Richard de Cormeilles

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹³⁴⁴
Beatrice, married first Richard de Cormeilles (d. 1177) and secondly Robert de Lisle (fl. 1206). Her rights in Wendy descended to her son Walter de Cormeilles (d. c. 1217). [Dugdale, Baronage, i. 424; Farrer, Honors and Kts. Fees, iii. 172; Cal. Inq. Misc. i, p. 170] Walter's heirs were his five daughters, and Wendy passed to Sibyl who married first Ralph Belet (fl. 1212) and secondly Hugh Giffard [Dugdale, Baronage, i. 424; Abbrev. Plac. (Rec. Com.), 78; Cur. Reg. R. vi. 190, 249] who held part of a fee in Wendy c. 1235. [Liber de Bernewelle, 273] Hugh's sons, Walter, archbishop of York (d. 1279), and Godfrey, bishop of Worcester (d. 1302), were succeeded by John, son of their brother William Giffard, probably the William who had acquired FitzRalphs in 1265.

~A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, Volume 8, pp. 135-142

Richard married Beatrice, daughter of Robert Fitz Odo The Chamberlain and Unknown.¹³⁴⁴