Thomas Clopton

• Preferred Name: Thomas Clopton^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: Thomas de Cloptone
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 12 OCT 1383 in Long Melford, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.0898 LONG: E0.7277 with note: Family Records
  
• Birth: ABT 1321 in Long Melford, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.0898 LONG: E0.7277 with note: No UK in 1300s
  
• Burial: OCT 1383 in Kentwell, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.0667 LONG: E0.7167 with note: Chipley Priory
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Knight of Kentwell in Kentwell, Suffolk, England at LATI: N2.0667 LONG: E0.7167
  
• FSID: KC5S-F59
  
• Notes:

  === !From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 ===
  !From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Sir Thomas DE CLOPTONE signed a will on ===
  Sir Thomas DE CLOPTONE signed a will on 8 Mar 1382. He died before 12 Oct 1383. He was born in Kentwell Hall, Long Medford, County Suffolk, England. He was buried in Chipley Priory, England Sir Thomas de Cloptone was the son of Walter De Cloptone of Wickhambrook and his first wife Alice FitzHugh. The date of his birth is not known, but his will was dated March 8, 1382 and proved October 12, 1383. The identity of his first wife has never been found and they had no children. He married in his old age Dame Katherine Mylde. Katherine was the daughter and heiress of William Mylde, Esq. of Clare, County Suffolk. She brought to the marriage the large estate of Lutons and Kentwell. Sir Thomas and Dame Katherine had one child, William de Cloptone who inherited Kentwell Estate at his mother's death in 1403. Sir Thomas lived only one year after his marriage to Dame Katherine. A free translation of his will states his wish "To be buried in St. Mary's Chippeleye in choir between my mother's and wife's graves." Sir Thomas and Dame Katherine left a legacy of some ten manors in all. Among them the Manor of Toppesfield in the Town of Hadleigh; lands and tenements in Schymplyngg, Appleton; Chyppeleye (Manor of Clopton Hall or Chapperley Manor), and Poselyngworth. The Kentwell Estate comprises half a dozen manors. The principal manorial residence was called at that time by different names and causes some confusion. The name Kentwell Hall did not become fixed until nearly 200 years after Sir Thomas' death. In Domesday Book (1086) the old english name was Kanewella (a place where springs rise or well up to the surface) is listed, its first owner was Frodo. Frodo was the brother of the first Abbot of what became the great Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. It was also referred to as "Lutons," "Luton Hall," and "Place of Lutons." Records indicate the manor was eventually sold by Frodo's heirs to a family who took Kentwell as their name as was customary. The de Kentwells owned the man or until 12 50 when it came into the hands of King Henry III. King Henry III grated it to his half brother Sir William de Valence. After his death in 1296 the Manor, now comprising some 440 acres was passed to his son Aymer de Valence, nicknamed 'Joseph the Jew.' At his death in 1323 the Manor passed to Aymer's relative by marriage, David de Strabolgie, 2nd Earl of Athol who sold it to Sir Robert Gower. Sr. Gower held the estate for a brief period, selling it to his kinsman, the poet, John Gower. In 1373 he sold it to the trustees of Dame Katherine. After Sir Thomas' death, Dame Katherine took as her second husband Sir William de Tendring of Stoke-by-Nayland. It was from this marriage some descendants of William Clopton, Gentleman, and Ann (Booth) Dennett are linked through both the Clopton-Mylde and Mylde-de Tendring lines. Through this marriage she became the distant grandmother of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Katherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I. Dame Katherine, who died in 1403, is buried at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Stoke-by-Nyland, Suffolk. Their memorial brasses are among the finest in England. SOURCE: http://www.gencircles.com/users/lamb2u2/1/data/1910
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === SOURCE: Ancestral File (TM)-ver. 4.17 16 ===
  SOURCE: Ancestral File (TM)-ver. 4.17 16 Mar 1997 SOURCE: Cindy Richardson E-mail: cyntrich@earthlink.net 17 March 2001 Notes from Cindy: Sir Thomad de Cloptone, of Kentwell in Long Melford, County Suffolk, Knt., second son of Walter de Cloptone of Wichhambrook and Alice his first wife, died the 6th Richard II. In his will dated 8 March 1382, proved 12 October 1383, he requests "to be buryed by mother and first wife in Shipley Priory." Sir Thomas in his old age marred as his second wife Katherine, daughter and heiress of William Mylde of Clare, County Suffolk, Esq., who brought him the large estate of Lutons and Kentwell. But the Cloptones had settled in Suffolk before Sir Thomas acquired this property through marriage. At the time of his death and for nearly two hundred years after, the manorial residence was called "Lutons". In wills and documents of successive Cloptons, constant mention is made of "the Hall" or "Place of Lutons," as a dwelling place of the family. Katherine died in 1403, before her father William Mylde, and at her death by will "the Manor of Kentwelle Halle" passed to her eldest son William, by her first husband Sir Thomas de Cloptone the manor of Kentwelle Halle, if he does ot contest my will and all the lands and tenements called Lutons; a piece of silver, or coverd cup with six silver shells; a bed of white worsted stained with figures of men and women, and another bed and mattress; a pris napking, with a long twell with the same workmanship; a green vestment for a chaplin; a missel; and a book called a byble (in manuscript); a piece of silver called a Stondynggepec (quesry, standing piece) with a cover, head of a leopard; and a chest called the great Cofre, &C.
  
  Sir Thomas Clopton and Katherine Mylde are depicted in stained glass in Holy Trinity Church at Long Melford.
  
  === Sir Thomas de Cloptone, of Kentwell in ===
  Sir Thomas de Cloptone, of Kentwell in Long Melford, County Suffolk, Knt., second son of Walter de Cloptone of Wichhambrook and Alice his first wife, died the 6th Richard II. In his will dated 8 March 1382, proved 12 October 1383, he requests " to be buryed by mother and first wife in Shipley Priory." Sir Thomas in his old age married as his second wife Katherine, daughter and heiress of William Mylde of Clare, County Suffolk, Esq., who brought him the large estate of Lutons and Kentwell. But the Cloptones had been settled in Suffolk before Sir Thomas acquired this property through marriage. At the time of his death and for nearly two hundred years after, the manorial residence was called "Lutons," In wills and documents of successive Cloptons, constant mention is made of "the Hall" or "Place of Lutons," as a dwelling place of the family. Katherine died in 1403, before her father William Mylde, and at her death by will "the Manor of Kentwelle Halle" passed to her eldest son William, by her first husband Sir Thomas de Cloptone the manor of Kentwelle Halle, if he does not contest my will and all the lands and tenements called Lutons; a piece of silver, or coverd cup with six silver shells; a bed of white worsted stained with figures of men and women, and another bed and mattress; a pris napkin, with a long towell with the same workmanship; a green vestment for a chaplin; a missel; and a book called a byble (in manuscript); a piece of silver called a Stondynggepec ( quesry, standing piece) with a cover, head of a leopard; and a chest called rhe great Cofre, &C.
  
  === !Red book #6, sec 1, chart 99. Will date ===
  !Red book #6, sec 1, chart 99. Will dated 14 Oct 1530. Chart 100. Will dated 8 Mar 1382; Proved 12 Oct 1383. Red book 1.
  
  === Bloodline ===
  Through past genealogy studies I've learned that through Katherine and Sir Thomas is a direct bloodline to the Queen. Another direct bloodline is through Ann Booth.
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.44, 49;
  
  === !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
  !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === !File cabinet, top drawer, sec C. ===
  !File cabinet, top drawer, sec C.

• m. ABT 1379 in Clare, Suffolk, England

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: "Sir" Thomas De Cloptone - birth-name: Thomas Clopton
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2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: "Sir" Thomas De Cloptone -
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   Note: Source Media Type: Other death: Source Media Type: Other birth: about 1335; Kentwell, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom Source Media Type: Other burial: ; Chipley, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Source Media Type: Other
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3. Title: Kentwell Hall
   Author: On a site for the house
   Publication: Name: http://kentwell.co.uk/the history;
   Note: Kentwell Hall was home for the Cloptons for three hundred years. It is a functioning castle where events are held currently. Long Melford is the town Kentwell Hall is in. They say in the Cloprons day the town was supported by wool
   
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5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: "Sir" Thomas De Cloptone -
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