Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: before 1292.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by the Lancashire VCH (v.4, sub Stretford). The 1664-5 visitation (p. 315) gives a date of circa 1288.
Relationships
Father: Richard de Trafford.
This relationship is given in the Lancashire VCH (v.4, sub Stretford).
Mother: Christiana.
Christiana was Richard’s widow.
Spouse: Loreta.
Lora or Loreta was Henry’s widow.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Henry de Trafford married (1) Alice de Clifton; married (2) Margaret.
Richard de Trafford
John de Trafford
Evidence
from the Lancashire VCH (v. 4 sub Stretford):
Henry in 1278 agreed to a partition of the family estates, taking as his share eight oxgangs of land, &c., in Stretford, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, and Withington. Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 154.
This portion had been the dower of Christiana then wife of William de Hacking, but was 'of the inheritance' of Henry de Trafford. It is presumed that Christiana was the widow of Richard de Trafford. The other lands, &c., went to the Chadderton family.
Six years later Henry obtained a charter of free warren for his manors of Trafford and Stretford.
Chart. R. 12 Edw. I (no. 77), m. 4, no. 24.
From Richard son of Jordan de Stretford a surrender of his claim to lands held of Henry de Trafford was obtained by the latter; Crofton, op. cit. iii, 238.
Avice widow of Nicholas de Stretford and daughter of Jordan de Stretford in 1292 released her claim on the same to Henry son of Henry de Trafford; ibid. iii, 241.
from Final Concords for Lancashire:
No. 5.—At Westminster, on the Octave of St. Hilary, 6 Edward I. [20th January, 1278].
Between Geoffrey de Chadreton, plaintiff, and William de la Hackyng and Christiana, his wife, impedients of the moiety of the manors of Chetham and Cromton, thirteen acres of land, thirteen acres of wood, sixty acres of pasture, one oxgang of land, the moiety of one messuage, and 68s. 3d. rent, in Sholver, Coventre, Mamecestre, Aston, Cherleton, Wydington, Middelton, Wlstanesholme, and Botreworth.
William and Christiana acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Geoffrey, as those which he had by their gift, to hold to him and his heirs in perpetuity, of the chief lords of the fees, by the services thereto belonging. For this acknowledgment Geoffrey agreed to pay yearly to the said William and Christiana, during her life, nine marks, 2s. 8d., one moiety at the Feast of St. Martin in Winter, and the other moiety at Pentecost. After Christiana's death Geoffrey and his heirs to be acquitted of the said payment.
No. 6.—At Westminster, on the Octave of St. Hilary, 6 Edward I. [20th January, 1278].
Between Henry de Trafford, plaintiff, and William de Hackyng and Christiana, his wife, impedients of seven messuages, eight oxgangs of land, two acres of meadow, and 10s. rent, in Stretford, Cherlton, and Wythinton, which William and Christiana formerly held, as of the dower of Christiana, of the inheritance of the said Henry.
They acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Henry, and quit-claimed the same to him and his heirs in perpetuity. For this release he gave them one sor sparrow-hawk.
References
Crofton, H.T. A History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford (Chetham Society v. 51 New Series, 1903)
Final Concords for Lancashire, Part 1, 1189-1307. (William Farrer ed.) (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1899).
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1911).
The Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5 by Sir William Dugdale, knight, Norroy king of arms. (Raines, ed.) (Chetham Society v. 88, 1872)