John (Radcliffe) de Radcliffe (abt. 1378 - 1442)

Born about 1378 in Ordsall, Lancashire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Clemence (Standish) Radcliffe — married 13 Mar 1396 in England

Descendants

Died 26 Jul 1442 at about age 64 in Hope Manor, Lancashire, England

Biography

"The said Sir John de Radcliffe died on the Tuesday next after the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul [June 20] last past and John, his son, is his next heir and is aged 44 years at the date of this Inquisition. And the Jury further say that the said Margaret, Alured, Edmund, and Peter de Radcliffe are still alive." [1422]

"Sir John de Rahcliffe, of Ordsall, knt., who thus succeeded to the Sandbach estates on the death of his mother in 1434, married Clemence, the daughter of Hugh Standish of Duxbury, co. Lane, Esquire (the marriage-settlement being dated 13th March, 1396), by whom he had issue. He died on the 26th July, 1442, and from his Inquisition post mortem it appears that his son and heir, Alexander Radcliffe, was then of the age of forty years or more." ^[1]

"Upon his marriage to Clemency, his father settled on John the manors of Hope and Shoresworth, and the young couple made their home at Hope Hall. John, like his father, was a soldier, and served in the French wars, wherein he was accorded the honour of knighthood, and remained in active service until his death. He was forty four years of age when his father died, opening John's succession to Ordsall, and he remained in possession for twenty-one years. That he was an addict to the extravagant fashions of the day is adduced from the fact that in 1428 he was summoned by his brother, Alured, for an offence against the sumptuary laws, a series of edicts passed in the reigns of Edward II and Edward III and renewed more forcibly under Richard II, which sought to restrain undue expenditure on elaborate and fantastic apparel. Proclamations were issued against 'outrageous and excessive multitude of meats and dishes which the great men of the kingdom still use in their castles, ... and persons of inferior rank imitating their example beyond what their stations required of their circumstances could afford'. The lavish hospitality at the hall of Ordsall no doubt made Sir John's brothers anxious, lest their own patrimonial portion should be dissipated. Sir John died 26 Jul 1442 in his sixty-fifth year holding Ordsall by the ancient services. His wife, Clemency, had predeceased him, and he had married again. To his widow, Joan, he left for the period of her life his lands in Flixton, Shoresworth, Hope, and Tockholes." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The history of the ancient parish of Sandbach, p 4 [1]
2. ↑ http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE3.htm

• The Longley Family Genealogy compiled by Louise Baneck Longley and Janneyne Longley Gnacinski, 1967, FHL Film # 928132 Item 6, page 5.
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE3.htm