Richard Done (died about 1260)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1260.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Henry Done.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248). It is given in a pedigree from the pleas of the Circuit of the Forests of Mara and Moundren taken 31 Edward I, given in the Visitation of Cheshire (p. 83).

Mother: Joan de Kingsley.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248). It is given in a pedigree from the pleas of the Circuit of the Forests of Mara and Moundren taken 31 Edward I, given in the Visitation of Cheshire (p. 83).

Spouse: Mabel.

Helsby notes she is recorded as a Richard's widow in 44 Henry 3 (1259/60) in the Plea Rolls (Ormerod vol. 2 p. 133 fn). He conjectures that Mabel is a daughter of Ranulph de Kyngesley and Mabel de Moston. 

Children:

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

Richard Done married Elizabeth Venables.

Alice Donne married (1) Richard Starky; married (2) Robert de Cholmondeley about 1290.

Henry Donne. 

Evidence

from the Plea Rolls (Ormerod 2:243):

44. Hen. III. Mabil que fuit ux’ Richard’ de Donn . Dom’ Rog de Venables, Dom’ Thom’ de Orreby, Ric’ film’ Ric’ de Donn, Emm’ que fuit ux’ Willi’ Gerard, Amiciam de Thornton, Will’m Launcelin, et Joh’ ux’ suam, for dower. Ric’ fil’ & hed’ Ric’ de Donn then in the wardship of Prince Edward.

References

Glover, Robert. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 (John Paul Rylands, ed.) (The Harleian Society, London: 1882).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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