William de Tufton
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Simon de Tufton (died before 1407).
This relationship is given by the 1619-21 Visitation of Kent (p. 118).
Mother: Joan.
Brydges/Collins (3:438) and Pocock (p. 14) give this name for Symon’s wife.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
Evidence
from the East Sussex Archive catalogue:
Fragment of a deed, from c. 1420
Description:... to William Tukton of Northiam, John Reyson, ...
1 five acres in Northiam (W: the forestall and the garden; ...: land of John Langport; ...
2 four acres in Northiam (E: ...; ...: land of John Langport; ...
Witnesses: Robert Oxenbregge of Northiam, …
Grant dated 24 Jul 1438
by John Gotele, esq and John atte Bertone, John Greneford the elder, John Perys and John Harry to Simon Seford of Northiam and his wife Margaret
At an annual rent of 5s, with remainder to their legitimate heirs, reversion, in default of such, to John Gotele and his heirs
Two parcels of land (4a) with the house built thereon, called Jonysfeld and Cropwode in Northiam (W: highway leading from Northiam church to Berhame, N: road leading from Northiam church to the Manor of Gotele, E: land of John Perys, S: parcel of land called Clenchefelde and Marlynge)
Recites that John Gotele got the land by gift of the feoffees of his father Henry Gotele (William Halle esq, John Curtays, William Tuktone, John Holstok, Thomas Wevere)
Witnesses: William Tukton, John Holstok, John atte Broke, Thomas Wevere, and William Godwyne; dated at Northiam
(FRE 6932)
References
Brydges, Egerton. Collins's peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. (London: [T. Bensley], 1812).
Hovenden, Robert, and John Philipot. The visitation of Kent, taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, marshall and deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux. (London: [Harleian Society], 1898).
Pocock, Robert. Memorials of the Family of Tufton, Earls of Tufton; deduced from various sources of authentic information. (London: 1800).