Historically notable individuals in our family tree.
In the compilation of any list such as this, it is inevitable that some key individuals will have been inadvertently omitted. If you would like to nominate someone else to this list, please contact Warren Culpepper (warren@culpepper.com).
In the compilation of any list such as this, it is inevitable that some key individuals will have been inadvertently omitted. If you would like to nominate someone else to this list, please contact Warren Culpepper (warren@culpepper.com).
- Catherine Howard (c.1522-1542)
The fifth wife of King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, whose mother was Joyce Culpeper, was beheaded in the Tower of London because of an adulterous affair with her cousin, Thomas Culpeper. - Charlemagne (Charles the Great) (742-813)
As king of the Franks (768-814) conquered the Lombard kingdom in Italy, subdued the Saxons, annexed Bavaria to his kingdom, fought campaigns in Spain and Hungary, and united in one superstate practically all the Christian lands of western Europe. In 800 he assumed the title of emperor. One of his descendants was Cicely Barrett who married William Culpeper, and this couple is believed to be the ancestors of most living Culpeppers. - Sir Cheney Culpeper of Leeds Castle (1601-1663)
Received Leeds Castle in 1632 as a gift from his father, Sir Thomas Culpeper of Hollingbourne--the Elder, and resided there until his death. - Cheney Lord Culpeper, 4th Baron of Thoresway (1642-1725)
In the roaring days of the Restoration, he killed an officer of the guards with a blunderbuss and was pardoned only because he was brother to a peer. Subsequently be became the fourth and final Lord Culpeper, - Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997)
A Culpepper cousin - Edmund Culpeper (c.1670-1738)
Inventor of the Culpeper-Type Microscope - Frances Culpeper Berkeley (1634-1690+)
Lady Frances (Culpeper) Berkeley, was a strong-willed, thrice-married and childless Colonial dame who ruled the political roost in Virginia from around 1670 until her death in the 1690s. Apart from Pocahontas, Frances was the Old Dominion's most notable 17th century woman. - John Lord Culpeper, 1st Baron of Thoresway (1599-1660)
English statesman and an influential counselor of Charles I during the Civil War and of Charles II in exile. - John Culpeper, The Merchant (1606-1663)
Possibly the ancestor of most American Culpeppers. - John Culpeper of Albemarle (1644-1694)
An early settler in Carolina who is often referred to as "The Rebel" or "The Rebel of Albemarle" - John "The Baptist" Culpepper (1765-1845)
A noted clergyman as well as U.S. Congressman from North Carolina. - Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654)
The famous and controversial English herbalist and great-grandson of Thomas Culpeper of Wakehurst Place - Richard and Nicholas Culpeper of Wakehurst (circa 1435-1515)
Brothers who abducted and married the wealthy young Wakehurst sisters, bringing the vast Wakehurst estate into the Culpeper family where it remained for the next two centuries. - Sir Thomas Colepeper, the Recognitor of the Grand Assize (born say 1170)
The oldest known Culpepper and probably the progenitor of all modern-day Culpeppers - Sir Thomas Culpeper of Hollingbourne: The Elder (1578-1662)
Sir Thomas Culpeper of Hollingbourne: The Elder (1578-1662) and his son, Sir Thomas Culpeper of Hollingbourne: The Younger (1626-1697) were both English writers on usury. - Thomas Lord Culpeper, 2nd Baron of Thoresway (1599-1660)
Governor and a large figure in the colonial history of Virginia, who has fared ill at the hands of the historians. - Thomas Culpeper (1637-1708)
English Colonel and Writer - Walter Culpeper of Goudhurst, Bayhall & Hardreshull (1400-1462)
Often called "The Squire of Agincourt", this Walter was a leader of a group of archers who helped the English defeat the French in a battle at Agincourt in northern France (part of the Hundred Years War). He is a direct ancestor of most modern-day Culpeppers. - Walter Culpeper of Calais and Wigsell (1475-1515),
Grandson of Walter, "the Squire of Agincourt", this Walter was a professional soldier who won an important battle at Calais and whose last will and testement bristles with as many old world weapons as a modern museum. He is the progenitor of the Wigsell branch of the family from which descend most modern-day Culpeppers. - William Culpeper of Hunton & Wigsell (1509-1559)
Most living Caucasian Culpeppers, worldwide, descend from William Culpeper of Hunton and Wigsell and his wife, Cicely Barrett. Cicely Barrett's ancestry has been traced back to European royalty and to Charlemagne, Emperor of the West during the 9th century. William Culpeper's ancestry has been traced back to Sir Thomas Colepeper, born 1170. - William Culpeper (1664-1726)
A second rate poet who was the author also of a petition to Parliament, quite reasonably adjudged scandalous, that that august body should take a vacation from politics and go to work. - Sir William Culpeper of Wakehurst, 2nd. Bart. (1668-1740)
The wastrel whose gambling and excessive life-style resulted in the loss of Wakehurst and the last of the Culpeper's great manors.