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Descendants of IVO de TAILLEBOIS, The Earl of Holland (Ratcliffe/Crossgrove Family Line)

Generation No. 11


20. RICHARD DE12 RADCLYFFE, OF WINMARLEIGH (WILLIAM DE11, RICHARD DE10 RATCLYFFE, ESQ., OF RADCLIFFE TOWER, ROBERT DE9 RADCLYFFE, ADAM DE8, WILLIAM DE7 RADECLIVE, SHERIFF OF LANCASHIRE, HENRY DE6, NICHOLAS FITZGILBERT DE5, GILBERT DE4 TAILBOIS, 3RD BARON OF KENDAL, ÆLFTRED DE3 TAILLEBOIS, 2D BARON OF KENDAL, IVO DE2, REINFRED1)58 was born 1305 in Radclyffe Tower, Lancashire, England, and died 1375 in England. He married (1) ISABEL DE PLEASINGTON59 1328, daughter of ROBERT DE PLEASINGTON. She was born about 1310 in Lancashire, England, and died Unknown. He married (2) ANN DE LEYCESTER about 1345. She was born about 1310 in England, and died 1368 in England60.

Notes for RICHARD DE RADCLYFFE, OF WINMARLEIGH:
[The writer's twentieth great grandfather.]
RADCLYFFE OF WINMARLEIGH
From Richard descended the Radclyffe of Winmarleigh branch of the family. Richard, the eldest son and heir of William de Radclyffe, was born in the thirty-third year of the reign of King EDWARD I. Through his marriage to Isabel, Richard acquired the manor of Winmarleigh. From 1332 to 1335, Richard was Steward of Blackburnshire, and was High Sheriff of the County of Lancashire from 1356 to 1359. In the ancient office of Sheriff, or Shire Reeve, to which he was appointed by the Crown, Richard was called upon to resist the instrusions of the Barons upon the rights of both the King and the common people. Additionally, he had the duty to raise the county's "posse comitatus" and to sit as judge in both the Court of the Hundred and the Court of the Shire. The position of county Sheriff was almost as powerful as the baronage.[a]
Richard inherited from his cousin, Sir Robert de Radclyffe of Ordsall, the manor of Astley, and in 1331 Thomas de Prestwich granted him for life the manors of Prestwich, Alkrington, Pendlebury, and other lands at a yearly rent of £26 and 19d. A grant to Richard of the manor of Prestwich by Thomas de Prestwich was confirmed in 1333, and Richard had the advowson of Prestwich Church from 1347 to 1365.[a] In 1358 Henry, Duke of Lancaster, restored to Richard "12 acres of land in Radclyffe, forfeited by Adam de Radclyffe, who was hanged for felony".[a] Richard was one of those assigned as justices by the Duke of Lancaster during the Black Death to oversee the observance of the Statute of Labourers.[a]
Richard, Keeper of the Chace in the Forests of Blackburnshire, was involved in a dispute with the Abbot of Whalley in 1344 when the Abbot resisted Richard's claim to the right of Puture (i.e., the privilege by which foresters could take free food and drink for themselves, their horses and dogs, from tenants living within a forest). Richard lost his case and was imprisoned until the damages of £4 were paid.[a] When Richard left the office of Master Forester in 1375, he was granted a pension of 20 marks per annum by John of Gaunt.[a]
Richard was a courageous soldier who worked against the wealthy and powerful oppressors of the poor. The resulting disputes put him at odds with the authorities and at times cost Richard his freedom. In 1362 Richard was imprisoned in the Tower of London for what would appear to be a serious offence. Set free on a £500 bond, he was later again confined to the Tower, and was subsequently freed on the posting by three knights of an additional £500 bond.[a]
Richard was devoutly observant in his religious life. In 1365 he was granted license by the Bishop of Lichfield for the celebration of Masses in the oratories he had built on his various properties.[a]
It has been reported that Richard was married twice, the first time to Anne, daughter of John de Leycester of Nether Tabley in County Cheshire, with no children being born to that marriage.[b]
Richard is documented in the Crown's records in the years 1332, 1335, and 1340, and as High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1355 through 1358.[c]
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a. Charles B. Hampson, THE BOOK OF THE RADCLYFFES (privately printed Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Ltd., at the University Press, 1940) pp. 19-24.
b. Thomas Dunham Whitaker, AN HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL PARISH OF WHALLEY AND HONOR OF CLITHEROE, 4th ed., (1806; reprint: London: George Routledge & Sons, 1872); also, Whitaker, THE HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE DEANERY OF CRAVEN,: . . IN THE COUNTY OF YORK (London: Printed by Nichols and Son, 1805); as cited by Hampson, THE BOOK OF THE RADCLYFFES, op. cit., p. 23.
c. Yorkshire P.: living 6, 9, and 14 Edward III (1332, 1335, 1340); High Sheriff of Lancashire 29-32 Edward III (1355-58); as cited by Jorge H. Castelli, "Radcliffe Family" in WELCOME TO MY TUDOR COURT; Website of Jorge H. Castelli, Argentina (jcastell@tudorplace.com.ar); URL: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE1.htm.
     
Children of RICHARD RADCLYFFE and ISABEL PLEASINGTON are:
22. i.   WILLIAM DE13 RADCLYFFE, b. 1330, "Radclyffe Tower", Lancashire, England; d. 1390, England.
  ii.   CHRISTOPHER DE RADCLYFFE, b. about 1332, Lancashire, England; d. Unknown.
23. iii.   SIR THOMAS DE RATCLIFF, OF WINMARLEIGH, b. about 1334, Lancashire, England; d. Unknown.
  iv.   ROGER DE RADCLYFFE, b. about 1336, Lancashire, England; d. Aft. 1398.
  v.   NICHOLAS DE RADCLYFFE, OSB, RELIGIOUS, b. about 1338, Lancashire, England; d. Aft. 1396, England.
  Notes for NICHOLAS DE RADCLYFFE, OSB, RELIGIOUS:
Nicholas, a Religious, was educated at Oxford where he received the degree of Doctor of Theology. In 1368 he was appointed Prior of Wymondham in Norfolk, a daughter house of St Alban's Abbey. He was made Archdeacon of St Alban's in 1380, and in 1382 was one of the doctors of theology who deliberated on the heresies of John Wycliff at the Blackfriars Synod. In 1396 Nicholas preached the sermon at the election of a new Abbot of St Alban's. [Charles B. Hampson, THE BOOK OF THE RADCLYFFES (privately printed Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Ltd., at the University Press, 1940) pp. 23-24.]

  vi.   ELENA DE RADCLYFFE, b. about 1340, Lancashire, England; d. Unknown; m. (1) NICHOLAS BOTELER, OF RAWCLIFFE, about 1360; b. about 1335; d. Unknown; m. (2) SIR JOHN DALTON, OF DALTON, about 1365; b. about 1337; d. Unknown; m. (3) SIR ROBERT URSWICK, KNIGHT, about 1370; b. about 1340; d. Unknown.


21. RICHARD DE12 RATCLYFFE, OF ORDSALL (JOHN DE11, RICHARD DE10, ROBERT DE9 RADCLYFFE, ADAM DE8, WILLIAM DE7 RADECLIVE, SHERIFF OF LANCASHIRE, HENRY DE6, NICHOLAS FITZGILBERT DE5, GILBERT DE4 TAILBOIS, 3RD BARON OF KENDAL, ÆLFTRED DE3 TAILLEBOIS, 2D BARON OF KENDAL, IVO DE2, REINFRED1)61 was born about 1312 in England, and died July 138061. He married (1) MATILDA DE LEGH62 about 1332, daughter of SIR JOHN LEGH, OF BOOTHS AND SANDBACH. She was born about 1319 in England, and died Unknown. He married (2) SYBIL DE CLITHEROE about 1370. She was born about 1317, and died Unknown.
     
Children of RICHARD RATCLYFFE and MATILDA DE LEGH are:
24. i.   SIR JOHN DE13 RATCLYFFE, b. 1356, England; d. 1421.
  ii.   JOAN DE RATCLYFFE, b. about 1358; d. Unknown.
     
Child of RICHARD RATCLYFFE and SYBIL CLITHEROE is:
  iii.   JOAN DE13 RATCLYFFE, d. Unknown; m. HENRY DE HOGHTON, 1401; d. Unknown.

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