Katherine (St Leger) Culpeper (abt. 1606 - bef. 1658)

Born about 1606 in Leeds Castle, Kent, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas (Culpepper) Culpeper — married 10 Jul 1628 in Ulcomb, Kent, England

Died before 28 Aug 1658 before about age 52 in Maidstone, Kent, England

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Biography

There is no surviving record of Katherine's birth. She was a daughter of Sir Warham St Leger of Leeds Castle, Kent, and Mary Hayward, daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward of London. Katherine was baptised 7 October 1608 at Broomfield, Kent.^[1]

Leeds Castle was owned by the Tudors until the 1550s when the St. Leger family acquired it.. They retained it until 1618 when Warham st. Leger sold it to Sir Richard Smythe. So her father owned it during the time frame believed to cover her birth there. ^[2]

Her father's mother, Mary Scott, had married as her 2nd husband Sir Alexander Culpeper of Greenway Court. He refers to Katherine in his will as "the grandchild of my wife, whom I therefore call daughter". (But see note on Culpeper-63.)

She married Sir Alexander's nephew and heir, Thomas Culpeper, on 10 July 1628 in All Saints Church at Ulcombe, Kent.^[3]

They had three sons: Sir John, John (gent) and Alexander. They also had three daughters: Mary, Anne and Frances.

Accounts of their Colonial careers are confused - the true story has yet to be elucidated.

Katherine was presumably widowed before she died, since administration of her estate was granted to her son in August 1658.

Research Notes

Katherine is included in the list of Gateway Ancestors in Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry.^[4] As she died and was buried in England, she does not qualify as a Gateway ancestor for the purposes of the Magna Carta Project.

Sources

1. ↑ England Births and Baptisms. Katterine Sentleger. Baptism date: 7 Oct 1608; County: Kent; Country: England; Father: Warham Sir Sentleger; Record set: England births and baptisms; 1538-1975; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish baptisms. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=R_883437462
2. ↑ Ihttps://leeds-castle.com/her-castle/history-of-the-castle/
3. ↑ Kent Marriages and Banns. Katherina Sentleger. Marriage date: 10 Jul 1628; Marriage place: Ulcombe, All Saints; Spouse: Thomas Culpeper; County: Kent; Country: England; Archive: Kent History and Library Centre; Archive reference: P376/1/A/1; Register type: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials; Year range: 1560-1643; Page: 21; Record set: Kent Marriages and Banns; Category: Birth, Marriage, Death and Parish records; Subcategory: Parish marriages. https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=PRS%2FKENT%2FMAR%2F0212812%2F2
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011),, Vol. I, p. xxvii, Google Books

• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry (2013), Vol. II. p. 370, Vol. IV page 539. KATHERINE SAINT LEGER, married THOMAS CULPEPER, of Hollingbourne, Kent [see "Royal Ancestry" Culpeper 13.i].
• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series, 2nd edition, 4 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2011), volume II, page 14, #13i.
• Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), Volume 3, page 128, under SAINT LEGER, 20ii.
• “Stemmata de Leodegaria “, - Pedigree of the St. Leger family compiled by Rev. Edward St. Leger, of Kirton-in-Lindsay, 1867 which is held at the British Library, London Ref: 14000 r 23 16 8674728.
• Culpepper Connections: Katherine St. Leger.
• https://academic.oup.com/histres/article-abstract/61/146/251/5644650?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

RT Journal Article A1 Crick, Julia T1 Church, Land and Local Nobility in Early Ninth-Century Kent: the Case of Ealdorman Oswulf JF Historical Research JO Hist Res YR 2007 DO 10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01065.x VO 61 IS 146 SP 251 OP 269 SN 0950-3471 RD 9/25/2023 UL https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1988.tb01065.x https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol4/pp200-204

• https://leeds-castle.com/her-castle/history-of-the-castle/