HACCHE, John (c.1394-1477), of Woolleigh in Beaford, Devon.

b. c.1394, s. and h. of Robert Hacche (d.1405) of Hacche in South Molton, CIPM, xix. 426. by his w. Blanche (fl.1441). CP40/721, rot. 15; J.S. Vivian, Vis. Devon, 455; Vis. Cornw. 212. Vivian believed Blanche to have been a da. of Roland, a yr. s. of James, 2nd Lord Audley (1313-86). The identification is dubious, as at the death of Nicholas, 3rd Lord Audley, in 1391 his entailed estates were divided between his surviving full sister and the heirs of his deceased half-sister, whereas if she was the da. of Nicholas’s half-brother, Blanche should have been next heir to the Audley lands: CP, i. 340; CCR, 1389-92, pp. 467-8. m. by May 1426, Reg. Lacy, i (Canterbury and York Soc. lx), 165. Elizabeth, da. and h. of William Derwyn of Little Fulford near Crediton, Devon, C140/63/57. 3s. (1 d.v.p.), 1da. C1/59/99; C140/63/57; Vivian, Vis. Devon, 134. Dist. 1430, 1439, 1458.