Richard de Vernon

  General Notes:

According the Burke, he was the great grandson of William de Vernon, the second son of Richard, Lord of Vernon. Burke does not list his father or grandfather.

~Burke's Colonial Gentry, p. 197 ⁷⁸⁶

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁶
Richard de Vernon, in 37 Henry III, had a grant of custody of the castle and manor of the Pecke, and dying before his father, left issue, four sons. His son, William, was Cheif Justice of Chester.

~Collins's Peerage of England, p. 397

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree," p. 252, has the following as children of Richard de Verson of Shipbrrok, living in the time of Richard I:

• Warin de Vernon, baron of Shipbook, m. Auda, daughter and coheir of William de Malbank
• Ricahrd de Vernon, brother of Warin, occurs as witness to a deed of Gilbert Bostok
• Ralph de Verson, witness to Bostock's deed
• William de Vernon, witness to Bostock's deed, apparently the same with Sir William, judge of Chester, 1230-32, and ancestor of the Vernons of Harlaston and Marple, Haddon, Sudbury, Hilton, etc.
• Robert de Vernon, witness to Bostock's deed.

• Background Information. ⁷⁸⁸
The family ended with the death of William de Avenell. He left two adughters as coheirs. One daughter married Richard de Vernon and the other Simon Bassett. The share given to the Vernon's contained the manor house, which Richard de Vernon had a licence to fority it with a twelve foot high wall. Haddon continued for several generations to be the principal residence of the Vernon family.

~History, Topgraphy, and Directory of Derbyshire, 1895, p. 308,

Richard married Avice de Avenell, daughter of William de Avenell of Haddon and Unknown ⁷⁸⁶.^,788 (Avice de Avenell was born about 1155 in Haddon, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England.)