Richard de Praers

Events

Date of Birth: about 1268.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Richard's age is given in an inquisition post mortem of his wife's father (CIPM Edw. I. vol. 4, no. 250). He is there said to be aged 36 in 32 Edward I.

Date of Death: probably (shortly) before 2 October 1335.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Hall (p. 26)

Relationships

supposed Father: Sir Randle de Praers.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:301) and by Hall (p. 25). However, the 1303 relief cited below seems to make clear that Richard was Randle's brother, not his son. If this is the case, then Thomas de Praers should be Richard's father.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Joan de Crewe.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:301). It is recorded in an inquisition post mortem of his wife's father (CIPM Edw. I. vol. 4, no. 250).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Randle de Praers, lord of Barthomley.

Thomas de Praers married Margery.

Evidence

from ACOCC:

[p. 39]

1303-4. Wards Let to Farm. - Of Ranulph de Praers, parson of Bertumlegh, for the custody of the lands of one of the heirs of Thomas de Crue… 6l..

Reliefs.- Of Rirchard de Praers, brother and heir of Ranulph de Praers, deceased, who held of the Earl of Chester in chief, for his relief for two knights’ fees… 10l.

[p. 52, 54] fines of 100s. and 40s. in 1303-4.

[p. 89], Chamberlain's Account, receipts (1320):

Richard de Praers holding the serjeanty of the Countess of Warwick - 13s. 4d.

From the Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(I am not sure the following entries refer to the Richard of this page.)

(page 388-9):

1333, Nov. 8. Richard de [Praers], Robert de Praers, Nicholas del Heth, John de Lasceles, Robert son of William de Bulkylegh, and Richard del Wodehouses, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for 29l. yearly for the farm of the sheriffdom of Flint, of the pleas and perquisites of the courts and fairs of the towns of Flint and Ewloe, and of the forest of Eulowe, with the pasturage of Bokelegh and the sea coal there. [6 & 7 Edw. 3. m. 2 d. (2).]

1334-5, March 20. Richard de [Praers], John Gryffyn, Nicholas del Heth, John de Brescy, David, son of Patrick de Crue, and John de Lasceles, to the chamberlain of Chester, recognizance for 15l. [8 & 9 Edw. 3. m. 3 d. (7).]

1335, May 10. Richard de [Praers], John Gryfyn, Robert and Richard sons of Robert de Bulkylegh, Robert son of William de Bulkylegh, Nicholas del Heth, John de Lascels, John de Brescy, Randal de Alsach’, William son of Robert de Praers, Richard son of William de Roop, and Hugh de Horshal, to Edward Earl of Chester, recognizance for 119l. 3s. 6d. [9 & 10 Edw. 3. m. 1 (1).]

1335, Oct. 2. Richard de [Praers], William de Coton, William de Moldeworth, William de Praers, of Blakehale, Robert son of John de Brescy, senior, John Russell, and William de Crue, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for 23l. 17s. 5 ½ d., arrears of account of the said Richard, sheriff of Flint. [9 & 10 Edw. 3. m. 1 d. (10).]

1335-6, Jan. 18. Richard de [Praers], Madoc’ ap Griff’, and Ririth ap Ken’, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for 30s. [9 & 10 Edw. 3. m. 2 (10).]

1335-6, Jan. 18. [Richard de Praers], John de Brescy, and John son of Roger Russel, the like for 40s. [Ibid. (11).]

1336-7, March 17. Richard de [Praers], letters of Edward Prince of Wales for attermining to the said Richard the payment of 100l. 7s. 1d. due by him to the Prince, for the time the said Richard was sheriff of Flint. [10 & 11 Edw. 3. m. 2 (1).]

1337, April 4. [Richard de Praers], Richard son of Robert de Praers, Randal de Oldynton. Nicholas del Heth, Richard de Thiknes, William de Praers, of Blakenhale, William Hamelyn, Randal de Spurstowe, John Russel, and William de Moldeworth, recognizance for the above debt. [Ibid. (2).]

References

Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester. 1301-1360. (Ronald Stewart-Brown, ed.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. LIX: 1910).

Hall, James. A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, in the County Palatine of Chester. Nantwich, 1883.

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).

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).