Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst1

Male, #8454, (say 1435 - circa Oct 1516)

Parent*Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Bayhall & Hardreshull (s 1400 - 24 Nov 1462)
Parent*Agnes Roper (s 1400 - 2 Dec 1457)
Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst|b. say 1435\nd. circa Oct 1516|p8454.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  Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst was also known as Colepeper of Wakehurst. 
Name Variation  Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst was also known as Culpepper of Wakehurst. 
Birth*say 1435 Richard was born say 1435. 
 He was the son of Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Bayhall & Hardreshull and Agnes Roper. 
Marriage*say 1464 He married Margaret Wakehurst say 1464. 
Burial*circa Oct 1516 His body was interred circa Oct 1516 at St. Peter's Church, Ardingly, co. Sussex, England. 2. 
Death*circa Oct 1516 He died at Wakehurst, Ardingly, co. Sussex, England, circa Oct 1516. 
Probate8 Nov 1516 Richard's will was probated at Lambeth, co. Surrey, England, on 8 Nov 1516. 
Biography* As is related in the biography for his brother Nicholas, the two brothers, Richard and Nicholas Culpeper ran away with and married Margaret and Elizabeth, daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Wakehurst of Wakehurst in Ardingly, Esq. Richard Culpeper died without issue, his wife, Margaret, having predeceased him; as also his brother Nicholas, who, by Elizabeth, his wife, left a very large family. The following is an abstract (partly translated from Latin) of the
Will of Richard Culpeper, Esq.
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22 Sep 1516, 8 Henry VIII. I Richard Culpeper of the parish of Ardingly, co. Sussex, Esq. and son of Walter Culpeper late of Goudhurst co. Kent Esq. and brother of Sir John Culpeper late of Goudhurst aforesaid make my testament. To be buried in the chancel of the church of Ardingly next the sepulture of Margaret Culpeper late my wife. Bequests to the brothers of the house of Moatenden in Kent, Lewes in Sussex, Newgate in London and Lossenham in Kent. To Anne Pympe my cousin 10 marks at marriage or at 26. To the mending of the roads within the manor of Wakehurst and Seldwyke Cross 13s 4d. To Richard Culpeper son and heir of Nicholas Culpeper a bond or obligation of the said Nicholas for £5 6s 8d. To Master Edward Culpeper brother of the aforesaid Richard 40s. Residuary legatee Elizabeth Culpeper widow of my late brother Nicholas, and I appoint her together with Thomas Culpeper, George Culpeper and Richard Culpeper, younger sons of the aforesaid Nicholas Culpeper executrix and executors. And I make Richard Culpeper, Esq. and Master Edward Culpeper brother of the aforesaid Richard my overseers. Witnesses John Yonge, Vicar of West Hoathly, Henry Wellys, Thomas Doggett, Christopher Payne, and William Hordys with others.
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Will as to lands of Richard Culpeper, Esq. "one of the sons of Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Esquire, and brother to Sir John Culpeper, sometime of Goudhurst, Knight" 22 Sep 1516. To Elizabeth Culpeper my sister a croft (a small piece of land, usually attached to a house, used for farming or pasture) in Horsemonden in Kent, with remainder to Alexander Culpeper, and no more for "thanks be to God he has no need." The male heirs of Walter Culpeper my nephew to have the manor of Heronden, and the tenement of the Bavre. Loggelond in Ardingly to the churchwardens to keep an obit, with beer bread and cheese, by 10 priests at 8d each to pray for self, Margaret my wife, Walter Culpeper and Agnes his wife my father and mother, Richard Wakehurst the elder and Richard Wakehurst the younger and Agnes his wife, my wife’s father and mother. Parishes of Ardingly, Balcombe, West Hoathly, Lindfield and Whyhyme. Elizabeth Culpeper, late the wife of Nicholas Culpeper my brother to take up the rents and issues of all other lands in Horsemonden or Goudhurst in Kent, and in Monfield, Salehurst, Ifeld, Crawley, Slaugham, Worth and West Hoathly in Sussex and in Leigh in Surrey or elsewhere in England for life, and after her death the lands in Leigh, which I bought, to Richard Culpeper son and heir of Nicholas and Elizabeth. To Thomas Culpeper one of the sons of the said Nicholas and Anne wife of the said Thomas, lands in Ifeld, Crawley, Slaugham and Worth which I bought of John Wodye &c. To George Culpeper (after Elizabeth's decease) the messuage and lands of Stroudgate for life, with remainder to Richard Culpeper son and heir of the aforesaid Nicholas. Also to the said George Busses in West Hoathly and a mill called Hope Mill in Southerst (Goudhurst?) and the halfendele of a fulling mill in Horsemonden to him and his heirs. And as for Pipstye I cannot put it from George for it is copyhold. To Richard Culpeper, youngest son of the foresaid Nicholas and Elizabeth, a messuage or tenement called the Feryn in Ninfield and Salehurst co Sussex, and land and messuages at Turnerhill also two tenements in Southerst sometime John Bechefeld, Richard Mylis, Thomas Burges. Remainder after death of Elizabeth to foresaid Richard his heirs and assigns. If Thomas Culpeper, George Culpeper, or Richard Culpeper the youngest son die during the lifetime of the said Elizabeth, without wife or children, his part to remain to the other living of the aforesaid three.Proved at Lambeth 8 Nov 1516 by Richard Culpeper, George Culpeper, and Thomas Culpeper in person and by Elizabeth Culpeper in the person of William Crowland.
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The Sussex Colepepers-II, pp 65-66. 

Family

Margaret Wakehurst (say 1448 - 1504)

Charts The Earliest Colepepers and Culpepers (10 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.
  2. now in West Sussex, England