Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft (d.
January 27,
1443), was a
Knight of the Shire for
Huntingdonshire, and for
Somerset,
Speaker of the House of Commons,
Treasurer of the Household,
Chief Butler of England, Treasurer of the
Exchequer,
Seneschal of
Landes and
Aquitaine, Councillor of Regency,
Lord Steward of the Household. On 7 January 1426 he was first Summonsed to Parliament whereby he was created
Baron Tiptoft.
This English nobleman was the eldest son and heir of Sir Pain Tiptoft (c1413) by his spouse, Agnes, née Wrothe (d.bef.1413). He was Lord of the Manors of Burwell and Eversden, in Cambridgeshire. In 1413 he was heir to his first cousin, Elizabeth Wrothe, wife of Sir William Palton, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Nether Wallop, Hampshire, Worcesters (in Enfield), Middlesex, and Redlynch (in Downton, Wiltshire).
He married twice: firstly, before February 24, 1408, a widow, Philippa Talbot (c. 1367–1417), daughter of Sir John Talbot, of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire. They had no issue. He married secondly, by licence dated February 28 1422, Joyce (c. 1404–1446), younger daughter and co-heiress of Edward Cherleton, 5th Baron Cherleton by his spouse Eleanor Holand, a descendant of King Edward I. They had the following children:
- Philippa, (c1423 - after January 1487), married Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros, (1427 - 1467)
- Joanna, (c1425 - 1494), married, in 1435, Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe (c1421 - 1456), of Burgh Green, Cambridgeshire.
- Joyce, (aft. 1425 – bef. 1485), married Sir Edmund Sutton
- John, 1st Earl of Worcester, (1427–1470), whose only son Edward Tiptoft, 2nd Earl of Worcester died in 1485, a minor without issue.
Sir John, 1st Lord Tiptoft, was buried at Enfield in Middlesex, early in February 1443.
References
- "Complete Peerage" by G.E.Cockayne, et al.
- "Magna Carta Ancestry" by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2005.
- thePeerage.com