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b. c.1407, He was of age by 1428: Feudal Aids, ii. 409; E40/6038. s. and h. of Walter Devereux (c.1387-1419) of Bodenham by his w. Elizabeth Bromwich. Our MP’s mother is identified as a Bromwich in a visitation ped. of 1619: Vis. Warws. (Harl. Soc. xii), 279. This identification is indirectly supported by contemporary evidence. In 1429 our MP’s younger brother, Thomas, was named as a distant remainder-man in the Bromwich manor of Bromsberrow, Glos., and in 1431, Thomas Bromwich (fa. of the MP) was involved in the arrangements for the marriage of our MP’s sister, Elizabeth, to Richard, s. and h. of Thomas Walwyn† of Much Marcle, Herefs.: CP25(1)/83/54/31; Herefs. RO, Walwyn mss, GL37/II/156. m. by 30 June 1427, CP25(1)/292/66/64. Elizabeth, da. and h. of John Merbury* by his 1st w. Alice Pembridge, 2s. inc. Walter Devereux II*, 2da. Kntd. ?July 1441.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. election, Herefs. 1433.

Steward, Richard, duke of York’s Welsh lordships 7 Apr. 1435–?d.

Commr. to distribute allowance on tax, Herefs. Jan. 1436, Apr. 1440; of gaol delivery, Hereford Sept. 1438; C66/443, m. 39d. to treat for premature payment of taxes, Herefs. Feb. 1441; of inquiry (month unknown) 1445 (lands of John Cornwall, Lord Fanhope), Feb. 1448 (wastes on the estates of Reading abbey at Leominster), Apr. 1451 (value of the lordship of Pembroke etc.), Feb. 1453 (liability of the prior of Brechin and others to the clerical tenth), E159/229, commissiones Hil. Dec. 1453 (escapes of prisoners), CIMisc. viii. 230. Glos. Feb. 1455 (concealments and deceptions committed by John Cassy*); to treat for loans, Herefs. June 1446; distrain the collectors of a fifteenth and tenth and produce them in the Exchequer Apr. 1452; E159/228, commissiones Easter. of array Sept. 1457; to assign archers Dec. 1457.

J.p. Herefs. 28 Jan. 1441-bef. Feb. 1451, No comm. of the peace was enrolled for Herefs. between Feb. 1443 and Feb. 1451, and there can be no doubt that one or more has escaped enrolment. Devereux was probably removed during his absence in France in the mid 1440s. 19 Feb. 1455 – Nov. 1456, 15 Nov. – Dec. 1457, Glos. 14 Aug. 1455 – d.

Capt. of Arques 18 Aug. 1442 – 17 Sept. 1443, 6 Jan. 1445 – 1 Jan. 1447; Vernon, c. 1445; bailli of Caux by 22 Sept. 1445–? A.E. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), app. pp. xlvii, cxlviii; Longleat House, Wilts. Devereux pprs. DE/I/7; C1/22/172.

Sheriff, Herefs. 9 Nov. 1447–8, Glos. 4 Nov. 1455 – 17 Nov. 1456.

Jt. warden (with John Norris*), estates of Reading abbey at Leominster, Herefs. 12 Feb. 1448 – ?; warden, bp. of Hereford’s chace at Malvern, Worcs. 17 May 1458–?d.

Constable and porter, Richard, duke of York’s castle at Wigmore, Herefs. by d. CPR, 1452–61, p. 586.

Parlimentarian
DEVEREUX, Walter I (c.1407-59), of Weobley and Bodenham, Herefs.
Main residences: Weobley; Bodenham, Herefs.
Devereuse, Deveros
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S.J.P.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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