Sir Edward Guildford (alternative spelling Guilford; c. 1474 – 1534) was an English

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and

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and Marshal of Calais in 1519. Upon his father's death in 1506, he inherited his father's position as Master of the Armoury for life. He was

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on 25 September 1513.

Career

Edward Guildford was born at

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in the parish of Broadwater (now part of

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), the son of Sir Richard Guildford and Anne Pympe. Guildford was one of the knights from Kent at the

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in 1520. He accompanied

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and

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at Calais in October 1532. His servant received a reward for bringing a gift of pheasants to the king.John Gough Nichols, ''Chronicle of Calais'' (London: Camden Society, 1846), pp. 21, 121. Guildford married firstly, before 1496, Eleanor West, daughter of Thomas West, 8th Baron De La Warr (d. 11 October 1525), by whom he had a son, Richard, and a daughter, Jane, who married

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, with whom she had 13 children. His second wife was Joan, daughter of Stephen Pitlesden, by whom he had no issue. His son Richard having predeceased him, Edward Guildford caused considerable strife with the family legacy when his daughter Jane inherited Haldon Manor rather than his nephew, John Guildford, Member of Parliament for Gatton, who was (arguably) instead intended to inherit with no nearer male heir.

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* 1470s births 1534 deaths Lords Warden of the Cinque Ports People from Broadwater, West Sussex 15th-century English people 16th-century English people 16th-century English knights {{England-bio-stub