Thomas Draper (died 1493)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1 June 1493.

The date comes from Thomas’s inquisition post mortem.

Relationships

Father: Thomas Draper.

The 1568 Visitation of London (Howard, p. 4) gives Thomas’s father as Thomas Draper of Flintham

Mother: unknown Auger.

The 1568 Visitation of London (Howard, p. 4) gives her surname as “Anger”; the 1619 Visitation of Leicestershire (p. 52) calls her the daughter of John Agar. Nichols (2:263) calls her dau. and heir to Ager Lutle. There are various other versions of her surname found in contemporary sources. The coat of arms of Robert Draper's descendant Sir Edmund Bowyer suggests that the name may have been "Aucher".

Spouse: Alice Kettleby.

Spouse: Joan.

Robert Draper names his mothers Alice and Joan in his will. The 1619 Visitation of Leicestershire (p. 52) and the 1614 Visitation of Nottinghamshire (p. 136) give Robert’s mother’s surname as Kettleby. The most likely interpretation of Robert’s will would seem to be that the first mother named, Alice, was his birth mother, and the second mother named, Joan, was his stepmother. (His wife’s mother was named Mary.) The Visitation of Leicester describes the Kettleby arms as “B. x ragule betweene 4 (martlets) Ar.”

Children:

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

John Draper (born about 1478) married Agnes Gunston.

Robert Draper married Elizabeth Fyfield.

Evidence

An abstract of Thomas’s inquisition post mortem

1221. Thomas Draper.

Writ of Mandamus 12 Nov., 12 Hen. VII; inq. 29 Oct. delivered to the Court, 23 Nov., 12 Hen. VII.

He died 1 June, 8 Hen. VII, seised of the under-mentioned land in fee. John Draper, aged 15 and more, is his son and heir. The Abbot of the Monastery of St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, Croxton, has occupied the premises and taken the issues and profits from his death to the present time.

Leic. A messuage and a virgate of land in Claxton, worth 20s., held of the said Abbot of Croxton by 18d. rent yearly, knight-service, and suit of his court of Howes.

C.Series II. Vol. 11. (83). E. Series II. File 1115. Part III. (3.)

Commentary

The Howard version of the 1568 Visitation of London makes this Thomas the brother, rather than the father, of Robert Draper, but this seems to be an error, which is corrected in the 1963 edition.

References

Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents. (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, c1973) (Henry VII Volume 1, no. 1221.)

Camden, William, and John (ed.) Fetherston. The visitation of the county of Leicester in the year 1619, taken by William Camden. (London: Taylor and Co., 1870).

Ellis, Henry. The history and antiquities of the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch, and liberty of Norton Folgate, in the suburbs of London. (London: J. Nichols, 1798).

Howard, Joseph Jackson and George John Armytage (eds.). The Visitation of London in the Year 1568, taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, and since augmented both with descents and arms. (London: [Harleian Society], 1869.

London, Hugh Stanford, and Sophia W Rawlins. Visitation of London, 1568: with additional pedigrees, 1569-90, the arms of the city companies and a London subsidy roll, 1589. (London: John Whitehead, 1963).

Marshall, George W. (George William). The visitations of the county of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614: with many other descents of the same county. (London: Harleian Society, 1871).

Nichols, John. The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester: compiled from the best and most ancient historians; inquisitiones post mortem, and other valuable records; including also Mr. Burton's Description of the county, published in 1622; and the later collections of Mr. Staveley, Mr. Carte, Mr. Peck, and Sir Thomas Cave. (London: Printed by and for J. Nichols, 1795-1815), 2:1:263.