Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Ranulf de Merton.
Richard is the father of Stephen and Ranulph de Merton (See below), who inherited Ranulf’s manor of Merton.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Stephen de Merton.
Evidence
from the Ledger Book of Vale Abbey:
(p. 30)
Know etc. [fo. 13d (250d)] that I, Richard de Merton, have given etc. to Stephen my son, and his heirs, one capital messuage, which John le Fatte held from me at farm, with the buildings and gardens, set out and to be set out, as the bounds go round them (criūūt), and one assart, which the said John le Fatte formerly held from me at farm, and another assart, which at that time Henry de Monilegh held from me at farm, then newly assarted, and another assart called le Holrenbarwe, and another assart in le Hey, as the ditches and hedges surround the same. To have and to hold etc., rendering to the said chief lords of that fee the services that shall be due therefrom and of right accustomed. In witness whereof etc. These being witnesses: Randolph de Merton, Robert Daa, Thomas his brother, William, son of Robert le Growenor, John the Clerk and many others.
(p. 52)
Petition for exchange of lands with Randolph, son of Richard de Merton.—To their Lord. Whereas one "Rondolf le Fitz Richard" of Merton, tenant of the abbey and convent of Vale Royal, being indicted on suspicion in the Forest of Mare is anxious (voleit) to remove further from the cover of the forest aforesaid, by making some exchange with the said abbot and convent; will [the Prince] of his especial grace grant him leave to do this ? [temp. Edw. I.]
References
The Ledger Book of Vale Royal Abbey (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1914).
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).