Sir Ralph de Vernon of Shipbrook

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1329 and 1334.

Place of Death: unknown.

The range of dates is given by the Oxfordshire VCH (9:sub Hanwell).

Relationships

Father: Ralph de Vernon of Shipbrook.

This relationship is given by the Oxfordshire VCH (9:sub Hanwell). It is supported by deed and pedigree cited in a case from the Chester Plea Rolls (Wrottesley p. 111).

Mother: unknown.

Sir Ralph was illegitimate (Oxfordshire VCH 9:sub Hanwell).

(supposed) Spouse: Mary Dacre.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:252).

Children:

Roese de Vernon married Sir William de Brereton.

Agatha de Vernon married Sir Hugh de Venables.

Ralph de Vernon (died by 1319) married Margaret (de St Pierre).

Richard de Vernon, rector of Stockport (1306 - 1334).

Thomas de Vernon married Joan de Lostok.

Evidence

from ACOCC [p. 63]:

1303-4 fine

Ralph de Vernon, the elder, because he did not prosecute..40d.

[p. 81]

Wages for the Garrison of Beeston and Chester Castles 1312-13 -- To Sir Ralph de Vernon, knight, with two esquires, viz. Roger de Stoke and Robert Stretch, and six bowmen, viz. William de Prestlond, Hugh Brayne, Kenrick Rayeboun, William de Beeston, John de Wyggwolond, and William, son of John de Eccleston, dwelling in the same castle [of Beeston], for garrisoning the same from 20th May, 6 Edw. II., to 20th July next following, viz., for sixty-two days, the said Ralph taking for himself and his two esquires 3s. a day, and each of the said bowmen taking 4d. a day within the said account… 15l. 10s.

To the said Ralph, Constable of Beeston Castle, for his wages for the whole year … 10l.

[p. 86]

1315-16, Fine for Ruddehth. - Of Ralph de Vernoun, the elder, Ralph de Vernoun, the younger, Richard de Vernoun, and Robert le Grosvenour for a certain fine of 113l. 6s. 8d. for license to approve 453 ½ acres of their lands on the waste of Rudhethz, assessed by the Justice at 20 marks by the year; for the term of St. Michael this year… 6l. 13s. 4d.

[p. 92]

Escheatry 1320

Of Ralph de Vernoun, the elder, Ralph de Vernoun, the younger, and Richard, his brother, and Robert le Grovenur for a certain fine of 113l. 6s. 8d. made in the time of Pain Tybetot, late Justice of Chester, for licence to approve 453 acres of land on the waste of Ruddeheth. Which said debt was atterminated by the said Justice to be paid yearly at Easter and Mich. by even portions, 13l. 6s. 8d. Whereof for Mich. term, 6l. 13s. 4d.

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Chester Plea Rolls):

(p. 95):

1 Edw. 2. Vernon, Ralph de, Kt., Charter of granting in fee-tail to Peter son of Matilda de Hatton, the manor of Hatton, together with all the said Ralph’s lands and tenements in Brex, Chollegh, Magna Aldreseye, Middelaldreseye, Kreealdresay, and Boulesworth, with successive remainders to Robert and William, brothers of the said Peter, and their heirs, and them failing to revert to the said Ralph and his right heirs; the holder of the estate to render yearly to John de Hatton and Matilda his wife 10l. for their support. [1 & 2 Edw. 2. m. 13.]

(p. 116):

13 Edw. 2. Vernon, Margaret who was the wife of Ralph de, junior, against Thomas son of Ralph de Vernon, senior, and Joan his wife. Dower of 12 messuages, 160 acres of land, five acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, 100 acres of pasture and moss, and of two parts of two mills, in Lestok Graiarn. [13 & 14 Edw. 2. m. 2.]

(p. 117):

13 Edw. 2. Vernoun, Margaret who was the wife of Ralph de, junior, against Edmund son of John de Mottrum, near Prestebury, and against Robert Streth.’ Dower of three messuages and 40 acres of land in the same town. [13 & 14 Edw. 2. m. 9 d.]

(p. 122):

19 Edw. 2. Vernon, Ralph de, senior, and Master Richard de Vernon. Fine -- 15 messuages, 200 acres of land, 18 acres of meadow, 140 acres of wood, and 28s. 8d. rent, and the rent of four pairs of gloves, and eight arrows in Shurlache, Bradeford, Starthul, Cowel, Middlewich, and Newehall; the manors of Munshall, Vernon, Hurdleston, Picton; two parts of the manor of Leftewiche, a sixth part of the manor of Wich-Malbank, and nine parts of the manor of Shibbrek, excepting 430 acres of land in the same manor, and the advowsons of the churches of Davenham and chapel of Haselynton. [18 & 19 Edw. 2. m. 14.]

19 Edw. 2. Vernon, Ralph de, senior, and Richard de Sancto Edmundo. Fine -- one messuage and 400 acres of land in Shibbrok. [18 & 19 Edw. 2. m. 14.]

------ The same and Master Richard de Vernon. Fine -- three knights’ fees and the eighth part of one knight’s fee in Tatenhale, Aldelyme, Henull, Alsacher, Merbury, near Beddeworth, Magna Moldeworth, Parva Moldeworth, and Horton, near Tervyn. [Ibid.]

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).

A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 9: Bloxham hundred (Victoria County Histories, 1969).

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).

The Twenty-Seventh Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London, 1866).

Wrottesley, George. “Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls” in The Genealogist New Series Volume 12.