Sir Richard de Hoghton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1337.

Place of Death: unknown.

The Lancashire VCH (6:sub Hoghton) refers to Sir Richard appearing in a charter of 1337 and also to an inquisition made after his death in the same year. Abram gives 1349, and states that Sir Richard appears in deed of 1347. Presumably, this was a different Sir Richard.

Relationships

Father: Master Richard de Hoghton.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Hoghton, esp. fn 29). Most earlier secondary sources give Sir Richard’s father as Master Richard’s brother Adam. The VCH states that the identification of Sir Richard with Richard son of Master Richard “seems fully proved.”

Mother: Christiana.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Hoghton, esp. fn 29), which also states that Sir Richard was possibly illegitimate, although there were no disputes concerning his succession to his father’s property.

(probable) Spouse: Sibyl de Lea. Married in 1309.

This relationship is tentatively given by the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Hoghton), which states that “it appears to be this son who married Sibyl”. This relationship also is given by the Lancashire VCH (7:sub Lea, Aston, Ingol, and Cottam).

Children:

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

Sir Adam de Hoghton married (1) Philippa; married (2) Ellen Venables.

Katherine married Hugh de Venables.

Sibyl married (1) William de Bold; married (2) Robert de Cliderhou.

Commentary

There is disagreement in secondary sources about relationships in this family. I have followed the Lancashire VCH here. Most earlier sources state that Richard, the son of Master Richard, died without issue, and that the Sir Richard of this page was the younger Richard’s cousin and heir, being the son of Master Richard’s brother, Adam.

References

Abram, William Alexander. A History of Blackburn (Blackburn, 1877).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).