Other Events:

• Office: Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII
• Office: 1523–24; Sheriff of Kent
• Residence: Rolvenden, Kent, England
• Residence: Benenden, Kent, England
• Residence: Martel's Hall, Ardleigh, Essex, England
• Residence: Great Bromley, Essex, England
• Residence: Ashfield, Suffolk, England

Notes:

In 1509 he was indebted to the king.

In 1522 he was one of the gentlemen in the train of Cardinal Wolsey when he went to meet the Emperor Charles V at Dover.

He owed the Crown £100 in 1523, and it was ordered that the sum be collected from his lands.

In 1524 he and his brother, Henry, had a license to export 1000 woolen cloths annually.

Sources cited in Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), volume 2, page 181:

1. Morant, Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex, 1 (1768): 441.


2. Watson, Tendring Hundred in the Olden Time (1877): 161–164.


3. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 69.


4. Grubb, Notes of Ardleigh & Its Neighbourhood (1905).


5. Benolte & Cooke, Vis. of Kent 1530–1, 1574, & 1592, 1 (H.S.P. 74) (1923): 11 (1530–1 Vis.) (Guyldeforde ped.: "Master George Guyldeforde = Elsabeth d. to Robert Mortym[er] of Essex") (Guildford arms: Or, a saltire between four martlets sable), 77 (Add'l Peds.) (Guildford ped.: "George Guldeford = Elizabeth dau. and heire of Sire Robert Mortimer").


6. Davis, Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 85–96.


7. Feet of Fines for Essex, 4 (1964): 166.

Residence:
He and his wife sold the manor of Martel's Hall to William Mannock in 1528.

Residence:
jure uxoris

Residence:
jure uxoris

George married Elizabeth Mortimer after 14 July 1487. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Mortimer and Lady Isabel Howard) was born circa 1475–8. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Office: Bailiff of Winchelsea
• Office: 1552–53; Sheriff of Kent
• Residence: Hempsted, Benenden, Kent, England
• Residence: Great Bromley, Essex, England
• Office: 1529; Burgess (M.P.) for Gatton
• Office: 1542; Knight of the Shire for Kent
• Office: 1546; Chamberlain of the Household of Anne of Cleves
• Office: 1553; Burgess (M.P.) for ?New Romney
• Will: 4 May 1560
• Probate: 11 July 1565

Notes:

He was heir male in 1534 to his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, of Halden and Hempsted (in Benenden), Kent. In 1536 he reached agreement with Sir John Dudley and his wife, Jane, daughter of his uncle, Sir Edward Guildford, regarding settlement of his uncle's estate, by which he received the manors of Brocket, Upper Forsham, Lower Forsham, and Frencham, Kent.

"In 1542 he and his wife, Barbara, conveyed the manor and the advowson of the church of Great Bromley, Essex, to William Cardinal, Gent."

Sources cited in Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd ed. (2011), volume 2, pages 181–2:

1. Morant, Hist. & Antiqs. of Essex, 1 (1768): 441.


2. Blore, Hist. & Antiqs. of Rutland, 1(2) (1811): 100–102 (La Warre / West ped.).


3. Brydges Collins’ Peerage of England, 5 (1812): 1–28 (sub West, Earl Delawarr).


4. Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta, 2 (1826): 605–608 (will of Thomas West, Lord La Warre).


5. Bentley, Excerpta Historica (1833): 309–310.


6. Coll. Top. et Gen., 2 (1835): 8–9.


7. Watson, Tendring Hundred in Olden Time (1877): 161–164.


8. Birch, Cat. Seals in the British Museum, 3 (1894): 46 (seal of Sir John Guldeford dated 1543 — A firebrand flamant.  Crest of GULDEFORD).


9. Clutterbuck, Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield, Kimpton, Panton Mewsey, Weyhill & Wherwell (1898): 181–185 (will of Thomas West, K.G.).


10. List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 69.


11. Benolte & Cooke, Vis. of Kent 1530–1, 1574, & 1592 (H.S.P. 74) (1923): 11 (1530–1 Vis.) (Guyldeforde ped.: "John [Guildford] = Barbara d. to the lorde Delawarre"), 77 (Add'l Peds.) (Guildford ped.: "Sr. John Guldeford, Knt. = Barbara dau. to Thomas West Lord La Ware").


12. Comber, Sussex Gens., 3 (1933): 304–306 (sub Lords West).


13. Davis, Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 92–93.


14. VCH, Sussex, 6(1) (1980): 10–21.


15. Bindoff, House of Commons, 1509–1558, 2 (1982): 265–266 (biog. of John Guildford).


16. National Archives, E 328/52 (Indenture of agreement dated 23 Nov. 1538 between John Duddeley Knt., and Dame Jane, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Edward Guldeford Knt., son and heir of Sir Richard Guldeford, Knt., deceased, and (2) John Guldeford Esq., son and heir of George Guldeford Esq., second son of said Sir Richard, re. a dispute between the parties on right to manors etc. in cos. Kent and Suss., late of Sir Richard Guldeford).

Will:
P.C.C. 25 Morrison

Requested burial beside his first wife at Benenden, Kent, England.

Probate:
P.C.C. 25 Morrison

John married Hon. Barbara West before 1534. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Mary Fitz William. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Owen West. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Walter Woodland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Lynne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sir Thomas Walsingham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Harlakenden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: William Cromer. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]