Family and Education
s. and h. of John Dethick (d. by c.1373) of Dethick and Mattersey. m. Alice, at least 7s. (1 d.v.p.). Kntd. by Oct. 1386.CCR, 1374-7, pp. 68, 69, 72; CPR, 1408-13, p. 213; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 419; Belvoir Castle deed 4471; Wm. Salt Arch. Soc. xvi. 55; xvii. 111, 114. According to J.C. Cox (Notes on Churches Derbys. ii. 54), Dethick was married to Cecily, da. and h. of Thomas Curson, and thus acquired the manor of Beardsall, but other evidence remains wanting. The pedigrees of the family given in Top. et Gen. ed. Nichols, i. 351, 358 and Vis. Derbys. 30, 31, are inaccurate and omit several of Dethick’s children.
Offices Held
Collector of a tax, Derbys. Nov. 1377, Dec. 1384.
Commr. to make arrests, Derbys. June 1380, Feb. 1388, Nov. 1391; of oyer and terminer Nov. 1387 (attacks on the property of John of Gaunt); array June 1388; inquiry Nov. 1390 (upkeep of the highway at Baslow), Oct. 1395 (wastes at Bolsover castle).
J.p. Derbys. 14 Apr. 1386 – July 1389.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Dethick and Radbourne, Derbys.; Mattersey, Notts.
Dedyk(e), Detheck, Dethek(e), Dethyk
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
DETHICK, Sir William (-d.1408/10)
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Oxford 1644
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