John Culpeper of Wakehurst1

Male, #8726, (say 1492 - 28 Mar 1565)

Parent*Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst (s 1470 - c 15 Sep 1539)
Parent*Joanna Naylor (s 1473 - a 1539)
John Culpeper of Wakehurst|b. say 1492\nd. 28 Mar 1565|p8726.htm|Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst|b. say 1470\nd. circa 15 Sep 1539|p8692.htm|Joanna Naylor|b. say 1473\nd. after 1539|p8694.htm|Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst|b. say 1437\nd. 23 May 1510|p8429.htm|Elizabeth Wakehurst|b. say 1449\nd. after 1517|p8430.htm|Richard Naylor|b. say 1443\nd. say 1483|p8693.htm|Elizabeth (?)|b. say 1448|p37833.htm|

Name Variation  John Culpeper of Wakehurst was also known as Colepeper of Wakehurst. 
Name Variation  John Culpeper of Wakehurst was also known as Culpepper of Wakehurst. 
Birth*say 1492 John was born say 1492. 
 He was the son of Richard Culpeper of Wakehurst and Joanna Naylor. 
Marriage*say 1520 He married Emma Erneley say 1520. 
Burial*after 28 Mar 1565 His body was interred after 28 Mar 1565 at Ardingly, co. Sussex, England. 
Death*28 Mar 1565 He died on 28 Mar 1565. 
Probate7 Oct 1565 John's will was probated at East Grinstead, co. Sussex, England, on 7 Oct 1565. 
Biography* John Culpeper of Wakehurst, eldest son of Richard Culpeper and Joan Naylor married about 1520, or shortly after, Emma, daughter of Sir John Erneley, Knight, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and had at least five sons and four daughters.
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He left no will, but from an Inq. P.M., taken at East Grinstead, 24 Oct 1565 (7 Elizabeth), we find that he died on 28 Mar 1565, leaving Thomas Culpeper, his son and heir, then aged 40 and more, seized of the following properties: The Manor of Wakehurst and of lands in Ardingly, Hoathly, East Grinstead, Horsted Keynes… and Balcombe, co. Sussex. Also of the advowson of Ardingly, and of an annuity of 6s/8d from certain lands in Ardingly. The said advowson is held of the Queen in free socage (free rent in exchange for services) as of her manor of Grafton, co. Northampton, and the annuity as of her manor of East Greenwich, co. Kent. The Manor of Wakehurst is held of Thomas Browne Esq. as of his manor of Walsted co. Sussex at a rent of 12d. It and the advowson are worth £7 per annum. Strudgate, 40 acres in Ardingly, is held of Thomas Duke of Norfolk; Edward Earl Derby, and Henry Nevell, Knight, Lord Burgavenny, as of their manor of Hoathly, rent 3s/- worth 26s/- per annum. Hawkeland, 160 acres in Ardingly, is held of the said Lord Burgavenny as of his manor of Ditchling rent 6s/8d, worth £5. Piersland in Ardingly, 50 acres, held of the said Lord Burgavenny, also 50 acres called Hylland in Ardingly, of the said Lord Burgavenny, both of the said manor. Rent of latter 3s/- worth 20s/-. All other lands in other parishes are worth 33s/4d per annum. The said John Culpeper was seized of the manor of Grout Wickham with appurtenances in Clayton, Kymer, Hurstpierpoint, and of one third of the manor of Little Wickham in Stenyng, also of Bevendean in Falmer. Of a messuage, barn and lands in Southwick, Stumbleholm, Christmas land and Lynders in Ifeld and Rusper, and of Culpeper's land in Kingston by Lewes, now occupied by William Newton. Of Tinsley in Worth; of Mylland and Pickeridge in Ardingly, held of above Lords as of their Lordship of Lewes by one-tenth of a Knight's fee and worth £20 per annum.
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"The Sussex Colepepers-II." 

Family

Emma Erneley (say 1502 - )
Children

Charts The Earliest Colepepers and Culpepers (10 generations)
The Culpepers of Wakehurst, from 1437: Extinct after 8 generations
Last Edited 4 Dec 2003

Citations

  1. 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.