Richard fitz Eustace

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1163.

This date is given by Suppe (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Eustace fitz John (died 1157), lord of Knaresborough and Halton.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB), by Suppe (ODNB), and by the Complete Peerage (7:677).

Mother: Agnes, daughter of William fitz Nigel, baron of Halton and constable of Chester.

This relationship is given by Tout (ODNB) and by the VCH of Lancashire (1:299).

Spouse: Albreda de Lisours.

This relationship is given by Suppe (ODNB), by the Complete Peerage (7:677), and by the VCH of Lancashire (1:299).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. The information below comes from Cawley.)

John (died 1190, probably on 11 October) married Alice.

Eustache.

Richard.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Richard FitzEustace” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Page, William (ed.) The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Lancashire. Volume 1. (London: 1906).

Suppe, Frederick. “John (d. 1190)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Tout, T.F. “Eustace fitz John (d. 1157)” rev. Paul Dalton in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).