Richard Culpeper of Lewes1
Male, #8701, (say 1494 - before 1549)
| Parent* | Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst (s 1437 - 23 May 1510) | |
| Parent* | Elizabeth Wakehurst (s 1449 - a 1517) | |
Richard Culpeper of Lewes|b. say 1494\nd. before 1549|p8701.htm|Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst|b. say 1437\nd. 23 May 1510|p8429.htm|Elizabeth Wakehurst|b. say 1449\nd. after 1517|p8430.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|Richard Wakehurst of Ardingly|b. say 1418\nd. before 1465|p8571.htm|Agnes (?)|b. say 1421|p8572.htm| | ||
| Name Variation | Richard Culpeper of Lewes was also known as Culpepper of Lewes. | |
| Name Variation | Richard Culpeper of Lewes was also known as Colepeper of Lewes. | |
| Birth* | say 1494 | Richard was born say 1494. |
| He was the son of Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst and Elizabeth Wakehurst. | ||
| Death* | before 1549 | He died before 1549. |
| Biography* | Richard Culpeper, the youngest son of Nicholas Culpeper and Elizabeth Wakehurst, his wife, and brother of Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst, Esq., was of Lewes, and soon after the death of his uncle Richard sold all the property he received under his will as appears from (a) Harl., Ch. 76, H. 9, which is a bond, dated 10 Jun 1517 (9 Henry VIII) from Richard Culpeper of Lewes, gent., younger son of Nicholas Culpeper, brother of Richard Culpeper, late of Wakehurst, deceased, to Alexander Culpeper, Esq., in 40 marks, to grant to the said Alexander Culpeper and to Thomas Darell, gent., and others, to the use of the said Alexander, a sufficient estate in fee simple in all the lands in the parish of Goudhurst, bequeathed to the above Richard Culpeper and Elizabeth, his mother, by the late Richard Culpeper, Esq., and (b) Harl., Ch. 76, H. 10, which is a charter by which Richard Culpeper, junior, one of the sons of Nicholas Culpeper, late of Wakehurst, Esq., deceased, granted to Alexander Culpeper of Goudhurst, Esq., Thos. Darrell, gent., Thos. Hart, clerk, and Wm. Lodynden, certain lands and tenements in Goudhurst which Richard Culpeper, Esq., late of Wakehurst, uncle of the said Richard Culpeper, junior, by his last will, wished to remain to Richard Culpeper, junior, after the death of Elizabeth, his mother. Dated 1 Sep 1517 (9 Henry VIII). Harl., Ch. 76, H. 3, 6 Sep 1517 (9 Henry VIII) is the quitclaim of Elizabeth Culpeper of Wakehurst, widow, late the wife of Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst, and of Edward Culpeper, clerk, Richard Culpeper, senior, Thomas Culpeper and George Culpeper, to Alexander Culpeper of Goudhurst, Esq., Thomas Darell, gent., Thomas Hart, clerk, and William Lodynden, granted concerning lands and messuages (houses) in Goudhurst, which the said Alexander Culpeper had of the enfeoffement of (had been granted by) Richard Culpeper, junior, brother of the said Edward, Richard, Thomas and George Culpeper. . He was dead in 1549, as appears from Close Roll, 3 Edward VI, pt. 1, which gives an Indenture between Richard Culpeper, one of the sons of Richard Culpeper of Lewes, deceased of the one part, and John Culpeper of Warnham, co. Sussex, son and heir of the said Richard Culpeper, the father of the other part, and witnessed that for £30 paid by the said John Culpeper the said Richard sold him the third part of the manor of Badsell, alias Fobyllys, in co. Kent, now in the occupation of John Culpeper, the elder of Wakehurst. |
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| Charts | The Earliest Colepepers and Culpepers (10 generations) The Culpepers of Wakehurst, from 1437: Extinct after 8 generations |
| Last Edited | 3 Oct 2002 |
Citations
- Col. F.W.T. Attree R.E./F.S.A. & Rev. J.H.L. Booker M.A., "The Sussex Colepepers, Part II", Sussex Archaeological Collections, XLVIII, 65-98, (1905) http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/sussex/default.htm.