Family and Education
s. of William Tracy of Toddington by his 1st. w.His father, who was the s. of Sir William Tracy (the sheriff of Glos. in 1394-5), would appear to have been he who m. (2) by 1401, Alice, da. and coh. of Guy Spyne* of Coughton Warws., and wid. of Edmund Giffard of Norton near Weston, Glos., by whom he had a son named John Tracy, the heir to Alice’s estates when she died in 1441. He played a more prominent part in Glos. affairs than his son, being summoned to a great council in 1401, serving as j.p. May 1401-July 1406, May 1419-July 1423, as sheriff 1416-18, and as commr. of array Mar. 1419 and to treat for royal loans in Nov. 1419. It was also he whose name was put forward for military service in Jan. 1420: PPC, i. 160; G. Lipscomb, Bucks. i. 576; VCH Warws. iii. 80-81; Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. xi. 319-20; Feudal Aids, ii. 300; CP25(1)79/90/86; C1/22/139; CFR, xvii. 166, 205-6; xxi. 496; C139/102/22; E28/97/11. m. 3s. inc. William.
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Escheator, Glos. and the marches 16 Nov. 1420–20 May 1422.
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Main residence: Toddington, Glos.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
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TRACY, William (-d.1440)
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