Walter Cotton

Walter Cotton (son of Walter Cotton and Joan Rede) was born 1422 in Landwade, Cambridgeshire, England, died in England.

He married Blanche Fraunceys on 1446 in Wickhambrook, Suffolk County, England, daughter of Hugh Fraunceys and Philippa Hemmys.

More About Walter Cotton and Blanche Fraunceys: Marriage: 1446, Wickhambrook, Suffolk County, England.

Children of Walter Cotton and Blanche Fraunceys are:

• +Clement Cotton, b. 1448, London, England,d., England.

References

• A F Wareham and A P M Wright, 'Landwade', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire) (London, 2002), pp. 468-470. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol10/pp468-470 [accessed 7 March 2020].
• A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 10, Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe Hundreds (North-Eastern Cambridgeshire). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 2002. “ In 1423-4 it was probably acquired for the London mercer Walter Cotton with his brother Thomas Cotton through a succession of agreements with the Sibill and Grace feoffees. (fn. 22) Walter Cotton was named as sole owner in 1428, holding the manor for 1 knight's fee, but may have held jointly with his brother in 1431. (fn. 23) For the next four centuries the manor remained in the possession of the Cotton family who built up a substantial estate including land in Exning and Fordham. By 1436 Thomas Cotton had died, and in 1437 Walter (d. 1445) settled it upon his son and heir William. (fn. 24) William held the manor, and on his death in 1455, it passed to his son Thomas (d. 1499). (fn. 25) His son and heir Sir Robert (d. 1517) succeeded. (fn. 26) He was followed by his son, John (later knighted), a minor in 1519, whose half-brother Thomas Griffith had custody of the manor. (fn. 27) In the 1520s, after Sir Robert's son John took possession of Landwade and Exning, his paternal uncle and namesake John claimed the manors. (fn. 28) Sir John Cotton remained in possession of the manor from the 1520s until his death in 1593 at the age of 83, when he was succeeded by his son Sir John (d. 1620). ...”