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Life History

before 1425	Born
6th Nov 1429	Misc in Henry VI crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey
30th May 1431	Misc in Duke of Bedford had Joan of Arc tried and executed at Rouen
before 1443	Married Matilda
1443	Misc in Granted a tenement with the adjoining garden in Lichfield, in 'Robestrett
between 1446 and 1452	Resident in Lichfield, Staffordshire
1452	Misc in Defending and victualling Roxburgh castle with Sir William Nevill
before 1461	Birth of son William RYPYNGTON in Lichfield, Staffordshire
before 1461	Birth of son Thomas RYPYNGTON in Lichfield, Staffordshire
4th Mar 1461	Misc in King Edward IV - 1st Yorkist King His cousin was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
after 1462	Birth of daughter Joane REPINGTON
after 1462	Birth of daughter Grace REPINGTON
after 1462	Birth of son John REPINGTON
before 1462	Married Emme THURSTON
1462	Resident in Little Amington, Tamworth, Staffordshire / Warwickshire
18th Apr 1462	Misc in William Repyngton sued William Warrewyke
29th Oct 1465	Misc in William Repyngton and Emma  remit all right to land at Lichfield
1468	Misc in recovered Amington Hall
3rd Oct 1470	Misc in Edward IV died at Westminster
30th Oct 1470	Misc in King Henry VI
11th Apr 1471	Misc in Henry VI died in the Tower of London
11th Apr 1471	Misc in King Edward V
9th Apr 1483	Misc in Edward V died in the Tower of London
26th Jun 1483	Misc in King Richard III
22nd Aug 1485	Misc in King Henry VII - 1st Tudor King
22nd Aug 1485	Misc in Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth
after 1490	Death of Matilda in Coventry, West Midlands / Warwickshire
21st Apr 1509	Misc in Henry VII died
21st Apr 1509	Misc in King Henry VIII
1512	Died

Notes

• In 1468 William Repington recovered Amington Hall against John Harecourt and Margaret his wife, one heir of John Broun of Lichfield, and Richard Ruggeley, the other heir.
• William Repington died in 1511 seised of Amington Hall and was succeeded by his grandson William, who in 1533 settled a messuage in Amington on his son Francis and his wife Maud daughter of Richard Cotton.
• The National Archives
  3764/10  1492
  Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Staffordshire Record Office
  Contents:
  Gift by John Gravener al. Belleter of Bitterscote to Richard Broten, Edward Wystowe, Richard Sulley, Thomas Barker, Richard ?Washales, Robert ----- (illegible), Ralph Meyne, John Chaar and John Irpe of a cottage with appurtances in Bitterscote with all his lands, tenements, meadows, pastures and pasturage in the lordship of Drayton Bassett.
  Witnesses: John Cumberford, esq., William Repyngton, gent., Nicholas Rugeley, Thomas Rydesdale and others.
  12 December 8 Henry VII (1492)
  Drayton Bassett nr. Tamworth
• The University of Nottingham
  Ref Mi D 4148
  Gift in fee simple. Location: Kingsbury, Warwickshire
  14 March 1462
  Agreement whereby Richard Bracebrugge armiger, son and heir of Ralph Bracebrugge gives his manor of Kingsbury with appurtenances to Ralph Butler dominus of Sudeley, Lord William Hastings, Sir Thomas Ferrers, Henry Ferrers, Richard and Robert Willoughby, William Harecourte, William Lisle and Nicholas Ruggeley with all lands and tenements, rents and reversions which he lately holds from the demise and confirmation of Sir William Mountford, Sir Maurice Barkeley and Robert Stoke.
  Terms: To be held by the 9 grantees, their heirs and assigns in perpetuity as capital demesne fee for service thence due and by right accustomed.
  Date: 14th day of March, 2 Edward IV.
  Witness: Repyngton, William, gentleman, fl 1462 (of Little Amington) & Breton, John, gentleman, fl 1462 (of Tamworth) & Lancashire, Thomas, vicar of Kingsbury, fl 1462-1475 & Clowis, Henry, parson of Baxterley, fl 1462 & Bradbourne, John, fl 1462
  Latin "Living" - fl. = Floruit Date
• Author: Bonyngton, William.
  Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1443.
  Physical description: 1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 128 x 266 mm.
  Summary: Charter granting William Bonyngton's power of attorney to William Robert to deliver seisin in lands in Kingston (here spelled Kynston, north of Sutton Bonington), in Nottinghamshire, to Henry Bothe, William Repyngton, Nicholas Hill clericus, and Richard Neell. Written in Kynston in May 1443 (twenty-first regnal year of Henry VI), with a seal tag formed from the bottom edge of the document and remnants of a red wax seal.
  Subject: Robert, William.
  Real property - England - Nottinghamshire.
  Nottinghamshire (England) - History.
  Manuscript location: Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Pennsylvania Misc Mss
• www.british-history.ac.uk
  Staffordshire Fines: Edward IV and Richard III', Staffordshire Historical Collections, vol. 11 (1890), pp. 238-242.
  No. 3. At a month from the Day of St. Michael. 5 E. IV.
  [October 29th 1465]
  Between William Fyssher, complainant, and William Repyngton, of Little Amyngton, and Emma his wife, deforciants of seven messuages and six acres of land in Lichfeld.
  William Repyngton and Emma remit all right to William Fyssher and his heirs, for which William Fyssher gave them 40 marks of silver.
• Collections for a history of Staffordshire
  DE BANCO. EASTER, 2 E. IV.
  122 EXTRACTS FROM THE PLEA ROLLS.
  Staff. William Repyngton sued William Warrewyke, late of Hopewas,
  laborer, for breaking into his close at Hopewas. The defendant did not
  appeal 1 , and the Sheriff was ordered to arrest and produce him on the
  Octaves of Holy Trinity, m. 196.
  [18 April 1462]
• Grant  CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/216  16 Jun 1443
  Former reference: CCA-DCc-ChAnt/L/216
  1 document
  Parchment, 1m, seal, plica stained
  Contents:
  From: John Ridware of Lichfield, junior To: William Repyngton' junior; Matilda, wife of William Repyngton' junior A tenement with the adjoining garden in the town ('villa') of Lichfield in a street called 'Robestrette', between John's tenement and a tenement of the chantry of Colwich ('cantaria de Colwyche'), now in the tenure of John Botiller, goldsmith.
  Given at Lichfield [Staffordshire]. Witnesses: John Yate, bailiff of Lichfield ('ballivus dicte ville'); Robert Barre, rector of 'Northehope'; Thomas Palmer; John Favyll' Endorsed 'de domo in robestrete' in 15th cent hand.
• 1446 Willm's Repyngton, Armig.
  Adm. Joh'es Gryffyn, Miles.
  Alicia, ux. Willm's Repyngton, Armigeri.
  Willms Repyngton, Junior.
  Armigeri = Esquire
  uxorem = Wife
  Miles = soldier
• Calendar of documents relating to Scotland, preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London (Volume 5).
  1452
  4958 December 3
  William Repyngton, lately of Lychefeld in Staffordshire, junior, esquire, defending and victualling Roxburgh castle with Sir William Nevill, lord Faucomberge, one of the captains of that castle, one year [ibid] [Rank only in Rot. Scot., ii, 370).
  Victualling - to supply with provisions.
  Roxburgh castle near Kelso, in the Borders region of Scotland.

Sources

• 1. The National Archives
  • (secondary evidence)
• 2. British History Online
  • (secondary evidence)
• 3. Collections for a history of Staffordshire
• 4. Lychfeld Repyngtons to Rippingtons
  • (secondary evidence)
• 5. Repingtons Warwickshire
  • (secondary evidence)