Sir
Richard
"de Warenne, de Dover, de Chilham"
FitzRoy
Born before in England
Ancestors 
Son of John (Plantagenet) of England
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Oliver FitzRoy, Joan FitzJohn [half], Geofrey (Plantagenet) FitzRoy, John FitzRoy, Osbert Giffard, Henry FitzRoy, Eudo FitzRoy, Henry (Plantagenet) of England [half], Richard (Plantagenet) of England [half], Joan (Plantagenet) of Scotland [half], Isabella (Plantagenet) of England [half], Eleanor (Plantagenet) Montfort [half], Matilda FitzJohn and Bartholomew FitzRoy
Husband of
Rohese (Dover) de Dover
— married
before 11 May 1214 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died before
at about age 51
in England
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Biography
Richard was an illegitimate son of King John.[1][2][3][4] The exact identity of his mother is uncertain. A 13th century chronicle by Robert of Gloucester says she was a daughter of the Earl of Warenne, which would be Hamelin, Earl of Surrey, son of Geoffrey Plantagenet: the chronicle does not give a first name.[2][4] Richardson thinks it possible she was Hamelin's daughter Isabel, but recognises that the evidence is "slight" and circumstantial, and that she could have been any of his daughters.[2] The belief that Richard's mother was a daughter of Hamelin is strengthened by his being referred to as Richard de Warenne in the Curia Regis and Close Rolls.[2] His birth date is uncertain but he was old enough to lead some royal forces during the baronial rebellion of 1215-7,[1] and it is likely he was born before 1195.
Richard married Rohese/Rose de Dover, daughter of Fulbert de Dover[5] and Isabel de Briwere, before 11 July 1214, when the Patent Rolls record his father granting him her castle of Chilham, Kent.[4] (Douglas Richardson gives the date as 11 May 1214.[2] This led to him sometimes being known as Richard de Chilham. (He was also known as Richard de Dover.[1]) The Close Rolls record him being put in possession of all Rohese's lands in 1214.[4] These lands comprised some 15 knights' fees in Kent and Essex.[1] They had three known children:
- Richard, his heir[2][4][6][5]
- Isabel, who married Maurice de Berkeley[2][4]
- Lora/Lorette, who married William Marmion[2][4]
Richard was knighted in 1215, and was made Constable of Wallingford, then in Berkshire (now in Oxfordshire) during the baronial rebellion that followed the signing of the Magna Carta. He probably held the castle until 1227.[1]
On 24 August 1217 Richard fought against a French fleet in the naval Battle of Sandwich, playing a leading role in the capture of the French flagship.[1] From that year until 122o he was Sheriff of Berkshire.[7]
In 1218 Richard joined the Fifth Crusade in Egypt. There he incurred debts which were still outstanding in 1228.[1]
In 1225 Richard was a collector of the tax of a fifteenth in Kent. In 1230 he was given protection while going on campaign with his half-brother Henry III in Brittany.[1]
In December 1233 the Bishop of Exeter acquired, for 2000 marks, the wardship of the heir of William d'Avranches, a relative of Richard's wife, and the right to marry the heir to one of Richard's and Rose's daughters.[8] The heir, another William d'Avranches, died in 1236, and the marriage never took place.[9]
In 1242 Richard jointly commanded English forces against a pirate called William de Marisco, who was based on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.[1]
On 24 June 1246 Richard's wife paid homage for the lands which Richard held through his marriage to her, so he died before then.[1] His widow subsequently married William de Wilton.[2][4]
Inquisitions Post Mortem show him holding the Barony of Chilham, with associated property in Kent and Essex, together with the manor of Lesnes, Kent which was held directly from the king.[10]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Simon lloyd for 'Chilham, Sir Richard of', print and online 2004, revised online 2008
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 184-185, ATHOLL 9
- ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 54, ENGLAND 5
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Charles Cawley. King John, entry in “Medieval Lands” database (accessed 17 January 2024) - child 10
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 I J Sanders. English Baronies, a Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 111-112
- ↑ G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, St Catherine Press, 1910, p. 146, Internet Archive
- ↑ List of Sheriff's for England and Wales, Public Record Office Lists and Indexes IX, HMSO 1898 (Kraus Reprint Corporation 1963), p. 6, Internet Archive
- ↑ Fine Rolls, Henry III, Henry III Fine Rolls Project, web (entry 112), accessed 24 January 2024
- ↑ I J Sanders, English Baronies, p. 45
- ↑ 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Henry III, File 47', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 1, Henry III, ed. J E E S Sharp (London, 1904), pp. 306-312, British History Online (entry 924), accessed 24 January 2024
- Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Families, new Pimlico edition, 2002 (reissued by Vintage Books, 2008), p. 73
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Categories: Sheriffs of Berkshire
References: “Exercise of the King's Will in Inheritance of Baronies” by Ralph V Turner, from a paper presented at and published by the North American Conference on British Studies 1990. Volume 22, No 3. Available online at affiliated sites only, courtesy of JSTOR.
“Rose of Dover, Richard of Chilham, and the duel for a manor” by Christine Voth. "HIII Fine Rolls Project, Fine of the Month, August 2008." Copyright, National Archives and King's College, London. 2009.
Richard, who married Rohese of Dover in 1214, along with his half sister Joan, who was to become the wife of Llewelyn the Great, prince of Wales the following year, were not only raised in their father's household but also favoured by John. Richard commanded one of the ships that defeated the French off Sandwich in 1217 and was present at the seige of Damietta in 1219 when many of the fifth crusaders died from disease and starvation. He was also known to live beyond his income, constantly in debt and borrowing money sometimes taking years to repay, despite being given some pardons for his debts to the Exchequer by his half brother, Henry III. Through his marriage, Richard not only acquired the barony of Chilham, that included lands in Exeter, but also recommenced litigation against the descendants of her grandmother's aunts, Robert fitzWalter and the Montfitchets, the Umfravilles, descendants of the younger aunt quitclaiming their reights, to Lesnes in Kent, being the rightful inheritance of his wife, through her grandmother, who was the daughter and coheir of Richard de Lucy's eldest son Geoffrey. After years of constant litigation, the dispute was finally settled in a trial by combat, with Henry III lending the necessary money for Richard and Rohese to hire the champions to fight their case. Following the success of their champions in the combat, Rohese was the only grantee of Lesnes primarily because of consistency of Richard's debts. Rohese had no claim to the inheritance of William III Brewer, as she had a half brother through her mother's second married to Baldwin III Wake.
[Lands Of The Normans] 19 June 1214. The king to the abbot of Beaulieu, Brother Alan Martel and Master Arnaud - we are sending Reginald de Pontibus senior to speak to you about the arrangements for transporting the Queen and the treasury to the king, and for bringing the horses of Richard the king's son and Joan the king's daughter to the king with Andrew and Elias de Beauchamp, and about the custody of the king's son John.
[CPR HIII] 20 December 1216. Rex Philippo Marci, salutem. Mandamus vobis quod sine dilacione liberetis Ricardo filio Regis, vel certo nuncio suo has litteras nostras patentes deferenti, Walterum de Preston, prisonem qui est in custodia vestra. Et in hujus rei testimonium, has litteras etc. Teste eodem comite, apud Oxoniam, xv die Decembris, anno eodem.
[CPR HIII] 21 June 1217 Stanwell. De castro liberando. Rex H. de Burgo, justiciario suo Anglie, salutem. Mandamus vobis quod sine dilacione liberetis dilecto fratri nostro, Ricardo filio Regis, castrum suum de Chileham, cum omnibus pertinenciis suis. Et in hujus rei testimonium, has literas nostras patentes, sigillatas etc. vobis mittimus. Teste comite, apud Stanwell, xxj die Junii, anno regni postri primo.
[CFR HIII] 5 May 1229. Order to the sheriff of Essex to take into the king’s hand all land of Richard of Chilham, brother of the king, in his bailiwick, and to keep it safely until he king orders otherwise. Order to the sheriff of Kent to take into the king’s hand all lands that Richard of Chilham holds in his bailiwick of the inheritance of Rose, his wife, except for the manor of Lesnes, which the Rose has by bail of the king to sustain her, and to keep them safely etc.
[CFR HIII] 17 December 1234. Concerning the fine of the bishop of Exeter for having the custody of the land and heir of W. d’Avranches. W. bishop of Exeter has made fine with the king by 2000 marks for having the custody of the land and the son and heir of W. d’Avranches to the bishop or his assigns until the full age of the same heir, with the marriage of the same son and heir in order to marry him to one of the daughters of Richard of Chilham and Rose of Dover, his wife, kinswoman of the aforesaid bishop, so that the bishop or his assigns will hold all of the aforesaid land until the heir will be of full age. ------------------.
[BOF, pages 654, 660, 669, 677] 1242-1243. Kent – Page 654. Ricardus filius Regis j. quarterium in Kingeston' de domino rege. Gyrardus de Tapinton' j. feodum in Tapinton' de Ricardo filio Regis et de Roysia uxore sua. Willelmus de Coleswod' j. quarterium in Kingeston' de Ricardo filio Regis et de Roysia uxore sua. Page 660. Feoda Ricardi filii Regis. Willelmus Juvenis j. feodum in Chilleham de Ricardo filio Regis. Heres Reginaldi de Ponte Fracto xxx. partem unius feodi in Chilleham de Ricardo filio Regis. Robertus de Chilleham dimidium feodum in eadem de Ricardo filio Regis. Willelmus de Eastesture dimidium feodum in Chilleham de Ricardo filio Regis. Henricus de Eastesture dimidium feodum in Chilleham de Ricardo filio Regis. Henricus filius Regis j. feodum in Chilleham, racione custodie heredis Rogeri le Poer, et ipse de supradicto Ricardo. Item Galfridus Persevent j. feodum in Chilleham de Ricardo filio Regis. Eudo de Sellingeheld' dimidium feodum in Chilleham de supradicto Ricardo. Page 669. Radulfus Munfichet x. partem j. feodi in Lesnes de Ricardo filio Regie. Page 677. Feoda Ricardi filii Regis. Heres Roberti de Hegham j. feodum in eadem de Ricardo filio Regis. Ricardus de Say dimidium feodum in Lyttelhegham de Ricardo filio Regis. Johannes de Herste j. quarterium in Siberteston' de Ricardo filio Regis. Henricus de Sandwico j. quarterium in Walfinge de Ricardo filio Regis. Stephanus Manekyn j. quarterium in Makeston' de Johanne de Esling', ipse de Ricardo filio Regis.
[CPR HIII] February 1243. Bond to Richard de Dover in 20 marks to buy a horse of the king's gift, to be paid out of the first money etc.
[CPR HIII] 11 June 1245. Protection with clause rolumm for Richard de Dovor, going to Wales, and exemption of him from suits of counties and hundreds and from all pleas except pleas de dote unde nichil habet, assize of novel disseisin and darrein presentment, so long as he is in those parts on the king's service.
[CFR HIII] 25 June 1245. For Richard of Dover. The king has granted respite to Richard of Dover, until the quindene of Michaelmas in the twenty-ninth year, from the corn or the value of the corn that was of the munitions of Dover castle, of which B. de Criel, constable of Dover, made him a prest. Order to the same constable to permit him to have that respite.
[CPR HIII] 30 September 1245. Licence for Richard de Dovor to sell the custody of the lands late of Geoffrey de Costantin in Meath and Finegal and the marriage of the heirs, which he has of the king's gift; and the king ratified the sale, that the buyer may hold the custody and marriage during the minority of the heirs.
[CIPM HIII V1] 924. Richard de Dovor and Rose his wife. Writ (missing). Extent, Wednesday after St. Matthew. Richard, son of Richard de Dovor, aged 21 on the eve of the Purification next, is his heir. Kent. Chileham [Chilham], Northewode [Northwood], Kyngeston [Kingston], Rudelingewealde [Ringwould] and Lesnes [Lessness] manors, held of the king in chief by reason of the barony of Chileham, but Lesnes manor does not pertain to that barony but is held of the king by homage. Dovor. A certain rent with a watermill, worth 10/. Essex. Chilgelforde [Chingford] manor, value unknown. The advowsons of Rudelingewalde, Kingeston, Northewode, Cherleton and Hothfelde in co. Kent, pertain to the said barony. -
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