DEBENHAM, Gilbert II (d.1500), of Little Wenham and Ipswich, Suff. and London and Southwark, Surr.

?Steward, Framlingham for Mowbray dukes of Norfolk by 1461–?1476. R. Loder, Hist. Framlingham, 394. It is unclear if the steward was the MP or his fa.

Clerk of the market for the Household 13 Mar. 1461–?1470. CPR, 1461–7, p. 8. Debenham was granted this office for life but would have lost it at the restoration of Hen. VI in 1470. William Tyler was appointed clerk on 22 Mar. 1471 (CPR, 1467–77, p. 239) but there is no evidence that the MP regained the office after Edw. IV had recovered his throne.

Commr. to prepare ship for the King’s fleet, Norf. June 1462; of array Mar., May 1472, Suff. May 1472, May, Dec. 1484; oyer and terminer, London Aug. 1483; gaol delivery, Ipswich Mar. 1484; C66/556, m. 16d. arrest, E. Anglia Oct. 1484, Feb., May 1485.

King’s carver by Mich. 1467–8; E101/412/2. 1471-aft. 1478; M. Sayer, ‘Norf. Involvement in Dynastic Conflict’, Norf. Archaeology, xxxvi. 314; Household Edw. IV ed. Myers, 200. knight of the body to Ric. III, to Hen. VII by Feb. 1491. CPR, 1485–94, pp. 334.

J.p. Suff. 4 July 1471 – Nov. 1475, 11 July 1478 – Mar. 1480, 18 Apr. 1482 – June 1483, 18 Aug. 1483 – Sept. 1485.

Chancellor of Ire. 5 Aug. 1474–6. CPR, 1467–77, p. 461; Album Helen Maud Cam, ii. 135; F.E. Ball, Judges in Ire. 155, 183.

Steward, liberty of Meath 22 Aug. 1474–?1476; CPR, 1467–77, p. 468. But he may have retained the office until it was granted to Henry, Lord Grey of Codnor, in Mar. 1478: CPR, 1476–85, pp. 73–74. Dinnington, Yorks. bef. Dec. 1485. CPR, 1485–94, p. 42.

Constable, Carrickfergus castle 12 Feb. 1491–?1492. CPR, 1485–94, p. 334.

Keeper, governor and surveyor of all mines in Ire. 28 Feb. 1491–?1492. CPR, 1485–94, p. 341.