John fitz Richard

Events

Date of Birth: born before 1056.

This date is given by Tout (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/2:269).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Richard, a moneyer who held a mill in the Avranchin.

This relationship is given by Mason (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/2:269).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

Pain fitz John (died 10 July 1137) married Sybil Talbot.

Eustace fitz John (July 1157) married (1) Beatrice, daughter of Ivo de Vescy; married (2) Agnes, daughter of William fitz Nigel.

William fitz John.

Alice. Abbess of Barking.

Agnes married Roger de Valognes.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Mason, J.F.A. “Pain fitz John (d. 1137) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Page, William (ed.) The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Lancashire. Volume 1. (London: 1906).

Tout, T.F. “Eustace fitz John (d. 1157)” rev. Paul Dalton in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).