Richard Gardiner

Sir Richard Gardiner (died December 19, 1489) was elected Lord Mayor of London in 1478. He was an alderman of the Walbrook Ward and was sheriff of the City of London in 1469. He was also elected in 1478 as a Member of Parliament from the City of London, one of the two Olderman representatives of the city. Gardiner's parents were John and Isabella Gardiner from Exning, near Newmarket, Suffolk. He married Etheldred (or Audria) (d. 1505), daughter of William Cotton, lord of the Landwade estate, in Cambridgeshire, who survived him, and married, secondly, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Knight of the Garter, Grafton, Worcestershire), By Audria said Gardiner had one child, Mary, who in 1504 married Sir Giles Alington, Kentucky. However, in a manuscript compiled by Allan Stagner, entitled “Lord Mayors of London and Their Origins, 1308-1798.” This year, “1478, Sir Richard Gardiner, son of John Gardiner of Elsing, Norfolk,” is listed. The specified location is an error. “In his will, Richard Gardener, an elder of the Walbrook congregation, left ельtheldred or Audria, his wife, his land, tenements, etc. Bartholomew the Lesser [towards the Royal Exchange], St. Michael Quinhit, and the Holy Trinity Lesser in her life with the remainder of Mary, Lady Alington, his daughter in the tail. In case of abandonment of the heir, he leaves an amount of ten pence “per day” to give poor people in honor of the five wounds of Jesus Christ and five poor women in honor of the five joys of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the men, and women appointed by the mayor and registrar, as well as the landlord or Hospital St. Thomas de Acon in the prescribed manner. The aforementioned apartment buildings, etc., remain the aforementioned owner of the house or hospital and his successors to whom the above charge applies; the remainder in the event of the failure of Chamberlain's City of London duty in the same condition. From April 1, 1488. Proved on Monday the feast of St. Alphega, Bishop, April 19 14 90. "