John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper 1600-1660

Paternal Family Tree: Culpepper

Before 1600 [his father] Thomas Culpepper [aged 38] and [his mother] Anne Slaney were married.

Around 1600 John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper was born to Thomas Culpepper [aged 39] and Anne Slaney.

In 1613 [his father] Thomas Culpepper [aged 52] died.

On 29th October 1628 John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 28] and Philippa Snelling were married.

Around 1629 [his son] Alexander Culpepper was born to John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 29] and [his wife] Philippa Snelling. He married 2nd March 1648 Catherine Anna Ford.

Before 16th September 1630 [his wife] Philippa Snelling died. She was buried on 16th September 1630 at Hollingbourne, Kent.

After 16th September 1630 John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 30] and Judith Culpeper [aged 24] were married. They were second cousins.

In April 1632 [his daughter] Elizabeth Culpepper was born to John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 32] and [his wife] Judith Culpeper [aged 26]. She married James Hamilton, son of George Hamilton 1st Baronet of Donalong and Mary Butler, and had issue.

On 21st March 1635 [his son] Thomas Culpepper 2nd Baron Culpepper was born to John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 35] and [his wife] Judith Culpeper [aged 29] in Hollingbourne, Kent.

In 1640 [his son] John Colepeper 3rd Baron Culpepper was born to John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 40] and [his wife] Judith Culpeper [aged 34].

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In 1642 [his son] Cheney Colepeper 4th Baron Culpepper was born to John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 42] and [his wife] Judith Culpeper [aged 36].

On 21st October 1644 John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 44] was created 1st Baron Culpeper of Thoresway in Lincolnshire.

On 2nd March 1648 [his son] Alexander Culpepper [aged 19] died without issue.

On 2nd March 1648 [his son] Alexander Culpepper [aged 19] and [his daughter-in-law] Catherine Anna Ford [aged 13] were married.

In 1653 [his wife] Judith Culpeper [aged 47] died.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 6th June 1660. My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy¹ had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards to be false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk [aged 51], and three more Lords, are made Commissioners for the Treasury²; that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master of the Wardrobe³; that the two Dukes [Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.] do haunt the Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,-["Epicene, or the Silent Woman", a comedy, by Ben Jonson.] the other day; that Sir. Ant. Cooper [aged 38], Mr. Hollis [aged 60], and Mr. Annesly [aged 45], & late President of the Council of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very busy sending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat to be made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At night Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. I to bed and about one in the morning,

Note 1. Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660. He refused the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him. Died October 29th, 1666.

Note 2. The names of the Commissioners were Sir Edward Hyde [aged 51], afterwards Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton [aged 53], John, Lord Robartes [aged 54], Thomas, Lord Colepeper [aged 60], Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir Edward Nicholas [aged 67] and Sir William Morrice [aged 57] as principal Secretaries of State. The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.

Note 3. The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors abroad", as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of the Garter, &c. The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of Montague [aged 21], who died 1709.

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On 11th June 1660 John Culpepper 1st Baron Culpeper [aged 60] died. His son Thomas [aged 25] succeeded 2nd Baron Culpeper of Thoresway in Lincolnshire.