Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the Bishopp (Bishop, Bisshop/Bisshopp/Bysshopp) family into which Elizabeth Belknap (unknown-1569), great great granddaughter of Sir Robert Belknap (about 1330-1401), married. Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about this family:
Published Genealogies
- The Complete Peerage, vol. I, p. __: “Bishopp of Parham”
- Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage (1934), p. ___: “Zouche”
- Cokayne, George Edward, ed. The Complete Baronetage, vol. I, p. 156; vol. IV, p. 101
- Wotton, Thomas, Kimber, E. & Johnson, R. The Baronetage of England, vol. 1 (1771), pp. 191-93
- Debrett, John. The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (“Debrett’s Peerage”), vol. 1, 13th ed. (1820), pp. 437-41
- Berry, William. County Genealogies: Sussex (1830), pp. 213, 246, et passim: “Bishop, originally from Yorkshire”
Visitation Records
- Bannerman, W. Bruce, ed. The Visitations of the County of Sussex, Made and Taken in the Years 1530 and 1633-4, p. 74: Bushop, Bysshopp
- Visitations of Essex, 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612, 1634 (part II), p. 680
Other Records
- Haines, Herbert. A Manual of Monumental Brasses: Comprising an Introduction to the Study of These Memorials and a List of Those Remaining in the British Isles (1861), p. 210 [TO COME]
- Duchess of Cleveland, Wilhelmina. The Battle Abbey Roll, With Some Account of the Norman Lineages, vol. III (1889), p. 89
Indenture Records
- Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Indentures of Fine, DE/Z120/44599,44600, Morrow of Purification, 1605-06: “Between Thomas Wood and Robert Wood, plts, and Sir Thomas Bisshoppe, kt, and Jane his wife defs, concerning land in Sawbridgeworth”
Web Links
- Stirnet: Bishop [TO COME]
- The Peerage
- Wikipedia: Bishopp baronets
- European Heraldry: House of Bishopp
Spouses
- William Scott (unknown-1550)
- Thomas Bishopp (unknown-1552)
Parents
- Sir Edward Belknap (about 1471-1521)
- [unknown]
Last update: 23 Jun 2023