Family and Education
b. 1465 /66, s. of Sir George Darrell of Littlecote by 2nd w. Jane, da. of William Haute of Bishopsbourne, Kent. m. (1) Jane, da. of Sir Richard Croft of Croft Castle, Herefs., 2s. inc. Edmund 2da.; (2) by 12 Feb. 1493, Mary, da. of John Radcliffe, 6th Lord Fitzwalter; (3) 3 Apr. 1512, Alice, da. of one Flye of Suss., wid. of Edmund Stanhope, 1da.; suc. fa. 21 Mar. 1474. Kntd. 16 June 1487.Date of birth estimated from age at fa.’s i.p.m., C140/85/14. Wilts. Arch. Mag. iv. 226, 228; PCC 18 Jankyn; Vis. Herefs. ed. Weaver, 21; Wilts. N. and Q. ii. 335; LP Hen. VIII, i; Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 6.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Wilts. 1489 – 90, 1493 – 94, 1497 – 98, 1509 – 10, 1519 – 20; keeper, Hungerford park, Wilts. 1490 – d.; master of the game, Aldbourne chase, Wilts. 1499 – d.; j.p. Wilts. 1502 – d., Berks. 1512 – 14; knight of the body by 1511–15 or later; commr. subsidy, Wilts. 1512, 1514, 1515, 1523, 1524, musters 1513, enclosures 1517; other commissions 1495 – 1505; v.-chamberlain, household of Queen Catherine of Aragon.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Littlecote, Wilts.
Volume
Commons 1509-1558
Web Title
DARRELL, Sir Edward (1465/66-1530)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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