STANSHAWE, Robert (d.1447), of and Alderley, Glos.

Family and Education

2nd s. of John Stanshawe of Stanshawe’s Court by his w. Isabel (d.1412); bro. of Nicholas*. Hist. Mapledurham (Oxon. Rec. Soc. vii), 75; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 458; C139/173/27. adm. L. Inn bef. 1420. L. Inn Adm. i. 3; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 458. m. (1) bef. Nov. 1394, Margaret, s.p.; CP25(1)/191/24/43; Hist. Mapledurham, 75-76. (2) c.1409, Isabel, da of Robert Poyntz† of Iron Acton, Glos. by his 2nd w., 2s. 4da. CP25(1)/79/85/42; Hist. Mapledurham, 75-76; Trans. Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc. xii. 150; Glos. Archives, Hale mss, D1086/T2/7-9; The Commons 1386-1421, iv. 133; Lambeth Palace Lib., Reg. Stafford, ff. 159v-60. Dist. 1430, 1439.

Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Glos. 1429, 1432, 1435.

Commr. of sewers, Glos. Apr. 1412, May 1413 (salt marsh between Olvestone and Henbury); inquiry Nov. 1421 (conveyances of manor of Brokenborough), Feb. 1422 (falsifiers and counterfeiters of weights), Feb. 1422 (case of eviction), May 1440, June 1441 (concealments); gaol delivery, Gloucester castle Aug., Sept. 1424, Aug., Oct. 1438, Mar. 1442; C66/414, m. 10d; 442, m. 15d; 443, m. 39d; 452, m. 29d. to distribute tax allowance, Glos. Dec. 1433; list persons to take the oath against maintenance Jan. 1434; administer the same May 1434; treat for loans Nov. 1440.

Chief steward of James, Lord Berkeley, by May 1421. Cat. Med. Muns. Berkeley Castle ed. Wells-Furby (Bristol and Glos. Arch. Soc.), i. 562.

J.p.q. Glos. 1 July 1422–3, 7 July 1423–6, June 1432 – d.

Steward, Cookham and Bray, Berks. for Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, by May 1428–1431. SC2/153/64, rots. 11d, 17d; J.M. Mattingly, ‘Cookham, Bray and Isleworth’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1994), 111.

Parlimentarian

STANSHAWE, Robert (d.1447), of and Alderley, Glos.

Main residences: Stanshawe’s Court; Alderley, Glos.

Stanschawe

Author

C.E.M.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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