Richard (Scrope) le Scrope (1394 - 1420)

Born 31 May 1394 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Neville) Cressener — married before 31 Dec 1413 in England

Descendants

Died 29 Aug 1420 at age 26 in Rouen, Normandy, France [uncertain]

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Biography

Richard was the son of Roger le Scrope and Margaret Tibetot/Tiptoft.^[1] He was born on 31 May 1394 and was said to be aged 10 at the time of his father's 1404 Inquisition Post Mortem.^[2][3][4] His marriage and custody of his lands during his minority were granted to Henry IV's wife, Joan of Navarre.^[2]

Richard became Lord Scrope of Bolton on the death of his father in 1403.^[3][4]

Before 31 December 1413 (when they are referred to as man and wife in the papal registers),^[5] Richard married Margaret Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland^[1] and his first wife Margaret Stafford.^[2][3][4][6] They had two sons:

• Henry,^[1] born in 1418^[2][3][4]
• Richard,^[1][3][4] who became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge^[7][8] and Bishop of Carlisle^[9][10]

Richard took part in Henry V's invasion of France. He fought in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, and the siege of Rouen in 1418-9.^[2][3][4]

Richard died on 29 August 1420, possibly at Rouen where his will was dated on 24 January 1419/20.^[2] The will was proved on 8 November 1420.^[3][4][11] In it, among other provisions, he:^[12]

• requested burial at St Agatha's Abbey (Easby Abbey), Richmondshire, Yorkshire
• made provision for the founding of a "college" [community] of 5 priests, 5 clerks and 3 poor men to act as servants
• left £20 in goods to each of his two sons, whom he entrusted to his executors
• left an annuity of £20 to his younger son Richard from when he came of age
• left Anneys Marchall an annuity of £20 until her marriage
• left land to his cousin Marmaduke Lumley, whom he appointed one of his executors, the other being Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence

Richard was buried in the Augustinian convent at Clare, Suffolk.^[3][4][13]

Inquisitions Post Mortem were held in 1421: they name his heir as his son Henry, aged three years and more, and show him holding extensive lands in Yorkshire, other property in Buckinghamshire and Leicestershire, and dwellings in London.^[14]

Richard's wife survived him, subsequently marrying William Cressener.^{[2][3][4][15]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} The Visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564, made by William Flower, Harleian Society, 1881, p. 279, Internet Archive
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. XI, St Catherine Press, 1949, pp. 542-543, viewable on Familysearch
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8} Douglas Richardson. 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. IV, p. 198, TIBETOT 9, Google Books
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. V, p. 167, TIBETOT 2
5. ↑ 'Lateran Regesta 161: 1410-1415', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 6, 1404-1415, ed. W H Bliss and J A Twemlow (London, 1904), pp. 348-364, British History Online, accessed 29 October 2022
6. ↑ W Hylton Dyer Longstaffe (ed.). Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, Surtees Society, 1863, p. 28, Internet Archive
7. ↑ University of Cambridge website, list of former Chancellors, accessed 29 October 2022
8. ↑ Wikipedia: List of chancellors of the University of Cambridge
9. ↑ E B Fryde, D E Greenway, S Porter and I Roy. Handbook of British Chronology, 3rd edition, Royal Historical Society, 1986, p. 236
10. ↑ Wikipedia: Bishop of Carlisle
11. ↑ The National Archives, ref. PROB 11/2B/361, Discovery Centre catalogue entry
12. ↑ Testamenta Eboracensia, Vol. IV, Surtees Society, 1869, pp. 1-3, Internet Archive
13. ↑ J W Clay. The Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, James Nisbet, 1913, p. 199, Internet Archive
14. ↑ 'Mapping the Medieval Countryside' website, University of Winchester and King's College, London, Inquisitions Post Mortem for Richard le Scrope, of Bolton, knight
15. ↑ Berry's Essex Pedigrees, in The Visitations of Essex, Part II, Harleian Society, 1879, p. 721, Internet Archive

• Nicolas, N Harris. The Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor, Vol. II, 1832, pp. 59-60, Internet Archive

Acknowledgements

Magna Carta Project

This profile was developed for the Magna Carta Project by Michael Cayley on 29 October 2022 and was reviewed by Thiessen-117 on 30 October 2022.

Richard (Scrope) le Scrope is listed in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestors William Bernard and Richard Bernard to Magna Carta Surety Baron Robert de Ros (vol. 1, pages 186-188 BERNARD). Another trail, to surety William d'Aubigny, branches off the Ros trail. These trails were badged in Octiber 2022 and are outlined in the Magna Carta Trails sections of the profiles of Richard Bernard and William Bernard.

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".