RADCLIFFE, Sir John (d.1441), of Attleborough, Norf.

Family and Education

yr. s. of James Radcliffe of Radcliffe, Lancs. and bro. of Richard*. m. (1) ? in 1405, Cecily (d.1423), da. and coh. of Sir Thomas Mortimer (d. bef. 1387), of Newnham, Cambs. and Attleborough, by Mary, da. of Nicholas Park, wid. of Sir John Herling (d. bef. 1403), 1s.; (2) bef. June 1426, Katherine (c.1407-13 Oct. 1452), da. and coh. of Sir Edward Burnell (o.s. of Hugh, Lord Burnell) of Thurning and Billingford, Norf., 1s. Kntd. Aug. 1415; KG 22 Apr. 1429.

Offices Held

?Secretary to Thomas of Lancaster, lt. of Ire. by 20 Mar. – aft.Dec. 1403.

Second baron of the Exchequer, Ire. 14 May 1404 – 22 Dec. 1406.

Commr. Ire., Calais, Cambs., Hants, Hunts., Ipswich, Kent, Norf., Salop, Suff. Aug. 1404 – June 1440; to take an assize of novel disseisin, Norf. July 1437, Sept. 1438, June 1440. C66/440, m. 9d; 443, m. 39d; 447, m. 15d.

Jt. chief butler, Ire. 1 Jan. 1406-c. Aug. 1411.

Envoy to treat for the ransom of French prisoners 18 Sept. 1413, to the Congress of Arras 23 June – 15 Sept. 1435, to treat with ambassadors of Prussia and the Hanse towns Mar. 1436.

Bailli of Evreux 2 June 1418 – 12 Mar. 1419; capt. by Nov. 1429-bef. Apr. 1430. A.E. Curry, ‘Military Organization in Lancastrian Normandy’ (Council for National Academic Awards Ph.D. thesis, 1985), p. lxxiv.

Constable of Bordeaux 16 May 1419 – 2 Oct. 1423.

Capt. of Fronsac 16 May 1419 – 6 Nov. 1436.

Seneschal, Aquitaine 1 May 1423 – 6 Nov. 1436.

Chamberlain, North Wales 10 Feb. 1434 – 2 Apr. 1437.

Dep. lt. of Calais by 15 Mar. – aft.Oct. 1436.

?Treasurer of the household of Thomas Langley, bp. of Durham, by 1436. Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (Surtees Soc. ix), pp. ccxli-ccxlv.

Parlimentarian

RADCLIFFE, Sir John (d.1441), of Attleborough, Norf.

Main residence: Attleborough, Norf.

Author

C.E.M.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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