Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Richard Willoughby
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Name Richard Willoughby [1] Gender Male Death 1325 [2, 3, 4] Person ID I6372 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS Last Modified 7 Jan 2018
Father Richard Willoughby, b. of Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England d. Between 1290 and 1293 Family ID F2390 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Children + 1. Richard de Willoughby, b. Abt 1290, Willoughby, Loughborough, Nottinghamshire, England d. 14 Mar 1362 (Age ~ 72 years) Family ID F4592 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Dec 2024
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Notes - "Sir RICHARD WILLOUGHBY, Kt., M.P., of Willoughby & Wollaton, Notts., & Risley, Derbys. He was knighted in 1312. He was a Pleader in the Court of Common Pleas, from 1301. He rose to be appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, 1323. Died 1325." [Robert O'Connor, 16 Jun 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval]
"[I]t was [Richard Willoughby d. 1290's] son, another Richard, who accelerated the family's advance into the ranks of the more substantial county gentry. A pleader in the court of common pleas from 1301, he rose to the office of chief justice of the bench in Ireland in 1323. This success, although modest compared with that later achieved by his son, enabled him to extend the family's estates far beyond Willoughby and its immediate neighbourhood, chiefly, and in a manner typical of judicial families in this period, at the expense of an insolvent knightly family, in his case, that of Morteyn, lords of Dunsby in Lincolnshire, Wollaton in Nottinghamshire, and Risley in Derbyshire. In 1310 his son, Richard, was married to Sir Roger Morteyn's daughter Isabel, and thereafter the Willoughbys acquired a large part of the Morteyn patrimony from both Sir Roger and Sir Roger's son, Sir William." [Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by Simon J. Payling, citation details below.]
- "Sir RICHARD WILLOUGHBY, Kt., M.P., of Willoughby & Wollaton, Notts., & Risley, Derbys. He was knighted in 1312. He was a Pleader in the Court of Common Pleas, from 1301. He rose to be appointed Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland, 1323. Died 1325." [Robert O'Connor, 16 Jun 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval]
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Sources - [S14] Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 by Thomas Tonge, ed. W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe. Durham, England: The Surtees Society, 1863.
- [S319] "Biography of Sir Richard Willoughby (c.1290-1362)", at the University of Nottingham web site.
- [S321] Robert O'Connor, 16 Jun 1999, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.
- [S73] Political Society in Lancastrian England: The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire by S. J. Payling. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
- [S14] Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530 by Thomas Tonge, ed. W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe. Durham, England: The Surtees Society, 1863.