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of "Much
Chaldefeld, otherwise called East Chaldefeld", having a son, Philip, and a daughter, Galiana. Philip married Isawde, daughter of Richard Cotell, of "Cotells Atteward, otherwise Little Atteward", and left two sons, Roger and John, dividing his land between them. Roger married Christian,
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by profession, Tropenell turned himself into "a long-headed, thrifty business man" and was anxious to use his abilities to become a substantial landowner. He spent most of his life in the south-west of
England, especially in Wiltshire.
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to
Tropenell and Agnes in December 1447. He acquired the manor of Great Chalfield in 1454, after a legal challenge based on the marriage of his ancestor Walter Tropenell with Katharine, daughter of Sir William Percy, and built
129:, and their son John Tropenell married Agnes, daughter of James Lye, lord of Liniford. Their son Harry Tropenell, who married Edith, the daughter of Walter Roche, younger brother of Sir John Roche, of
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He married firstly Agnes Ludlow, the widow of Thomas
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Tropenell married secondly, probably in May 1456, his cousin
Margaret, the second daughter of William Ludlow of
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444:(Richard III Society), vol. 1 (1979), 'Register of Grants for the Reigns of Edward V and Richard III', p. 230
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357:, chapter 'A historical account of the Manor House and Church at Great Chalfield, Wiltshire' in
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J. T. Driver, 'A Perilous, Covetous man: the career of Thomas
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