Radulf (Clayton) de Clayton (bef. 1290 - aft. 1336)

Born before 1290 in Thelwell, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died after 1336 after age 46 in Cheshire, England

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Biography

Radulf de Clayton seems to have had, possibly by Beatrix, daughter of Adam de Kinkenhall [of Kinknall Hall, near Kenyon, co. Lane. ?] another wife, a son named Hugh de Clayton, of Thelwall.

He married Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Geoffrey de Chedle, and brought a moiety of Bollington to her husband, By her he had a son Henry, the father of John, whose son Henry, 21 Edward Ill, was father of Thomas de Clayton, whose daughter and heir, Ellen, became the wife of Henry de Radcliffe

In 1-2 Edward III [25 January 1327-24 January 1329), Margaret and her husband, Thomas Danyers, were sued at Chester by Henry de Clayton and Ralph de Clayton for a moiety of the church of Lymme which Geoffrey de Dutton had given to his son, Thomas, and the heirs of his body in the reign of Edward I [1272-1307]; Henry was the son of Alice, daughter of Thomas de Dutton, and Ralph was the son of Isabella, sister of Alice and daughter of Thomas.^[1]

Ralph de Clayton was living in 1336. ^[2]

Research Notes

Possible relation of John de Clayton, witness to same deed of settlement of the Middlehurst family, dated at Latchford, 12 January, 16 Hen. VI [1437-8].

Sources

1. ↑ Major-General The Hon G Wrottesley, Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls Collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law AD 1200 to 1500, from the Original Rolls in the Public Record Office, (1905), 150, e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/pedigreesfromple00wrotrich/page/150/mode/1up : accessed 2 February, 2023. [Chester Plea Roll, No. 39. 1-2 Edw. 3].
2. ↑ Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, Vol. V, Second Series (1899) p. 195.

• The Clayton Family of Thelwall, F. Paul Rylands, 1880 p37, accessed 2 Dec 2023.