Fettiplace

Fettiplace is an English family name of Norman descent, with at least 800 years of history. They were landed gentry, chiefly in the counties of Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

Fettiplace is probably from old French "fâites place" for 'make room', the shout allegedly given by the ushers/bodyguards/protectors of the French Kings and nobility. The name Fettiplace is now largely modernized within the direct descendants as Fetterplace and known as Phetteplaces in the United States.

The Fettiplaces are said (but with no surviving evidence) to have first arrived in England with William the Conqueror. The first notable recorded family member was Adam Feteplace or Fettiplace, Mayor of Oxford for eleven terms between 1245 and 1268. His family's first estate was North Denchworth in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). Thomas Fettiplace (d. 1442) of East Shefford in Berkshire married Beatrix, widow of Gilbert, Earl Talbot. She was probably illegitimately descended from the Royal House of Portugal. Their youngest son, John, a London wool merchant (d. 1464), became a member of the household of Henry VI and because of his family connections carried the insignia of the Order of the Garter to the King of Portugal.

Public service by the Fettiplaces continued during the Tudor and Stuart periods with records showing the knighting of family members during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. During the latter's reign, Sir Thomas Fettiplace of Compton Beauchamp in Berkshire accompanied the King to the Field of the Cloth of Gold to meet the French King, Francis I in 1520. Another Fettiplace accompanied the entourage that escorted Anne of Cleves to England. Anthony Fettiplace of Childrey and Swinbrook (d. 1510), son of John the wool merchant, married the granddaughter of Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London;Queen Elizabeth I was thus a cousin of that branch of the family. John Fettiplace of Besselsleigh was an MP in the 1550s.

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