Fettiplace

Fettiplace is an English family name, allegedly of Norman descent, originating with a now extinct landed gentry family chiefly of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, from which came a baronetical line, also extinct.[1]

English family

The first recorded member of the Fettiplace family was Adam Feteplace or Fettiplace, Mayor of Oxford for eleven terms between 1245 and 1268. His family lived at North Denchworth in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).[2] An increase in their status occurred with the marriage of Thomas Fettiplace (d. 1442), of East Shefford, Berkshire (the exact nature of whose descent from Adam Fettiplace has not been established) and Beatrix, widow of Gilbert, 5th Lord Talbot;[3] she was a probable illegitimate descendant of the Royal House of Portugal.[4] Their tomb is in the parish church. [5]

Their three sons were William, of Stokenchurch, Oxfordshire, James, of Maidencourt, Berkshire, and John. William Fettiplace's only child, Sybella, was great-grandmother of Sir Edward Unton, who married Anne Seymour, Countess of Warwick, cousin of King Edward VI. James Fettiplace's last descendant after four generations was mother of Sir William Dunch, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, and aunt of the regicide Oliver Cromwell. John Fettiplace was a London draper, who became a member of the household of Henry VI and carried the insignia of the Order of the Garter to the King of Portugal.[6] He possessed the manors of East Shefford and of New Langport, Kent.[7]

John Fettiplace had four sons- Richard, Anthony, Thomas, and William, and a daughter, Margaret. From Richard and Anthony descend all branches of the landed Fettiplace family aside from the original family of North Denchworth; all of these branches were extinct by 1806.[8]

  • Richard Fettiplace (died 1510), of Shefford, married Elizabeth, daughter of William Besils, of Besselsleigh (then also 'Besils Leigh'), Berkshire. This estate remained in the family for five generations, then sold on the extinction of this line; a branch of this family were the Fettiplaces of Fernham, Berkshire, also extinct by 1720. One of its members was the politician John Fettiplace.[9]
  • William Fettiplace, of Letcombe, Berkshire, married Elizabeth Waring, widow of John Kentwood, but had no issue.


The main Fettiplace family of North Denchworth, from which all the above branches descend, was extinct in the male line at the death of Thomas Fettiplace of Denchworth, Pusey and Charney in the reign of King James I; Thomas's sister and heiress, Margaret, married Christopher, a younger son of Alexander Fettiplace of Swinbrook and Childrey (descended from Anthony Fettiplace of Swinbrook and Childrey, as above), and the North Denchworth estate was sold in around 1809 to a farmer named Frogley.[14][15]

The Fettiplace name passed twice in the female line descended from Anthony Fettiplace, and was extinct even in that regard in 1806 on the death of Richard Gorges Fettiplace.[16]

American branch

Philip Phettiplace, who settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island by 1671, was great-grandson of Walter Fettiplace (also 'Phetteplace', which came to be commonly used by this branch), of Southampton, an eighth-generation descendant of Adam Fettiplace, of North Denchworth, Mayor of Oxford. Walter Fettiplace was Mayor of Southampton in 1463, and M.P. for the borough in 1472.[17]

The Phettiplace coat of arms was differenced from the other lines by adding two gold scallop shells to the red shield with two silver chevrons.[18]

There is a record of two Fettiplace brothers, William and Michael, arriving in Jamestown in 1607 with Captain John Smith.[19] However, as adventurers in the employ of John Smith, they returned with him when he was injured in 1609.

Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book

Elinor Fettiplace (née Poole, c.1570 - c.1647), wife of Sir Richard Fettiplace, of Appleton Manor, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) wrote a Book of Receipts in 1604. It was first published in 1986, the manuscript having been inherited by the husband of the editor, Hilary Spurling. The compilation gives an intimate view of Elizabethan era cookery and domestic life in an aristocratic country household.[20][21]

Memorials
Inscription recording thanks to Sir Richard Fettiplace, Appleton church

The two triple family monuments at Swinbrook Church in Oxfordshire, with sets of effigies ranged on shelves above each other, are fine examples of English Renaissance and Baroque funerary art.[22] There is a monument to John Fettiplace and an inscription thanking Richard Fettiplace at the parish church of St Laurence, Appleton, Oxfordshire.

See also

References
  1. Peter Coss, Knights, Esquires, and the Origins of Social Gradation in England, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6.5 1995. The Family of Fettiplace, J Renton Dunlop, 1916 onwards in Misc. Genealogica & Heraldica Fifth series II-III
  2. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  3. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 2003, vol. 3, p. 3608
  4. J. R. Planché in Journal of the Archaeological Association, 1860
  5. "Parishes: East Shefford or Little Shefford Pages 234-238 A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1924". British History Online.
  6. Christopher Hussey in Country Life; July 27, 1948
  7. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  8. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  9. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  10. List of Sheriffs for England and Wales from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1831, A. Hughes, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1898, p. 108
  11. Franklyn, Charles Aubrey Hamilton, The Genealogy of Anne the Quene, 1977
  12. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  13. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  14. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  15. The Fettiplace Family, by A. Russell Slagle, The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, October 1969, p. 245
  16. The Proceedings of the Newbury and District Field Club, 1911, 'The Fettiplace Family', J. Renton Dunlop
  17. The Fettiplace Family, by A. Russell Slagle, The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, October 1969
  18. the Heralds Visitations of Hampshire, 1544, folio I
  19. The Fettiplace Family, by A. Russell Slagle, The New England Historic and Genealogical Register, October 1969
  20. Fettiplace, Elinor (1986) [1604]. Spurling, Hilary (ed.). Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking. Viking.
  21. Dickson Wright, Clarissa (2011). A History of English Food. Random House. pp. 149–169.
  22. Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 799–800. ISBN 0-14-071045-0

Further reading
  • Spurling, Hilary (1987) "Introduction: a family and its fortunes", in: Fettiplace, Elinor (1986) [1604]. Spurling, Hilary, ed. Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book: Elizabethan Country House Cooking. Viking; pp. 1–57
  • Dunlop, J. Rentyon, The Fettiplace Family, published on website:

David Nash Ford's Royal Berkshire History

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