Richard Hanbury the elder

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: John de Hanbury.

See the Commentary section.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children: 

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

Richard Hanbury married (1) Catherine Smith; married (2) Margery Tynter.

Commentary

The only evidence that Richard was the son of John de Hanbury is the 1569 Visitation of Worcestershire, most copies of which make the Richard who married Catherine Smith and Margery Tynter the son of John de Hambury (see Visitation pp. 65-67). However, Locke (2:115) notes 

Richard Hanbury, the ancestor of the Hanburys of Elmley Lovett, was, according to some of the pedigrees, youngest - son of the John Hanbury who occurs in the reign of Henry IV. He is usually given as the Richard Hanbury who married, firstly, Catherine Smythe, and, secondly, Margery Tynter, but, in Harleian MS. 1043, fol. 50b, he is said to he third son of the John Hanbury of Hanbury who lived in the reign of Henry IV., and father of the Richard who married these two wives, a much more probable statement. For since he was a son of John Hanbury of Hanbury he must have lived in the early half of the fifteenth century, and it seems reasonable to suppose that the Richard who flourished at the end of the century, and whose children, by his second wife, were alive well into the reign of Elizabeth, was his son rather than himself. We may therefore formulate the pedigree as follows : —

Richard Hanbury, of whom we know nothing, except that he is said to have been third son of John Hanbury of Hanbury (I.), and to have flourished in the early half of the fifteenth century. The only authority for this is the Visitation of 1569, by Cooke, Clarenceux.

Locke’s argument that it was an elder Richard who was the son of John is supported by a 1557 chancery case (Hanbury v Hewman, national archives catalogue C 1/1434/6-7) in which the plaintiff is the son of the Richard Hanbury who married Catherine Smith. The plaintiff’s grandfather is stated to be Richard Hanbury, and to have held a tenement in Feckenham.

References

Locke, A. Audrey. The Hanbury Family. (London, 1916).

The Visitation of Worcestershire, 1569. (Harleian Society, 1888).