Richard de Orreby

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1275.

Place of Death: unknown.

Richard’s inquisition post mortem was taken 12 March 1276 (Earwaker 2:550).

Relationships

(possible) Grandfather: Herbert de Orreby.

(possible) Grandmother: Lucy.

Ormerod (3:548) gives these relationships. Richards (p. 40) and Earwaker (2:550) state that Richard was possibly a grandson of Herbert and Lucy.

(possible) Father: Richard de Orreby.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:548), but not by Earwaker or by Richards, who give no known father.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Alice. (Living 1290).

This relationship is given by Richards (p. 40), and by Ormerod (3:548).

Children:

Thomas de Orreby (born 1262/3 - died 1289/90) married Cecily de Mascy.

References

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).

Richards, Raymond. The Manor of Gawsworth (Manchester: E.J.Morten, 1974; first published 1957).