Ralph
de Radcliffe
formerly Radcliffe
Born about in England
Ancestors 
Son of Ralph Radcliffe
and Margery Unknown
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Helen (Massey) Radcliffe
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Elizabeth (Radcliffe) de Trafford
Died after
after about age 75
in England
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Feb 2011
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Biography
Ralph de Radeclyf was the son of Ralph de Radeclyf.[1]
Ralph married Helen, the daughter of John de Massey of Tatton, knight, by Papal dispensation dated 18 Kal. January 1400, which was 15 December 1399.[1]
Evidences from Contemporaneous Records
At St Peter's, Rome, on 18 Kal. January 1400, To Ralph, donsel, nobleman, son of Ralph de Rade[c]lyf de Thorleton (sic), donsel, nobleman, and Helen (Elene), damsel, noblewoman, daughter of John de Massey of Tatton, knight, nobleman, of the diocese of Lichfield. Dispensation to contract marriage, notwithstanding that they are related in the fourth and fourth degree of kindred. Romani pontificis.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 W H Bliss and J A Twemlow, eds, 'Lateran Regesta 90: 1400-1401', Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 5, 1398-1404, (London: 1904), 397-412, British History Online (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol5/pp397-412 : accessed 12 January 2018). (f. 213d.)
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Geni, Ancestry and FamilySearch all have Elizabeth as the daughter of Ralph senior, son of William Radcliffe and Katherine Norley, with Elizabeth's mother as Ralph senior's unnamed first wife. Wikitree correctly has Ralph senior's wife as Margery (who is actually Ince-1 and the mother of his son-in-law), but HOP, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/radcliffe-sir-ralph-1406, identifies her as his second wife, whom he married c. 1389, when they were both around 60 years old.
Thus the Ralph of this profile would be the brother, not father, of Elizabeth, and his wife Helen should be disconnected from her parents, as she and Ralph were born in the 1390s, not 1350s.
edited by Michael Stafford
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993.