Richard de Trafford

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Henry de Trafford.

This relationship is given in the Lancashire VCH (v.4, sub Stretford).

Mother: Avice.

Avice was Henry’s widow.

Spouse: Christiana.

After Richard’s death, Christiana married secondly William de Hacking. Farrer notes that Richard appears to have married an heiress of the house of Cheetham, but this is not confirmed.

Children: 

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Henry de Trafford married Loreta.

Geoffrey de Trafford. Also known as Geoffrey de Chadderton. 

Evidence

from the Lancashire VCH (v. 4 sub Stretford):

Apart from his acquisition of Stretford little is known of Richard de Trafford. About 1250 he attested a charter respecting Audenshaw; Lancs. Pipe R. 333. 

In 1255–6 he gave the king 1 mark for a writ; Orig. 40 Hen. III, m. 8. 

He obtained a grant of lands in Withington; De Trafford D. no. 129. 

To Richard son of Robert de Stretford he granted an eighth part of the vill of Stretford, that part namely, which Robert the father had held, at a rent of 6s. The second best pig was to be rendered for pannage, and corn was to be ground at Trafford Mill to the twentieth measure; Crofton, op. cit. iii, 237.

from the Lancashire VCH (v. 4 sub Cheetham):

It is supposed (Chet. Gen. 2, 3) that two sisters of Geoffrey de Chetham married the heads of the Pilkington and Trafford families. In 1278 William del Hacking and Christiana his wife (said to be widow of Richard de Trafford) acknowledged various tenements in Lancashire, including moieties of the manors of Cheetham and Crompton, to be the right of Geoffrey de Chadderton; and it seems clear, from the accompanying fine relating to the 'inheritance' of Henry de Trafford, that the former were the inheritance of Christiana; Final. Conc. i, 153–5. 

from Final Concords for Lancashire:

No. 5.—At Westminster, on the Octave of St. Hilary, 6 Edward I. [20th January, 1278].

Between Geoffrey de Chadreton, plaintiff, and William de la Hackyng and Christiana, his wife, impedients of the moiety of the manors of Chetham and Cromton, thirteen acres of land, thirteen acres of wood, sixty acres of pasture, one oxgang of land, the moiety of one messuage, and 68s. 3d. rent, in Sholver, Coventre, Mamecestre, Aston, Cherleton, Wydington, Middelton, Wlstanesholme, and Botreworth.

William and Christiana acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Geoffrey, as those which he had by their gift, to hold to him and his heirs in perpetuity, of the chief lords of the fees, by the services thereto belonging. For this acknowledgment Geoffrey agreed to pay yearly to the said William and Christiana, during her life, nine marks, 2s. 8d., one moiety at the Feast of St. Martin in Winter, and the other moiety at Pentecost. After Christiana's death Geoffrey and his heirs to be acquitted of the said payment.

Farrer’s note:

This and the succeeding concord relate to the appointment of dower to Christiana, wife of William de la Hackyng, and apparently widow of Richard de Trafford, by her two sons or step-sons, Henry de Trafford and Geoffrey de Chadderton. We may accordingly expect to find a fairly complete statement of the estates which Richard de Trafford during his lifetime had divided between his two sons. The elder, Henry, received Trafford, and estates in the townships of Stretford, Chorlton and Withington. The younger, Geoffrey, received estates in Cheetham, Crompton, Sholver, Coventre (?), Manchester, Ashton-under-Lyne, Chorlton, Withington, Middleton, Wolstenholme, and Butterworth. An early reference to Trafford occurs in a schedule of the ferm of Salford Hundred, of which some entries belong to the time of Henry II. and Richard I., the rest to the time of John. "De firma terræ Roberti filii Radulphi de Traford in Traford v.s." (Pipe Roll, 10 Henry III.) This Robert died shortly before 1205, in which year "Henry de Traford gives 40s. for his relief of half a carucate of land with appurtenances in Traford." (Pipe Roll, 8 John, m. 7). In the Survey of 1212, Henry de Trafford appears as holding four oxgangs of land [in Trafford] in chief of the King in thanage by the yearly service of 5s. (Testa ii., f. 827). Henry died in 1221, and on the 3rd November, the same year, "Richard, son of Henry de Trafford, made fine by 20s. for his relief of land which was his father's, whose heir he is, which Richard ought to hold of us," i.e., of the King in chief. (Fine Roll, 6 Henry III., m. 9). Hamon de Massy, of Dunham Massy, held Stretford in 1212 by serjeanty. Henry de Stretford, who may possibly be the same person as Henry de Trafford, held two oxgangs of Hamon for 4s. yearly service. (Testa ii., f. 827). Afterwards, i.e., circa 1250, Hamon de Massy IV. gave the whole town of Stretford to his daughter Maud, who, afterwards, as the widow of Roger Pain of Ashburn, released Stretford to Henry de Trafford. (Trafford Muniments). In the year 1284, Henry de Trafford had a charter of free warren in his Manors of Trafford and Stretford. (Charter Roll, 12 Edward I., No. 24). In the year 1212, Henry de Trafford held five oxgangs of land in Chorlton of Gospatrick de Chorlton by the yearly service of 6s. 3d. (Testa ii., f. 827). His great-grandson, Sir Henry de Trafford, Knt., held this estate in 1320, together with certain tenements in Ancoats. The other estates, which were held in 1278 by Geoffrey de Chadderton, appear to have been acquired by Richard de Trafford in marriage with an heiress of the house of Cheetham. This, however, requires confirmation.

No. 6.—At Westminster, on the Octave of St. Hilary, 6 Edward I. [20th January, 1278].

Between Henry de Trafford,  plaintiff, and William de Hackyng and Christiana, his wife, impedients of seven messuages, eight oxgangs of land, two acres of meadow, and 10s. rent, in Stretford, Cherlton, and Wythinton, which William and Christiana formerly held, as of the dower of Christiana, of the inheritance of the said Henry.

They acknowledged the tenements to be the right of Henry, and quit-claimed the same to him and his heirs in perpetuity. For this release he gave them one sor sparrow-hawk.

from the Calendar of Patent Rolls:

1255

Quit claim by Gilbert son of William de Nocton to Sir Edmund de Lascy and his heirs of the homage and service of Richard de Trafford of the manor in Choderton which he holds of the said Gilbert, for 1/4 knight's, fee. Witnesses : — Sir Henry de Wengham, chancellor of the king, Sir Geoffrey de Dutton, Sir John de Hederode, John Eland, John de Lascy, William de Salebyry, Henry de Wordhil, and others.

References

Crofton, H.T. A History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford (Chetham Society v. 51 New Series, 1903)

Final Concords for Lancashire, Part 1, 1189-1307. (William Farrer ed.) (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1899).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (Victoria County History, 1911).