Richard Willoughby (abt. 1311 - 1369)

Born about 1311 in Willoughby in the Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Died 1369 at about age 58 in Willoughby in the Wold, Nottinghamshire, England

Biography

Richard was the eldest son (of six children) of Richard Willoughby (1290 -1362) and Isabel Morteyn (died1332),who marriedin1310. Therefore he was probably born before1320.

He married Maud de Grey, "daughter of Reginald, and sister of Sir John de Grey".

He died in 1369, seven years after his father, without issue. His widow married two more times, to John Tuchet and John Daubridgecourt, and died in 1405.

Isabel Morteyn brought the town of Cossall to the marriage. The elder Sir Richard gave Cossall to Sir Richard his son. He entailed (in 1337) lands in Riseley, Derbyshire, and elsewhere, to his issue with Isabel Morteyn. The elder Sir Richard died in 1362. This Sir Richard died in 1369. The next son, Roger, also died without issue. The inheritance thus passed to the next son, Hugh Willoughby. Hugh was a clerk (in holy orders) and thus not married, but had at least two children out of wedlock. His son (also Hugh) was the ancestor of the Willoughbys of Risley. Hugh the clerk died in 1406. A jury found that his legal heirs were Bertram Monboucher (grandson of Hugh's sister Isabel (Willoughby) Monboucher) and William Mallory (grandson of Margery (Willoughby) Mallory). By 1425 the male Monboucher line ended in 1425, and that inheritance passed to Isabel, daughter of Isabel (Willoughby) Monboucher.

Most of the rest of the estate passed to his half brother, Edmond, son of his father, Richard Willoughby, and his second wife, Joan de Charron, widow of Sir Bertram Monboucher.

He is buried at the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, with an effigy ^[1].

• Rootsweb, citing

1 Payling, Simon J., Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.), p. 242, Family History Library, 942.52 H6ps.

2 Flower, William, The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 (London: Harleian Society, 1871.), p. 145, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.005 H284 v. 4.

3 Tonge, Thomas, Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 (Durham, England: Publications of the Surtees Society, 1863.), p. 4, Family History Library, 942 B4s v. 41.

Sources

1. ↑ Monument, Find A Grave: Memorial #113927552

• Biography of Sir Richard Willoughby (c.1290-1362)
• Maud, wife of Richard de Willoughby, John Tuchet & John Daubridgecourt
• Sir Richard de Willoughby - 1369
• Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: Volume 2, Republished With Large Additions By John Throsby
• History of Parliament MONBOURCHER, Sir Bertram (c.1337-1388), of Horton, Northumb.

Acknowledgements

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