ABRAHALL, John (d.1443), of Dewchurch and Gillow in Archenfield, Herefs.

Family and Education

s. and h. of Richard Abrahall (fl.1432) by Elizabeth Pichard or Pechere (fl.1446) of ‘Pecheres’, Herefs. Richard Abrahall last appears in the records in 1432, when he attested the Herefs. election: C219/14/3. He was almost certainly dead by c.1437, when two of the family’s manors were settled on our MP and his 3rd w.: CIPM, xxvi. 74. m. (1) bef. June 1412, Margaret (fl.1422), wid. of Sir William Hampton of Hampton Mappenore, Herefs., 1da.; ?(2) – da. and h. of Richard Moore (or More); (3) bef. 1437, Perryne, prob. da. of Sir Robert Whitney*, These marriages are taken from a visitation ped. of 1569: Vis. Herefs. ed. Weaver, 2-3. This identifies his 3rd w. as da. of Sir Thomas Whitney, but, on the assumption that she has been correctly identified as a Whitney, she must have been the daughter of our MP’s contemporary, Sir Robert. The ped. is the only evidence for his 2nd marriage, although our MP’s association with his neighbour, Thomas Moore of Baysham, in 1411 could be cited in its support: Hereford Cathedral Archs., nos. 1824-5. 1s. Dist. 1439.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Herefs. 1420, 1425, 1429, 1432, 1433.

Escheator, Herefs. and the adjacent marches of Wales 30 Nov. 1417 – 4 Nov. 1418, 5 Nov. 1439 – 4 Nov. 1440.

Receiver of Beatrice, wid. of Gilbert, Lord Talbot (d.1418), c. 1420 – 21; the de Bohun castle of Bronllys, manors of Penkelly and Cantref Selyf, lordships of Llangoed and Alexanderstone, and one third of the barony of Penkelly, Brec. 21 Dec. 1439 – d.; the duchy of Lancaster in Monmouth, Ebbw and Caldicot, Mon. 31 Oct. 1440 – d.

Steward of Thomas Spofford, bp. of Hereford, by 10 Oct. 1434–d.; KB27/703, rex rot. 19d: J. Duncumb, Hist. Herefs. (contd. by Cooke), iii. 114. the de Bohun estates as above 17 July 1439–d. (jtly. with Nicholas Poyntz* from 30 Nov. 1440); CPR, 1441–6, p. 240; CFR, xvii. 180. Humphrey, earl of Stafford’s lordship of Brecon, Hay and Huntingdon, Brec., by Mich. 1441–d.

J.p. Herefs. 5 Mar. 1437 – Feb. 1443.

Commr. Herefs., duchy of Lancaster lordships in Wales, Hereford castle May 1437 – Mar. 1442; of gaol delivery, Hereford Sept. 1438; C66/443, m. 39d. to treat for loans, Herefs. May, Aug. 1442.

Justice itinerant, Humphrey, earl of Stafford’s lordships of Brecon, Hay and Huntington Jan. 1440 (q.), Jan. 1443. NLW, Peniarth mss, 280, pp. 3–4.

Parlimentarian

ABRAHALL, John (d.1443), of Dewchurch and Gillow in Archenfield, Herefs.

Main residence: Dewchurch and Gillow in Archenfield, Herefs.

Author

S.J.P.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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