Richard was the son and heir apparent of John Darcy and Joan Greystoke.[1][2][3] His date of birth is unknown, but presumed to have been around 1425.[4]
He married Eleanor le Scrope, daughter of John le Scrope, Knt, 4th lord Scrope of Masham and Lord High Treasurer, and Elizabeth Chaworth.[1][5] The exact date of their marriage is uncertain, but was likely to have been no later than 1449, based on the birth of their eldest son in 1450. There were at least four children from this marriage:
Sir Richard Darcy died before 1 June 1454, during his father's lifetime.[1][11] His widow remarried c.29 April 1460 to William Claxton, Esq. of East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire.[11][12][13][14] (See Research Notes)
Research Notes
Date of Eleanor's (second) marriage:
Douglas Richardson places the date of Eleanor Darcy's marriage to William Claxton as "before 3 August 1455" but does not provide a source.[1]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.6 Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol.3, p. 542 LAUNCE 16. Richard Darcy
↑ Banks, Thomas C. Baronies in Fee. Ripon: Wm. Harrison (1844), vol. 1, pp. 178-179.
↑ Poulson, George. History and Antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness. London: W. Pickering (1840), vol. 2, pp. 200-201.
↑ Jacobus, Donald L. The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), vol. 21 (1944), p. 173, available here by subscription.
↑ 5.05.1 Clay, John William. Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England. London: J Nisbet & Co. (1913), p. 42.
↑ 6.06.1 Waters, Robert E.C. Chester of Chicheley. London: Robson & Sons (1878), vol. 2, p. 664.
↑ Raine, James (ed). Testamenta Eboracensia. Durham: Andrews (1865), vol. 3, p. 336.
↑ 9.09.1 Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol.3, p. 542 LAUNCE 17. William Darcy.
↑ 10.010.110.2 Flower, William. Visitation of Yorkshire 1563-1564. London: Mitchell and Hughes (1881), p. 92.
↑ 11.011.1 Fisher, John. History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. (1865), p. 238.
↑ Stapleton, Thomas (ed). Plumpton Correspondence. London: Camden Society 4 (1839), p. xl, fn.PDF available here.
"[Eleanor's] husband had died young; and it appears from this letter that she passed her widowhood in the paternal mansion till the period of her second marriage with William Claxton, Esq. circa 29 April, 38 Hen. VI 1460."
↑ Raine, James (ed). Testamenta Eboracensia. (Surtees Soc. 30) Durham: Andrews (1855), p. 161, fn. "She passed her widowhood in her father's house, but it was not of a long duration as she remarried WIlliam Claxton Esq. in 1460."
↑ Nicholas, N.H. (1832). "Pedigree of Scrope of Masham," in The Controversy Between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry. London: Samuel Bentley (1832) II, vol, 2, p. 136.
See Also:
Blair, C.H. Hunter. Visitation of the North. (Surtees Soc. 144) Durham: Andrews & Co. (1930), p. 28.
Brydges, Sir Egerton. Collins Peerage of England. London: T. Bensley (1812), vol. 9, p. 471.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom... London: St Catherine's Press (1910), vol. 4, p. 71.
Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), vol. 3, pp. 4-5, LAUNCE 10. Richard Darcy, Google Books
Thoresby, Ralph. Ducatus Leodiensus. London: Maurice Atkins (1816), p. 226
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