Richard Donne (died 1312)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Orrmerod

Date of Death: about 1312.

Place of Death: unknown.

Richard’s inquisition post mortem is dated 6 Edward II (1312/13) (Ormerod 2:244).

Relationships

Father: Richard Done.

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

Mother: Elizabeth Venables.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248).

Spouse: Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas de Swynnerton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248).

Spouse: Isabel.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:248). Isabel later married Robert de Huxley.

Children (by Isabel):

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

Richard Done married (1) Margery; married (2) Katherine.

Evidence 

from the Cheshire Archives catalogue: 

no date [1302]

Claim  [DAR/A/2]

Claim of Richard Done of Utkinton to the bailiwick of the forest of MARA and MONDREM

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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