Sir William Pympe

• Reynold Pympe (c.1371-1426), of Nettlestead and Pympe's Court in East Farleigh, Kent, was an English politician.
• Pympe was the son an heir of Sir William Pympe, MP, who died in 1375, when Reynold was around four years old.
• Pympe was High Sheriff of Kent for 1409–10 and was elected Member of Parliament for Kent in 1411 and 1422.
• His wife, whose first name was unrecorded, was the daughter of Sir Ralph Freningham of Farningham and West Barming, Kent. She was the sister of the MP, John Freningham. They had two sons, the eldest of whom predeceased him, leaving a child. Pympe was succeeded by the young grandchild, who also died young, and so the Pympe's Court and Nettlestead estates passed to Pympe's younger brother John.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_Pympe ________________
• PYMPE, Reynold (c.1371-1426), of Nettlestead and Pympe's Court in East Farleigh, Kent.
• b.c.1371, s. and h. of Sir William Pympe† (d.1375) of Pympe’s Court.1 m. — , da. of Sir Ralph Freningham† of Farningham and West Barming, Kent, sis. of John Freningham*, 2s. (1 d.v.p.).
• Offices Held
  • Commr. of array, Kent Jan. 1400, Sept., Nov. 1403, July 1405, May 1406, May 1415 Apr. 1418; inquiry Jan. 1414 (lollards).
  • Tax collector, Kent Mar. 1404.
  • Sheriff, Kent 4 Nov. 1409-29 Nov. 1410.
  • Escheator, Kent and Mdx. 10 Dec. 1411-3 Nov. 1412.
  • J.p. Kent 12 Mar. 1418-July 1420.
• Possibly the grandson of Philip Pympe, five times knight of the shire for Kent between 1330 and 1340, Reynold was undoubtedly the son of Sir William Pympe, who died in 1375 during his third term as sheriff of the county, for as son and heir to the deceased sheriff he received a royal pardon in June 1377. Reynold, then apparently still a child, inherited Sir William’s estates, which, apart from Pympe’s Court, where the family had lived for over a century, included the nearby manor of Nettlestead, held of the earls of Stafford. Nettlestead became his chief residence, and there he built a new manor-house. His minority was most likely spent in wardship to Hugh, earl of Stafford, and before long he was married to the sister of his neighbour, John Freningham, Stafford’s trusted retainer and executor. After coming of age, in May 1392 he took possession of his lands, which were to be assessed in 1412 for the purposes of taxation at 100 marks a year.2
• It was not until after the accession of Henry IV and the promotion of Pympe’s brother-in-law, Freningham, as a member of the King’s Council, that he himself began to receive appointments to royal commissions. In 1401 he was a feoffee for the settlement of property in Dartford on Freningham and his wife, arranging for the remainder to be amortized for the upkeep of the newly-constructed stone bridge at Rochester. Before his death in 1410 Freningham made Pympe’s elder son, John, heir to a substantial part of his manorial holdings in Kent.3 But despite his own not inconsiderable income from land, and the sound prospects of his son, Pympe was often in financial difficulties. Sued in the London courts in 1407 for a debt of £8 16s.owed to a tailor and a skinner of the City, he was subsequently outlawed for failure both to answer these creditors and to pay another sum of £2 recovered against him at law. He was granted a royal pardon in December 1408, albeit only after surrendering himself at the Fleet prison. Such indebtedness did not apparently affect his career: in the following year not only was he chosen to act as an arbiter in a local dispute touching title to the rectory of Aylesford, but he was also appointed as sheriff, the county’s leading law officer. Two years later, just a few days before the dissolution of his first Parliament in 1411, he was made escheator in Kent and Middlesex. Despite Pympe’s appointment as a j.p. in Kent in the spring of 1418, in November following the sheriff was ordered to certify before the Council, under pain of £100, whether or not he was an outlaw and to submit all particulars. This second outlawry may have resulted from Pympe’s failure to answer a suit for a debt of £10 owed to William Nutbeam, his fellow knight of the shire of a few years back, but if so he did not receive a royal pardon until May 1421, at the same time as he was excused his outlawry in London, where two vintners had unsuccessfully prosecuted him for a debt of £2. Having again surrendered to the Fleet, he had satisfied Nutbeam of the sum owed together with damages, but his pardon was made conditional on paying the Crown a fine for having repudiated a bond, which was produced in court.4
• Pympe was elected to his second Parliament, in 1422, in company with Geoffrey Lowther, the duke of Gloucester’s lieutenant warden of the Cinque Ports. He was perhaps himself connected with Gloucester, for his elder son, John (who had died in the previous autumn), had served in the duke’s retinue in France on the campaigns of 1415 and 1421. Reynold Pympe died shortly before 28 Aug. 1426, leaving as his heir a grandson who had been named after him. Young Reynold was to die while still a minor in 1435, whereupon his brother, John, became heir to the Pympe and Freningham estates.5
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/py... _______________________
• Transactions, Volume 5 By Ecclesiological Society
• https://books.google.com/books?id=6nYoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&d...
• Pg.141
• .... Dame Margaret de Cobham, daughter of Sir Henry, the first baron, and wife successively to Sir Matthew Fitzherbert and Sir William Pympe, 1375, at Cobham, wears a similar costume, but the ends of the hair are not shown on the shouldders. Dame Maud de Cobham, a daughter of sister of Sir William Pympe and wife of Sir Thomas Cobham of Roundall, 1380, also at Cobham, wears the nebule head-dress with the knobs on the shoulders, a tight fitting kirtle lined with fur at the bottom, and a mantle fastened across the breasts by a cord attached to two round brooches. .... etc. ___________________________
• Reynold Pympe (c.1371-1426), of Nettlestead and Pympe's Court in East Farleigh, Kent, was an English politician. He was the son an heir of Sir William Pympe, MP, who died in 1375, when Reynold was around four years old. Pympe was also the High Sheriff of Kent from 1409 – 1410 and was elected Member of Parliament for Kent in 1411 and 1422. His wife, whose first name was unrecorded, was the daughter of Sir Ralph Freningham of Farningham and West Barming, Kent. She was the sister of the MP, John Freningham. They had two sons, the eldest of whom predeceased him but left a child and Pympe was succeeded by this young grandchild, who died young in 1435. Pympe's Court and Nettlestead estates therefore passed to Pympe's younger brother John.
• From: http://www.nettlesteadchurch.co.uk/history.html ___________________
• Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 21
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Ui5KAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&d...
• Pg.219
• REGINALDUS PYMPE of Pimpe's Court, East Farleigh, and Nettlested, Chivaler, Succeeded his father Sir William as Sheriff in 1375, and himseld held the Shrievalty in 1408. The last in the male line of what Philipott calls a "noble and ancient family," of whom Nettlested Church holds many memorials. Arms: Argent, fout barrulets bules, on a chief sable a bar nebulee of the first. _______________
• From the catalogue, An Exhibition of Medieval Brass Rubbings by Kathleen H. Cairns. "Dame Margaret de Cobham, 1375, daughter of Sir Henry de Cobham. First Baron Cobham, wife first of Matthew Fitzherbert and second of Sir William Pympe. This brass is remarkable because dame Margaret is not shown in a widow's dress. INSCRIPTION: Here lies Dame Margaret de Cobhman, formerly wife to Sir William Pympe. Who died the 4th day of September in the year of grace 1375. On whose soul, God by his pity, have mercy. Amen."
• From: http://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/search/details.php?a=1982.05.0061 ______________
• Memorials of the family of Scott, of Scot's-hall, in the county of Kent. With an appendix of illustrative documents. by Scott, James Renat
• https://archive.org/details/memorialsoffamil00scot
• https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/159/mode/1up
• (No. 31 in Ped.) Anne, daughter and heiress of Reginald Pympe, of Nettlested Place in Kent, and heiress of her mother, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of JOHN PASHLEY, of Smeeth, Kent, and of Pashleys, Ticehurst in Sussex, wife to Sir John Scott, of Scot's Hall, Kent.
  • Arms. — Barry of four, gules, and argent, a vair in chief.
• The ancient family of Pympe, originally of Saxon origin, derived its name from the pre-Domesday manor of De Pympa, in East Farleigh and Nettlested, Kent. The family would appear to have been located at Pympe's Court, and at All Saints in the hundred of Hoo, near Rochester, from an early period after the Conquest. It was William de Pympe, one of this family, who built (circa 1370) the mansion of Nettlested Place, an interesting portion of which (supposed to be the Banqueting Hall) now remains, as well as a portion of the
• https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/160/mode/1up
• original gate-house, or entry into the inner court or quadrangle, and likewise a most interesting manorial barn, the ancient timbering of which is still in good preservation.(b)
• https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/163/mode/1up
• Before parting with the subject of Nettlested manor and mansion, it may be well to mention that Sir John Scott built (in accordance with the wish expressed in the will of his ancestor, John Pympe) the porch to the church of Nettlested as it now exists ; and in which church (the presentation to the living of which was in the owner of the mansion and manor) formerly was buried Margaretta de Cobham (1337), wife to Sir William de Pympe, as appeared by an inscription on a brass formerly on the chancel floor, but now lost or removed. A tomb also formerly existed on the north side of the chancel, and is supposed to have contained the ashes of the founder of the church, who probably was John Pympe, who in his will, dated 1495, directs his body to be buried in the "Qeire" of the church at Nettlested, etc. .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/168/mode/1up
  • WILL OF JOHN PYMPE, OF NETTLESTED, KENT, 1496.
• .... And I will the saide tombe bere the Epitapheyne graven in laten (brass) here lyeth buried John Pympe, Sonne of John Pympe, Sonne of John, Sonne of Reignolde, Sonne of Sr William Pympe, Knyght, that hadde to Wiffe Elizabeth, the doughter of Richard Whethill, Leuetennte of the Castell of Genys (Guines, near Calais), oon whose soules Jhu have mercy. .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/171/mode/1up
  • DE PYMPE, of PYMPE'S COURT AND NETTLESTED, KENT. (See p. 159.)
• SIR PHILLIP DE PYMPE, of Pympe's Court, East Farleigh. Furnished a guard for the defence of the sea coast, 11 Edw. III. 1338 to 1346. = Alice . . . . , 1st wife ; ch: Sir Thomas, Sir William (m. Margaretta de Cobham & Elizabeth Whethill) de Pympe. ; = Joan . . . . , 2nd wife. She re-married John de Coloigne.
  • Sir Thomas, paid aid for Nettlested, Hylth, and Pympe, 20 Edw. III., 1347.
  • Sir William de Pympe, Sheriff of kent 37, 45, and 49 Edward III.; died 1376. Resided at Nettlstead, and kept his Shrievalty there. = 1stly, Margaretta de Cobham, of the family of the Barons Cobham in Kent; died 1337, and buried at Nettlested.. "Hic jacet Domina Margareta de Cogham, Quondam uxor Will Pympe, militis, qui obiit 4 Sept., 1337." ; ch: William, Richard, Joan de Pympe. ; = 2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Whethill, Lieutenant of Castle of Guines, near Calais. ; ch: Reginald (d.1438) de Pympe.
    • Reginald de Pympe, served office of Sheriff of Kent, 1372, and for his father the year of his death, 1376, and again in 1409. Died 1438. ch: John (d.1422) de Pympe.
      • John, died 1422. = ch: John (m. Philippa ) Pympe.
        • John. Will dated 1479. = Philippa. ; ch: Reginald, John (m. Elizabeth Cheney), Anne (m. Sir Richard Guldeforde) Pympe
          • Reginald Pympe, of Nettlested, attainted 1483 for assisting Duke of Buckingham against Richard III.; attainder reversed 1 Hy. VII.
          • John, attainted in 1483, with his brother; attainder revered 1485. Buried in chancel of Nettlested Church. = Elizabeth, da. of Sir Rich. Cheney, of Shurland, Kent.
          • Anne. (See John Pympe's Will, p. 169.) = Sir Richard Guldeford, knt. attainted 1st Richard III.; reversed 1st Henry VII., on his return from exile. Privy Councillor to Henry VII.; Master of the Ordnance; K.G. and Knight Banneret; Comptroller of the King's Household (Henry VII.) Died at Jerusalem on a Pilgrimage. ; ch: Sir Edward (m. Eleanor West), George (m. Elizabeth Mortimer), Jane (m. John Dudley), Sir Richard (d. no issue) Guldeforde.
• https://archive.org/stream/memorialsoffamil00scot#page/n333/mode/1up
• ( 10 ) 49 Edward III., 1376.
• A Declaration, dated Thursday before the Nativity of our Lady, 49 Edward III., testifying that Wm de Pympe, Chivaler, has enfeoffed Thomas de Cobham, Chivaler, Reginald de Cobham, Clerk, Robert de Bourne, Clerk, William Topclyve, James de Peckham, Henry Pertrich, Parson of the Church of St. Mary in Hoo, John Godiwot and John Okebourne, with all his possessions in the Counties of Kent and Sussex, and also with the advowson of the Church of Nettlestede and the Reversion of the Manor of Poldre, near Sandwich, which Dame Medeyte de Uvedale holds for term of her life, the Indenture of feoffment to take effect only in the event of his death.
• Upon his death the feoffees are to grant the Manors of Nettlested, Hylthe, Pympe, and a tenement in the vill of Ealdyng, called Olyveres, and a pasture called Vyryngspiche, and 100s of rent issuing out of a Manor of Sussex to Reginald, his son, and his heirs ; with reversion, in default of heirs, to William, brother of the said Reginald, and his heirs ; with reversion, in default of heirs, to Richard, brother of the said William, and his heirs ; with reversion, in default of heirs, to John de Frenyngham and his heirs. — Various covenants as to payment of Rents, &c. — If John de Frenyngham die without heirs, the above premises are to be sold, and the proceeds distributed in alms for the souls of Wm de Pympe and Margaret, his wife, Philip, his father, Alice, his mother, Thomas de Pympe, his brother, Thomas Malmayns, Richard de Pympe and Rose, his wife, Joane, heretofore wife of Philip de Pympe, Joane, daughter of the said William de Pympe, and for the souls of all his friends and good Christians. The Feoffees are also to enfeof his son William and his heirs with the reversion of the Manor of Poldre, with the Manor of La Case in Brenchesle, and with a tenement called La Mote ; with reversion, in default of heirs, to Reginald, brother of the said William, and his heirs ; with reversion, in default of heirs, to Richard, brother of the said Reginald, and his heirs ; with reversion, in default of heirs, to William atte Halle and his heirs. If William atte Halle die without heirs, the Manor is to revert to the right heirs of William de Pympe, and the tenement De la Mote to Robert at Halle and his heirs, with reversion, in default of heirs, to the right heirs of Wm de Pympe, and the reversion of the said Manor of Poldre shall be sold, and the proceeds thereof distributed in alms, as before recited. A Payment of £14 per annum for 80 years is reserved out of the premises in East Peckham, and the parcel of land called Gongespiche for the support of a Chaplain to perform divine service in the church of Nettlestede, at the expiration of which period of 80 years the premises in question are to be sold, and the proceeds thereof distributed in alms, as above recited. (See Pedigree Pympe, p. 171.)
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