Family and Education
b. prob. by 1364, s. and h. of John Wydeville† of Grafton Regis by his 1st. w. Katherine, prob. da. and h. of Sir John Frembaud of Biddenham, Beds. and Bow Brickhill, Bucks.; half-bro. of Richard Wydeville*. m. (1) by 1396, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Thomas Lyons (d. by Nov. 1408) of Ashton, Som. by his w. Margaret (d.1396), prob. 1s. d.v.p. ; (2) Alice (d. by 1434), ?da. of John Roger† (d.1441) of Bridport and Bryanston, Dorset, and wid. of (Sir) Thomas Lovell† (d.1414) of Clevedon, Som., s.p. Dist. Bucks. 1411, Northants. 1430.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Northants. 1410, 1413 (May), 1419, 1427, 1431, 1432, 1433, 1435.

Sheriff, Northants. 22 Nov. 1406 – 23 Nov. 1407, 29 Nov. 1410 – 10 Dec. 1411, 1 Dec. 1415 – 30 Nov. 1416, 16 Nov. 1420 – 13 Nov. 1423, 4 Nov. 1428 – 10 Feb. 1430, 5 Nov. 1433 – 3 Nov. 1434.

Commr. Bucks., Derbys., Leics., Lincs., Northants., Notts., Oxon., Rutland, Warws. May 1408 – Jan. 1436; of gaol delivery, Peterborough July 1428. C66/423, m. 17d.

J.p. Northants. 21 Mar. 1413 – Feb. 1422, 20 Feb. – July 1432.

Escheator, Northants. and Rutland 8 Dec. 1416 – 30 Nov. 1417.

Steward, liberty of John Deeping, abbot of Peterborough, prob. by Nov. 1431–d.; Add. 25288, ff. 154–5. Warws. estates of Anne, wid. of Thomas and Edmund Stafford, earls of Stafford, by Mich. 1434-aft. Mich. 1435; manor of Hanslope, Bucks. for Richard Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, by c.1431–?d. SC12/18/45, f. 15 (dated to c.1431 in C. Carpenter, Locality and Polity, 374).

Main residence: Grafton Regis, Northants.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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