Individual Details

Richard KEYES, of Brockley, Lewisham, & of St Radigund's, Kent, was recorded in 1520 as owing rental to the Lord of Lewisham on a croft called Mabellforde, which had belonged to his father Thomas KAYS (died 1525). He served first in Calais; then as Yeoman to Queen Catherine of Aragon, in 1523; & was appointed Sergeant-at-Arms to Henry VIII in 1528. He was of Folkestone, Kent, when granted, 10 May 1538, the lease of the house, site & certain lands of the dissolved Monastery of St Radigund, Co Kent, for 21 years at a yearly rental of £13 10s. & 8d. He was appointed Commissioner for Works, Master of Works, & Paymaster, for the building of Sandgate Castle, 1539-43. He was succeeded as Captain of Sandgate Castle, on his death in December 1545, by his son Thomas
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Birth	1500	Brockley, Kent, England
Christen	1500	Greenwich, Kent, England
Marriage	1522	Brockley, Kent, England -
Death	1545	England
Alt name		Richard KEY
Alt name		Richard Stockard lll KEY
Alt name		Richard KEYES

Child

Sir Thomas Martin KEYES Royal Gatekeeper "Sergeant Porter" to Elizabeth ( - 1578)

Father	Thomas John KEYE (1471 - 1571)
Mother	Margaret NADEM (1473 - 1525)