Sir Ralph Mainwaring

Justice of Chester


Events


Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.


Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.


Relationships


(possible) Father: Roger le Mainwaring.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 3:229). Farrer (2:228) suggests that Roger may have been Ralph’s elder brother.

Mother: unknown.


Spouse: Amicia, daughter of Hugh of Cyfeiliog, earl of Chester.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (3:167) and by Farrer (2:228).


Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod 3:229.)


Bertrea Mainwaring married Henry de Aldithley.


Sir Roger Mainwaring.


Randle de Mainwaring.


References


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).


Farrer, William. Honors and Knights’ Fees: Volume II (Manchester University Press, 1925).


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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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