Richard (Walkefore) de Walkefare (bef. 1345)

Born before 1345 in Hunstanton, Norfolk, England

Descendants

In 1365-1366 Richard de Walgafara (Walkfare), knight, of the diocese of Norwich was granted indults to have a portable altar, and to have mass and other divine offices celebrated privately in places under an interdict.^[1] This would place his birth before 1345.

According to the History of Parliament website, Richard died about 1370, and his wife from the family of Thorpe Morieux was named Mary, and was his second wife.^[2]

In contrast, according to Blomefield, the name of the Richard's wife from the Thorpe Morieux family was named Euphemia. This appears in another article of Blomefield than the one which most genealogists cite:

"It appears that the said Robert was restored, most likely on the accession of King Edward III. and in his 6th year had a charter of free warren in Baladon, and Farnham in Essex, and Iselham in Cambridgeshire; he was son of John de Walkfare, and died before the 20th of the aforesaid King, when Margaret, his widow, held two fees in the Riburghs; Sir Richard de Walkfare was his son and heir, who by Euphemia, his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Morieux, of Suffolk, had Alianore, a daughter and heir, and also Joan, a daughter and coheir, (as it seems,) married to Sir Thomas Felton; (fn. 3) for in the 47th of Edward III. a fine was levied between Sir Arnold Savage, Sir Nicholas Gernun, Sir William Wingfeld, Knts. &c. querents, and Sir Thomas Felton, Knight of the Garter, deforciant, of the manors of Dersingham, and Ingaldesthorp, (which were found to be held by Sir Richard de Walkfare, by the eschaet rolls, in the 35th of that King,) also of the manors of Wilby in Norfolk, and of Barton in Suffolk, settled on them in trust. In the 8th of Richard II. a fine was levied between Joan, widow of Sir Thomas Felton, (who died in or about the 4th of that King) and Sir John L'Estrange, Knt. and Alianore his wife, daughter of Sir Richard Walkfare, of this manor, those of Dersingham, and Ingaldesthorp, who for 500l. conveyed the same to the Lady Joan, appearing by this to be a moiety of the said manors, &c."^[3]

More commonly cited is this one:

"Sir John L'Estrange was son and heir of Hamon, and married Alianore, daughter and coheir of Sir Richard Walkfare; in the 8th of Richard I. He and Alianore conveyed lands by fine, to Joane, widow of Sir Thomas Felton, his wife's sister, and in the following year had letters of protection from the King, (fn. 6) and accompanied John Duke of Lancaster into Spain, which Duke being lord of Smethdon hundred, granted to him (for his services) that his tenants here should be exempt from serving on juries in his courts."

"He and Alianore purchased lands in Stanhow and Docking, by fine, in the 8th of Henry IV. she was daughter of Sir Richard Walkfare, by —, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Morieux, of Suffolk, (who was made constable of the Tower of London, for life, by parliament, in the 5th of Richard II.) she survived her husband, and died in the 18th of Henry V."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Regesta 255: 1365-1366," in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 4, 1362-1404, ed. W H Bliss and J A Twemlow (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1902), 53-59. British History Online, accessed November 18, 2019, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol4/pp53-59.
2. ↑ b.c.1347, s. and h. of Hamon le Strange of Hunstanton by Katherine, da. of Sir John Camoys. m. bef. Mich. 1384, Eleanor (c.1356-1418), da. and coh. of Sir Richard Walkfare† (d.1370) of Dersingham and Great Ryburgh, Norf. by his 2nd w. Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Morieux† and niece and h. of Sir Thomas Morieux of Thorpe Morieux, 3s. Kntd. bef. June 1378.
3. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Gallow and Brothercross Hundreds: Ryburgh Magna', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 7 (London, 1807), pp. 162-167 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol7/pp162-167 [accessed 8 August 2015].
4. ↑ Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Hunstanton Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 312-328 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol10/pp312-328 [accessed 10 August 2015].

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