Richard Chichester

1424 - 1496  (72 years)

• Name	Richard Chichester
  Born	23 Feb 1424	of Raleigh in Pilton, Devon, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Dec 1496  [2, 3]
  Alternate death	25 Dec 1498  [1]
  Buried	Pilton, Devon, England   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I8019	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	John Chichester,   b. 1386, of Raleigh in Pilton, Devon, England ,   d. 14 Dec 1437  (Age 51 years)
  Mother	Alice Wotton,   b. of Widworthy, Devon, England ,   d. Bef 14 Dec 1437
  Married	Bef 1424  [1, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F4632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Keynes,   b. of Winkleigh, Devon, England
  Children	+ 1. Nicholas Chichester,   b. Abt 1452,   d. Bef 25 Dec 1496  (Age ~ 44 years)
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2015
  Family ID	F4628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Sheriff of Devon 1463, 1468, 1474. His monument in Pilton church gives his death date as "24th of December 1498", but his IPM gives it as 25 Dec 1496.

  
  

• Sources

  [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S3784] History of the Family of Chichester, from A. D. 1086-1870 by Alexander Palmer Bruce Chichester. London: J. C. Hotton, 1871. [S699] The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian. Devon: 1895. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S3784] History of the Family of Chichester, from A. D. 1086-1870 by Alexander Palmer Bruce Chichester. London: J. C. Hotton, 1871., says "in about 1424". [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson.