Randal Brereton Knt. (abt. 1558 - 1611)

Born about 1558 in Malpas, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Died 8 May 1611 at about age 53 in Malpas, Cheshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Sir Randal Brereton, Knight^[1]

Randle was born about 1558 [est: his daughter Mary was baptised in 1576^[2]].

Randle was the son of Sir Randel Brereton, knight, and Mary Griffith, the daughter of sir William Griffith, knight.^{[2] [3]} He was the grandson of Sir Randle Brereton of Malpas and Shocklach, knight, and Isabel, the daughter of Thomas Butler of Bewsey and his second wife.^{[2] [3]}

After his father's death, his mother Mary married Sir Hugh Cholmondeley, knight.^[2]

Sir Randle had two brothers:^[2]

1. Richard; and
2. Sir Thomas Brereton, knight.

"This Right Worshipful Knight" married ffraunces Throgmorton.^[1] Frances was the daughter of Sir Robert Throgmorton of Cautoncourt/Coghton, Warwickshire, knight,^{[1] [2] [3]} and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of John Lord Hussey, widow of John Lord Hungerford,^[4] alias Temperance Throckmorton.^[5]

Randle and Frances had one child:^[3]

1. Mary Brereton, who was married to Sir Richard Egerton, knight, son and heir of Raffe Egerton of Ridley, co Chester, esq.^[1] she was baptised at Malpas on 9 January 1576.^[2] Mary and Sir Richard had nine children before 1611 (when Sir Randal died):^[1]
   1. Raffe Egerton, who died young;
   2. Richard Egerton, heir apparent in 1611;
   3. Thomas Egerton;
   4. John Egerton;
   5. Robert Egerton;
   6. Elizabeth Egerton;
   7. Barbara Egerton;
   8. Frances Egerton; and
   9. Mary Egerton.

On 14 January, 14 Elizabeth [1572], Sir Richard Corbet of Stoke sold Shocklach and other manors, parts of the barony of Malpas, to sir Randulph Brereton, knight.^[6]

Sir Randal Brereton, Knight, died on 8 May, 1611, and was interred in Malpas/Schocklach Church, Cheshire,^[1] on 11 May, 1611.^[7] His Funeral Certificate was signed by Ric Egerton.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} John Paul Rylands, ed., "Sir Randal Brereton, Knight, 1611," Cheshire and Lancashire Funeral Certificates; AD 1600 to 1678, (Manchester: The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Chester, VI, 1882), 31, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/recordsocietyfor06reco/page/31/mode/1up : accessed 1 February, 2023).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The history of the county palatine and city of Chester compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, Vol. II, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), accessed 24 May 2014, https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp02orme#page/376/mode/2up pp.376.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Sir George J Armytage, Bart, and J Paul Rylands Rylands, Esq, ed., "Pedigrees made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, taken by Richard St George, esq, Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St George, Gen, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, and some other contemporary pedigrees", The Record Society for the publication of Original Documents relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, LVIII, (London: The Record Society, 1909), accessed 24 May, 2014, https://archive.org/stream/recordsociety58recouoft#page/38/mode/2up pp.39.
4. ↑ John Fetherson, FSA, ed., "The Visitation of the County of Warwick in the Year 1619. Taken by William Camden, Clarencieus King of Arms.", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XII, (London: The Harleian Society, 1877), accessed 24 May 2014, https://archive.org/stream/visitationcount01britgoog#page/n114/mode/2up pp.88.
5. ↑ Darryl Lundy, Sir Randal Brereton: The Peerage, accessed 15 April 2016, citing Townend, Peter. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition. (London, UK: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970), 2643.
6. ↑ George Ormerod, "Containing the Hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal, and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, 2nd Edition, ed. Thomas Helsby, 3 volumes, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), II:685, e-book, HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434042?urlappend=%3Bseq=762%3Bownerid=13510798902306577-904 : accessed 26 August, 2022.)
7. ↑ "England, Cheshire Bishop's Transcripts, 1598-1900," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N4NB-RYP : accessed 24 May 2014), Randle Brereton, 11 May 1611, Burial; citing item 1, Shocklach, Cheshire, England, Record Office, Chester; FHL microfilm 1751621.