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Name
  
William Hawte


Role
  
Composer

Sir William Hawte (also Haute or Haut) (c.1430-1497) was a prominent member of an important Kentish gentry family of long standing and royal service, which, through its near connections to the Woodville family, became closely and dangerously imbroiled in the last phases of the Wars of the Roses.

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It is claimed that he is the same Sir William Hawte who was a composer of liturgical and devotional choral music (who flourished c. 1460–1470), represented in a number of manuscript choirbooks that survive to this day. A setting of the Benedicamus may be found in the Pepys Manuscript, and a number of his works, including a Stella coeli, exist in the Ritson Manuscript.

Family

Hawte the composer is identified as a son of William Hawte of Bishopsbourne, Kent, M.P., by his second wife, Joan Wydeville, daughter of Richard Wydeville, M.P. (1385-1441), of Grafton, Northamptonshire and Maidstone, Kent, who married c. 1429. He was therefore nephew of the 1st Earl Rivers and first cousin to Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort of King Edward IV. William Hawte was knighted in 1464, at the queen's coronation.

Hawte's grandfather, Sir Nicholas Haute, had a younger brother Edmund, whose son John Haute represented a cadet branch of the family at Pluckley, Kent. In 1474 Sir William received land from his cousins, the daughters of John.

According to the Harleian pedigrees he had three brothers (Richard, Edward and James) and two sisters, one of whom, Alicia (died 1462) was the first wife of Sir John Fogge. Sir William married Joan, daughter of Henry Horne, MP.

Sir William Hawte of Bishopsbourne died on 2 July in the 12th year of Henry VII (1497), seised of the manors of Wadnale, Bishopsbourne, Elmsted, Blakmanston, Otterpool, Warehorne and Snave, in fee. His son and heir Thomas Haute was then aged 33 and more.

Children

Sir William and Dame Joan were the parents of:

  • Alicia Hawte, who married Sir William Crowmer
  • Thomas Hawte (born c. 1464), who married Elizabeth (Isabella), sister of the distinguished judge Sir Thomas Frowyk. He was thus uncle to Frideswyde Frowyk, wife of Sir Thomas Cheyne. He was made Knight of the Bath in November 1501 at the marriage of Arthur, Prince of Wales to Catherine of Aragon. The inquisition post mortem of Sir Thomas Haute, which is lost, was held in the 18th year of King Henry VII (1502/03).
  • Their son (Sir) William Hawte of Bishopsbourne (died 1538) married Mary Guildford (daughter of Sir Richard Guildford, and relict of Christopher Kempe), and was by her father of Jane Haute, the wife of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger. William remarried to Margaret, daughter of Oliver Wood.
  • Their daughter Joan Hawte married (1) Thomas Goodyer of Monken Hadley, Middlesex (died 1518), whose children included Alice, wife of Sir George Penruddock of Ivychurch; and (2) Robert Wroth of Enfield, by whom she was mother of Sir Thomas Wroth and mother-in-law of Edward Lewknor (died 1556).
  • References

    William Hawte Wikipedia


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