Family and Education
b. 23 Apr. 1405, CIPM, xxii. 673. s. and h. of Walter Cokesey (1383-1407) of Kidderminster by his w. Maud (d.c. Aug. 1414). CIPM, xix. 175-80; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 68. H.A. Napier, Swyncombe and Ewelme, 32, 46, suggests that Maud was the da. of one ‘Harcourt’. m. (1) by 1419, CIPM, xxi. 299. Joan, According to her father’s inqs. post mortem, Joan was either 2½ or 3 when her father died, but a subsequent inq. found that she was ‘22 or more’ in Jan. 1420: CIPM, xix. 245-54; xxi. 300. da. and coh. of Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival (d.1407), by his 2nd w. Ankaret (d.1413), da. of John le Strange, Lord Strange of Blackmere (d.1361) and wid. of Richard, Lord Talbot (d.1396), s.p.; CIPM, xi. 202; xix. 245-54; xx. 107-14; CP, v. 589-91; xii (1), 344-5. (2) by 1441, CPR, 1436-41, p. 495. Alice (d. 18 Apr. 1460), da. of William, Lord Lovell and Holland (d.1455), C139/178/49; DKR, xxxvii (2), 157; CP, viii. 221-3. s.p. Kntd. 12 May 1419. Ancient Irish Histories ed. Ware, ii. 28.
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Dep. sheriff, Worcs. (by appointment of Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick) Mich. 1429–30.
Commr. to distribute tax allowance, Worcs. Mar. 1442.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Kidderminster, Worcs.
Cokesay, Cokeseye, Cokesow, Cookeseye
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