Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Richard de Argentein
- 1246-
Name Richard de Argentein [1] Birth of Great Wymondley, Hertforshire, England 
[2] Gender Male Death 1246 [2] Person ID I2346 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TWK Last Modified 29 Dec 2023
Father Reginald de Argentein, b. of Great Wymondley, Hertforshire, England d. Bef 1204 Mother Isabel d. Aft 1202 Family ID F961 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Emma de Broy, b. of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England d. Bef 1203 Marriage Bef 1200 [2] Children + 1. Margery de Argentein, b. of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England d. Aft 20 Aug 1232Family ID F6184 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Apr 2016
Family 2 Cassandra de Insula Marriage Abt 1204 [2] Children + 1. Giles de Argentein d. Bef 24 Nov 1242 Family ID F23177 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Dec 2023
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Notes - Founder of the priory of Little Wymondley and of the Hospital of St. John and St. James in Royston, Hertfordshire.
"Richard joined the Crusade of 1218, which in November 1219 succeeded in capturing the port of Damietta, in Egypt. A letter written by Richard to his kinsman, the abbot of Bury St Edmunds the following year gives us a striking glimpse of medieval religious attitudes. It seems that after its capture, the Crusaders were quick to convert the town's mosques into churches. Richard founded a handsomely adorned church, dedicated to St Edmund, whom he calls his patron saint ('advocatus meus'), and established there three chaplains, with clerks. He had a painted statue of the saint erected there, which attracted the hostile attention of a Flemish servant who visited the church. But as he left the church after hurling abuse at the martyred saint, a beam of wood miraculously fell on his head and hurt him badly, as Richard triumphantly relates to the abbot." [Chris Phillips, citation details below.]
Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire 1224. Constable of Hertford Castle 1224-28. Wounded "in the stomach below the navel" at the siege of Bedford Castle, summer 1224, fighting on the side of Henry III against Falkes de Breaute.
Went on crusade a second time ca. 1240. "According to the Dunstable Chronicle, when the Turks entered Jerusalem (in July 1244), only Richard de Argentein with 20 knights in the Tower of David (the citadel) held out. Eventually (in late August) the defenders were allowed to leave the city under a flag of truce." [Chris Phillips, citation details below.]
- Founder of the priory of Little Wymondley and of the Hospital of St. John and St. James in Royston, Hertfordshire.
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Sources - [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.
- [S1209] Outline of the History of the Argentein Family by Chris Phillips.
- [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.