George Guildford

circa 1477 - After 1534  (~ 58 years)

• Name	George Guildford  [1]
  Born	circa 1477  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Office	Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII  [1]
  Office	1523–24  [2]
  	Sheriff of Kent
  Residence	Rolvenden, Kent, England   [1]
  Residence	Benenden, Kent, England   [1]
  Residence	Martel's Hall, Ardleigh, Essex, England   [1]
  	jure uxoris [1] He and his wife sold the manor of Martel's Hall to William Mannock in 1528. [2]
  Residence	Great Bromley, Essex, England   [1]
  	jure uxoris [1]
  Residence	Ashfield, Suffolk, England   [1]
  	jure uxoris [1]
  Died	After 1534  [2]
  Person ID	I713	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	6 Aug. 2018

  
  

  Father	Sir Richard Guildford
  Mother	Anne Pympe
  Family ID	F391	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Mortimer,   b. circa 1475–8
  Married	After 14 July 1487  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Sir John Guildford,   b. Before 1508,   d. 5 July 1565  (Age ~ 57 years)   2. Mary Guildford   3. Anne Guildford
  Last Modified	5 Aug. 2018
  Family ID	F390	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Guildford Or a saltire between four martlets Sable. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 433.

  
  

• Notes

  In 1509 he was indebted to the king. [2] In 1522 he was one of the gentlemen in the train of Cardinal Wolsey when he went to meet the Emperor Charles V at Dover. [2] He owed the Crown £100 in 1523, and it was ordered that the sum be collected from his lands. [2] In 1524 he and his brother, Henry, had a license to export 1000 woolen cloths annually. [2] Sources cited in Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), volume 2, page 181: Morant, Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex, 1 (1768): 441. Watson, Tendring Hundred in the Olden Time (1877): 161–164. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 69. Grubb, Notes of Ardleigh & Its Neighbourhood (1905). Benolte & Cooke, Vis. of Kent 1530–1, 1574, & 1592, 1 (H.S.P. 74) (1923): 11 (1530–1 Vis.) (Guyldeforde ped.: "Master George Guyldeforde = Elsabeth d. to Robert Mortym[er] of Essex") (Guildford arms: Or, a saltire between four martlets sable), 77 (Add'l Peds.) (Guildford ped.: "George Guldeford = Elizabeth dau. and heire of Sire Robert Mortimer"). Davis, Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 85–96. Feet of Fines for Essex, 4 (1964): 166. [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., Douglas Richardson, (2011), volume 2, page 180. [S15] Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed., Douglas Richardson, (2011), volume 2, page 181.