1461
Vice Admiral, Cornwall 1447 -9 -1
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1456
Commissioner of Musters, Cornwall 1456
JP, Cornwall 1462/3
JP, Cornwall 1465 1467
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1466
Commissioner of Array, Cornwall 1468
JP, Cornwall 1469

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Cornwall
    Major holdings: largest free tenent in Cornwall
  • Devon: Battishorne, Ideford, Loddiswell, Morchard Arundell in Morchard Bishop, Uton Arundell in Crediton
  • Dorset: Chideock
    Acquired: 1451
    Via 2nd wife
  • Somerset

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall (1), Barnstaple, Devon Sir John Arundell's Minstrel/s
Performance - Guildhall (1), Barnstaple, Devon Sir John Arundell's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Arundell's Minstrel/s Arundell, John (1421 - 1473) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Sir John Arundell's Minstrel/s Arundell, John (1421 - 1473) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Lanherne House Cornwall Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV – Henry VI [1467–77]. London: HMSO, 1900
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV [1461–7]. London: HMSO, 1897
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • 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
  • Fox, H.S.A. & O.J. Padel, eds. The Cornish Lands of the Arundells of Lanherne, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries. Exeter: Printed for the Society, 2000
  • List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to AD 1831. London: HMSO, 1898
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Roskell, J.S., Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, eds. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386–1421. 4 vols. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for The History of Parliament Trust, 1992
  • 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
  • The Visitations of Cornwall, comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1530, 1573 & 1620, with additions by J.L. Vivian. Exeter: William Pollard & Co., 1887