Ranulph Mainwaring (abt. 1363 - 1457)

Born about 1363 in Over-Peover, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Margery (Venables) Mainwaring — married 1391 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died 1457 at about age 94 in Over-Peover, Cheshire, England

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Biography

This profile is part of the Mainwaring Name Study.

Ranulph Mainwaring^[1]

Randle Mainwaring was born no later than 1363^[2] in Over-Peover, Cheshire, England. He was the son of William Mainwaring and Elizabeth Leycester.

Randle 'Honkyn' succeeded to the family estates at Over Peover, Rostherne, Cheshire, after the death of his elder brother, John Mainwaring in 1410.^[3]

Possible first marriage Catherine Harcourt b. Abt 1372, of, Stanton Harcourt, Oxford, d. Abt 1390-1391 (Age ~ 19 years) Daughter of Sir Thomas I de Harcourt b. 1343 Market Bosworth, Leicester, d. 12 Apr 1417 and mother Maud Grey b. Abt 1345 Rotherfield, Sussex, d. 30 Jan 1391-1393.

Married Abt 1389 Norwood, Middlesex.

Ranulph Mainwaring married Margery, the widow of Richard de Bulkeley,^[1] of Chedill, in Cheshire. They were married in 1391 or 1392-93 (16 Ric. II). Margery de Venables was the daughter of Hugh Venables, baron of Kinderton, and his wife, Margery de Cotton.^[4] Randle petitioned the king for enjoying the dower of Margery de Venables, the widow of Richard Bulkeley, because he married her without the King's licence 16 Richard II.

Children

Randle and his wife, Margery, had children:

1. John,^[5] his heir;
2. William,^[5] from whom descended the Mainwarings of Ightfield in Shropshire;
3. Randle^[5] also known as Ralph,^[5] from whom the Mainwarings of Carincham, co. Chester;
4. Elizabeth wife of Raufe Egerton, Esq., of Wrynehill, Staffordshire;^[5]
5. Cicely wife of Thomas Fowlehurst, Esq., of Crew in Cheshire;^[5]
6. Joan who married in 1411 John Davenport Esq., son and heir of Raufe Davenport Esq., of Davenport in Cheshire;^[5]
7. Ellen wife of Thomas Fitton Esq., of Gawseworth in Cheshire;^[5]
8. Agnes betrothed to William son of Sir John Bromley of Baddington in Cheshire but she died unmarried;^[5]
9. Margaret or Margery wife of the said William Bromley Esq. in 1426 she afterwards marrying Sir John Nedham, of Cranach, Justiciarius de Banco and Judge of Chester in 1462.^[5]

He also had illegitimate children:

1. Hugh, a bastard son by Emme Farrington, ancestor of the Mainwarings of Croxton near Middlewich;
2. Thomas Mainwaring of North Rode;
3. Randle;
4. Phillipa Mainwaring b. Abt 1390, of Peover, Great Budworth, Cheshire: d. Aft 1430 (Age ~ 41 years)
5. Clemence Mainwaring b. Abt 1390, of Peover, Great Budworth, Cheshire
6. three daughters all bastards.^[6]

Career

He was a courtier, styled armiger regis [king's servant] and sagittarius de coronâ [royal archer], 21 Richard II [1397-98]. The office of equitator forestæ de Marâ et Mondrum, which then included much of the Hundred of Nantwich and all of Edisbury, was granted to him for his life, 6 Hen. IV [1404-05] and two parts of the serjeanty of Maxfield Hundred, the hereditary serjeanty of Raufe Davenport, during John Davenport's minority; dated 3 Hen. V [1401-02]. He also had (with others) the custody of the manor of Kerincham in Cheshire, 13 Hen. IV [1411-12]. This Randle Manwaring of Over-Pever [sic] was styled commonly Honkyn Manwaring in the language of those times.^{[7] [8] [5][9]}

Death

Ranulph died in 1456-57 [35 Henry VI]^[10] and was buried in Over Peover in the stone chapel on the south side of the church.^[11]

He was survived by his wife, Margery. An Inquisition post mortem for Margery, late wife of Ranulph Mainwaring, formerly wife of Richard de Bulkeley, was held at Chester in 37 Henry VI [1 September 1458-31 August 1459].^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} E H, Rhodes, comp., "Appendix 3. Welsh Records. Index to Inquisitions, &c.,— Counties of Chester and Flint." The Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. [18 February 1864], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1864), 49, e-book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450500?urlappend=%3Bseq=265%3Bownerid=34524627-264 : accessed 13 September, 2022).
2. ↑ His father, who was certainly dead before the end of January 1366, had three sons younger than Randall.
3. ↑ Ormerod's Chester, 1:481.
4. ↑ Ormerod, 1:481 and 3:199.
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10} "A short history of the Mainwaring family" (1890), Finley, Reginald Mainwaring, (1890. Facsimile reprint, London: The Research Publishing Co., 1976), p. 31, 32
6. ↑ The Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford. An account of the family, and its connections by marriage and descent; with special reference to the Manor of Whitmore. J.G. Cavenagh-Mainwaring, about 1935. page 56 retrieved through archive.org
7. ↑ "The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" (1882), Ormerod, George, vol. 1 p p. 479, 481, 713; vol. 2 pt. 2 p. 692; vol. 3 p. 214, 627
8. ↑ The Visitation of Shropshire 1623" (1889), Treswell, Robert, (Publications of the Harleian Society: Visitations, vol 29
9. ↑ "Genealogy of Shropshire" [by Joseph Morris] (vol. 3 p. 1117-1126).
10. ↑ Ormerod
11. ↑ Ormerod, 1:481, where however in the 1882 edition his [???] statement that he was survived by his wife Margery is challenged by Sir Peter Leycester, who states that she had already died in 27 Hen. VI [1448].

See also:

• Edmundson, Isaac & Cokayne, George Edward, "Complete Baronetage: (Gloucester : A. Sutton, 1983.)