Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 27
• Hody, William by John Andrew Hamilton
• HODY, Sir William (1441?-1522?), chief baron of the exchequer, second son of Sir John Hody [q.v.], chief justice of the king's bench, was born about 1441. Perhaps he is the William Hody who represented Totnes in the parliament of 1472 (Members of Parl. Official Returns, i. 360). His name is the first mentioned in the year-books in 1476. He was in parliament in 1483, and procured a reversal of the attainder of his uncle, Sir Alexander Hody of Bowre, Somerset, who had been attainted at Edward IV's accession for adherence to the house of Lancaster. In 1485, shortly after the accession of Henry VII, he became attorney-general, and was made a serjeant-at-law at the end of the year. On 29 Oct. 1486 he was appointed chief baron of the exchequer, was still a judge in 1516 (Cal. State Papers, 1515-18, p. 876), and probably died in 1522, when John Fitzjames became chief baron. He married Eleanor, daughter of Baldwyn Mallett of Corypool, Somersetshire, by whom he had two sons, Reginald and John, and two daughters, Joan, who married Richard Warr, and Jane, who married Lawrence Wadham.
• [Foss's Lives of the Judges; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 317; Prince's Worthies.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hody,_William_(DNB00) & http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio25stepgoog#page/n90/mo... _______________
• Sir William Hody1
• M, #670686, b. before 1441, d. 1524
• Last Edited=5 Nov 2015
• Sir William Hody was born before 1441 at Clovelly, Devon, England.1 He was the son of Sir John Hody and Elizabeth Jewel.1 He married Eleanor Mallet, daughter of Sir Baldwin Malet and Elizabeth Trivett.1 He died in 1524.1
• He held the office of Attorney-General.1 He held the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer on 26 October 1486.1
• Child of Sir William Hody and Eleanor Mallet
  • William Hody+1 b. c 1490
• Citations
• [S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p67069.htm#i670686 ____________________
• (ACCORDING TO THE OTHER SOURCES THIS SEEMS TO HAVE SKIPPED A GENERATION AND ATTACHED MARGARET COLE TO HER SON? OTHER REFERENCES LIST THE CHIEF JUSTICE'S WIFE AS ELIZABETH JEWE)
• Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Attorney General1
• M, b. before 1441, d. 1524
• Father Sir John Hody, Chief Justice of the King's Bench1 b. c 1405
• Mother Margareta Cole b. c 1410
• Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Attorney General was born before 1441 at of Pillesdon, Dorsetshire, England.1 He married Eleanor Malet, daughter of Sir Baldwin Mallet and Elizabeth Trivett, circa 1465. Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Attorney General married Anne Darcy, daughter of Sir Robert Darcy, Sheriff of Essex & Hertfordshire and Elizabeth Tyrrell, after 21 November 1495.1 Sir William Hody, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Attorney General died in 1524; Buried in the church of the Grey Friars, London.1
• Family 1 Eleanor Malet b. c 1440
• Child
  • Joan (Jane) Hody+2 b. c 1475
• Family 2
• Child
  • Agnes Hody+ b. c 1477
• Family 3 Anne Darcy d. 24 Dec 1501
• Citations
• 1.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. *217.
• 2.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p507.htm#i... ________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 27
• Hody, John by John Andrew Hamilton
• HODY, Sir John (d. 1441), chief justice of the king's bench, of an old Devonshire family, was son of Thomas Hody, lord of the manor of Kingston Magna, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, and king's escheator there under Henry V, by Margaret, daughter of John Cole of Nitheway, Torbay. From 1425 his name often occurs in the year-books, and he must have become a serjeant-at-law before 1436, for in that year he contributed as a serjeant to the equipment of the army sent into France. He represented Shaftesbury in parliament in 1423, 1425, 1428, and 1438, and the county of Somerset in 1434 and 1440. On 13 April 1440 he succeeded Sir John Juyn as chief justice of the king's bench, died in December 1441, and was buried at Woolavington, Somersetshire. Prince says of him that he won golden opinions, and Coke (Institutes, pref.) says he was one of the 'famous and expert sages of the law' who assisted Lyttelton. He had estates at Stowell in Somerset and Pillesden in Dorset, the Latter acquired through his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Jewe, by whom he had five sons, including William Hody [q.v.], who became chief baron in 1486, and several daughters.
• [Foss's Lives of the Judges; Prince's Worthies; Hutchins's Dorset, i. 317; Risdon's Devon, xvi. 60; Collect. Topogr. vii, 22; Register Chichele Lambeth, 481 b.; Engl. Chron. (Camd. Soc.), p. 60; Rot. Parl. iv.285, v. 477; Pat. 18 Hen. Vi. p.3, m.5.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hody,_John_(DNB00) & http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionarynatio25stepgoog#page/n90/mo... __________________
• A view of Devonshire in MDCXXX, with a pedigree of most of its gentry
• http://www.archive.org/details/aviewdevonshire00westgoog
• http://www.archive.org/stream/aviewdevonshire00westgoog#page/n481/m...
• Sir James Chudleigh, knight, married, first Margaret, daughter to the Lord William Stourton, and had issue William, Margaret, wife to John Wise, of Sydenham, Devon ; secondly Margaret, daughter of John Tremayn, the relict of Oliver Wise, and had issue Robert, John. William Chudleigh married Joan, daughter of Sir William Hody, of Pillesdon in Dorset, knight, issue Richard; obiit 29th January, 1515, and lieth in Clist Church. _____________________
• HODY, John (d.1441), of Stowell, Som. and Pilsdon, Dorset.
• s. of Thomas Hody, esquire (d.1442), of Kington Magna, Dorset; er. bro. of Alexander†. m. by 1430, Elizabeth (d. 3 Aug. 1473), da. and h. of John Jewe (d.1415/16), of Whitfield in Wiveliscombe, Som. and Pilsdon,2 5s. inc. Sir William†, 3da. Kntd. bef. June 1440.
• ..... Hody mentioned four sons in his will, of whom the eldest, John, was then only six or seven. It was his second son, William, who was to follow him in the legal profession and, since he become attorney-general on Henry VII’s accession and served as chief baron of the Exchequer from 1486 to 1512, evidently with some considerable degree of success. The chief justice’s widow, who was pregnant at the time of his death, later gave birth to a fifth son. Within seven years she married Robert Cappes, esquire (sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1444-5), and survived until 1473.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ho... _______________________
• Sir John Hody (died 1441)[1] was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench
• Hody was descended from a family of considerable antiquity, though of no great note, in Devon. Jordan de Hode held lands in Hode in the thirteenth century; Richard de Hody was the king's escheator of that county in 1353/4 and 1357/8; and the same office was filled by William Hody in 1400/1. The father of the chief justice was Thomas Hody, who was lord of the manor of Kington Magna, near Shaftesbury, in the adjoining county of Dorset, in 1419/20, and in the same year was king's escheator there. He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Cole, of Nitheway, near Torbay, in Devon, which thus became the birthplace of his children. .... etc
• The judge had an estate at Stowell, in Somerset, as early as 1427/8; but he was for some time seated at Pillesden, in Dorset, which came to him, together with the manor of Whitfield in the parish of Wivilscombe, in Somerset, and other property in both counties, by his marriage with Elizabeth,daughter and heiress of John Jewe, son and heir of John Jewe, by Alice, daughter of John de Pillesden. After his death his widow married Robert Cappes, Esq., who was High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1445/6. She died in 1473, having had issue by her first husband five sons and several daughters.
• John, the eldest son, was seated at Stowell and Nitheway, and his posterity continued there for many generations. William, the second son was chief baron of the Exchequer in the reign of Henry VII. From him sprang a branch which resided at Pillesden, and became extinct in the 18th century.
• The will of the chief justice, by which it appears that his father survived him, directs his body to be buried in the Church of St Mary, Woolavington, in Somerset, near the body "Magistri Johannis Hody," his uncle. By the large amount of silver plate and other articles which he gives in legacies, some idea may be formed of the domestic economy of a chief justice of England in the middle of the fifteenth century.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hody ______________
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank; but univested with heritable honours (1835) Vol. 2
• https://archive.org/details/heraldichistory02burk
• https://archive.org/stream/heraldichistory02burk#page/35/mode/1up
• Pg. 35
• Robert Cary m. secondly, Agnes, daughter of Sir William Hody, knt. of Pillesdon, in the county of Dorset, and had a son,
  • III. William, who m. Joan, daughter of John Herle, esq. of Prideaux, in Cornwall, and had two sons, Robert, and William.
• He espoused, thirdly, Margaret, daughter and heir of William Fulkeram, esq. of Dartmouth, and had another son, .... ________________
• A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke
• http://books.google.com/books?id=DqkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq...
• Pg. 115
• WILLIAM CHUDLEIGH, esq. of Ashton, m. Joan, daughter of Sir William Hody, knt. of Dorsetshire and had a son, ________________________

The second son of Sir John Hody, chief justice of the king's bench, he was born before 1441.

References

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Sir William Hody
BIRTH 1441
DEATH 1524 (aged 82–83)
BURIAL
St Mary Churchyard
Pilsdon, West Dorset District, Dorset, England
MEMORIAL ID 121237545

Described as Sir William Hody, Knight, of Pillesdon, Dorset. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. According to the 1565 Visitation of Dorset, he married Eleanor, daughter of Baldwin Mallet, esquire, of Corypool, Somerset, and by her was the father of Reginald Hody, William Hody, Joan Hody, and Emma Hody (wife of Lawrence Wadham, esquire, of Meryfield, Somerset.

Family Members
Parents
John Hody
unknown–1441
Elizabeth Jewe Cappes
unknown–1473
Spouse
Anne Darcy Hody
unknown–1501
Siblings
Margaret Hody Baynham
Children
Joan Hody Sydenham

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