Family and Education
b. c.1394, s. and h. of William Peyto of Chesterton by Joan, da. of Sir John Thornbury of Little Munden, Herts.; gds. of Sir John. m. (1) c. May 1415, Elizabeth, da. of Sir Robert Francis of Foremark, Derbys.; (2) between 1425 and Mich. 1429, Katherine, da. of Sir John Gresley of Colton, Staffs., wid. of Thomas Stafford of Baginton, Warws., 1s. Kntd. by July 1423.
Offices Held
Sheriff, Warws. and Leics. Mich. 1428 – 10 Feb. 1430, 8 Nov. 1436–7 Nov. 1437.
Captain of the ‘bastille’ by Dieppe c. June- 15 Aug. 1443, of St. Lô by Sept. 1449.
Commr. to take musters of the army commanded by John, duke of Somerset, Dieppe Aug. 1443, of Richard, Lord Rivers’s company, Plymouth Mar. 1451; of arrest, Warws. July 1453.
Keeper of the household of Edmund, marquess of Dorset, in Normandy c.1447–9.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Chesterton, Warws.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
PEYTO, William (c.1394-1464)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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