Family and Education
? yr.s. of William Haytfeld (d.1402) of Holderness, Yorks. G. Poulson, Holderness, i. 442-3. m. ? by June 1421, Isabel (d. May 1437), C139/81/43; 82/47. yr. da. of Sir Maurice Russell† (1356-1416) of Kingston Russell, Dorset, and Dyrham by his 1st. w. Isabel, da. of Sir Edmund Childrey† of Childrey, Berks.; coh. of her half-bro. Thomas Russell (c.1413-1431) and his da. Margery (d.1432); For a ped. of the Russell fam., see G. Scott Thomson, Two Cents. of Fam. Hist. 237. wid. of William le Scrope, earl of Wiltshire (exec.1399), Sir Thomas de la River (d. bef. 1409) of Tormarton, Glos. and Sir John Drayton† (d.1417) of Nuneham Courtenay, s.p. CP, xii (2), 733-4. Dist. Berks. 1430, ?Yorks. 1457, 1458.
Offices Held

Capt. of Exmes, Normandy Nov. 1420, 29 Sept. 1423-Mar. 1424. Archives Nationales, Paris, K62/7/7; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, ms. fr 4485, pp. 268–70.

Sheriff, Glos. 6 Nov. 1424 – 15 Jan. 1426, 26 Nov. 1431 – 5 Nov. 1432, Oxon. and Berks. 5 Nov. 1433 – 3 Nov. 1434.

?Constable of Dunstanburgh castle, Northumb. 20 Feb. 1427 – 8 July 1437; jt. 8 July 1437–?d. R. Somerville, Duchy, i. 538.

Commr. to assess contributions to subsidies, Berks. Apr. 1431, Oxon. Jan. 1436; distribute tax allowances Dec. 1433, Berks. May 1437; list persons to take the oath against maintenance, Oxon. Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; treat for loans, Berks. Feb. 1436; ?of array, Yorks. (E. Riding), Nov. 1448.

Escheator, Glos. 5 Nov. 1432–3.

Jt. steward (with Robert Greyndore*) of Chepstow, Mon. and Tidenham, Glos. 14 Feb. 1433 – ?36.

J.p. Berks. 29 Nov. 1436 – Mar. 1443.

Main residences: Dyrham, Glos.; Nuneham Courtenay, Oxon; Burghfield, Berks.
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