General Notes

[Richard Wydeville.FTW]


ID: I67624
Name: Richard De Wydeville
Given Name: Richard De
Surname: Wydeville
NSFX: Of Grafton Regis, Esq 1 2
Title: Of Grafton Regis, Esq
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1310 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England 1
Death: Aft Jul 1378 1
Reference Number: ems-jw
Change Date: 16 Jun 2003 at 16:32
Note:
RICHARD DE WYDEVILL, born about 1310, was the first member of the Wydevill family of Grafton (Regis), Northants, to achieve more than local prominence (g). He was in possession of the family estates in 1345. He was joint collector of that county's share in the 30,000 sacks of wool granted to the King as a subsidy in 1347; in 1354, a commissioner to enforce the Statute of Labourers, and of oyer and terminer, &c., in Northants, Bucks and Beds, 1358-62; 1360-62, acting Sheriff, 1362-68 and 1370-71 High Sheriff, of Northants; 1361-70, escheator in Northants; Knight of the shire in seven parliaments between 1362and 1377; surveyor of the works at Moorend castle (Potterspury) in 1363 and later.

He married, 1stly, ---- , and, 2ndly, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John LYONS of Warkworth, heir of her brother John LYONS and widow of Sir Nicholas CHETWODE. He appears to have been living in July 1378. [Complete Peerage XI:15-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(g) His parentage is unknown; but the family of Wydevill or Wodevill had long been seated at Grafton.

Note: CP does not say by which wife, his son John was born.


Father: John De Wydeville b: 1288 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England
Mother: Mrs. John 1288 Wydeville b: Abt 1292

Marriage 1 Elizabeth Lyons b: 1324 in Warkworth, Banbury, Northamptonshire, England
Married: Abt 1339 in 2ND Husband 2ND Wife 3
Change Date: 31 Dec 2003
Children
John De Wydeville b: Bef 1341 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England
Thomas (Richard) Wydeville b: Abt 1342 in Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England

Sources:
1.       Abbrev: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: XI:15-6
Quality: 3
2.       Abbrev: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
Title: The Plantagenet Ancestry, by William Henry Turton, 1968
Page: 3, 150
Quality: 3
3.       Abbrev: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Title: Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
Page: XI:16