Richard De Placetis De Wrotham 
Richard De Placetis was born in 1255 in Enfield, Middlesex, England. Richard De Placetis' father was Hugh Du Plessis and his mother was Muriel De Wrotham. He had a brother named Hugh. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-sister named Christine. He was buried in Chapel of Edelmetone.General Notes
Richard de Placetis de Wrotham, was of Enfield and Edmonton in County Middlesex. He had a house and lands by the grant of his father. He also had Aldenham and lands in Wrotham and Ford in County Kent and Gobrigge in County Surrey by grant from his uncle, Richard de Wortham, brother of Muriel, his mother. These were the greatest part of the possessions of that family in those counties. Besides which he had a messuage and caracute of land in Sutton as also certain rents and services arising from Lintmore, Newton Forest and West Newton, all of which were the possessions of Richard de Wortham and were entailed on this Richard and the heirs of his body, remainder entailed general to William and John Placetis. In this deed he is called Richard, son of Hugh de Placetis, but soon after he styled himself Richard de Wrotham, and by that name 10th of Edward I had a release from Emma de Mallinger of lands in Kent and several purchases in Somerset and elsewhere. In 17th Edward I, 1289, he had a grant of 300 marks, which Berenger le Romeyn, his father-in-law, owed to the exchequer, being then called Richard de Wrotham, Knight. His will bears date of 1292, in which he orders his body to be buried in the parish church of Edelmetone in a chapel which had been built by his wife's father, and that it should be laid as near the body of Gladyna, this wife, as could conveniently be done without injuring the fabric, and appoints his two sons, Richard de Wrotham of Sheperton and William to have care of his funeral, whom he also makes his executors. And whereas he had for several years paid ten marks of silver toward the building of a church for the friars preacher in London. He directs that his sons continue the same after his death till the whole of 150 marks be completed; and that afterwards the lands of 100 shillings rent for the maintenance of a chaplain, who should perform divine service in the Chapel of Edelmetone for his soul, the souls of Gladyna, his wife, Berenger le Romeyn and Margaret, his wife, and others. He had two sons, John and Richard.
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