Sir Richard de Sherburne Knight

  General Notes:

~Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, p. 826 ⁸²¹

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 170:30, Sir Richard de Shireburne, Knight of Aighton, son of Sir John Shireburne, married Alice de Plumpton, daughter of Sir William de Plumpton and his second wife, Christina Mowbry. ¹⁶⁰

~The Coucher Book or the Chartulary of Whalley Abbey, Vol. III, pg. 682, , Sir Richard de Scirburn married Alice, daughter of Sir William de Plumpton, 25 Edward III. He died 37 Edward III, leaving Margaret, who married Ricahrd de Bailey. ⁸²⁵

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷²
Richard de Sherburne and others held a fourth part of a knight's fee in Wiswall and Hapton for the render of 25 shillings according to an inquisition taken after the death of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, in 1362. From the Records of the Duchy of Lancaster [1362, div. xxvi., bund. 43, part 1, P.R.O] it is known that he held lands by military tenure at various places in Lancashire and the value of such lands. Another inquisition in 1365 shows that Sir Richard, Knight, had free chace appertaining to the manor of Wiswall. While he was a knight, his grandfather, Sir Robert, and his father, Sir John, were also knights. This is somewhat unusal.

Sir Richard was married in 1351 to Alice, daughter of Sir William Plumpton, who survived him and married Johannes de Botilier of Warrington after the death of Sir Richard. Richard and Alice did not leave a male child, so the line of Sherburnes passes on two their daughters, Margaret and Johanna, coheiresses. Johanna appears to have died unmarried, but Margaret married about 1379 to Richard de Bayley de Stonyhurst, who died during the life of his father John de Bayley.

~A History of the Family of Sherborn, pgs. 12-14

• Background Information. ⁸²²
Sir Richard Shireburn was son and heir of Sir John Shireburn. At one point, Sir Richard, his father, Sir John and grandfather, Sir Robert, were all knights at the same time.

Sir Richard married Alice, daughter of Sir William Plumpton of Plumton, the marriage settlement being dated Monday, second week of Lent, 25 Edward III or 1351. Richard and Alice had two daughters, Margaret and Joan. Joan died unmarried, while Margaret married around 50/51 Edward III to Richard Bayley.

~ Stonyhurst Hall, p. 42

Richard married Alice de Plumpton, daughter of Sir William de Plumpton Knight and Christianna Mowbray ^160,772.^,822 (Alice de Plumpton was born about 1338 in Yorkshire, England and died After Mar 1400 before 1409 in Lancashire, England ^160,730.)