- Illegitimate son of King John of England
- Constable of Wallingford Castle
- 1217 Veteran of Naval Battle of Sandwich
- AKA: Richard de Warenne
- AKA: Richard de Chilham, Baron Chilham
Biography
Richard Fitzjohn, Baron of Chilham was born circa 1190 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England, United Kingdom to John of England (1167-1216) and Adela de Warenne (c1170-c1218) and died before 24 June 1246 of unspecified causes. He married Rose de Dover 1214 JL in England, United Kingdom.
Richard FitzRoy (c. 1190 – June 1246) (alias Richard de Chilham and Richard de Dover[1]) was the illegitimate son of King John of England and was feudal baron of Chilham,[1] in Kent. His mother was Adela, his father's first cousin and a daughter of Hamelin de Warenne (c1129-1202) by his wife Isabel de Warenne (1130-1202), 4th Countess of Surrey.
Richard served in his father's army as a captain during the baronial revolt. In 1216 he was made constable of Wallingford Castle. The following year he took a prominent part in the Battle of Sandwich (1217), a naval battle off the Kent coast.
Richard had scutage for Poitou in 1214. By right of his wife he became Lord of Chingford, Little Wyham and Great Wenden, all in Essex, and Lesnes, Kent, and Lutton, Northamptonshire.[2] However, in 1229 their manor of Chingford Earls was temporarily in the hands of a creditor, Robert de Winchester. In 1242 they leased the advowson of Chingford to William of York, Provost of Beverley.
Marriage and Family
Before 11 May 1214, Richard married Rose de Dover, daughter and heiress of Fulbert de Dover by his spouse Isabel, daughter of William Briwere. Their children were:
- Richard de Dover,[3][4][5] feudal baron of Chilham, married Matilda, 6th Countess of Angus
- Isabel de Dover (c1225-1276),[3][4][5] married 1247 Sir Maurice de Berkeley of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.
- Lorette (d.bef.1265),[3][4][5] married 1248 Sir William Marmion, 2nd Baron Marmion of Winteringham and of Tanfield, Yorkshire.
Richard's widow remarried, between 1250 and 1253, William de Wilton (killed at the Battle of Lewes), a prominent justice. She died shortly before 11 February 1261, when there was a grant of her lands and heirs to the Queen, Eleanor of Provence. Rohese's heart was buried at Lesnes Abbey.[4]
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Richard de Dover (c1214) | |||
Isabel de Dover (c1225-1276) | 1225 Chilham Castle, Kent, England | 7 July 1276 Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England | Maurice De Berkeley, Lord of Berkeley (1218-1281) |
Lorette de Dover (c1218-1264) |
Siblings
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Henry III of England (1207-1272) | 1 October 1207 Winchester Castle, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom | 16 November 1272 Westminster Palace, London, England, United Kingdom | Éléonore de Provence (1223-1291) |
Richard of Cornwall (1209-1272) | 5 January 1209 Winchester | 12 April 1272 Berkhamsted | Isabel Marshal (1200-1240) Sancie de Provence (1228-1261) Beatrijs van Valkenburg (?-?) Joan de Valletort (?-?) |
Joan of England (1210-1238) | 22 July 1210 | 4 March 1238 | Alexander II of Scotland (1198-1249) |
Isabella of England (1214-1241) | 1214 | 12 December 1241 | Friedrich II of the Holy Roman Empire (1195-1250) |
Eleanor of England (1215-1275) | 1215 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom | 13 April 1275 Montargis, Loiret, France | William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1190-1231) Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c1208-1265) |
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Joan of England (1190-1236) | 1188 | 3 February 1237 | Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (c1173-1240) |
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Richard Fitzjohn, Baron of Chilham |
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Isabel FitzRoy (-bef1211) | England | 1211 England | Richard FitzIves (c1211) |
See Also
References
- ^ a b Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 111, note 5
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo02adki#page/584/mode/2up Victoria County History of Northamptonshire: Lutton
- ^ a b c Turner 1929.
- ^ a b c d Cassidy 2011.
- ^ a b c Richardson 2004.
- G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 305. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
- [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 146.
- [S105] Brain Tompsett, Royal Genealogical Data, online http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/. Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogical Data.
- [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 71. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
- [S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 46. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
- [S79] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), page 748. Hereinafter cited as Plantagenet Ancestry.
- [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume II, page 127.
- [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VIII, page 518.
- Given-Wilson & Curteis. The Royal Bastards of Medieval England, 1995
- Oxford University Press, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
- Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 2004, p. 48, ISBN 0-8063-1750-7
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