Richard Wakehurst (died 1454)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: shortly before November, 1454.

The date is given by Woodger. Blaauw (p. 152) gives the date as specifically June, 1454. The CPR for Henry VI, Volume 6, page 214, documents that he was dead on 20 November 1454.

Relationships

Father: Richard Wakehurst (died 1455).

Mother: Elizabeth Etchingham (died 19 July 1464).

These parents are given by Woodger.

Spouse: Agnes Gainsford.

Woodger notes that the wife of Richard was a sister of the Surrey M.P. John Gainsford. Fleming notes that she was named Agnes Gainsford, and subsequently married Sir John Culpepper. The will of Richard Culpepper names his wife’s mother, Agnes.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Margaret Wakehurst (died 25 July 1504) married Richard Culpepper.

Elizabeth Wakehurst married Nicholas Culpepper.

References

Blaauw, W.H., “Wakehurst, Slaugham, and Gravetye,” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (London: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1858) Volume X, pages 151-167.

Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VI, Volume VI, A.D. 1452-1461. (Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1971).

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].

Woodger, L.S. “Wakehurst, Richard (d. 1455), of Wakehurst in Ardingley, Suss. and Ockley, Surr.”, in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe. (Boydell and Brewer, 1993).