357376. Sir John Tyrrell
Speaker of the House of Commons(3)
(678) was born between 1370 and 1380.
He died in 1437. Sir John Tyrrell fought at Agincourt in 1415 in the retinue
of King Henry V. His helmet, battered and dented from the fighting and with the
Tyrrell crest in bronze on top, is affixed to the wall of a small church in Brentwook,
about twenty-two miles from London. With it are the jointed gauntlets he wore
that day.
In 1423 he was Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire. First elected to Parliament
in 1411 and to eleven subsequent Parliaments, he served as Speaker of the House
of Commons in 1427, 1431, and 1437, when he had to retire because of failing
health. In 1430 he was appointed by the King to attend him as one of his council
in France. On March 1st, 1432 he was made Treasurer of the war in France and
on July 13th of that year was appointed Treasurer of the King's Household.
There is an article about him in the Dictionary of National Biography. Additional
information about him is to be found in John Smith Roskell's Parliament and Politics
in Late Medieval England, The House of Commons, 1386-1421, and The Commons and
Their Speakers in English Parliaments, 1376-1523. He was married to Alice Coggeshall.
357377. Alice Coggeshall
(3) died in 1422. Children were:
i.
Sir Walter Tyrrell.
178688 ii.
Sir Thomas Tyrrell.
iii.
Sir William Tyrrell of Gipping.
iv.
John Tyrrell.
v.
Sir William Tyrrell of Beeches was born about 1410. He died before 1476.
vi.
John Tyrrell died in 1445.
vii.
Alice Tyrrell.
viii.
Elisabeth Tyrrell.
ix.
Eleanor Tyrrell.
x.
---------- Tyrrell.
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