Sir William Coggeshall (1358–1426), of Codham Hall and Coggeshall, Essex, was an English politician.

Life

Coggeshall was born in Codham Hall on 20 July 1358. He was the son of Sir Henry Coggeshall (d. 1375) and Joan Welle, the daughter and heiress of Sir William Welle of

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, Essex and Well Hall in

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, Suffolk. Coggeshall was the nephew of the MP, Thomas Coggeshall. Coggeshall married, before March 1379 in

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, Antiocha Hawkwood, a daughter of Sir

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of Sible Hedingham, Essex by his first wife. They had one son and four daughters. His second wife was Ricarda Inkpen (died September 1390), daughter and heiress of John Inkpen of Inkpen, Berkshire. She was the widow of William Huish of Huish, Devon and of Sir Thomas Fichet of

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, Somerset. Before May 1394, he married for a third time, to a woman named Margaret.

Career

Coggeshall was knighted by March 1379. He was elected a

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for

Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...

1391, January 1397, 1401, 1402, October 1404, 1411, April 1414, 1420, December 1421 and 1422. He was appointed

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for 1392, 1405 and 1412. In 1381 he was one of the commissioners appointed to suppress the

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. He was a Justice of the Peace for Essex in 1401–1407, 1417–1419 and 1422–1426.

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