Richard Venables (abt. 1345 - abt. 1379)

Born about 1345 in Kinderton cum Hulme, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 1379 at about age 34 in Bollin Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England

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Biography

Sir Richard Venables was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Sir Richard Venables of Bollyn^[1] alias Bollin^[2]

Richard Venables was born in 1345 at Kinderton cum Hulme, Northwich, Cheshire, England.

He was the son of Hugh de Venables and his wife, Katherine Houghton.

Marriage and Children

Richard married Jane Pitton,^[3] ffitton.^{[2] [4]} Jane or Joan was the daughter and heir of Hamon de Pitton "(sic)" ffitton of Bollin^{[2] [4]} and his wife, the daughter and coheir of Sir Piers Thornton.^[3] Richard and Joan were married in the time of King Edward III of England,^[4] who reigned 1327-1377.

Richard and Jane were the parents of:

1. Sir William Venables of Bollin,^[4] married Jane or Jone, daughter of John Massy of Tatton,^{[3] [2]} William drowned in Ringay water;^[1] born 1376; and
2. Jenkine Venables, of Antrobus,^[2] married the widow of — Starky of Stretton;^[1] he was known as John Venables of Witton, and he married Katherine, daughter and heir of Roger de Morley of Morley, widow of Geoffret Starky of Stretton.^[4]

Death

He died in 1379 at Bollin Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England.

Jane, his widow, was then married to Nicholas Vernon.^[3]

Research Notes

The pedigree of "Venables, Baron of Kinderton" in The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, states Sir Richard Venables of Bollin, husband of Jane, daughter and heir of Hamon ffiton of Bollin, was the son of Sir Hugh Venables, Baron of Kinderton, and his wife, Agatha, daughter of Rafe Vernon of Shepbroke, and younger brother of Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton, whose second wife was Katherine, daughter of Richard Houghton.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Paul Rylands, ed., The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and Continuations, Including Those from the Visitation of Cheshire Made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald. With an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of Cheshire in the Year 1533, Made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux King of Arms. And a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy to the Office of Arms, (London: Harleian Society, XVIII, 1882), 226. e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/visitationofches00glov/page/226/mode/1up : accessed 12 March, 2023). Pedigree: Venables of Antrobus.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Rylands, The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, 228. Pedigree: Venables, Baron of Kinderton.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Rylands, The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, 36. Pedigree: Bouth of Dunham.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} George Ormerod, "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the County of the City of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", 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), I:658. e-book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088434034?urlappend=%3Bseq=786%3Bownerid=13510798902306474-882 : accessed 12 March, 2023). Pedigree: Venables of Antrobus.