Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst1

Male, #8429, (say 1437 - 23 May 1510)

Father*Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Bayhall & Hardreshull (s 1400 - 24 Nov 1462)
Mother*Agnes Roper (s 1400 - 2 Dec 1457)
Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst|b. say 1437\nd. 23 May 1510|p8429.htm|Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Bayhall & Hardreshull|b. say 1400\nd. 24 Nov 1462|p8406.htm|Agnes Roper|b. say 1400\nd. 2 Dec 1457|p8407.htm|Sir Thomas Culpeper of Bayhall, Hardreshull & Exton|b. say 1356\nd. circa 1428|p8404.htm|Joyce (?)|b. say 1348|p8405.htm|Edmund Roper of St. Dunstan's Canterbury|b. say 1370|p8564.htm||||

Name Variation  Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst was also known as Culpepper of Wakehurst. 
Name Variation  Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst was also known as Colepeper of Wakehurst. 
Birth*say 1437 Nicholas was born say 1437. 
 He was the son of Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Bayhall & Hardreshull and Agnes Roper. 
Marriage*say 1464 He married Elizabeth Wakehurst say 1464. 
Death*23 May 1510 He died at Wakehurst, Ardingly, co. Sussex, England, on 23 May 1510. 
Burial*after 23 May 1510 His body was interred after 23 May 1510 at St. Peter's Church, Ardingly, co. Sussex, England. 
Biography* Nicholas, with his brother, Richard, under somewhat romantic circumstances, married the Wakehurst sisters, (granddaughters and co-heiresses of Richard Wakehurst, sen., of Wakehurst, in Ardingly). These two girls were confided by Elizabeth, their grandmother, to the care of John Colepeper and Agnes, his wife, the former of whom "promysed on the faithe and trouthe of his bodye and as he was a gentylman," that they should not be wronged. In spite of this promise, however, Richard and Nicholas, "with force and armes riotously agense the Kynges peas arayed in the manr of warre at Goutherst toke and caried" them away to Bobbing, Alexander Clifford's place in Kent, and afterwards transported them to London to a place of John Gibson, "the seide Margarete and Elizabeth at the tyme of their takyng away makyng grete and pittious lamentacion and wepyng."
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This high-handed proceeding on the part of the two fortune hunting brothers was productive of much litigation, as Elizabeth Wakehurst, grandmother of the two heiresses, refused to resign the title deeds of their estates, and it was some time before a peaceable settlement was obtained. Richard died without issue, but Nicholas became the ancestor of the Colepepers of Wakehurst, and as the brass to him and his wife Elizabeth in Ardingly Church shows ten sons and eight daughters, we may conclude that they lived long and happily together.
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From "The Sussex Colepepers", published in the "Sussex Archaeological Collections", Volume XLVII, 1904, pp 58-60. 

Family

Elizabeth Wakehurst (say 1449 - after 1517)
Children

Charts The Earliest Colepepers and Culpepers (10 generations)
The Culpepers of Wakehurst, from 1437: Extinct after 8 generations
Last Edited 2 Oct 2002

Citations

  1. Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part I", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVII, 47-81, (1904) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.