Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Richard was still alive in 1389 (Morris p. 284).
Relationships
Father: John de Grafton.
This relationship is given by Morris (p. 284).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Cecilia.
This relationship is given by Morris (p. 284). It appears from the fine below that she may have been a Freeman.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Robert de Grafton married Benedicta.
Evidence
from a Shrewsbury merchant gild roll of 1354:
97 Johannes de Poliley carnifex finiuit xl.s.
98 Johannes de Vpton serviens Thome de Mutton finuit xl.s.
99 Ricardus de Grafton serviens eiusdem Thome finiuit xl.s.
A grant (Leighton p. 94):
32 Edward 3. 1359. Thomas son of Hugo Selk grants to John son of Hugo de Upton & to Richd de Grafton of Salop lands in Frankevile near Slachstrete and on the bank of the Severn called Selkys medewe.
A quitclaim (Blakeway p. 350):
On Sunday after the feast of St. Leonard Abbot, 34 Edward III. (1360), Thomas Selk, son of Hugh Selk, quit-claimed to John son of Hugh de Upton and Richard de Grafton, all his interest in 12 acres of land in the fields of Frankevile, six of which lie behind Thomas Colle’s close, and the other six lie near Slachstrete; which meadow lies near Severn bank, called Selkeys medewe; and the croft extends from the highway to Selkey’s medewe.
A grant (Leighton p. 94):
35 Edward 3. Thomas de Twyford of Salop grants to Richard de Grafton of Salop a meadow in Frankvylle near a plot of land called Schiplode.
from a Shrewsbury merchant gild roll of 1372:
Seruiens Ricardi de Grafton’ de Salop’
In the Fine Rolls (2 Richard II, 1379), “Richard de Grafton” is one of those given a commission as an assessor for Shrewsbury, and in 1380 a commission is given to “Richard Grafton.”
from the Feet of Fines (Abstracted at Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy)
County: Shropshire.
Place: Westminster.
Date: Two weeks from St Michael, 10 Richard [II] [13 October 1386]. And afterwards three weeks from Easter, 11 Richard [II] [19 April 1388].
Parties: Thomas son of Thomas Knyght' of [....], querent, and William Polliley and Agnes, his wife, and Richard Grafton' of Salop' and Cecily, his wife, deforciants.
Property: [1 messua]ge and a moiety of 1 virgate of land in Grafton'.
Action: Plea of covenant.
Agreement: William, Agnes, Richard and Cecily have acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Thomas, [of which] Thomas has two parts of their gift, to hold [to] Thomas and his heirs, of the chief lords for ever. William, Agnes, Richard and Cecily have granted for themselves and the heirs of Agnes and Cecily that the third part of the tenements - which Alice, who was the wife of Richard Freman of Grafton' held in dower of the inheritance of Agnes and Cecily in the aforesaid vill on the day the agreement was made, and which after the decease of Alice ought to revert to William, Agnes, Richard and Cecily and the heirs of Agnes and Cecily - after the decease of Alice shall remain to Thomas and his heirs, to hold together with the two parts, of the chief lords for ever.
For this: Thomas has given them 10 marks of silver.
References
Blakeway, John Brickdale and William Phillips (ed.). “The Topographical History of Shrewsbury” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. ser. 3 v. 7 (1907).
Drinkwater, C.H. “Seven Shrewsbury Gild Merchant Rolls of the 14th Century” and “Two Merchant Gild Rolls of the 14th Century” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society ser. 3 v. 3 (1903).
Leighton, W.A. “The Shrewsbury of Past Ages” in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. v. 11, pt. 1 (1887).
Morris, Joseph. "The Provosts and Bailiffs of Shrewsbury" in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. ser. 3. v. 2 (1902).
Woodger, L.S. “Grafton, Robert, of Shrewsbury, Salop” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421. (1993).