Individual Details

Found on the website www.historyofparliamentonline.org:
"The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History"
Members 1386-1421
Sir Richard Waldegrave of Walgrave, Northants and Smallbridge in Bures St. Mary, Suffolk.

Sir Richard was the son of a previous Sir Richard who died about 1339 and was married to Agnes Daubeney. He married Joan, who died 10 Jun 1406, probably the daughter of Sir Richard Sutton of Navestock, Essex, and the widow of Sir Robert Bures (died 1361) of Bures St. Mary. Knighted by Jun 1365.

Served in many capacities in Parliament, including Speaker (1381) from 1376 until 1390. He represented Suffolk. He was the steward of the estates of Queen Anne in Norfolk and Suffolk 1382-1387. He served on Richard II's Council from November 1393-1397. He was sent to envoy with the Sctos in 1396.

Richard succeeded to his father's Lincolnshire lands, as well as family estates in Northamptonshire including the property at Walgrave [probably the origin of the surname]. He made his home at Bures St. Mary - his wife held for her lifetime the Bures manors. They resided at Smallbridge and later Richard purchased residences in London.

As a young Richard served in the family of de Bohun retaining ties to that family for a lifetime. He was retained both by William de Bohun, earl of Northampton and his son Humphrey. In 1361 he went with his lord against the heathen and fought the Turks - Waldegrave was present at Attalia when the treaty was signed in 1364, and was a party to the taking of Alexandria the next year. He was a knight in Humphrey's retinue. and before the earl's death in 1371, he was granted the manor of Brundon in Suffolk. He later transferred the property to endow a chantry at Sudbury in the earl's memory.

After Richard II banished the Archbishop Arundel and had Gloucester murdered, Waldegrave withdrew from public service. His very close friend were Thomas Coggeshall and John Doreward of Bocking, retainers of Gloucester who became members of the Council of Henry IV after Richard was deposed in 1399.

In 1403, Waldegrave and Archbishop Arundel acting as survivors of the de Bohun estates, conveyed the manor of Margaret Roding of Essex to Henry IV for the endowment of the great hall of Oxford University.

He made his will on 22 Apr 1410, died on the 2nd of May. He was buried next to his wife in the parish church of Bures St. Mary. His heir was his son, also Richard, who had been knighted prior to 1391.

Birth	1338
Marriage	Ca 1363	Joan Sutton
Death	2 May 1410	Bures Saint Mary, Suffolk, England

Spouse	Joan Sutton ( - 1406)
Child	Sir Richard de Waldegrave (1380 - )
Child	Margaret "Margery" de Waldegrave (1387 - )

Father	Sir Richard de Waldegrave (1303 - 1339)
Mother	Agnes D'Aubigny ( - )