Sir Otes Gilbert, of Compton

Probably not the same as Otes Gilbert

Sir Otes Gilbert, Sheriff of Devon, Escheator of Devon & Cornwall1,2,3,4,5,6,7,

• M, b. 24 March 1419, d. 2 February 1493
• Father William Gilbert b. b 1380, d. a 1428
• Mother Isabel Gambon

Sir Otes Gilbert, Sheriff of Devon, Escheator of Devon & Cornwall was born on 24 March 1419 at Compton, Devonshire, England; Age 13 in 1430. He died 2 Feb 1493. Sheriff of Devonshire 1475-6, he was a Yorkist and was the first on the list of those to receive knighthood if Edward V had been crowned.

Family

"Otho Gilbert" is shown in the Gilbert Pedigree for the Visitation of Devon in 1564 with wife Elizabeth Hill, (daughter of John Hill of Shilston); sons John, Thomas, Otho and Galfrid (see later highlighted lists of sons from IPM and Will), and daughter Elizabeth Gilbert who married Thomas Grenefield of Stow (this may be Isabella Gilbert who married Thomas Grenville).

His will (image on Ancestry) when he refers to himself as "Otys Gylbert" was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury on 9 June 1494.[6] It names sons John, Thomas, Otys, William and Gefferey.

His Inquiry Post Morten (5 Aug 8 Hen Vll) mentions: “ ……. Robert Ghilberd, Otho Ghilberd, William Ghilberd, and Geoffrey Ghilberd, sons of the said Otho Ghilberd, ……. He was seised together with John Symon, clk., Robert Whityng, John More, and Thomas Heyward, of the under-mentioned land in North Alyngton, &c., and being so seised, by deed dated .. June, 1 Hen. VII, they gave the same to John Ghilberd and Elizabeth, daughter of John Crokker, knt., and the heirs of the said John.
He died 2 Feby., ….., seised of the last of the under-mentioned lands in fee. His heir……“

Through the lineage of his son Thomas Gilbert comes the famous English navigator, Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

References

• “ IPM for Agnes Chambernoun 1431” link
• King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/25-297/ [Accessed: 29/3/2020] “ OTES GILBERT , ONE OF THE HEIRS OF OTES CHAMBERNOUN” 25 March 1439.
• The Visitation of the County of Devon in the year 1565, Gilbert Pedigree, p. 112 GoogleBooks
• Devon Names - PCC Wills 1383-1559 - extracted from Volume 18 Index Library, British Record Society; A Calendar of Inquistions Post Mortem for Cornwall and Devon - from Henry III to Charles I (1216-1649), p. 91
• The visitation of the county of Cornwall, in the year 1620. Author: St. George, Henry, 1581-1644,Lennard, Samson, -1633,Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick), 1830-1896,Drake, Henry Holman,College of Arms (Great Britain). Page 87. Archive.Org listed as Sir Olever Gilbert, Kt.
• Essex Institute Historical Collections. By Essex Institute. Page 41. GoogleBooks
• Otoms Gilbert  in England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858. AncestryImage Name [Otys 'Otes' Gilbert] Otoms Gilbert Probate Date 9 Jun 1494
• Maskelyne and H. C. Maxwell Lyte, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry VII, Entries 751-800', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Series 2, Volume 1, Henry VII (London, 1898), pp. 312-344. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/series2-vol1/pp... [accessed 30 March 2020].
• “Americans of Royal Descent: Collection of Genealogies Showing the Lineal ... “ By Charles H. Browning. Page 105. GoogleBooks
• Munsell, Frank, 1857-, and Thomas Patrick Hughes. American Ancestry: Giving the Name And Descent, In the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled In the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's sons, 188799. Vol. 12, page 131. Hathitrust
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gilbert-275
• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p744.htm#i... cites
• 1.[S6926] Unknown author, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., p. 26; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 47, OFHS Newsletter, December 1995, p. 86; Wallop Family, p. 363.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 555-556.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 265.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 420.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 168-169.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 341.
• 7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 252-253.
• 8.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 468.
• 9.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 548-549.
• 10.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 802.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberts_of_Compton “ Little is known of the family's activities during the Middle Ages aside from Sir Otho Gilbert of Compton serving as High Sheriff of Devon from 1475 to 1476. It was descendants of this Otho Gilbert who would set out during the Elizabethan period on the family's “hereditary scheme of peopling America with Englishmen”.
• ‪Genealogies of Connecticut Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983. Page 4 ‬GoogleBooks