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From: "Douglas Richardson" < >
Subject: Richard de Chester, brother of Sir Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester
Date: 9 Oct 2005 00:59:14 -0700


Dear Newsgroup ~

Please find below a history of Richard de Chester, younger brother of
Sir Roger de Lacy (otherwise Roger de Chester) (died 1211), of
Pontefract, Yorkshire and Halton, Cheshire, hereditary Constable of
Chester. The records show that Richard de Chester was granted the
manor of More, Cheshire by the gift of his brother, Sir Roger de Lacy.
He afterwards became a leper and, on his death, he was buried at Norton
Priory, Cheshire. He presumably died without issue sometime 1232, as
the manor of More was subsequently held by his nephew, John de Lacy
(otherwise John de Chester), Constable of Chester, afterwards Earl of
Lincoln.

I find no indication that Richard de Chester had any issue, or ever
married. I also find no record that he had any connection to the
manors of Kippax or Scholes, Yorkshire, the known maritagium of his
niece, _____, 1st wife of Alan Fitz Roland, lord of Galloway.

Best always, Douglas Richardson, Salt Lake City, Utah

Website: www.royalancestry.net

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I. RICHARD OF CHESTER, 2nd son of John, Constable of Chester (died
1190), by his wife, Alice, daughter of Roger Fitz Richard, of
Warkworth, Northumberland. Sometime prior to 1190, he witnessed a
charter of his father's to Lenton Priory, Nottinghamshire, as well as
a charter of his father's dated c.1175-1190 to Watton Priory.
Sometime after 1190, he was granted the manor of More, Cheshire by his
brother. He witnessed various charters of his brother, Roger de Lacy,
1190-c.1200, dated 1194, and 1200-1211. He granted Wethale (in Aston
by Budworth) to Adam de Dutton and his heirs. He died a leper and was
buried at Norton Priory, Cheshire. He presumably died without issue
sometime before 1232, when the manor of More in the hands of his
nephew, John de Lacy.

References:

George Ormerod, History of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1
(1819): 509-510, 543. William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1)
(London, 1830): 315 (Norton Priory) (Pedigree and history of the
Founders: "Iste eciam Rogerus [de Lacy] habuit quendam fratrem,
Ricardum nomine; cui dedit villam de More; et hic postmodum fuit
leprosus, et sepulta est in capitulo canonicorum de Northton.").
Thomas Dunham Whitaker, An History of the Original Parish of Whalley
and Honor of Clitheroe 1 (4th ed., Manchester, 1872): 241, footnote 1.
W.A. Hulton ed., The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey 1
(Chetham Soc. 10) (1947): 135-138; 2 (Chetham Soc. 11) (1847): 393-394;
(3 (Chetham Soc. 16) (1848): 802. William Farrer ed., Early Yorkshire
Charters 3 (1916): 199 (chart), 209-211. Hatton, Book of Seals (1950):
358. Geoffrey Barraclough ed., Facsimiles of Early Cheshire Charters
(1957): 18-20. C.J. Holdsworth ed., Rufford Charters 2 (Thoroton Soc.
Rec. Ser. 30) (1974): 217-218 (charter of Roger de Lacy).


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