Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Sir John de Hardreshull.
This relationship is given by Fleming, by Attree (p. 54), by the 1592 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman, p. 91), by Wrottesley (p. 439), by the VCH of Warwick (Volume 4, sub Hartshill), and by the Complete Peerage (6:393).
Mother: Maud Mussenden.
The first name is given by the 1592 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman p. 91) and by Wrottesley (p. 439). The Complete Peerage (6:392) merely states that Sir John “is said to have” married, firstly, Maud. Dudding (p. 37, citing Harl. MSS. 1548 f. 153) gives Maud's surname as Mussenden.
Spouse: Sir John Culpepper.
This relationship is given by Fleming, by Attree (p. 54) and by the 1592 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman, p. 91).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir Thomas Culpepper married (1) Eleanor Green; married (2) Joyce Cornard.
Commentary
Although the 1592 Visitation, and the lawsuit from 1476 cited by Wrottesley, both explicitly state that Maud (or Matilda), rather than Margaret Stafford, was the mother of Elizabeth, some sources give Margaret. It is true that the visitation and lawsuit are both late sources, but I haven’t yet been able to learn what evidence is offered for Margaret being the mother. An example: the Victoria County History of Warwickshire (Volume 4, sub Hartshill) states that the three daughters of Sir John de Hardreshull were by Margaret Stafford, but its citation is the Complete Peerage (6:393), which does not support this. Neither, do the sources cited by the Complete Peerage. In fact, one of the sources the CP cites, Dudding’s History of Saleby, explicitly agrees with the Visitation that Margaret left no children.
References
Attree, F.W.T., and Booker, J.H.L. “The Sussex Colepepers. Part I.” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (Lewes: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1904), Volume XLVII, pages 47 to 81.
Bannerman, Bruce (ed.). The Visitation of Kent taken in the Year 1592. (Harleian Society, 1924).
Blaauw, W.H., “Wakehurst, Slaugham, and Gravetye,” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (London: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1858) Volume X, pages 151-167.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 6.
Dudding, Reginald Charles. History of the Manor and Parish of Saleby with Thoresthorpe in the County of Lincoln (W.K. Morton & Sons, 1922).
Fleming, Peter. ‘Culpeper family (per. c.1400–c.1540)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52784, accessed 24 April 2014]
“Parishes: Hartshill” in Salzman, L.F. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4: Hemlingford (Victoria County History, 1947).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (London, 1905).