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- GIFFORD, Ralph (by 1504-55/56), of Middle Claydon and Steeple Claydon, Bucks.
- b. by 1504, 3rd s. of Roger Gifford, and bro. of George Gifford II. m. by 1537, Mary, da. of Sir Edward Chamberlain of Woodstock Oxon. at least 1s. Roger.1
- Offices Held
- Subsidy collector, Ashendon hundreds, Bucks. 1525; esquire of the body by 1547; commr. relief, Bucks. 1550.2
- Ralph Gifford was living at Middle Claydon when in 1525 he was assessed on goods worth £10 for the subsidy of which he was a collector; his father, a commissioner for this subsidy, was assessed on goods worth £200 During the 153os Gifford was lent £195 by his father and joined in the dispute between his brothers and relatives living at Twyford over the ownership of certain property. His marriage to a daughter of Sir Edward Chamberlain brought him a modest estate, and by the death of his father in 1543 he had settled at Steeple Claydon where his eldest brother John was lessee of the manor from the crown: in that year he was assessed for the subsidy on goods worth £40. In the following year, with two of his brothers, he was mustered to serve with the Buckinghamshire forces for the French campaign. When elected in 1545 as a Member for Buckingham with John Josselyn, Gifford may have already held a post at court; two years later he was to be included in the King’s funeral cortege among the esquires of the body with his brother George, who with official support had been returned for Buckingham in 1536. His own Membership in 1545, and perhaps in one or both of the preceding two Parliaments (for which no returns survive), was perhaps sponsored by George Gifford, who since he had business elsewhere, had asked if he needed to attend the Parliament of 1536, and who afterwards could have been even more fully engaged as a receiver for augmentations. In 1545 Gifford was joined in the House by his brother-in-law Edward Chamberlain II as one of the Members for Heytesbury. Gifford’s connexion with Steeple Claydon became more secure with the death of his brother John in 1547. The leasehold of the manor was then acquired by Sir William Paget, who in the following year granted it with 1,100 acres of land and woodland to Gifford and a neighbour of his at Steeple Claydon. Unlike his brothers George and William he is not known to have rallied to Mary during the succession crisis of 1553. The last glimpse of him comes in April 1555 when he acquired a new lease for 40 years of the manor of Steeple Claydon, and he must have died within the next 18 months as his brother George called him ‘deceased’ in his will made in November 1556.3
- From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/gi... ___________________________
- The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 75 By Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society
- http://books.google.com/books?id=88sUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA58&dq=%22Hugh+sa...
- Pg.136
- 18. ROGER GIFFORD (John, Thomas, Roger, Sir Thomas, Sir John, Sir John le Boef, Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osbern de Bolebec), of Middle Claydon, co. Bucks, Esq., the testator of 1538 (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 269), born about 1463,(*) died 23 Jan. 1542/3 (ig., vol. 74, page 235). He married, about 1490, MARY NANSEGLOS, who was livin 8 Feb. 1543/4, daughter of William.(t)
- On 24 Feb. 1524 [? 1523/4] he was commissioner of the peace in co. Bucks, and on 1 Apr. 1524 he was a collector of the subsidy for the French War (Letters Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII). In 1495 he leased the manor of Middle Claydon of the Verney family for ninety-nine years. In his will, dated 24 Sept. 1538, he mentions his wife Mary, his sons John (eldest son), George (second son), Rauffe (third son), William (fourth son), and Nycholas (youngest son), and provides for the occupation of the manor of Middle Claydon by his sons. Children:
- i. JOHN, of Hillesden, co. Bucks, Esq., the testator of 1545 (REGISTER, vol. 74, p. 269), born about 1493; d. between 3 Dec. 1545 and 19 Nov. 1547; m. DOROTHY DANNETT, who survived him, dau. of Sir John of Dannett's Hall, Knight. Children: .... etc.
- ii. SIR GEORGE, of Middle Claydon, co. Bucks, Knight, the testator
- (*) The Visitation of Northamptonshire states that Roger Gifford of Middle Claydon was son of Thomas Gifford (17) of Twyford, co. Bucks, the testator of 1511; but the Harleian pedigree in the printed Visitation of Oxfordshire and also the pedigree of the Giffords of Middle Claydon in the Heralds' College make him the son of John (16) and Agnes Gifford and therefore a brother of Thomas (17). The latter statement is clearly the correct one. Thomas Gifford (17), in his will, dated 10 Oct. 1511, mentions only one son, Thomas, and his inquisition post mortem, of 10 Nov. 1511, shows that this Thomas, the heir, was then aged thirty years and more, and therefore was born about 1481. The inquisition post mortem of Roger Gifford of Middle Claydon, of 22 Nov. 1543, shows that John Giffard, Esq., his son and heir, was then aged fifty years and more and thereford was born about 1493. Thomas (17) and Roger (18) were therefore contemporaries. Moreover, Thomas Gifford, son of Thomas (17), in his will, dated 2 Nov. 1550, calls Roger's sons, George, William, Ralph, and John, his cousins; and in Aug. 1538, in a complaint of injuries done to him by Roger Gifford and his sons, John, George, Ralph, William, and Nicholas, he calls them his kinsmen (Letters Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 12, part 2, pp. 96, 97).
- (t) This is evidently William Nanseglos, of Redefan Manor, Shaldeford, co. Essex, Gent., the testator of 3 Feb. 1476 [?1476/7] (REGISTER, vol. 74, p. 279), whose daughter Mary was then under age. The statement that Roger Gifford's wife was Mary Nanseglos or Nansicles was made by Roger's grandson in the Heralds' pedigree of 1575.
- (+) Cf. Publications of the Harleian Society, vol. 5, p. 180.
- Pg.137
- of 1556 (ib., vol. 74, page 271), d. between 24 Dec. 1557 and 19 Jan. 1557/8; m. (1) CONSTANCE DYKE, dau. and coheiress of Henry of co. Sussex; m. (2) MARGARET BRADFIELD, who d about 19 May 1539 (when her husband wrote to Thomas Cromwell that she was considered to be beyond hope of recovery(*), dau. and coheiress of ---- Bradfield; m. (3) PHILIPPA (TRAPPES) SHAA, dau. of Robert Trappes of London, goldsmith, and widow of Edmund Shaa of London, haberdasher.(f) She m. (3) Richard Norton, Esq., whom she survived, made her will 1 Nov. 1593 (ib., vol. 74, p. 274), and died between 1 and 14 Nov. 1593. Sir George Gifford was very active as an assistant to Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, in the dissolution of the monasteries. In a codicil to his will, dated 24 Dec. 1557, he bequeathed to "my sister Frysewide Strelley, widow, gentlewoman of the Queen's Privy Chamber, a tankard of silver, parcel-gilt." Children: (+) .... etc.
- iii. RALPH, of Steeple-Claydon, co. Bucks, living 20 Nov. 1556; m. MARY CHAMBERLAIN, dau. of Sir Edward of Woodstock, co. Oxford, Knight. Children: 1. George, of Claydon. 2. Roger, physician to Queen Elizabeth.
- iv. WILLIAM, probably d. young.
- v. WILLIAM, of Thorpe-Mandeville, co. Northampton, d. between 2 Nov. 1550 and 20 Nov. 1556; m. ALICE FREEBODY, who is mentioned in the will of Sir George Gifford, 20 Nov. 1556, dau. and heiress of Hugh.
- 19. vi. NICHOLAS, b. about 1508.
- vii. JOAN (or JANE), living 24 Dec. 1557; m. (1) THOMAS CARTWRIGHT; m. (2) WILLIAM LAMBOURNE; m. (3) before 2 Dec. 1542 AMBROSE DAUNTESEY (DANCY).
- viii. ALICE, m. after 20 Nov. 1556 THOMAS CARROLL, of Raunds, co. Northampton, Gent.
- 19. NICHOLAS GIFFORD (Roger, John, Thomas, Roger, Sir Thomas, Sir John, Sir John le Boef, Sir John le Boef, Osbert, Elias, Elias, Elias, Osberne, Osbern de Bolebec), of St. James near Northampton, Gent., the testator of 1546 (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 270), born about 1508, died at Duston, co. Northampton 19 May 1546 (ib., vol. 74, page 236). He married before 1528, AGNES MAISTER (or MASTER), who died between 18 Aug. 1581 and 28 Mar. 1584, daughter of John of Sanwich, co. Kent, the testator of 1558 (ib., vol. 74, page 279), mayor of Sandwich, a warden of the Cinque Ports, and a member of Parliament (cf. REGISTER, vol. 71, pate 175). She is called Anne in the will of her husband and in his inquisition post mortem, and "sister Anne Gyffard" in the will of her brother-in-law, Sir George Gifford, in 1556. She is called Agnes in the will of her father, 24 Aug. 1558, and in her own will, 18 Aug. 1581, but in that part of her will relating to her lands
- Pg.138
- she states that she is commonly called Anne Gyfford (REGISTER, vol. 74, page 272). Children: .... etc.
- (*) Letters Foreign and Domestic, vol. 14, part 1, p. 453.
- (f) By her first husband she had three sons, Edmund, Robert, and Thomas Shaa. They were mentioned in the will of their stepfather, Sir George Gifford, in 1556, but of the three only Edmund is expressly named in his mother's will in 1593.
- (+) Cf. Publications of the Harleian Society, vol. 5, p. 180. ________
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