Baron Tiptoft

Summary

7th January 1426. John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft created.

27th January 1443. Son John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 15] succeeded.

18th October 1470. Son Edward Tiptoft 2nd Earl of Worcester succeeded. See Execution of John Tiptoft.

1485. Edward Tiptoft 2nd Earl of Worcester extinct.

On or after 28th February 1422, the date of the licence, John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft and Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Baroness Tiptoft. She the daughter of Edward Charleton 5th Baron Cherleton and Eleanor Holland Countess March and Ulster.

On 7th January 1426 John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft was created 1st Baron Tiptoft. Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft [aged 22] by marriage Baroness Tiptoft.

On 27th January 1443 John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft died. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Enfield. His son John [aged 15] succeeded 2nd Baron Tiptoft.

On 16th July 1449 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 22] was created 1st Earl Worcester. Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick [aged 25] by marriage Countess Worcester. It isn't clear why he was he was created Earl at such a young age. His father John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft had died six years earlier so he had inherited Baron Tiptoft. His mother Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft had died three years earlier when he was eighteen. In 1449 he married Cecily Neville Duchess Warwick daughter of the influential Richard Neville Earl Salisbury [aged 49]. His earldom may have been a consequence of this marriage.

On 18th October 1470 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 43] was beheaded at Tower Green, Tower of London [Map]. On 14th April 1471 His son Edward succeeded 2nd Earl Worcester, 3rd Baron Tiptoft.

In 1485 Edward Tiptoft 2nd Earl of Worcester [aged 15] died. Earl Worcester, Baron Tiptoft extinct.