Richard Hankford

[2] Born about 21 July 1397, he was the son of Richard Hankford (died 1419),[2] MP for Devon in 1414 and 1416,[3] and his wife Thomasine Stapledon (died before 1419), daughter and sole heiress of Sir Richard Stapledion, of Norton Fitzwarren and Nonnington in Somerset.

Further landholdings came in 1425, when he and his wife inherited the estates of her grandmother Elizabeth Cogan (died 1397) that had been held by her widower Sir Hugh Courtenay.

He served with the English forces in France during the Hundred Years' War in the retinue of his brother-in-law Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury and was knighted at St Albans between 8 July and 6 October 1429.

He died on 8 February 1431 aged 33, holding properties in Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, London (where he and his wife owned four retail shops in Holborn), Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset; Staffordshire, Wiltshire and Yorkshire.

She was buried with her third husband in the church of St Katharine by the Tower in the City of London.