Constituency Dates
Hereford 1421 (Dec.), 1426
Family and Education
prob. s. of Thomas Chippenham† of Hereford; bro. of Henry* and Thomas*. m. An unreliable later ped. identifies his w. as Elizabeth, da. of Hugh Harman of Wales, but there is no contemporary support for this identification: Vis. Herefs. ed. Weaver, 19. 2s. 1da.
Offices Held

Attestor, parlty. elections, Hereford 1422, 1423, 1425, 1427.

Bailiff, Hereford Oct. 1424–6.

Address
Main residence: Hereford.
biography text

So active was Chippenham in the 1420s, as the earlier biography shows,1 The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 568. that one must suppose that his sudden disappearance from the records betokens premature death. The remarkable administrative career of his son John, a mercer assessed at £5 in the subsidy returns of 1451, did not begin until that year, and he was thus probably a minor when his father died.2 E179/117/64; KB27/766, rot. 2d.

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Notes
  • 1. The Commons 1386-1421, ii. 568.
  • 2. E179/117/64; KB27/766, rot. 2d.