some historical family members
Interesting historical sidelights on our ancestors from the Royal Rolls & Public Record Office documents
Signs of influence & affluence
Nicholas de Topclyve born circa 1260, son of Nicholas, great-grandson of Herveus. He accompanied his kinsman Lord Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland, to Berwick for Edward I's Scottish invasion while his brother Peter de Topclyve stayed behind in Richmond, Yorkshire, as guardian of Henry's son & heir John de Percy; the other official guardians were the King himself & Richard de Dyne.
Our very own Robin Hood …..
1298 Edward I pardoned Richard de Topclyve, styled“of Sussex county” , for having taken the king’s deer in the forests of Sherwood, Inglewood & Galtrey (Yorkshire / Nottingham counties) & “for sundry homicides” .So killing deer was worse than killing people !! (Sussex is as far south from Yorkshire as you can get!)
…and his worst enemy
1417(2 years after the Battle of Agincourt)
John Topclyff, undersheriff of Nottinghamshire, and others broke down the bridge and moat at the manor of Kingshagh, and diverted a mill course.
Victim of the Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler & John Ball
1381 William de Topclyve of Maidstone, Kent, ancestor of almost all Kentish Topley’s & Tapley’s, was murdered by the same mob who killed his employer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Royal torturer & hounder of Catholic priests
1600sRichard Topcliffe of Yorkshire was employed by Walsingham, Elizabeth I’s spymaster, to hunt down catholic priests throughout England. Richard had his own torture chamber in his London house.
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