Richard de Davenport

  General Notes:

The History of the Davenports shows two Richard Davenports, one the son of Orme and the other the grandson of Orme and son of Thomas de Davenport. The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell and The Early Davenports have only the one Richard, son of Orme and father of Vivian. ^682,721

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, p. 68, Richard Dauneporte, married Amabilia about 1176, also shows Thomas de Davenport and Richard de Davenport, which were left of of the Ancestors of Robert Abell. ⁷¹³

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁶⁸²
Richard de Davenporte, to whom Randle Blundeville, earl of Chester, granted by charter acquittance from suits in the shire and Hundred Court, for himself and heirs, between 1209 and 1226.

Chidren:
Amicia Davenporte, who became the wife of Randle de Cheldleton, and had lands in the Abbacy of Dierlacres
Vivian de Davenporte
Walther de Davenporte, second son, had lands in Somerford Booths
Peter de Davenporte, living in 1263
(Shown as the son of Orme and the father of Thomas de Davenport.)

~A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family: In England and America, pp. 64-66

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Richard de Davenport was appointed as the supreme forester of the earl's forests of Leek and Macclesfield, Cheshire around 1153-1181. He married Ambilia de Venables whose brother William Venables, Baron of Kinderton, gave her in marriage after the death of their father. Richard was given half of Marton as a dowery. This had been Ambilia's mother's dowery.

Hugh de Kevelioc, Earl of Chester gave Richard de Davenport the important post of Masterforester of the Forests of Macclesfield and Leek sometime between 1152 and 1160.

~The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 78

• Background Information. ⁶⁸²
Richard de Dauneporte, born in 1136, to whom Hugh Kevelioc, earl of Chester, granted by charter the chief forestership of the forest of Leek and Macclesfield, about 1166, and who had a moiety of the township of Marton by marriage, about 1176. His wife was Amabilia, the daughter of Gilbert Venables, baron of Kinderton, whose father Gilbert Venables, was the Norman grantee of Kinderton, Davenport, etc. before 1086. (Shown as the grandson of Orme and son of Thomas de Davenport.)

~A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family: In England and America, p. 63

• Background Information. ⁷⁹⁴
Richard de Davenport was appointed supreme forester of the Earl's forest of Leek and Macclesfield by Earl Hugh of Cyveiliog. This was dated sometime between 1153 and 1181, while Hugh was earl. Earl Hugh gave Richard and his heirs, with supreme forestership, a place in the hundred of Macclesfield, by the service of forestry, in fee and heredity. This place, anhus in the charter, may be the forest tenement known as the "One House," between the townships of Hurdsfield and Rainow, about two miles northeast of Macclesfield. For this Richard gave the earl a pair of filt spurs and two marks; and he gave the earl's uncle Richard a pair of iron spurs. John Torkington, keeper of the seal in the Exchequer at Chester, issued a receipt to John Davenport, Esquire, for sixpence due to the king for one year for the forester's fee of the forest Macclesfield.

~The Early Davenports, pp. 3-4

Richard married Amabilia de Venables, daughter of Gilbert de Venables 1st Baron of Kinderton and Margery Hatton, about 1176 in Cheshire, England ⁶⁸².^,713 (Amabilia de Venables was born in England and died in England.)