Belchamp Walter the Rolfe-Green years

Belchamp Walter the Rolfe-Green years

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Belchamp Walter the Rolfe-Green years - The 15th Century

The history of Belchamp Walter over the period of the 15th and 16th centuries is not well recorded. The Helion years of the late 14th and marriage of a Helion to a Tyrell in the 15th could fill in this gap.

The connection to manor houses in the Gosfield area, Codham Hall and Gosfield Hall, was hinted by Thomas Wright in his history of Essex, but like so many of his accounts there is little more than a list of names and dates.

Thomas Wright

The quote below is from Thomas Wright's History of Essex:

John Helion, Esq. was their son and heir, who, dying in 1450, left, by his wife Editha, daughter and co heiress of Thomas Rolfe, Esq. of Gosfield, Philippa, married to Sir Thomas Montgomery, Esq. of Faulkbourne Hall; and Isabel, the wife of Humphrey Tyrell, Esq. of Little Warley, to whom she bore an only daughter, named Anne, who, by marriage, conveyed this and other great estates to Sir Roger Wentworth, of Codham Hall, in Wethersfield.

Wright has a date of 1450 for the death of John Helion, which agrees with other research. He also has many other family names tbat it would be safe to assume are connected to the villages history.

We do know from more contemporary accounts that the Belchamp Estate ended up in the Wentworth family in the 16th century, 1539
(British History Online and Historic England)

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What I have done on earlier pages is to take Thomas Wright's text and tried to make some logical sense out of it.

I have taken the family names and tried to cross-reference them back to my research.

Interpretation of Thomas Wright's text

Wright is referring to Belchamp Walter but the text in isolation does not link the family names to the village. Little is confirmed about who the residents of the manor in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Belchamp Walter the Rolfe-Green years - The 15th Century

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