Richard Vaughan (abt. 1490 - abt. 1550)

Born about 1490 in Bredwardine, Herefordshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1550 at about age 60 in Bredwardine, Herefordshire, England [uncertain]

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Biography

Sir Richard Vaughan of Bredwardine, Herefordshire^[1]

Richard Vaughan was a son of Thomas ap Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine and Eleanor Whitney, daughter of Robert Whitney, Esq.^[1][2][3][4], the latter referred to by Hoare^[5] as 'Sir Walter' Whitney.

His year of birth is unknown.

According to Hoare^[5], Richard had brothers John, Robert and Thomas,

Marriage and Children

He married Ann, daughter of John Butler of Dunraven, Glamorgan, date and place unknown.^[1][3][4][5]

Children:

• Walter Vaughan^{[1][2][3][4][5]}
• Charles Vaughan (died 1597)^{[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}
• George^[3][4]
• James^[3][4]
• Elinor^[3][4]
• Blanch^[3][4]
• Elizabeth^[3][4]
• Sybil^[4] (married Thomas Baskerville)^[3]
• Constance Vaughan (married Eustace Whitney, Esq., of Clifford, he died 1599).^{[3][4][10][11]}

According to Clark^[3] there were other children:

• Thomas^[3]
• Cecil^[3]
• a daughter (married John ap Harry)

Career

Richard Vaughan was knighted at Tournai, 13 or 14 October 1513.^[1]

He was sheriff of Herefordshire, 1530-1, and 1541-2.^[1]

Death

He may have died about 1550. There is a possible IPM of 1550-1551.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Vaughan family of Bredwardine, Herefordshire. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. By Evan David Jones. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. 1959 DWB.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Visitation of Herefordshire 1569. Weaver F W (Ed.), 1886. Vaughan Pedigree p 97 Internet Archive.
3. ↑ ^{3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13} Clark, George T. Limbus patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae. 1886, p 235 Family Search.
4. ↑ ^{4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10} Wiltshire Visitation Pedigrees 1623. With additional pedigrees and arms collected by Thomas Lyte of Lyte's Cary, Co. Somerset 1628. The Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol LV and LVI. Edited by GD Squibb. 1954. Vaughan Pedigree pp 201-202.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4} The Modern History of South Wiltshire. Vol. III. By Sir Richard Colt Hoare. The Hundred of Downton. 1834. Pedigree of Vaughan of Falstone p 8, Monumental Inscription p 12 Family Search.
6. ↑ Vaughan, Charles (d.1597), of Shapwick, Dorset; later of Falstone, Wilts. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981 HOP.
7. ↑ Wiltshire Notes and Queries. Vol VII, 1911-1913, pp 426-428 Internet Archive.
8. ↑ Wiltshire Notes and Queries. Vol VIII, 1914-1916, pp 43-46 Internet Archive.
9. ↑ A P Baggs, Elizabeth Crittall, Jane Freeman and Janet H Stevenson, 'Parishes: Bishopstone', in A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 11, Downton Hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred, ed. D A Crowley (London, 1980), pp. 3-19. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp3-19 [accessed 1 February 2022].
10. ↑ Powell, A. D. Two Eustace Whitneys. Radnorshire Society Transactions. Vol. 20, 1950, p 32 NLW.
11. ↑ Whitney Research Group (WRG) Link
12. ↑ Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series II, and other Inquisitions, Henry VII to Charles I. Vaughan, Richard, knight: Hereford. 4 Edw. VI. C 142/90/119. The National Archives, Kew Discovery Not seen.

See also:

• Janet Ariciu, from her entry for Roger Vaughan (born c1377 in Bredwardine, died 1415, Battle of Agincourt), apparently quoting from either the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (#DWB) or the Vaughan Family of Wales by B.H.J. Hughes