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William Nelond

English Member of Parliament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ24233521 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Nelond (fl. 1388) of East Grinstead, Sussex, was an English politician.

He married a woman named Joan and they may have had two sons. His dates of birth and death are unknown.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for East Grinstead in September 1388.

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“William Nelond” enters the record as english Member of Parliament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Nelond and English can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1388—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around William, Nelond and English.
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“William Nelond” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, William, Nelond and English provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24233521. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1388.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Nelond” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.