EARLY BELKNAPS: HISTORIES and DOCUMENTS  
Joan de Sudeley (unknown-before 1367)
Gathered here is the most comprehensive public repository of materials on the family of Joan Sudeley, grandmother of Joan Boteler (about 1398-before 1473) who married into the Belknap family.
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Date(s) Item/Image Link
Visitation Records
The Visitations of Essex by Hawley, 1552; Hervey, 1558; Cooke, 1570; Raven, 1612; and Owen and Lilly, 1634. To Which are Added Miscellaneous Essex Pedigrees from Various Harleian Manuscripts: and an Appendix Containing Berry's Essex Pedigrees, part II, pp. 563-65.  "Cooke" http://www.belnapfamily.org/Visitations_of_Essex_pII.pdf  
Land Holdings
"Parish: Burton Dassett." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 69-77 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57043  
"Parish: Belbroughton." A History of the County of Worcester, Victoria County History, vol. 3, pp. 11-19 (1913) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43080  
"Parish: Whitchurch." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 5: Kington hundred (1949), pp. 209-213 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=57077  
"Parish: Church Lench." A History of the County of Worcester, Victoria County History, vol. 3 (1913), pp. 45-50 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43085  
"Parish: Chilvers Cotton." A History of the County of Warwick, Victoria County History, vol. 4: Hemlingford Hundred (1947), pp. 173-178 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42675  
Other
Smith, Robert, ed. The Sudeleys: Lords of Toddington (Manorial Society of Great Britain, London, 1987)
Burke, John Bernard. The Roll of Battle Abbey, Annotated (1848) http://books.google.com/books?id=8DRLAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=the+sudeleys+lords+of+toddington&source=web&ots=Mfec9CsoSI&sig=mVhCbpwTWMnkhYqypaN5N1o_0uM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA99,M1  
Courthope, William, ed. Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1839, 22d ed.) http://books.google.com/books?id=enkEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA377-IA2&lpg=RA1-PA377-IA2&dq=the+sudeleys+lords+of+toddington&source=web&ots=u0_JeqXvMg&sig=_7cw6RFW5VoRevGl78JTxZRa9BA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PRA1-PA377-IA2,M1  
Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, vol. 2 (1876), pp. 324-37: "Finch" http://books.google.com/books?id=PSQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=belknap&source=web&ots=iZu4sblMzw&sig=cf_LwIijZrD_BoCthUjIggOp5ro&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPA333,M1  
Grazebrook, Henry Sydney. The Heraldry of Worcestershire, pp. 65-66: "Boteler, Lord Sudeley" http://books.google.com/books?id=8lMBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover  
Grazebrook, Henry Sydney. The Heraldry of Worcestershire, pp. 153-55: "Dannet" http://books.google.com/books?id=8lMBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover  
Web Links
Stirnet: Sudeley http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ss4tz/sudeley1.htm  
Sudeley Castle http://www.sudeleycastle.co.uk/  
Wikipedia: Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hanbury-Tracy%2C_1st_Baron_Sudeley  
Wikipedia: Merlin Hanbury-Tracy, 7th Baron Sudeley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Hanbury-Tracy,_7th_Baron_Sudeley  
Wikipedia: Toddington Manor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddington_Manor  
UK Archives: Sudeley Manuscripts http://www.a2a.org.uk/html/040-d2153.htm  
Gloucestershire County Council: Sudeley Archive is saved for Gloucestershire - 10th December 2007 http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=17617  
Forum for Stable Currencies: Lord Sudeley http://www.monies.cc/forum/backgrnd/lsudeley.htm  
Spouse
William Boteler (1298-1361)
Photographs and Images
Sudeley Family
Last update: 11 Jul 2008
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