Richard de Weever (died about 1374)

Richard was of Weaver, Cheshire, in 1360.

Events

Date of Birth: about 1327.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Richard was aged 30 years in 31 Edward III (Ormerod 2:208). (However, this would seem to be contradicted by the escheat given below, which shows that Richard was a minor in 1350.)

Date of Death: about 1373 or 1374.

Place of Death: unknown.

Richard’s inquisition post mortem (Ormerod 2:208) has no date attached, but it states that Richard’s son and heir, Thomas, was aged 3, which would imply a date of about 1373 or 1374. Ormerod (2:210) gives a date of about 1378. Earwaker (2:596) states that Richard was dead in 1378.

Relationships

Father: Thomas de Weever.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:208-210) and by Earwaker (2:596).

Mother: Alice, daughter of Michael de Munsull.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:207, 2:210).

Spouse: Margaret Arderne.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:208-210) and by Earwaker (2:596).

Children:

Thomas de Weever (January 1370/71 - about 1399) married Isabella de Fulleshurst.

Evidence

from ACOCC (p. 150):

Ancient Escheats [1349-1350]: Wever and Mondrem.-- Of 8s. charged in the preceding account of the issues of one messuage and one bovate of land in Russhton, and of the issues of the bailiwick of the forest of Mondrem, which belonged to Thomas de Wevere, being in the hand of the lord the earl, by reason of the minority of Richard, son and heir of the said Thomas, he answers nothing, because the said messuage is not occupied on account of the pestilence, and the said bovate of land lies fresh and uncultivated, and also the whole of the forest aforesaid is destroyed and assart by the bailiff aforesaid, whereby no profit can be taken.

Sum, Nothing

(p. 203):

[1350-51]

Wevere and Mondreme in the Hundreds of Edisbury and Wych.-- 8s. charged on this account, of the issues of one messuage and one bovate of land in Russhton; and of the issues of the bailiwick of the forest of Mondrem which was Thomas de Wevere’s, in the hand of the lord by reason of the minority of Richard, son and heir of the said Thomas. Sum, 8s.

(p. 232):

1356-57 Receipts [Miscellaneous]

18l. received of Richard de Wevere, farmer of the vill of Middlewich, part of 50l. of the farm of the said vill.

(p. 244):

1358-59 Arrears.

44s. 6 ½d. received of Richard de Wevere, bailiff and farmer of the vill of Middlewich, in part payment of the arrears of their account.

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).

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).