Harvey, Nicholas

Harvey, Nicholas

Male 1425 - 1471  (46 years)

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  • Name Harvey, Nicholas  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born 1425  Calstock, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Gender Male 
    Residence of Eastbury-in-Godalming, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 4 May 1471  Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    • He died in the Battle of Tewkesbury, War of Roses.
    Buried Bradford, Torridge District, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    • Bradford, All Saints Churchyard
    Person ID I30957  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 

    Father Harvey, Richard,   d. Bef 2 Nov 1429 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Lanhidrake, Margaret St. Bony of 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F11436  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Scoville, Elizabeth 
    Children 
     1. Harvey, Humphrey,   b. 1455,   d. 5 Mar 1516, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2022 
    Family ID F11432  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1425 - Calstock, Cornwall, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - - of Eastbury-in-Godalming, Surrey Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 4 May 1471 - Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Bradford, Torridge District, Devon, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the Years 1531 and 1573, page 28
    The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the Years 1531 and 1573, page 28

    Documents
    Dictionary of Harveys (Humphrey Harvey ancestors)
    Dictionary of Harveys (Humphrey Harvey ancestors)

    Histories
    Nicholas Harvey Story
    Nicholas Harvey Story

  • Notes 
    • History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: . Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, page 447:
      Hervey (Harvey), Humphrey (1455-1516); of Bristol. M.P. Wells 1483 Jan, 1485-6, 1489-90. S. of Nicholas Hervey M.P. (1425-71) by Elizabeth (Scofield); m. (1) Agnes da. of John atte Water of Wells M.P., and (2) Elizabeth Hawkys, widow who survived him. Witnessed a Wells deed 1480, but never admtd. to freedom of Wells

      History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: . Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, page 448:

      HERVEY, Sir (?) NICHOLAS (I425- 71); of Eastbury in Godalming, Surrey. Recorder of Bristol. Lawyer. M.P. Launceston 1449 (I); Hindon 1459, 1467-8. Lancastnan.

      S. of Richard Hervey, M.P. Lostwithiel, who was s. of Robert Hervey of Lostwithiel; m. Elizabeth, da. and coho of John Scofield. He lived at Eastbury, Surrey, which manor belonged to the family of Brocas and his wife's sis. m. Humphrey Brocas. As these ladies, Elizabeth and Eleanor: were das. and cohs. of John Scofield of Brackley near Bristol, the editor of the Hervey Dictionary concludes that the Members for Launceston and Rindon were identical with the Nicholas Hervey who was Recorder of Bristol and the Sir Nicholas Hervey slain at Tewkesbury.3

      J.P. Surrey, of the quorum, 4 July 1458 to 24 Dec. 1460; on Surrey comns., issued by the Lancastrian party in 1459 and 1460; on a Devon comn. in 1464, and Bristol comns. in 1468 and 1469. He was sued by a priest called Henry Ward as " of Betteshanger" for falsifying deeds of lands in Northboume, Kent, in 1453, and a Nicholas Hervey, gent., was a feoffee for lands in Hants in 1469 .
      In Warkworth's Chronicle (p. 18) Sir Nicholas Hervey was killed at Tewkesbury. , 4 May 1471. He may have been knighted immediately before the battle.

      3. Hervey Dictionary, No. 2029.

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      From "The architectural antiquities of the city of Wells" by John Henry Parker, 1866:

      William Gascoigne, Esq., of Bridgwater, who was elected one of the representatives in parliament for that town in 1413, and whose son, "William Gascoigne, lived in Wells, and represented the city in parliament, having been chosen to fill that office in 1447. In 1417, William Gascoigne the elder purchased one-third of the manor of Newton Placey, in the parish of North Petherton, near Bridgwater, of John de Garton, a descendant of Emma, one of the three sisters and co-heiresses of Sir Richard de Placetis, from whose family the name of the manor, Placey, or Placetis, was derived. William Gascoigne, the son, married Johane, daughter of Robert Bavent, and widow of Humphrey* Scovell, lord of the manor of Brockley, Somerset, and by whom she had three daughters, her co-heiresses. Elizabeth, the third daughter, married Sir Nicholas Harvey, whose son and heir, Humphrey Harvey, was elected member of parliament for "Wells in 1482, and 1488. He was a man of great wealth and importance, having married Agnes, daughter of John Attewater, Esq., of Wells, whose extensive estates in Wells and other parts of Somersetshire he thus acquired. As a proof of the local influence of this John Attewater, it may be mentioned that he was M.P. for Wells 23 Edward IV. and 1 Richard II., and Mayor of the city no less than ten times between the years 1453 and 1485.

      *note from M. Hervey: to be consistent with "The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the Years 1531 and 1573, Together with Additional Pedigrees, Chiefly from the Visitation of 1591" this should read "widow of Joh. Scoffeilde"

  • Sources 
    1. [S954] The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623, Sir Henry Saint-George, Sir Henry St. George, Samson Lennard, William Camden, (Name: Harleian Society; Date: 1876;), page 47.

    2. [S955] The Visitations of the County of Somerset, in the Years 1531 and 1573, Together with Additional Pedigrees, Chiefly from the Visitation of 1591, Thomas Benolt, Robert Cooke, (Name: Heraldry; Date: 1885;).

    3. [S953] History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: . Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, Anne Holt, Josiah Clement Wedgwood, Great Britain. Parliament. Committee on History of Parliament, (Name: H.M. Stationery Off; Date: 1936;), page 447.

    4. [S1104] Dictionary of the Herveys of all classes, callings, counties, and spellings from 1040 to 1500, Hervey, Sydenham Henry Augustus, 1846-, (Name: W.E. Harrison; Location: Ipswich, England; Date: 1925-1929;), Volume IV, pages 29-43.

    5. [S760] FindAGrave.com, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
      Record for Sir Nicholaas Harvey

    6. [S957] History of Parliament ... 1439-1509: . Biographies of the Members of the Commons House, Anne Holt, Josiah Clement Wedgwood, Great Britain. Parliament. Committee on History of Parliament, (Name: H.M. Stationery Off; Location: London; Date: 1936;), page 447.