TRETHERF, Gregory

No conclusive evidence of Tretherf’s parentage has been discovered, but it is highly likely that he was in some way related to John Tretherf*, one of the Cornish knights of the shire in 1437, when Gregrory himself represented Truro. His lands, if any, were evidently insubstantial, for he was not included among the individuals drawing an income of 40s. or more subject to the income tax of 1451, even though it is possible that, like his more prominent kinsman Reynold Tretherf, he refused to meet the tax assessors. E179/82/92. Of modest status, variously styled a yeoman or even husbandman, he clearly owed his part in public life to his more important relatives. It was in association with Reynold that in September 1452 Gregory was appealed by Margaret, widow of the notorious Richard Tregoose*, of complicity in her late husband’s murder. KB9/271/73, 74. Similarly, in the autumn of 1460 he was implicated in an assault on Margery, the wife of Nicholas Ive. CP40/799, rot. 102d.