Family and Education
s. and h. of John Uvedale*; nephew of William I* and er. bro. of William II*. educ. Winchester Coll. ?Oct. 1420-1425. Archaeologia, lxxv. 154-5; T.F. Kirby, Annals of Winchester, 112. m. (1) bef. Easter 1435, Elizabeth (fl.1446), C67/39, m. 32. da. and h. of Thomas Foxley* by Margery da. and h. of Margaret Westington of Ayot St. Peter, Herts., prob. 3s. inc. Henry* and Reynold† (both d.v.p.), 1da.; (2) Margaret, da. of Alice (c.1410-1439), gdda. and coh. of Thomas Poynings, Lord St. John (d.1429), Alice married twice: (1) John Orell; (2) Sir Thomas Kingston. Her heir in 1439 was her three-year-old son Thomas Kingston, but it is not stated in the inq. post mortem whether her three daughters, Elizabeth, Eleanor and Margaret, were the daughters of Orell or Kingston: CIPM, xxv. 183; CPR, 1436-41, p. 248. ?3s. inc. Sir William†; (3) by 1465, Elizabeth (d. 19 June 1488), da. of Sir Henry Norbury*, wid. of William Sydney (d.1462) of Baynards in Cranleigh, Surr., at least 1s. The ascription of Uvedale’s sons to their respective mothers causes some difficulties, but Henry was certainly the s. of Elizabeth Foxley (C140/49/26), Reynold and Nicholas were alive by 1449 (Lambeth Palace Lib. Reg. Stafford, f. 176), Sir William was born in about 1454 and married the da. of his stepmother Elizabeth Norbury, and Robert was definitely Sir William’s half-brother, being the s. of the same Elizabeth (PCC 15 Milles – PROB11/8, f. 124). This only leaves uncertainty about Thomas and the younger William: Add. Ch. 24638; PCC 16 Wattys (PROB11/6, f. 115). Dist. Hants 1439, 1458, 1465; Kntd. 23 May 1465.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Hants 1432, 1442, 1447, 1449 (Feb.), 1450.

Master of the hunt and keeper of the parks, chases and woods of the bpric. of Winchester (by appointment of Cardinal Beaufort) 20 Feb. 1431–d. Reg. Common Seal (Hants Rec. Ser. ii), 312.

Commr. to distribute tax allowances, Hants May 1437, June 1445, July 1446; treat for payment of parlty. subsidies Feb. 1441; take musters, Portsdown Mar., May 1441, June 1443, Portsmouth Feb., Mar. 1448, Portsmouth, Poole June 1449, and requisition vessels, Portsmouth Sept. 1449, Aug. 1453, Sept. 1458; of inquiry, May 1441, Feb. 1444 (piracy), Feb. 1448 (wards, marriages, concealments), May, Oct. 1450 (piracy), Feb., Mar. 1451 (attacks on Genoese merchants and ships), July 1453 (concealments), Apr. 1456 (wool seized on I.o.W.), E159/229, commissiones Trin.; 232, commissiones Easter. Aug. 1457 (piracy), Southampton Dec. 1451 (efficiency of customs’ collection), Hants Mar. 1453 (seizure of cloth), Hants, Dorset, Suss. Apr. 1453 (smuggling), Hants Sept. 1453, June 1454 (piracy), Feb. 1455 (ownership of Winchester gaol), June 1455 (piracy), May 1456 (smuggling), Mar. 1458 (piracy), Sept. 1458 (wastes I.o.W. and armaments at Carisbrooke castle), Nov. 1460 (felonies), Jan. 1464 (theft of goods from shipwreck), Feb., July, Nov. 1466 (goods from a Genoese carrack which foundered), Aug. 1473 (unpaid farms); array, Hants Mar. 1443, Sept. 1449, Aug. 1456, Sept. 1457 (hundreds of Fawley, Bosmere and Portsdown), Feb., Sept., Dec. 1459, Jan. 1460, ?Apr. 1460 (against the Yorkists), Mar., June 1461, May 1463, Apr. 1466, I.o.W. Feb. 1468, Hants Oct. 1469, June 1470, Mar. 1472; to treat for loans June 1446, Sept. 1449, Dec. 1452, May 1455; PPC, vi. 240. of gaol delivery, Southampton Feb. 1448, Winchester castle Mar., July 1450, Berks., Hants, Oxon., Wilts. June 1460, Wallingford castle, Sept. 1460, Winchester castle Dec. 1460 (q.), Aug. 1463, Oct. 1467, May, Oct. 1469; C66/465, m. 15d; 470, m. 3d; 471, m. 19d; 489, m. 6d; 490, m. 12d; 506, m. 16d; 519, mm. 10d, 17d; 524, mm. 6d, 14d. assess taxes Aug. 1450, July 1463; of arrest Apr. 1451, Sept. 1452, Dec. 1453, Apr. 1454, Jan. 1458, Berks., Hants, Herts., Kent, Mdx., Oxon., Surr., Suss., Wilts. June 1460 (adherents of the duke of York), Suss. Mar. 1461, Hants Nov. 1461 (adherents of the dukes of Exeter and Somerset and James, earl of Wiltshire); oyer and terminer, Berks., Hants, Oxon., Wilts. June 1460 (general), Hants Aug. 1461 (complaint of Bp. Waynflete), Mar. 1462.

Sheriff, Surr. and Suss. 25 Nov. 1437 – 3 Nov. 1438, Hants 3 Nov. 1438 – 5 Nov. 1439, 9 Nov. 1447–8, 8 Nov. 1451–2, 5 Nov. 1463–4, Surr. and Suss. 5 Nov. 1464–5.

J.p. Hants 11 July 1441 – Dec. 1470, Suss. 20 Oct. 1442 – Mar. 1444, 18 June 1444 – Nov. 1458, Surr. 7 Aug. 1448 – June 1452.

Steward, estates of Humphrey, duke of Buckingham, in Hants by Mich. 1452–?d. C. Rawcliffe, Staffords, 210.

Keeper of Portchester castle 2 Dec. 1453–4. CPR, 1452–61, pp. 141, 208.

Main residence: Wickham, Hants.
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