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

Generation No. 12

22. WILLIAM DE¹³ RADCLYFFE (RICHARD DE¹², 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)⁶³ was born 1330 in "Radclyffe Tower", Lancashire, England, and died 1390 in England. He married SUSANAH DE LEGH / LEIGH⁶³ about 1354, daughter of ROBERT DE LEGH and MAUD DE NORLEIGH. She was born about 1334 in Lancashire, England, and died Unknown.

Notes for WILLIAM DE RADCLYFFE:
[The writer's nineteenth great grandfather.]
William was born in the third year of the reign of King EDWARD III. His wife, Susannah, was the sister of Matilda, the second wife of William de Radclyffe of Todmorden, and of Sir Piers de Legh, who married Margaret D'Anyers, widow of John de Radclyffe of Ordsall. Another of her brothers was Sir Robert de Legh, High Sheriff of Cheshire from 1393 to 1398.[a]
According to another source, William served as High Sheriff of Lancaster in 1358, and was living in Radclyffe Tower in that year.[b]
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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) p. 24.]
b. Yorkshire P.: High Sheriff of Lancaster, 32 Edward III (1358); r. 1358, Radcliffe Tower; 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 WILLIAM RADCLYFFE and SUSANAH LEGH / LEIGH are:

25.	i.		SIR JAMES DE¹⁴ RADCLYFFE, KNIGHT, OF ATTLEBURGH, b. 1355, Lancashire, England; d. 1409, England.
	ii.		THOMAS DE RADCLYFFE, OSB, PRIEST, b. about 1357, Lancashire, England; d. Unknown.

Notes for THOMAS DE RADCLYFFE, OSB, PRIEST:
Thomas became a Benedictine monk, and later was elected Abbot of Rushen in the Isle of Man.

	iii.		ROBERT DE RADCLYFFE, b. about 1359, Lancashire, England; d. Unknown; m. KATHERINE DE MOLYNEAUX, about 1396; b. about 1345; d. Unknown.
	iv.		ISABEL DE RADCLYFFE, b. about 1361, Lancashire, England; d. Unknown; m. WILLIAM DE BARTON, LORD OF MIDDLETON; b. about 1356; d. Unknown.

23. SIR THOMAS DE¹³ RATCLIFF, OF WINMARLEIGH (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)⁶⁴ was born about 1334 in Lancashire, England, and died Unknown. He married ELENA DE TYLDESLEY⁶⁵, daughter of HUGH DE TYLDESLEY and ELLEN [----?----]. She was born about 1350, and died Unknown.

Notes for SIR THOMAS DE RATCLIFF, OF WINMARLEIGH:
Sir Thomas inherited from his father the lands of Winmarleigh and Clitheroe. In 1371 he was granted the Manor of Astley by the Duke of Lancaster. In the Wars with France, Sir Thomas served with distinction as an esquire to John of Gaunt. He was Steward of Blackburnshire in 1385. In 1394, he was appointed to the Commission of the Peace for the county of Lancaster, and was made Constable of the King's Castle at Lancaster, receiving an annual salary of £13. 6s. 8d. Sir Thomas resided chiefly at "The Alleys", the manor-house at Clitheroe, and founded a chantry in the south aisle of Clitheroe Church which became the burial place of the Winmarleigh Radclyffes. [Charles P. Hampson, THE BOOK OF THE RADCLYFFES (privately printed Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Ltd., at the University Press, 1940) pp. 118, 120.]

Child of THOMAS RATCLIFF and ELENA TYLDESLEY is:

26.

SIR NICHOLAS DE¹⁴ RATCLIFF, SHERIFF OF CUMBERLAND, b. about 1370; d. 1452.

24. SIR JOHN DE¹³ RATCLYFFE (RICHARD DE¹², 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) was born 1356 in England, and died 1421. He married LADY MARGARET DE TRAFFORD 1375 in England. She was born about 1361 in England, and died Unknown.

Child of JOHN RATCLYFFE and MARGARET TRAFFORD is:

27.

SIR JOHN DE¹⁴ RATCLYFFE, b. 1377, "Ordsall Hall", Salford, Lancashire, England; d. 26 July 1442.

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