General Notes

Richard was a knight in 1219, when he witnessed a deed executed in the court of the Bishop of Lichfield. He served in various capacities in Warwickshire: as joint commissioner, 1223, to sell windfall wood in the royal forests; juror upon a grand assize of novel disseizen, 1229; and one of the two knights to collect the aid, 1235. In 1235 he was holding one-half fee in (Fenny) Compton. By deeds Richard Peche had lands in Honiley, which had been Ralph de Grafton's, his mother's 2nd husband, and recorded that Pernel, mother of the said Richard, had quitclaimed all rights in the chattels of Ralph de Grafton. This Richard Peche by right of descent from Petronella, his mother, daughter and at length heir to Richard de Walensis, possessed that fair lordship Wormleighton, in County Warwick.