Testimenta Vetusta The Index of Testators Testamenta Vetusta is a collection of 807 wills from the late 12th to 16th centuries. Testimenta Vetusta was collected and edited by Nicholas Harris Nicholas and published by Nichols and Son, Parliament Street, London in 1826. He took his wills from the British Museum, private collections, Dugdale's Baronage, Collins' Peerage, County histories, Memoirs of Families, etc (his preface, p. 14).
  1. Surname of Testator
  2. Will Date or Other Name
  3. Female, then Male then Other Name entries

Acton, Sir John
Will date: 1388

Agmundesham, Philip
Will date: 1490

Agmundesham, John
Will date: 1509

Allington, William
Will date: 1485

Andrews, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1474

Andrews
Other name: Wyche

Angolesme
Other name: Huntingdon

Arches
Other name: Dynham

Argenton, Sir William
Will date: 1419

Arundel, Maud Countess of
Will date: 1436

Arundel, Eleanor Countess of
Will date: 1455

Arundel, Richard FitzAlan, Earl of
Will date: 1375

Arundel, Sir John
Will date: 1379

Arundel, Richard FitzAlan, Earl of
Will date: 1392

Arundel, Sir William
Will date: 1400

Arundel, Agnes de
Will date: 1401

Arundel, Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of
Will date: 1415

Arundel, Sir Richard
Will date: 1417

Arundel, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1485

Arundel, Thomas FitzAlan, Earl of
Will date: 1524

Arundel, William, Earl of
Will date: 1543

Arundel
Other name: Capel

Arundell, Henry, Clerk
Will date: 1540

Ashburnham, Thomas
Will date: 1523

At Wode, John
Will date: 1528

Atte Launde
Other name: Launde

Atte Lesse, Lady Laura
Will date: 1378

Audley, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1400

Audley, Anne Lady
Will date: 1497

Audley, Nicholas Lord
Will date: 1381

Audley, James Lord
Will date: 1385

Aylesbury, John
Will date: 1422

Bacon, John
Will date: 1385

Badlesmere
Other name: Northampton

Baker, Agnes Lady
Will date: 1403

Baker, William Lord
Will date: 1384

Baker, Wm Philip Lord
Will date: 1438

Baker, John
Will date: 1464

Baker, John
Will date: 1469

Baker
Other name: Morley

Bardolph, William Lord
Will date: 1384
Other name: (in T.V. but not in index)

Bardolph, Agnes Lady
Will date: 1403
Other name: (in T.V. but not in index)

Bassett, Joan Lady
Will date: 1402

Bassett, Ralph Lord (of Drayton)
Will date: 1389

Bath, John Bourchier Earl of
Will date: 1535

Battesby, Robert, Clerk
Will date: 1502

Beauchamp, of Powycke, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1411

Beauchamp, Margaret Lady
Will date: 1487

Beauchamp, William de
Will date: 1268

Beauchamp, Sir Guy de
Will date: 1359

Beauchamp, Sir Roger
Will date: 1379

Beauchamp, Sir Roger
Will date: 1406

Beauchamp, Sir John
Will date: 1411

Beauchamp, Sir Walter
Will date: 1429

Beauchamp, John Lord of Powycke
Will date: 1475

Beauchamp
Other name: Bergavenny

Beauchamp
Other name: Latimer

Beauchamp
Other name: Say

Beauchamp
Other name: St Amand

Beauchamp
Other name: Suffolk

Beauchamp
Other name: Warwick

Beaufort, Cardinal
Will date: 1417

Beaufort
Other name: Exeter

Beaufort
Other name: Richmond

Beaufort
Other name: Somerset

Beaufort
Other name: Worcester

Beaumont, Sir Henry
Will date: 1471

Beaumont, Thomas
Will date: 1489

Beaumont, Richard
Will date: 1536

Beaumont
Other name: Audley

Bedford, John Plantagenet, Duke of
Will date: 1435

Bedford, Jasper Tudor, Duke of
Will date: 1495

Bedingfield, Margaret Lady
Will date: 1380

Bedingfield, Sir Edmond
Will date: 1496

Bellasis, Robert
Will date: 1540

Benet, William
Will date: 1495

Berforde, Edmund de
Will date: 1350

Bergavenny, Joane Beauchamp, Lady
Will date: 1434

Bergavenny, Eliz. Lady
Will date: 1500

Bergavenny, Wm. Beauchamp, Lord
Will date: 1408

Bergavenny, George Nevill Lord
Will date: 1491

Berkeley, Sir Edward
Will date: 1381

Berkeley, James Lord
Will date: 1404

Berkeley, Thomas Lord
Will date: 1415

Berkeley, William Marquess
Will date: 1491

Berkeley, Thomas Lord
Will date: 1533

Berkeley
Other name: Arundel

Berkeley
Other name: Cobham

Berne, Richard
Will date: 1461

Berners, John Bourchier, Lord
Will date: 1473

Berners, John Bourchier, Lord
Will date: 1532

Bevill, William
Will date: 1487

Bigot
Other name: Norfolk

Bishop, John
Will date: 1465

Blount, Sir James
Will date: 1492

Blount
Other name: Mountjoy

Bluet, Margaret
Will date: 1464

Bohun, Sir Humphrey
Will date: 1468

Bohun, Edmund
Will date: 1501

Bohun
Other name: Courtenay

Bohun
Other name: Gloucester

Bohun
Other name: Hereford

Boleyn, Sir Geoffrey
Will date: 1463

Boleyn, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1471

Boleyn, Sir William
Will date: 1505

Bonvile, Sir William
Will date: 1407

Bonvile
Other name: Dorset

Borough
Other name: Burgh

Boteler, John
Will date: 1521

Boteler
Other name: Ferrers

Botetourt, John Lord
Will date: 1383

Botreaux, William Lord
Will date: 1415

Botreaux
Other name: Hungerford

Bourchier, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1498

Bourchier, Isabel, Lady
Will date: 1500

Bourchier, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1491

Bourchier, Sir John
Will date: 1495

Bourchier, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1512

Bourchier
Other name: Bath

Bourchier
Other name: Berners

Bourchier
Other name: Nevill

Bourchier
Other name: Welles

Bourne, James
Will date: 1467

Boys, Thomas
Will date: 1508

Boys, William
Will date: 1549

Brandon, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1496

Brandon, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1509

Brandon, Sir Robert
Will date: 1523

Brandon
Other name: Suffolk

Bray, Katherine Lady
Will date: 1507

Bray, Sir Reginald, KG
Will date: 1503

Bray, Edmund Lord
Will date: 1539

Brent, Amy
Will date: 1516

Broke, John
Will date: 1529

Brokeman, William
Will date: 1477

Brokeman, Thomas
Will date: 1519

Brokeman, Henry
Will date: 1527

Brokhull, Sir John
Will date: 1382

Bromflete, Henry Lord Vesey
Will date: 1466

Brooke, Thomas
Will date: 1547

Broughton, Sir Robert
Will date: 1504

Broughton, John
Will date: 1517

Browne, Margaret Lady
Will date: 1489

Browne, Sir Anthony
Will date: 1505

Browne, Robert
Will date: 1509

Browne, Francis
Will date: 1541

Brudenell, Edmund
Will date: 1425

Brudenell, Henry
Will date: 1431

Brudenell, Edmund
Will date: 1457

Brudenell, Drogo
Will date: 1491

Bruges, William, Garter
Will date: 1449

Bruyn, Editha Lady
Will date: 1418

Bruyn, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1470

Bruyn, Joan
Will date: 1492

Bryan, Sir Thomas, Chief Justice
Will date: 1495

Bryan, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1517

Brydges, Sir Giles
Will date: 1511

Buckingham, Ann Stafford, Duchess of
Will date: 1480

Buckingham, Eleanor Stafford, Duchess of
Will date: 1528

Buckingham, Humphrey Stafford, Duke of
Will date: 1460

Bullen
Other name: Boleyn

Bulstrode, Thomas
Will date: 1517

Bulstrode, Walter
Will date: 1526

Burgess, Ann
Will date: 1458

Burgh, Elizabeth de
Will date: 1355

Burgh, Alice Lady
Will date: 1558

Burgh, Thomas Lord
Will date: 1495

Burghersh, Bartholomew Lord
Will date: 1369

Burghersh
Other name: Despenser

Burton, Robert, Clerk
Will date: 1527

Burwashe, Richard
Will date: 1507

Butler
Other name: Ormonde

Byrchett, Richard
Will date: 1516

Bysshope, John
Will date: 1509

Cadogan, Thomas
Will date: 1511

Camois, Margaret Lady
Will date: 1386

Capel, Margaret Lady
Will date: 1522

Capel, Sir William
Will date: 1515

Carew, Sir Nicholas
Will date: 1387

Carew, Nicholas
Will date: 1432

Carminow, Sir Ralph
Will date: 1386

Catesby, Sir John (judge)
Will date: 1485

Catesby, Sir William
Will date: 1485

Catesby, John
Will date: 1486

Catesby, Sir Humphrey
Will date: 1504

Catesby, George
Will date: 1506

Cavendish, Rose Lady
Will date: 1419

Cavendish, Sir John
Will date: 1380

Cavendish, William
Will date: 1432

Cavendish, Thomas
Will date: 1524

Cecill, David
Will date: 1535

Champernown
Other name: Talbot

Champion, Richard, Clerk
Will date: 1543

Chandos, Richard, Bishop of Chichester
Will date: 1258

Chapman, William
Will date: 1530

Chedworth
Other name: Norfolk

Cheney, Sir William
Will date: 1443

Chichester, Richard de la Wick, Bishop of
Will date: 1253

Chichester, Richard de la Wick, alias Chandos, Bishop of
Will date: 1258

Clare
Other name: Burgh

Clarence, Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of
Will date: 1368

Clarence, Thomas Plantagenet, Duke of
Will date: 1417

Clifford, Agnes de
Will date: 1220

Clifford, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1526

Clifford, Sir Lewis
Will date: 1404

Clifford, Alexander
Will date: 1494

Clinton, Julian Lady
Will date: 1367

Clinton, Joan Lady
Will date: 1457

Clinton, William Lord
Will date: 1354

Clinton, Richard
Will date: 1436

Clitterow, Matilda
Will date: 1457

Cobham, Joan Lady
Will date: 1369

Cobham, Ann Vere, Lady
Will date: 1472

Cobham, Thomas
Will date: 1367

Cobham, Sir William
Will date: 1375

Cobham, Sir John
Will date: 1394

Cobham, Ralph
Will date: 1402

Cobham, Thomas, Lord
Will date: 1439

Cobham, Sir Reginald (of Sterborough)
Will date: 1445

Cobham, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1471

Colet, Sir Henry
Will date: 1505

Colet, John, Dean
Will date: 1519

Compton, Sir William
Will date: 1523

Conyers, Maud Lady
Will date: 1460

Cooper, Thomas
Will date: 1489

Cooper, John
Will date: 1495

Cooper, John
Will date: 1498

Cope, William
Will date: 1513

Cope, Sir John
Will date: 1557

Cope, Edward
Will date: 1557

Cope, William
Will date: 1558

Cope, Anthony
Will date: 1558

Copley
Other name: La Warr

Cornwall
Other name: Fanhope

Cornwallis, Elizabeth
Will date: 1537

Cornwallis, John
Will date: 1506

Cornwallis, William
Will date: 1519

Cornwallis, Sir John
Will date: 1544

Cotton, Thomas
Will date: 1517

Courtenay
Other name: Devon

Courtenay
Other name: St Laudo

Covell, Agnes
Will date: 1522

Criol, Sir Nicholas
Will date: 1379

Cromwell, Ralph Lord
Will date: 1455

Croysier, Sir William
Will date: 1386

Crypps, John
Will date: 1558

Cuggeshall, Thomas de
Will date: 1375

Culpeper, Ann
Will date: 1532

Culpeper, Walter
Will date: 1389

Culpeper, William
Will date: 1499

Dacre, Joan Fienes, Lady
Will date: 1485

Dacre, Thomas Fienes Lord
Will date: 1531

Daggworth, Sir Nicholas
Will date: 1396

Danvers
Other name: Say

Darrell, Paul
Will date: 1490

Daubeny, Sir Giles
Will date: 1400

De La Laund, Sir John
Will date: 1465

De La Pole, Margaret
Will date: 1472

De La Pole
Other name: Suffolk

Delves, Sir John
Will date: 1369

Denny, Sir Edmund
Will date: 1519

Denny, Thomas
Will date: 1527

Denton, John
Will date: 1493

Derby, Thomas Stanley, Earl of
Will date: 1504

Derby, Thomas Stanely Earl of
Will date: 1521

Despencer, Elizabeth Lady
Will date: 1409

Despencer, Edward Lord
Will date: 1375

Despencer
Other name: Warwick

Devereux, John Lord
Will date: 1385

Devereux, Sir John
Will date: 1419

Devon, Margaret Courtenay Countess
Will date: 1391

Devon, Edward Courtenay Earl of
Will date: 1419

Devon, Humphrey Stafford, earl of
Will date: 1463

Devon, Edward Courtenay Earl of
Will date: 1509

Digby, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1516

Digby, Everard
Will date: 1537

Digby, Sir Everard
Will date: 1540

Digge, Sir Roger
Will date: 1375

Dormer, William
Will date: 1506

Dormer, Sir Michael
Will date: 1545

Dormer, Sir Robert
Will date: 1552

Dorset, Cecily Grey Marchioness of
Will date: 1527

Dorset, Thomas Grey Marquess of
Will date: 1501

Dorset, Thomas Grey Marquess of
Will date: 1530

Dowman, John, Dr
Will date: 1526

Druell, Richard
Will date: 1526

Dudley, Katherine
Will date: 1492

Dudley, Oliver
Will date: 1469

Dudley, John Lord
Will date: 1487

Durem, Elizabeth
Will date: 1476

Durham, Richard de Lellawe, Bishop of
Will date: 1316

Durham, Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of
Will date: 1381

Dynham, Jane Lady
Will date: 1496

Dynham, John, Lord
Will date: 1505

Dynham
Other name: Stafford

D’Acton
Other name: Acton

D’Arcy, Margaret Lady
Will date: 1489

D'rsquo;Arcy, Philip Lord
Will date: 1398

D’Arcy, Thomas
Will date: 1483

D’Arcy, George Lord
Will date: 1548

Ebrington, Sir John
Will date: 1478

Ebrington, Thomas
Will date: 1523

Edgcombe, Katherine Lady
Will date: 1553

Edgcombe, Sir Richard
Will date: 1489

Edgcombe, Sir Piers
Will date: 1530

Edward I
Will date: 1272

Edward III
Will date: 1376

Elizabeth, Queen of Edward IV
Will date: 1492

Ely, James Standley Bishop of
Will date: 1514

Engeham, Alanus
Will date: 1458

Englefield, Sir Thomas
Will date: 1537

Evyas, Theobald
Will date: 1478

Exeter, Margaret Beaufort Duchess of
Will date: 1458
Other name: (V. odd; she d. in 1424)

Exeter, Thomas Holland Duke of
Will date: 1426
Other name: Thomas Beaufort

Exeter, John Holland Duke of
Will date: 1447

Exeter, Ann Holland Duchess of
Will date: 1457

Exeter, Hugh Oldham Bishop of
Will date: 1518

 


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