Events
Date of Birth: about 1398.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The inquisition post mortem of Walter's sister Joyce states that Walter was aged 24 years and upwards in 1422.
Date of Death: 24 November 1462.
The date is given by Attree (p. 58). Weever (p. 69) quotes a monument at Bedgebury which gives the date.
Date of Burial: Goudhurst, Kent, England (St Mary).
The place is given by Attree (p. 58). There is a memorial brass.
Relationships
Father: Sir Thomas Culpepper (died about 1428/9).
This relationship is given by Fleming, by the 1574 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman, p. 69), by the 1592 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman, p. 91), and by Wrottesley (p. 411). Sir Thomas mentions his son, Walter, in his will.
Mother: Joyce Cornard.
This relationship is given by Attree (p. 55). Sir Thomas names his wife, Joyce, in his will. Joyce, who was Sir Thomas’s second wife, was the widow of John Vyne.
Spouse: Agnes Roper (died 2 December 1457). Married in 1424 or 1425.
This relationship is given by Attree (p. 57). The monument quoted by Weever (p. 69) gives this relationship and states that “Agnes erat filia Edmundi Robar iuxta Cantuar.” The 1574 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman p. 69) calls her “Agnes, dau: to ….. Edmondes of St. Dunstans by Canterbury”. The 1592 Visitation of Kent (Bannerman p. 91) calls her “Agnes the Daughter of Edmonde Roberte of Glassenbury in the Countie of Kent Esquire”. Walter's wife is named Agnes in fines from 1434 and 1437. The date of marriage is given by Fleming.
Spouse: Isabel.
This relationship is given in the Common Pleas Plea Rolls (CP40/807 d 1059), where Isabel is described as Walter's widow.
Children (by Agnes):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir John Culpepper (died 22 December 1480) married Agnes Gainsford before 1460.
Thomas Culpepper died s.p.
Richard Culpepper (died 1516) married Margaret Wakehurst.
Nicholas Culpepper (died 24 May 1510) married Elizabeth Wakehurst.
Elizabeth Culpepper married John Hardes, of Hardes, Kent.
Margaret Culpepper (died 19 January 1488) married Alexander Clifford.
Evidence
Walter is mentioned in these fines:
CP 25/1/292/67, number 101. [image, abstract] (1430)
CP 21/1/115/310, number 412 [image, abstract] (1434-1436)
CP 25/1/179/94, number 82 [image, abstract] (1437)
CP 25/1/292/69, number 207 [image, abstract] (1437)
CP 25/1/115/314, number 511 [image, abstract] (1440)
CP 25/1/115/317, number 596 [image, abstract] (1444)
From a monument at Bedgebury (given by Weever, p. 69)
Orate pro animabus Walteri Culpeper arm. et Agnetis vxoris sue qui quidem Walterus erat filius Thome Culpeper militis, et prediĉta Agnes erat filia Edmundi Robar iuxta Cantuar. et prediĉta Agnes obiit 2. die Decemb. ann. Dom. 1457, et prediĉtus Walt. obiit 24 Nouemb. 1462, quorum animbus, &c.
References
"Abstracts of Feet of Fines", on Chris Philips' site Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy.
Anglo-American Legal Tradition. The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston.
Ardingly:Manor, in Page, William; Susan M Keeling; Louis Francis Salzman; and C. P. Lewis. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex. (London: A. Constable, 1905-), Volume 7 pages 127 to 132.
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).
Bannerman, William Bruce; Robert Cooke; and Thomas Benolte. The visitations of Kent, taken in the years 1530-1 by Thomas Benolte, and 1574 by Robert Cooke. (London: [Harleian Society], 1923).
Blaauw, W.H., “Wakehurst, Slaugham, and Gravetye,” in Sussex Archaeological Collections (London: Sussex Archaeological Society, 1858) Volume X, pages 151-167.
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]
Inquistion Post Mortem of Joyce wife of Hugh Halsham, Knight at Mapping the Medieval Countryside.
Thomas Colepeper will (26 October 1427), translated and transcribed at KentArchaeology.org (accessed 26 April 2014), citing Medieval & Tudor Wills at Lambeth - Book 2, page 139.
Weever, John. Ancient funerall monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent, with the dissolved monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred, as also the death and buriall of certaine of the Bloud Royall, the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations. (London: T. Harper, 1631)
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).