OGARD, Sir Andrew (d.1454), of The Rye in Stanstead Abbots, Herts. and and Emneth, Norf.

Family and Education

s. of Sir Peder Nielsen Gyldenstierne of Aagaard, Denmark, prob. by his 1st w. –, da. of Gert Ulfstand. P. Enemark, ‘Peder Nielsen Gyldenstierne til Ågård og hans sønner’, in Festskrift til Troels Dahlerup, ed. Andersen, Ingesman and Ulsig, 153. m. (1) Margaret, da. of Sir John Clifton (d.1447) of Buckenham castle, s.p.; C139/131/17; Norf. RO, Norwich consist. ct., Reg. Wylbey, ff. 103-4; F. Blomefield, Norf. ii. 223; R. Virgoe, ‘Buckenham Disputes’, Jnl. Legal Hist. xv. 25-26; PCC 2 Stokton (PROB11/4, ff. 13v-15). (2) bef. Aug. 1448, Alice (d. 15 Apr. 1460), da. of William, Lord Lovell and Holland (d.1455), wid. of Sir Hugh Cokesey*, 1s. at least 1da. DKR, xxxvii. (2), 569; CP, viii. 221-3; C139/178/49. Kntd. Verneuil 17 Aug. 1424. A.J. Stratford, Bedford Inventories, 418.

Offices Held

Capt. of Touques 31 Oct. 1422 – aft.Sept. 1430, 6 Sept. 1434–30 Mar. 1438, Ibid. 417–18. Vire 22 Mar. 1423 – 6 June 1430, Jan. 1431- July1437, Egerton Ch. 149; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Fr. mss, 25769/507; Clairambault mss, 199/58; Stratford, 418; Add. Ch. 11763. Argentan 8 Oct. 1430-Jan. 1431, Fr. mss, 25769/533. Sainte-Suzanne June-Mich. 1435; Stratford, 418. lt. Caen (under Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick), 7 Jan.-28 Sept. 1438, Fr. mss, 25774/1292; 26064/3570. capt. 7 Jan. 1438-aft. Sept. 1448. Fr. mss, 26064/3570; 25778/1822.

Master forester, county of Mortain, for Edmund Beaufort, count of Mortain, by 1423. A. Marshall, ‘English War Captains in Eng. and Normandy’ (Univ. of Wales M.A. thesis, 1975), 44.

Second chamberlain to John, duke of Bedford, in France by Nov. 1430–15 Sept. 1435. R.A. Massey, ‘Land Settlement in Lancastrian Normandy’, in Property and Politics ed. Pollard, 88; Letters and Pprs. Illust. Wars of English ed. Stevenson, ii. 434; Stratford, 418. Bedford died on the said 15 Sept.

Keeper and constable of Prudhoe castle, Northumb. for John, duke of Bedford, 1 May 1435–?d. Stratford, 419.

Ambassador to treat for peace with France 17 Mar. 1438, make a truce with France 28 July 1438, select a place to treat with France 9 Sept. 1442. Foedera ed. Rymer (Hague edn.), v (1), 45–46, 55, 115; J. Ferguson, English Diplomacy, 182.

J.p. Herts. 4 Dec. 1443 – July 1445, 17 Apr. 1454 – d., Norf. 23 July 1454 – d.

Commr. to take an assize of novel disseisin, Herts. Dec. 1445; C66/461, m. 16d. treat for loans Sept. 1449; of gaol delivery, Ely Apr. 1448, Mar. 1454, Ely Barton July 1448, East Dereham May 1453, Hertford May 1449; C66/465, m. 6d; 468, m. 29d; 477, m. 38d; 478, m. 14d. inquiry, Herts. Nov. 1449 (forcible entry at St. Albans); oyer and terminer, Norf., Suff. Aug. 1450; to assess subsidy, Herts. Aug. 1450; distribute tax allowance, Norf. June 1453.

Constable, Wisbech castle for bp. of Ely 25 May 1446–?d. Cambridge Univ. Lib., Ely Diocesan recs., G1/4 (Reg. Bourgchier), ff. 10v-11.

Carver to Queen Margaret by Mich. 1452–d. A.R. Myers, Crown, Household and Parl. 152, 181.

Parlimentarian

OGARD, Sir Andrew (d.1454), of The Rye in Stanstead Abbots, Herts. and and Emneth, Norf.

Main residences: The Rye in Stanstead Abbots, Herts.; Buckenham castle; Emneth, Norf.

Agard, Hogard, Hugard, Ogar, Ogart, Ogerd, Ougard, Outgard

Author

C.E.M.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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