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John FitzRichard, 6th Baron of Halton and Bowland, Lord of Flamborough, Constable of Chester, was born England to Richard FitzEustace (-1171) and Albreda de Lisours (-1193) and died 11 October 1190 Tyre, Palestine of unspecified causes. He married Alice de Mandeville (-c1248) .
in"The son of Richard FitzEustace. He was a Governor in Ireland for Henry II. Being a patron of science, he maintained an astronomer at Halton Castle. He founded a Cistercian monastery at Stanlow. In 1190 he granted the second known charter for a ferry at Runcorn Gap. He served with Richard I in the Third Crusade and died at the siege of Tyre." --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_FitzRichard
"John, constable of Cheshire, son and heir of Richard and Awbrey, succeeded his father, and was the sixth baron of Halton.
He founded the abbey of Stanlaw in Wirral in Cheshire, anno Domini 1178, 24 Hen. II......This abbey was after translated to Whalley in Lancashire, 1296.
This John constable of Cheshire gave all Hield in Aston nigh Great Budworth to Methroso Punterling; rendring a Welsh lance yearly on St. Bartholomew's day. M. num. 1. which at this day belongs to Leycester of Tabley.
He married Alice, sister of William Mandervyle, by whom he had issue Roger constable of Cheshire, who assumed the name of Lacy; Eustace sirnamed de Cester; Richard de Cester, to whom his brother Roger gave the town of Moore in Cheshire, and after Richard became a leper, and was buried at Norton; Geoffrey, another son; Peter, another son; Alice, a daughter; lib. C. fol. 85. b. et fol. 62. b. c. d.
Anno Domini 1181, John constable of Cheshire and Richard Peche (bishop of Coventry and Lichfield) were appointed governors of Ireland, and sent to keep Dublin, which Hugh de Lacy kept; for Hugh de Lacy was sent for into England by King Henry the second, with whom the king was much displeased because he had married the daughter of the king of Connaught without the licence of Henry the Second; Hoveden, pag. 611.
This John constable of Cheshire had a clerk called William, an excellent astologer who in the year 1186 writ of the conjunction of the planets that year; whose words and opinion thereon, you may read in Hoveden pag. 624.
John constable of Cheshire died at Tyre in the land of Jerusalem, anno Dom. 1190, 2 Rich. I. Hoveden, pag. 685." --The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, Volume 1 by George Ormerod, Daniel King, William Smith, William Webb (sheriff.), Sir Peter Leycester
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Helen de Lacy (c1165-) | 1165 England | Geoffrey Dutton (c1160-1248) | |
Roger de Lacy (1170-1211) | 1170 | 1170 | Matilda de Clere |
Eustace de Cester | |||
Richard de Cester | |||
Alice de Cester |
Siblings
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
John FitzRichard (-1190) | England | 11 October 1190 Tyre, Palestine | Alice de Mandeville (-c1248) |
Robert FitzRichard | |||
Roger fitz Richard (-1177) | 1177 | Alice de Vere (-aft1185) | |
Mary FitzRichard | |||
Aubrey FitzRichard (-aft1213) | 1213 England | Henry Biset (-c1213) |