When Robert Plumpton IV was born about 1340, in Yorkshire, England, his father, Sir William Plumpton, was 46 and his mother, Christina Mowbray, was 11338. He married Isabel Scrope in 1363, in Masham, Yorkshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died about 1407, in his hometown, at the age of 69.
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John Wycliffe, English theologian and professor at the University of Oxford, completed a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Middle English. This translation is known as Wycliffe's Bible and was completed around 1382.
English: habitational name from any of several places called with Old English plūme, plȳme ‘plum, plum tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, including Plumpton (Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Sussex, Cumbria), Fieldplumpton or Woodplumpton (Lancashire), Plympton (Devon), and a lost Plumpton in Kingsbury (Warwicks).
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