Person:John Cotes (3)

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John Cotes
d.Abt 1472
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Name John Cotes
Gender Male
Birth? of Cotes, Staffordshire
Reference Number 293749
Elizabeth DOWATON
Occupation? High Sheriff of Stafford, Lord of the Manor of Cotes, And of Wilbrighton, Beffcote and Woodcote
Death? Abt 1472
Burial? Chapel of St Mary, Monastery of Lilleshall
Reference Number 24636
His full title was Lord of the Manor of Cotes Wilbrighton, Buffrcote, and Woodcote. He was also the High Sheriff of county Stafford in 35 Henry VI (1457). In his will, he asked to be buried in the chapel of St. Mary in the monastery of Lilleshall near Newport. He requested an albaster stone with figures of himself, his wife and his arms be erected at the cathedral of Lichfield and Coventry. His will listed his cousins, Thomas Knightly and Humphrey Swinnerton.