John Colepeper was born in about 1428, probably at Goudhurst, Kent, the son of Walter Colepeper and Agnes Roper. [1]
He married Agnes Gainsford, daughter of John Gainsford, Esq. and Anne Wakehurst, in about 1455, after the death of her first husband Richard Wakehurst.[2][3]They had at least two children:
Sir John served the office of Sheriff of Kent in 7 Edw. IV (1468).[4]
Sir John Colepeper died on 22 December 1480 at Bedgebury, Kent, England. He was buried in Goudhurst, beside his father; being described on his tomb as 'Johannis Culpeper, militis obiit 22 December 1480’.[4] It appears from an indenture dated 4 January, 21 Henry VIII [1529/30] which has survived (Harl. Charter, 76 H 12) that Sir John left a will (otherwise lost) disposing of his estates among two sons, Alexander and Walter. These estates included the manors acquired by the Bedgebury marriage (Bedgebury and Haselden) in Kent, an inherited Culpeper manor (Wigsell) in Sussex, and certain lands in Essex which Sir John had purchased; and the will in question divided them among the two sons, the intention of the testator being that, despite the Kentish custom of gavelkind, the elder should take all the lands in Kent, and the younger those in Sussex and Essex.
The Visitation of Sussex incorrectly names his mother as Ann, daughter of Edmund Roberts of Canterbury. [5]
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