Sir William De Cloptone (Cloptunne),
Lord of Chapperley Manor, Wickhambrook

Sir William De Cloptone, also called Cloptunne, died in 1294. The family had become very prosperous by the time Sir William became Lord of Chapperley Manor (or Manor of Clopton Hall) in Wickhambrook. According to Sir. Symonds d'Ewes, the husband of Sir William's descendant, Lady Anne Clopton, he "had so large an estate in the town of Wickhambrook in the 43 Henry III, as it was called Feodum Wilhelmi de Cloptone, in Wickhambrook, in the Communia Rolls of the Exchequer, in the custody of the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer." D'Ewes, who documented fourteen generations of Cloptons, claimed he found these records "proved by several deeds in my custody being the very ancient originals themselves, most of which I found amongst my wife's evidences at Lutons Hall, in the said county of Suffolk, commonly called Kentwell.

He had six children: Walter de Cloptone, his heir; Adam de Cloptone who became a priest; Clement de Cloptone, William de Cloptone who died without issue, Hugo de Cloptone, and Robert de Cloptone.

It is believed he is buried at Chipley Priory.

Based on :

Articles Originally Appearing in the August 1989 and 1990 Issues of the
Clopton Family Newsletter
by Isabel Lancaster (Clopton) Steiner
and James M. McMillen, mcmillen@arlington.net

The Ancestors and Descendants of William Clopton of York County, Virginia,
Compiled by Gene Carlton Clopton, Phoenix Printing, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia

A Brief History of Chipley Priory by Gene Carlton Clopton

Contributed by:

Suellen Clopton Blanton, bblanton@fast.net.

Special thanks to the Wheatley Family of Chipley Abbey Farm.