 1324 - Abt 1380 (~ 79 years)
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| Name |
Richard Radcliffe |
| Birth |
Between 1301 and 1324 |
probably Ordsall, Lancashire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Abt 19 Jul 1380 |
Rossendale Water |
| Notes |
- http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE3.htm#Richard%20RADCLIFFE2
known as 'Le Puigne' to distinguish him from his cousin «b»Richard of the Tower«/b». In addition to the Ordsall estates he succeeded to his father's offices of Bailiwick of Rochdale and the Stewardship of Blackburn. By his marriage he vastly enhanced his noble status and landed possessions. His wife was «b»Matilda«/b», daughter and heir of «b»Sir John Legh of Booths and Sandbach«/b». She was descended in the paternal line from «b»Hamon de Legh«/b», Lord of the Mediety of High Legh in the reign of «b»Henry II«/b», whose descendants had absorbed by marriage the notable families of Swineshead, Oughtrington, Corona, and Sandbach. By her grandmother, «b»Margaret de Arderne«/b», she was descended from «b»Ralph, Viscount of Bayeux«/b», from the family of Averanches Earls of Chester, and from the noble lines of St. Hillery, Montalt, Orreby, Glanville, and Sackville. «b»Matilda«/b» brought to her husband the manor of Sandbach, a moiety of Mobberley, and other extensive possessions of the Arderne inheritance in the county of Chester. «b»Richard«/b» was one of the greatest landowners in the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, for in addition to the wide domains that his wife brought him, he had acquired other portions of the former lands of his own family. Besides Ordsall, he held the manor of Hope within Pendleton, a messuage and 60 acres of land, held by knight's service and a rent of four pounds and two shillings, and Shoresworth, which with Hope had come to the Radcliffes from «b»Margaret de Shoresworth«/b». On his father's death, «b»Richard«/b» petitioned for the restitution of lands in Livesey and Tockholes in Blackburnshire, which had been granted to «b»Roger de Radcliffe«/b» by «b»Thomas of Lancaster«/b», and had been seized by the Crown on account of the debts which «b»Robert«/b», son of «b»Roger«/b», had left unpaid at his death. His second wife was «b»Sybil«/b», dau. and heiress of «b»Sir Robert de Clitheroe of Salesbury«/b».
«b»Richard«/b» was drowned in Rossendale Water, while exercising his official duties, on the Thursday before the feast of St. Margaret in 1380. After «b»Richard«/b»'s death «b»Sybil«/b» was married again to «b»Sir Richard de Mauleverer«/b», to whom she bore a daughter, «b»Isabella«/b», who was married to «b»John Talbot«/b», and whose descendents had Salesbury for their inheritance. «b»Sybil«/b»'s third husband was «b»Sir Roger de Fulthorpe«/b», Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland. In 1388 «b»Sir Roger«/b» was convicted at Westminster of '«i»divers betrayals of trust«/i»' and his lands were made forfeit to the «b»King«/b». These properties on the death of «b»Sybil«/b» reverted to the Lord of Ordsall. «b»Sybil«/b» was living in 1406, when the «b»Bishop of Lichfield«/b» granted her a licence as Lady of Salesbury for Mass to be celebrated 'submissa voce' within her manor of Salesbury.
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| Person ID |
I43826 |
Glenn Cook Family |
| Last Modified |
21 Jun 2007 |
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