Sir Richard Byron

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: June 1397.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Lancashire VCH (Vol. 4, sub Droylsden). His inquisition post mortem gives his date of death as the Thursday before the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, which I think would make his date of death July 5th.

Relationships

Father: Sir James Byron.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (Vol. 4, sub Droylsden).

Mother: Elizabeth Bernake.

This relationship is given by Collins (Vol. 7, p. 94).

Spouse: Joan de Colwick.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (Vol. 4, sub Droylsden) and by Payling.

Children:

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

Sir John Byron (about 1386 - about 1451) married Margery Booth.

Evidence

A 1392 lawsuit (Records of the Borough of Nottingham, I:412 ff).

Richard's will is given in Testamenta Eboracensia (Part I, p. 222).

References

Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 17, Richard II (London, 1988).

Collins's Peerage of England (Sir Egerton Brydges, ed.) (1812).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911).

Payling, Simon. “Byron, Sir John I (c. 1386 - c. 1451), of Clayton, Lancashire” in The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1422-1461 (Linda Clark ed.) (University of Cambridge Press, 2020). 

Records of the Borough of Nottingham, being a series of extracts from the Archives of the Corporation of Nottingham Vol. I. King Henry II. to King Richard II. 1155-1399. (London, 1882).

Testamenta Eboracensia Part I. (Surtees Society, 1834).