Godfrey van Upstall
[17562]
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Surname:
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Upstall
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Forename:
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Godfrey
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Gender:
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Male
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| Place of Residence:
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York |
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Place of Origin:
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Brabant [modern: Belgium, Netherlands]
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Origin: Nationality:
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[Brabanter]
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| Original Document: |
CPR 1391-6, p. 285 (letters of denization, 17 June 1393)
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Notes:
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Place of residence supplied from other sources. The letters were confirmed by Henry IV on 26 May 1400 (CPR 1399-1401, p. 295). Probably the father (or just possibly elder brother) of Peter van Uppestall.
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Biographical Notes:
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For details of his life and career, see Meg Twycross, 'Some Aliens in York and their Overseas Connections: up to c. 1470', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 29 (1998), pp.359-80. He was made a freeman of York as a webster in 1376, but was also a very active merchant, trading with his homeland and elsewhere through Hull. He may have come from Harselt in Brabant, since his ?son Peter left property there in his will of 1430.
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