625028. Lord Ralph Ropere & 625029. Beatrice Lewknor
~1350, Ralph Roper born in Kent, England, heir & s/o 1250056. John Ropere.
~1350, Beatrix born in England, d/o §§Thomas Lewknor.
[––Ralph &
Beatrice––]
Ralph 1st married Beatrice.
4/19/1381, Debtor: Richard Skippe of Canterbury [Kent]. Creditor:
Nicholas Spicer of Canterbury, and Ralph Roper of Westgate next to Canterbury
[Kent]. Amount £5. (S) UKNA.
11/27/1385, Debtor: John Wenston of Sandwich in Kent. Creditor:
Ralph Roper of Westgate next to Canterbury [Kent]. Amount £140. (S) UKNA.
[––Ralph–]
Ralph married 2nd Alice, d/o Thomas Kempe of Wye.
11/15/1390, Debtor: Thomas Lovechamp of Herne {Hierne} in
Kent. Creditor: John Thorndown, chaplain, and Ralph Roper [of Kent]. Amount
£40. (S) UKNA.
6/30/1396, “From: John Collay; Edmund Langle; John
Sheldwych; John Pirie; Richard Cook, chaplain; Robert William; Edmund son of
Ralph Ropere To: John Ropere of Westgate 6 acres of meadow in Hackington at
'Stoursete', …”. (S) UKNA.
9/30/1399, Henry IV succeeded Richard II as King of England.
1401, John Ropere of the parish of St. Dunstans in his will
100s to Edmund Roper, son of Ralph Ropere. Ralph Roper and his son Edmund Roper
named executors.
6/10/1401, John Ropere of Westgate by Canterbury to Ralph
Ropere, John Rollynge and Edmund son of the said Ralph, their heirs and
assigns. Quitclaim with warranty of all the manors, lands, farms, rents and
reversions in Kent which they have by his late feoffment. (S) CCRs.
1401-02, Ralph’s father died.
1402, “Ralph Ropere, John Rollyng, and Edmund son of the
said Ralph, to found a chantry at the altar of St. Nicholas in the church of
St. Dunstan without Westgate, Canterbury, and to endow it with a messuage in
the said parish of St. Dunstan, and rent charged on the manor of Chestfield and
on lands in Whitstable, Swalecliffe, and Herne. Kent.” (S) UKNA.
2/8/1408, John Yonge to Peter Halle, his heirs and assigns.
Charter with warranty of all the lands, rents, reversions and services in
Hierne in the borrow (bergha) of Haghe co. Kent which the grantor had by
feoffment of Ralph Roper, John Rollynge the elder and Edmund Roper. (S) CCRs.
By 1422, Ralph died. (S) UKNA, Record of sons John and
Edmund.
(S) Collins Peerage of England, 1812, P78. (S) Hist. of
Kent, V1, 1797, Eltham.
Children of Ralph and
Beatrice:
i. Edmund Roper (312514), born ~1375 in Kent, England.
ii. John Roper, born ? in Kent, England.
1407-56, “Adam Beggynden and Henry Anger (or ? Auger). v.
John and Edmund Roper: Tenements in Whitstable parcel of the manor of
Chestvyle. (Petition for examination of Katherine Burgh, sometime the wife of
Edmund Roper, as to whether Ralph Roper, grandfather of defendants, was a
bastard).: Kent.” (S) UKNA.
4/6/1428, John Ropere, … collectors of the sufsidy in
Sussex. (S) CFRs.
Child of Ralph and
Alice:
i. Alice Roper, born ~1405 in Kent, England.
Alice married Henry Anger, s/o
312520. Henry Aucher & 312521. Elizabeth Dygge.
ii. Jane Roper, born ~1407 in Kent, England.
Jane married Adam Beggenden.
iii. Thomas Roper, born ~1410 in Kent, England.
Thomas became Archdeacon of Richmond.
By 1433, Plaintiffs: Henry Anger and Alice his wife, and
Adam Beggenden and Jane his wife. Defendants: Thomas Kempe, archdeacon of
Richmond, and his half brethren, John and Edmund Roper. Subject: Divers oppressions:
(petition for a writ of `dedimus potestateum' to examine divers aged
witnesses): Kent. (S) UKNA.
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