2097254.
Sir William Hankeford & 2097255. Christian ?
~1360, William born in England.
William educated at the Middle Temple.
6/21/1377, Richard II succeeded Edward
III as King of England.
1384, William in the service of the Earl
of Devon.
2/6/1387, Grant, by … William Hankeford
of Devon, to John Lovel of the marriages of Philippa and Elizabeth, daughter of
Guy Bryan ‘le Fitz,’ knight. (S) CPRs.
1388, William appointed serjeant-at-law.
1389, William appointed king’s serjeant.
By 6/30/1390, William granted the
marriage and lands of the heir of John Denbaud. (S) CPRs.
2/4/1392, Commission to William Sturmy,
knight, William Hankeford, … and the sheriff of Devon … evildoers … in the isle
of Londay … (S) CPRs.
10/27/1393, Pardon to Ralph Reymond … he
was found guilty before John Wadham and William Hankeford, justices … (S) CPRs.
1/2/1394, Debtor: John Denebaud. Creditor:
William Hankeford. Amount: £300. (S) UKNA.
11/14/1394, Protection for John Welet of
Briggewater going to Ireland on the king’s service in the company of William
Hankeford. (S) CPRs.
1394-95,William accompanied King Richard
II to Ireland. [An army of 8000, it was the largest force brought to Ireland
during the middle ages.]
5/1395, William returned with King
Richard II from Ireland.
1/21/1396, Thomas Cary requests an
enquiry into his claim to certain property in Over Adber and Hummer, which had
been given to his father by Samford, with reversion to himself and the heirs of
his father. … People mentioned … John Cary, father of the petitioner; John
Samford; John Wadham; William Hankeford (Hankford). (S) UKNA.
5/6/1398, William appointed as Justice of
the Common Bench. (S) CPRs.
1398, William among the justices
consulted concerning the validity of a legal ruling from 1387. William expressed
his support for the rulings, and said he would have ruled the same way himself.
6/1398-6/1399, Assize roll of William
Hankford and Robert Hill for Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Surrey,
including essoins and attorneys. (S) UKNA.
10/13/1399, Henry IV succeeded Richard II
as King of England. William became a
Knight of the Bath during the coronation ceremony.
1399-1406, Assize roll of William
Hankford and others for Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Surrey,
including essoins and attorneys. (S) UKNA.
1399-1412, Assize file, South-Western
Circuit (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire). Justices: …,
William Hankeford, …, John Culpepper and others. (S) UKNA.
9/1403-9/1404, Counties: Herts, Surrey
Justices, Gaols, Nature: William Hankeford; Hertford; Guildford castle. (S)
UKNA.
5/17/1405, Alice Clifford', querent, and William Hankeford', knight,
and John Hankeford', deforciants … William and John have granted to
Alice the manor of Clyfford' Corbyn … to revert to William Hankeford' and John
Hankeford' and the heirs of John … (S) Feet of Fines, Devon.
[––William
& Christian––]
William married 2nd Christian.
10/6/1405, William Hankeford',
knight, Christian, his wife, and Richard, son of the same William and
Christian, querents, and Philip de Estecote, deforciant. … moor
called Estecote in Frethelstoke. … William, Christian and
Richard have given him 10 marks of silver. (S) Feet of Fines, Devon.
9/1406-9/1407, Humphrey Stafford and
William Hankeford, knights, …, Robert Grey, Ed…, Robert Veel, … to grant the
manor of Bromley Castle [in Stoke Abbas], …, to the abbot and convent of
Abbotsbury, retaining the manor of Hooke …. Dorset. (S) UKNA.
5/13/1411, Returned oyer and terminer
commission, Kent, held by William Hankeford and associates at Canterbury. (S)
UKNA.
9/1412-3/1413, Special assize roll and
file, Somerset, William Hankford and Walter Hungerford v William Orme and
others. (S) UKNA.
9/25/1412, To the escheator in Devon.
Order to take the fealty of William Hankforde, and to give him livery of a
moiety of the manor of Hurberton … by
fine levied in the king's court with his licence John Wadham knight at his
death held that moiety as jointly enfeoffed with the said William by grant of
Cicely Turbervylle to them and John Hille now deceased. (S) CCRs.
3/20/1413, Henry V succeeded Henry IV as King of England.
1413, William Hankeford (Hankford), Chief
Justice of King's Bench. (S) UKNA.
1416, Petitioners: Anneys Orum, wife of
William Orum. … Orum requests a remedy be ordained and that she not be ousted
from land in Frome [Somerset] which was granted to her for the term of her
life, as by many frauds, injuries and oppressions [William] Hungerford and
[William] Hankeford have pursued her husband and her livelihood. (S) UKNA.
7/15/1417, William Hankeford, ‘chivaler,’
[and others] pardoned for acquiring moieties of the manor of Pencryche and
Robbaston, co. Stafford in payment of 11£ fine. (S) CPRs.
2/1/1418, William Esturmy (7605250) knight to … appointing
them to give William Hankeforde knight chief justice of the King's Bench,
Robert Hulle (2097260) the elder one of the justices of the Common Bench,
Robert Hulle (738676) the younger of Spaxton, … the manors of Belanye [and]
Pollynge … (S) CCRs.
7/9/1418, Petitioner: William Hankeford
(Hankford), knight, chief justice. Hankeford requests remedy because he was
granted and paid for the reversion of the manor of Littleham but has not
received it. (S) UKNA.
1420, Memorandum that in the parliament
held at Westminster … People mentioned … William Hankeford
(Hankford), justice. (S) UKNA.
7/14/1421, Grant to William Hankeford,
‘chivaler,’ and Richard Hankeford, esquire [not his son], of the marriage of
Theobald brother and heir of John Gorges son and heir of Thomas Gorges, tenant
in chief of Henry IV, which John died a minor in the king’s keeping, they
paying 300 marks in hand at the receipt of the Exchequer. (S) [Same date:
Commission to William Hankeford … of the keeping of the manor of Branton
Gorges, co. Devon, in the king’s hands by the death of Thomas Gorges, … the
minority of Theobald … during his minority.]
11/1/1422, Petitioners: Prior and convent
of Ivy Church. … People mentioned: Henry [V], King of England; William
Hankeford (Hankford) … (S) UKNA.
12/20/1423, William died at Annery;
buried at Monkleigh church. [Allegedly William had instructed his forester of
his estate at Annery to shoot with an arrow anyone entering his forest, only
himself deliberately to wander into the forest at night, where accordingly he
was shot.]
2/8/1423, Writ of diem clausit extremum
to the escheator in the county of Stafford after the death of William
Hankeford, ‘chivaler’. (S) CFRs.
Family notes:
·
Many other records of William in the Cal. of
Patent Rolls. William is also mentioned in many places in the CIsPM, holding
land jointly with other persons.
Child of William and ?:
i.
Richard Hankeford, born ~1385 in Hankford, near Bulkworthy, co. Devon, England.
Richard married Thomasina, d/o Sir
Richard Stapleton.
1409-10, richard in a lawsuit which
failed to secure the manor of Coombe-in-Teignhead.
1412, Income from Richard’s holdings was
assessed at £80.
11/1414, Richard served in parliament for
the county of Devon.
3/1416, Richard served in parliament for
the county of Devon.
7/1418, Richard associated with the
delivery, in July 1418, of 18 masts and several anchors and cables from
Ilfracombe to Southampton for use on the King’s ships.
1419, Richard died before his father. (S)
The History of Parliament, Roskell, 1993.
Child of William and Christine:
i.
Jane Hankeford (1048627), born ~1410 in Hankford, near Bulkworthy, co. Devon,
England.
