Submitted by legacy on
Family and Education
b. prob. by 1364, s. and h. of John Wydeville. by his 1st w. m. (1) by 1396, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Thomas Lyons (d. by Nov. 1408) of Ashton, Som. by his w. Margaret (d.1396), prob. 1s. d.v.p.; (2) Alice (d. by 1434), s.p.CP, xi. 16-17; G. Baker, Northants. ii. 162; Test. Vetusta, i. 138; CPR, 1408-13, p. 21; Mon. Brasses ed. Mill Stephenson, 3.
Offices Held

Sheriff, Northants. 22 Nov. 1406 – 23 Nov. 1407, 29 Nov. 1410 – 10 Dec. 1411, 1 Dec. 1415 – 30 Nov. 1416, 16 Nov. 1420 – 13 Nov. 1423, 4 Nov. 1428 – 10 Feb. 1430, 5 Nov. 1433–3 Nov 1434.

Commr. to make arrests, Northants. May, Aug. 1408, Jan. 1411 (lollards at large), Feb. 1411, Bucks., Leics., Northants., Oxon. Nov. 1421; hold a special assize, Northants. Apr. 1410 (dispute over the manor of Hinton by Brackley);RP, iii. 634. of inquiry Jan. 1412 (persons liable to pay taxes), Mar. 1413 (common highway at Little Billing), Dec. 1413 (attack on John Mortimer at Grendon), Feb., July 1418 (estates of Sir John Oldcastle), Mar. 1418 (treasons and insurrections), May 1423 (ownership of land at Byfield), May 1425 (withdrawal of labour services by tenants of Richard Knightley at Fawsley), Bucks. Sept. 1429 (abuse of procedure in parliamentary elections), Northants. Apr. 1431 (persons liable to pay taxes), Derbys., Leics., Lincs., Northants., Notts., Rutland, Warws., July 1434 (evasion of customs and concealments); array, Northants. Mar. 1419; to raise royal loans Nov. 1419, Jan. 1420, Mar. 1422, July 1426, May 1428, Northants., Rutland. Mar. 1430, Northants. Mar. 1431; of oyer and terminer Mar. 1426 (assault at Daventry).

J.p. Northants 21 Mar. 1413 – Feb. 1422, 20 Feb.-July 1432.

Escheator, Northants. and Rutland 8 Dec. 1416–30 Nov. 1437.

Steward of the Warws. estates of Anne, dowager countess of Stafford, by Mich. 1434-aft. Mich. 1435.SC11/816.

Tax collector, Northants. Jan. 1436.

Steward of the manor of Hanslope, Bucks. for Richard, earl of Warwick, bef. 3 Apr. 1439.SC12/18/45, f. 47.

Parlimentarian
WYDEVILLE, Thomas
Main residence: Grafton Regis, Northampton.
Notes

The biographies of both John and Thomas Wydeville in the CP (xi. 16-17) contain a number of errors, some of which arise as a result of the author’s mistaken belief that John’s second son and namesake lived on until 1403 or after, and also had a son named Thomas. Our MP was, moreover, the son-in-law and not the great-grandson of Thomas Lyons and Margaret, his wife (Test. Vetusta ed. Nicolas, i. 138).

Author
C.R.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title

WYDEVILLE, Thomas (prob. by.1364-1435)

Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Image