Also spelled Richard de Mesners and Richard de Mainers.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Because of the 1267 transaction involving Richard’s grandson below, I assume that Richard was somehow connected to Maisnières-en-Vimeu in the Somme department. Farrer (3:345) notes that Robert de Maners attested a charter of Robert count of Eu before 1100, Robert de Maners gave Nutshaw, Hants, to Waverley abbey before 1147. Richard de Maners was pardoned for forest trespass in Hampshire in 1176.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Ralph de Meyners (died soon after 1243) married Leticia.
Agnes de Meyners married William de Benefeld.
Isabel de Meyners (died after 1262) married Philip de Neuband.
Evidence
1207: Richard de Maners made an agreement with Robert FitzRoger of Norfolk (Farrer 3:345).
1222: Richard de Mesners or Mainers was charged by a Norfolk man with detention of a horse which was seen yoked in the earl of Warenne’s harrow at Stanford, Norfolk. (Farrer 3:345-6).
1223: Richard de Mesners had letters of protection on going on pilgrimage to Santiago with the earl of Warenne. (Farrer 3:346).
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)
References
Farrer, William Honors and Knights’ Fees volume 3 (1925).
“Parishes: Hangleton” in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7, the Rape of Lewes (Victoria County History, 1980).