WOLFFE, John (d.1483), of Kentisbury, Devon.

Family and Education

?s. of John Wolffe of Kentisbury. The Wolffe pedigree becomes confused around 1400. Richard Wolffe, gds. of the MP of 1337, died aged 23 in 1369, leaving as his heir his five-year-old son Richard. By 1409 the family lands were in the hands of a John Wolffe, who that year presented an incumbent to the family church of Kentisbury. This John, who was apparently dead by Jan. 1414 when his widow, Beatrice, had licence to marry Simon Carslegh of Lustleigh, may have been the MP’s father. CIPM, xiv. 153; Reg. Grandisson ed. Hingeston-Randolph, ii. 1303, 1319, 1325, 1451; Reg. Stafford ed. Hingeston-Randolph, 53, 181. m. by Nov. 1456, Joan, 1s. CCR, 1454-61, p. 175; C141/1/12.

Offices Held

Jt. keeper of Marwell park, Hants, by appointment of Cardinal Beaufort, bp. of Winchester 4 Jan. 1447; Reg. Common Seal (Hants Rec. Ser. ii), 300; G.L. Harriss, Cardinal Beaufort, 362. parker, by appointment of Bp. Waynflete of Winchester, 15 or16 Apr. 1478–d. Hants RO, Reg. Waynflete, pt. 2, f. 26*v; Reg. Common Seal, 380.

Escheator, Devon and Cornw. 3 Dec. 1453 – 6 Nov. 1454.

Dep. butler, Bridgwater 26 Oct. 1458-Nov. 1460. CPR, 1452–61, p. 460; 1461–7, p. 128. Although Wolffe’s successor as dep. butler was not appointed until July 1461, it may be assumed that his commission ceased with the replacement of the earl of Shrewsbury by Lord Wenlock* as chief butler in Nov. 1460.

Controller of customs and subsidies, Bridgwater 16 Nov. 1458–26 Aug. 1460. CPR, 1452–61, pp. 459, 589.

Keeper of Chittlehamholt park, Devon 18 Dec. 1459-July 1460. CCR, 1454–61, p. 410.

Parlimentarian

WOLFFE, John (d.1483), of Kentisbury, Devon.

Main residence: Kentisbury, Devon.

Wolf, Woolf, Woollfe, Wulfe

Author

H.W.K.

Volume

Commons 1422-1461

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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