Humphrey Fulford (abt. 1466 - 1508)

Born about 1466 in Great Fulford, Devon, England

Ancestors

Died 19 Sep 1508 at about age 42 in Great Fulford, Devon, England

Biography

Humphrey was the son of Sir Thomas Fulford and Phillipa Courtenay.^[1]He was born 1466 in Fulford, Devon, England.^[2]He married Florence Bonville, daughter of Katharine Wingfield and John Bonville.^[1]He died in 1508, without issue.

• Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem lists Katharine Bonevyle, widow.

Writ 9 Oct, 13 Henry VII; inquisition 1 Oct, 14 Henry VII.

She was seised in fee of the under-mentioned manors, and being so seised, long before her death, in consideration of a marriage to be had between Thomas West, the younger, Knight, son and heir apparent of Thomas West, knight, Lord Lawarr, and Elizabeth, her daughter, enfeoffed Richard Croft, .......thereof to the use of herself for life, and after her decease to the use of the said Thomas West, the younger, and Elizabeth, and the heirs of the body of the said Elizabeth, and for default of such heirs to the use of the right heirs of the said John Bonvile and their heirs. The said Richard Croft and the others were and still are seised thereof accordingly in fee to the use above said. The marriage between the said Thomas West, the younger, and Elizabeth was had long before her death.

She died 5 Oct last. The said Elizabeth, aged 24 and more and Florence, wife of Humphrey Fulford, knight, the other daughters of the said John Bonvile and Katharine, aged 25 and more, are her next heirs.

Sussex. Manors of Halfnaked, Walberton, Wodcote and Westhampton, worth 50 L, held of the king, as of the honor of Walyngford, services unknown.

C. Series II. Vol. 13. (135.)^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 16.
2. ↑ 1Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous. Hen. VII, v. 1, no. 658.
3. ↑ 2Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. Henry VII. Vol 2. #240 [1]

• 2Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem. Henry VII. Vol 2. #240 [2]
• St. George, Henry, The Visitation of the County of Devon in the Year 1620 (London: Publications of the Harleian Society, 1872.), p. 118
• 1Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents - Henry VII (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus, 1973.), v. 1, no. 658
• Worthy, Charles, Devonshire Wills (London: Benrose & Sons, 1896. FHL BRITISH Film #246,879.), p. 424