Richard Willoughby

- 1325

• 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

  
  

• 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.]

  
  

• 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.