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 1400 - 1471 (71 years)
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| Name |
Robert SHOTTESBROOK |
| Prefix |
Sir |
| Born |
1400 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1471 |
| Person ID |
I18643 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
10 Aug 2020 |
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| Notes |
- Shottesbrook, Sir Robert (1400-1471); of Faringdon, Berkshire; King's Knight. M.P. Berkshire 1423-4; Wiltshire 1426; Berkshire 1433, 1439-40.
Younger son of Gilbert Shottesbrook of the same and heir to his brother John; 7 m. (1) Edith widow of Sir John Beauchamp;8 and (2) by 1449 Elizabeth (Isabel) widow of John Barton. 1 His daughter and heir, Eleanor, married Sir John Cheyne of Sheppey M.P. (1410-1467).
Served Henry V and VI in France; 2 kntd. by 1423; sheriff of Wilts, 1423-4, while M.P. for Berkshire; had confirmation of his 50 marks pension, 1431. He was sent to negotiate with Denmark and the Hanse in 1432. 3 J.P. Berks, 1 Dec. 1432 to 20 Nov 1458; and on Berks. comns. from 1430 to 1450; mainpernor for Sir William Lovell 1432. He swore the Berkshire men to the peace in May 1434; and went to Burgundy in Feb. 1435 to negotiate a trade agreement between Calais and Flanders; abroad again to treat for peace at Arras, June 1435, and took with him, being then Kent's k ngith, GB200 in gold and silver. He sat in the 1439-40 Parlt., and was again dispatched on an embassy to the Hanse in July 1448. In 1449 he accounts for another mission to the King of Denmark, whither he was sent on the 11 May. 4
He conformed under the new dynasty and kept his pension, which was exempted from resumption in 1464.5 Still alive in 1467 when he sued John Roger the younger and Margaret, his wife, for lands in Purton, Wilts., which Adam Walrond had given to his daughter, Jane, mother of Gilbert Shottesbrook, the father of Robert Shottesbrook, Knt.6. D. 1471/4.7
[Source: History Of Parliament (1439-1509). by Wedgwood Josiah C. Publication date 1936. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210096/page/n809/mode/2up]
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