PEYTO, Sir William | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c.1394, s. and h. of William Peyto (d.1407) of Chesterton by Joan (d.1418), da. of Sir John Thornbury† of Little Munden, Herts. m. (1) c. May 1415, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Robert Francis† (d.1419/20) of Foremark, Derbys.; (2) between 1425 and Mich. 1429, Katherine (fl.1467), da. of Sir John Gresley* by his 1st w.; wid. of Thomas Stafford† (d.1425) of Baginton, Warws., at least 1s. Kntd. by July 1423.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. election, Warws. 1421 (May).

Sheriff, Warws. and Leics. Mich. 1428 – 10 Feb. 1430, 8 Nov. 1436 – 7 Nov. 1437.

Commr. Dieppe, Plymouth, Warws. Aug. 1443 – July 1453; to take assize of novel disseisin, Warws. Dec. 1437; of gaol delivery, Warwick castle Nov. 1438, Warwick Jan. 1439. C260/143/27, m. 5; C66/443, mm. 26d, 27d.

Lt. of Aumale under Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, c. 1433; Neufchâtel-en-Bray under John Talbot, Lord Talbot (and later earl of Shrewsbury), 16 May 1434 – bef.Mar. 1436; town and walls of Rouen under the same c. 1441 – 43; capt. of the ‘bastille’ by Dieppe c. June- 15 Aug. 1443; St. Lô by Sept. 1449. A.J. Pollard, John Talbot, 80; A.E. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), ii. pp. cv, cxxvii, cxxxvi.

Lt. general to John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, as marshal of France c.1443. Pollard, 80.

Keeper of the household of Edmund Beaufort, marquess of Dorset, in Normandy c. 1447 – c.49.

Parlimentarian

PEYTO, Sir William

Main residence: Chesterton, Warws.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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