Sir Richard de Radcliffe of Radcliffe Tower 
Richard was born about 1245 in Radcliffe Tower, Lancashire, England. Richard's father was Lord Robert de Radcliffe of Oswaldthistle and his mother is Amabil de Trafford. His paternal grandfather was Adam de Radcliffe and his paternal grandmother is Joan de Curwen; his maternal grandfather was Sir Richard de Trafford and his maternal grandmother is Christina de Chetham. He was an only child. He died in 1326 in Radcliffe Tower, Lancashire, England.General Notes
The family of Ratcliffe or Radcliffe, took its name from the village of Radcliffe, near Bury, in Lancashire, one of decidedly Saxon origin. Richard de Radclyffe, of Radclyffe Tower, co. Lancaster, seneschal and minister of the forests of Blackburnshire, accompanied King Edward I in his wars in Scotland and received from that prince, in the 32nd year of his reign [1306], a grant of a charter of free warren and free chase in all his demesne lands of Radclyffe, &c. He m. a dau. of Boteler, of Bewsey, Baron of Warrington, and had issue, Robert, William, and John. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 449, Ratcliffe, Barons and Viscount Fitz-Walter, Earls of Sussex]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1122 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1140 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1120 in Ribble-Mersey River, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1160 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England d.1220 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England d.~ 1248 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1140 in Hornby Castle, Lancaster, England
- b.~ 1165 in Hornby Castle, Lancaster, England
- b.~ 1120 in Worsbrough Manor, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1145 in Warsbrough Manor, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1210 in Radcliffe Tower, Bury, Lancashire, England d.1290
- b.~ 1130 in High Ireby, Scotland d.13 Nov 1200 in Workington, Allerdale, Scotland
- b.~ 1158 in Preston Patrick, Kendal, Cambria, England d.~ 1212
- b.~ 1138 in Workington, Allerdale, Scotland d.1174
- b.~ 1175 in Workington, Coupland, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1195 in Workington, Coupland, England
- b.~ 1245 in Radcliffe Tower, Lancashire, England d.1326 in Radcliffe Tower, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1096 in Trafford, Plemonstall, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1124 in Trafford, Plemonstall, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1152 in Trafford, Plemonstall, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1180 in Trafford Manor, Lancashire, England d.1256 in Trafford Manor, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1225 in Trafford, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1184 in Trafford Manor, Lancashire, England
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They had a son named Robert.
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Children
Sheriff Robert Radcliffe of Lancaster
Robert was born about 1273 in Radcliffe Tower, Lancashire, England. He died after 1305 in Pilsworth, Bury, Lancashire, England.
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