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Nicholas married de Wakehurst, Elizabeth in 1464 in Wakehurst, Ardingly, Sussex, England. Elizabeth (daughter of Wakehurst, Richard and Gaynsford, Agnes) was born in 1442 in Goudhurst, Kent, England; died on 25 Jul 1517 in Ardingly, Sussex, England; was buried after 25 Jul 1517 in Ardingly, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Culpeper, Anne was born in 1462 in Ardingly, Sussex, England; died in 1509 in Bedgebury Cross, Kent, England.

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• Military: 25 Oct 1415, Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France

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Walter Colepeper (b. 1398, d. 12 Dec 1462)
Walter Colepeper (son of Thomas Culpeper and Joyce Baynard) was born 1398 in Goudhurst, Kent, England, and died 12 Dec 1462 in Goudhurst, Kent, England. He married Agnes Roper on 1411 in Bayhall, Pembury, Kent, England.
Notes for Walter Colepeper:

BIOGRAPHY: Of the sons of Sir Thomas Colepeper, Walter succeeded to all the estates except Exton on the death of his half-brother, Sir John, and was the only one to leave sons....Walter Colepeper, who continued the line, married Agnes, the daughter of Edmund Roper, of St. Dunstans, Canterbury, and is so described on her tombstone at Goudhurst. She was also the widow of John, son of John de Bedgebury, a fact not mentioned in the pedigrees recorded in the Visitations, but which is amply evidenced by an undated Chancery Procceding, temp. Hen. VI., where Walter Coulpepir and Agneis, his wife, late the wife of John, son of John de Beggebury and Thomas Chaundeler, chaplain, appear as plaintiffs in a dispute relating to property in Goudhurst, Cranbrook and Hawkhurst, which John, son of Roger de Beggebury, left to pay for two chaplains to sing masses for his soul and for that of Johanna, his wife. By this marriage Walter Colepeper had, with two daughters--Margaret, married to Alexander Clifford, and Elizabeth, married to John Hardes, of Hardes, co. Kent--three sons, Richard, John and Nicholas. Agnes, his wife, predeceased him on the 2nd December, 1457, and was buried at Goudhurst, and Walter himself died on the 24th November, 1462, and was also buried at Goudhurst..Although the pedigree given above differs in many respects from those recorded in the Visitation, it is substantiated not only by many Inquisitions, Deeds and Grants, but also by a suit entered on membrane 484 of the De Banco Roll, Hilary, 4 Edward IV., whence the following pedigree is deduced:...John Culpeper(5)....Thomas Culpeper(6)......Thomas Culpeper(7)......Walter Culpeper(7)........John Culpeper(8) ........Richard Culpeper(8) ........Nicholas Culpeper(8) ......John Culpeper(7)......Nicholas Culpeper(7).This suit has reference to the fine levied in 1320, the John at the head of the pedigree being the son of Sir Thomas and Margery, and the plaintiffs, John, Richard and Nicholas Colepeper, claiming one quarter of these lands against Sir John Fogge, according to the customs of gavelkind, in right of their father Walter..Although Richard is entered in the Visitation in Kent, in 1619, as Walter Colepeper's eldest son, this was not the case, as Sir John, as the eldest son, inherited Hardreshull, co. Warwick, Bayhall, co. Kent, and Wigsell, co. Sussex. It appears also from the same Visitation that this Sir John married Agnes, daughter of John Bedgebury, but no mention whatever is there made of the undoubted fact that some time before 1460 he was the husband of Agnes Gainsford, which is clearly proved by the Proceedings in Chancery relating to the abduction of the two Wakehurst heiresses by Sir John's brothers, Richard and Nicholas, where it is expressly stated that a sister of John and William Gainsford was wedded to John Culpepyr, and later on in the same suit mention is made of John Culpeper and Agnes, his wife. The marriage is also alluded to in De Banco Roll, Trin., 5 Edward IV., m. 118d, and it explains the mention of Ottewell and George Gainsford (grandsons of the above John Gainsford, who married Anne Wakehurst, aunt of the co-heiresses, and sons of Sir John Gainsford, by Anne, daughter of Ottewell Worsley), as cousins in the will Walter Colepeper, of Calais, 1514--1516..The question arises, therefore, as to whether the record of Sir John's marriage with Agnes Bedgebury is not due to a mistake on the part of the heralds. In their pedigree they certainly omit these two important facts, viz., that before 1460 Sir John was the husband of Agnes Gainsford, and also that his father Walter's wife, of the same Christian name, was the widow of John Bedgebury. It seems therefore not improbable that these two marriages have been confused; such, indeed, must have been the case unless Sir John was twice married, and of this the Visitation affords no evidence whatever. Sir John Colepeper died 22nd December, 1480, and was buried at Goudherst..Source: Col. F. W. T. Attree, "The Sussex Colepepers".-----------------------At the time of their check at the hands of Edward II, the Culpepers seem to have recently inaugurated their characteristic practice of land acquisition by the time honored expedient of marrying heiresses. It was from their first manor so acquired, that of Bayhall in the Kentish parish of Pembury on the southern border of the weald, that they spread, as Hasted remarks, 'over the whole face of the county' of Kent; and, we may add, eventually of adjacent Sussex as well..In this process, the Walter Culpeper who fought at Agincourt, being of the seventh recorded generation of his family, put his roots in the ground a few miles southeast of Bayhall. About 1425 he married the widow of the last Bedgebury of Bedgebury in Goudhurst and was buried with that family in Goudhurst church. His tomb described him as 'arm. filius Thorne Culpeper militis... obiit 24 November 1462' (Weever, Antient Funeral Monuments, 1767 ed., p. 69); which identifies him genealogically as the Walter, son of Thomas, who himself left sons, John, Richard and Nicholas, as rehearsed in DeBanco Roll, 4 Edw. IV, Hilary Term, membrane 484..Source: Fairfax Harrison, "The Proprietors of the Northern Neck"2

Walter Colepeper:
Burial: Unknown, Bedgebury Chapel of St. Mary's Church, Goudhurst, co. Kent, England.15
Walter Colepeper and Agnes Roper:Marriage: 1411, Bayhall, Pembury, Kent, England.
Children of Walter Colepeper and Agnes Roper are:
+John Colepeper, b. 1424, Goudhurst, Kent, England, d. 09 Jan 1481, Goudhurst, co. Kent, England.

WALTER CULPEPER (SIR THOMAS, SIR JOHN, SIR THOMAS, SIR THOMAS
JOHN, THOMAS was born Abt.1400, and died November 24, 1462 in Goudhurst, Kent, England. He married AGNES ROPER Abt. 1425, daughter of EDMUND ROPER. She was born Abt. 1400, and died Abt. 1457.
More About WALTER CULPEPER:
Burial: Goudhurst, Kent, England
Children of WALTER CULPEPER and AGNES ROPER are:
i. NICHOLAS CULPEPER.
ii. MARGARET CULPEPER.
iii. ELIZABETH CULPEPER.
iv. RICHARD CULPEPER.
Notes for RICHARD CULPEPER:
Richard Culpeper known as "Richard ..

Walter married Roper, Lady Agnes in 1411 in Pembury, Kent, England. Agnes (daughter of Roper, Ralph and Lewknor, Beatrix) was born in 1390 in St Dunstan, Canterbury, Kent, England; died on 2 Dec 1457 in Goudhurst, Kent, England; was buried on 2 Dec 1457 in St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, Goudhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Agnes Roper

Born 1390 in St Dunstan, Canterbury, Kent, England

Daughter of Edmund Roper and Catherine (Unknown) Roper; Sister of Edmund Roper, John Roper and Thomas Roper; Wife of Walter (Colepeper) Culpepper of Goudhur — married 1411 in Bayhall, Pembury, Kent, England Wife of John Bedgebury — married 1422 [location unknown]; Mother of John Colepeper, Richard Culpepper, Nicholas (Colepeper) Culpeper of Wakehur, Margaret (Culpepper) Clifford and Elizabeth Culpepper; Died December 2, 1457 in Goudhurst, Kent, England

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Ralph married Lewknor, Beatrix. Beatrix (daughter of de Lewknor, Sir Roger and Bardolf, Katherine) was born in 1355 in Cuckfield, Sussex, England; died in 1390 in Wye, Kent, England; was buried in 1390 in Wye, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas KEMP, Gentleman of the parish of Wye, Ashford Borough, Kent County, England married Beatrix, daughter of Sir Thomas LEWKNOR.

The family seat was at Olanteigh (Ollantigh) located in the northwestern extremity of the parish of Wye, near Ashford.

The KEMP estate had been in the family since the days of Edward I.

Thomas and Beatrix KEMPE were the parents of the Archbishop John KEMPE (1380-1454) of York and Canterbury, a cardinal and chancellor.
John was the second son of the couple. His elder brother, Thomas KEMPE, was the father of Thomas KEMP, bishop of London.

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“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“ROGER DE LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Horsted Keynes, Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Mendlesham, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1354-5, son and heir, born about 1304 (aged 32 in 1336). In 1320 he was granted protection to go beyond the seas with the king. He married by settlement dated 1340 KATHERINE BARDOLF, daughter and heiress of ___ Bardolf. They had two sons, Thomas, Knt., and Richard. In 1344 he released all his right in the manor of Catteshall, Surrey, to his kinsman, Robert de Northwood, Knt., as lineal heir of Robert de Mankesey who received the manor in 1334. He presented to the church of Greatworth, Northamptonshire in 1351 and 1357. SIR ROGER DE LEWKNOR died 14 March 1362. His widow, Katherine, was assigned her dower 15 Oct. 1362.

Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 9 (1884): 188. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Roger Lewknor An" 14 E. 3, 1339. = Catherin do. & heire of … Bardolph.") (Bardolph arms: Azure, three cinquefoils or). Cal. Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 180. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.C.R. 1346-1349 (1905): 2. Benolte et al. Vis. of.Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Roger Lewknor 14 E. 3, 1339 = Catherin d. & heire of... Bardolphe."). Wrottesley Peds.from the Plea Rolls (1905): 432. C.C.R. 1360-1364 (1909): 364. Cal. IPM 8 (1913): 405. Feudal Aids 6 (1920): 581. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 sub Lewknor).”

Roger married Bardolf, Katherine in 1330 in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England. Katherine (daughter of Grandison, Agnes) was born in 1308 in Plumpton in Spofforth, Yorkshire, England; died in 1362 in Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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“Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013)

“ROGER DE LEWKNOR, Knt., of Broadhurst (in Horsted Keynes), Horsted Keynes, Iteford, and Selmeston, Sussex, South Mimms, Mendlesham, etc., Knight of the Shire for Sussex, Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, 1354-5, son and heir, born about 1304 (aged 32 in 1336). In 1320 he was granted protection to go beyond the seas with the king. He married by settlement dated 1340 KATHERINE BARDOLF, daughter and heiress of ___ Bardolf. They had two sons, Thomas, Knight, and Richard. In 1344 he released all his right in the manor of Catteshall, Surrey, to his kinsman, Robert de Northwood, Knt., as lineal heir of Robert de Mankesey who received the manor in 1334. He presented to the church of Greatworth, Northamptonshire in 1351 and 1357. SIR ROGER DE LEWKNOR died 14 March 1362. His widow, Katherine, was assigned her dower 15 Oct. 1362.

Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 1 (1791): 125. Berry County Gens.: Sussex Fams. (1830): 130 (Lewknor ped.). Sussex Arch. Colls. 3 (1850): 89-102. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 9 (1884): 188. Cooke & Mundy Vis. of Worcester 1569 (H.S.P. 27) (1888): 86-87 (Lewknor ped.: "Roger Lewknor An" 14 E. 3, 1339. = Catherin do. & heire of … Bardolph.") (Bardolph arms: Azure, three cinquefoils or). Cal. Entries Papal Regs.: Letters 3 (1897): 180. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 136. C.C.R. 1346-1349 (1905): 2. Benolte et al. Vis. of.Sussex 1530 & 1633-4 (H.S.P. 53) (1905): 25-30 (Lewknor ped.: "Roger Lewknor 14 E. 3, 1339 = Catherin d. & heire of... Bardolphe."). Wrottesley Peds.from the Plea Rolls (1905): 432. C.C.R. 1360-1364 (1909): 364. Cal. IPM 8 (1913): 405. Feudal Aids 6 (1920): 581. Comber Sussex Gens. 3 (1933): 148-158 sub Lewknor).”