John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft

Arms of Tibetot (or Tiptoft): Argent, a saltire engrailed gules^[1]

John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft (died 27 January 1443) was a Knight of the Shire for Huntingdonshire and Somerset, Speaker of the House of Commons, Treasurer of the Household, Chief Butler of England, Treasurer of the Exchequer and Seneschal of Landes and Aquitaine.

Early life

This English nobleman was the eldest son and heir of Sir Pain Tiptoft (c.1413) by his spouse, Agnes, née Wrothe (d.bef.1413). He was Lord of the Manors of Burwell and Eversden, in Cambridgeshire. In 1413 he was heir to his first cousin, Elizabeth Wrothe, wife of Sir William Palton, Kt., by which he inherited the manors of Nether Wallop, Hampshire, Worcesters (in Enfield), Middlesex, and Redlynch (in Downton, Wiltshire).

Career

He was knighted in 1399. He was returned to Parliament as knight of the shire for Huntingdonshire in January and October, 1404 and again in 1406, when he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons. He represented Somerset in 1414.

He was appointed Treasurer of the Household (1406–1408), Chief Butler of England in 1407, Treasurer of the Exchequer (1408–1409), Seneschal of Aquitaine (1415–1423), Councillor of Regency to Henry VI (1422–1443) and Lord Steward of the Household (1426–1432).

On 7 January 1426 he was summoned to the House of Lords whereby he was created Baron Tiptoft.

Marriage and progeny

John Tiptoft married twice, leaving progeny by his 2nd marriage only:

Firstly, before 24 February 1408, to a widow, Philippa Talbot (c. 1367–1417), daughter of Sir John Talbot, of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire. They had no issue.
He married secondly, by royal licence^[2] dated 28 February 1422, to Joyce Charleton (c. 1404–1446), the younger daughter and co-heiress of Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Cherleton by his first wife Eleanor Holland, a descendant of King Edward I. By Joyce Charleton he had the following children:
- John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester (1427–1470), whose only son Edward Tiptoft, 2nd Earl of Worcester died in 1485, a minor without issue.
- Philippa Tiptoft (c.1423 - after January 1487), married Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros (1427–1464).
- Joanna Tiptoft (c.1425 - 1494), married, in 1435, Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe (c1421 - 1456), of Burgh Green, Cambridgeshire.
- Joyce Tiptoft (aft.1425 – c.1470^[3]), married Sir Edmund Sutton.^[4]

Death and burial

Sir John, 1st Lord Tiptoft, was buried at Enfield in Middlesex, early in February 1443.

Notes

↑ As for example quartered by the Barons Scrope of Bolton, (the 2nd baron (d.1403) married one of the co-heiresses of Robert Tiptoft, 3rd Baron Tibetot (d.1372)) to be seen in quarterings of John Wyndham (1558-1645), Watchet Church, Somerset
↑ Royal licence required for marriages of heiress and widows of a tenant-in-chief
↑ Ward, J.S.M. (1912). Brasses. p. 27. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
↑ Lee 1920, p. 90.

References

History of Parliament TIPTOFT, Sir John (d.1443) of Burwell, Cambs
"Complete Peerage" by G. E. Cokayne, et al.
"Magna Carta Ancestry" by Douglas Richardson, Baltimore, Md., 2005.
Lee, James Wideman (1920). The geography of genius. Fleming H Revell, Co. p. 90.

External links

thePeerage.com

Political offices
Preceded by Sir William Esturmy	Speaker of the House of Commons 1405–1406	Succeeded by Thomas Chaucer
Preceded by Nicholas Bubwith	Lord High Treasurer 1408–1410	Succeeded by The Lord Scrope of Masham
Preceded by Thomas Chaucer	Chief Butler of England 1434–1443	Succeeded by The Lord Wenlock
Peerage of England
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Tiptoft 1426–1443	Succeeded by John Tiptoft

Speakers of the House of Commons

House of Commons
of England

14th century	Hungerford De la Mare Pickering Guildesborough Waldegrave Pickering Bussy Cheney Doreward Savage Redford

15th century	Esturmy Tiptoft Chaucer Stourton Hungerford Chaucer Redman Beauchamp Flower Hunt Chaucer Baynard Russell Walton Vernon Tyrell Alington Bowes Burley Tresham Say Popham Oldhall Thorpe Charlton Wenlock Tresham Green Strangeways Wood Catesby Lovell Mordaunt Fitzwilliam Empson Drury Englefield

16th century	Dudley Sheffield Nevill More Audley Wingfield Rich Hare Moyle Baker Dyer Pollard Broke Higham Cordell Gargrave Williams Onslow Wray Bell Popham Puckering Snagge Coke Yelverton

17th century	Croke Phelips Crewe Richardson Crewe Finch Finch Glanville Lenthall Pelham Rous (Barebones Parliament) Widdrington (2nd Protectorate Parliament) Chute (3rd Protectorate Parliament) Long (3rd Protectorate Parliament) Bampfield (3rd Protectorate Parliament) Grimston Turnour Charlton Seymour Sawyer Gregory Williams Trevor Powle Foley Littleton

18th century	Harley Smith

House of Commons
of Great Britain

18th century	Smith R. Onslow Bromley Hanmer Compton A. Onslow Cust Norton Cornwall Grenville Addington

House of Commons
of the United Kingdom

19th century	Addington Mitford Abbot Manners-Sutton Abercromby Shaw-Lefevre Denison Brand Peel Gully

20th century	Lowther Whitley FitzRoy Brown Morrison Hylton-Foster King Lloyd Thomas Weatherill Boothroyd

21st century	Martin Bercow

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