Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William de Benefeld.
Mother: Agnes de Meyners.
The Sussex VCH (7: sub Twineham) gives William de Benefeld and Agnes. Farrer (3:346) gives Agnes as the sister of Ralph de Meyners and daughter of Richard de Meyners.
Spouse: unknown.
probable Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
John de Benefeld (died 1325).
Evidence
1267: Wiliam de Rusham exchanged his land in Saund by Poynings, now Perching Sands, Sussex, with Richard de Benefeld for the vicomté of Meyners and other lands in the realm of the king of France held of the abbot of Corbie. (Farrer 3:346)
1269: Richard acquired a tenement in Dene, Sussex, for 9 marks from Philip and Isabel de Neuband (Farrer 3:346).
1272: Richard acquired from Richard son of Cardo de Hangleton a messuage and 110 acres of land in Hangleton, and the reversion of land held in dower by a certain widow (Joan (de Hangelton) (Farrer 3:346, SRS v. 7 no. 793).
1275: Richard de Benefeld is a plaintiff in the Clackrose hundred roll and also is mentioned as of Buntinghill hundred, Sussex, in that year (Farrer 3:346). He held 1 fee in Benefield, Sussex (Farrer 3:358).
1288: Richard de Benefeld is a witness to a quitclaim in the parish of Bolneya (Lewes Chartulary p. 62).
References
Farrer, William Honors and Knights’ Fees volume 3 (1925).
“Parishes: Twineham” in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes (Victoria County History, 1980).
Salzman, L.F. “An Abstract of Feet of Fines relating to the County of Sussex from 34 Henry III to 35 Edward I” in Sussex Record Society v. 7 (1908).
Saltzman, L.F. (ed.) “Chartulary of Lewes Priory, Part II” in Sussex Record Society v. 40, part II (1934).