Justiciar of Cheshire (from 1233)
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1245/6.
Place of Death: unknown.
Ormerod (3:552) and Hulton (Coucher Book of Whalley vol. 3 p. 846 n) note that Sir Richard died 30 Henry III.
Relationships
Father: Sir Richard de Fitton.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:552), by Hulton (Coucher Book of Whalley vol. 3 p. 845 n), and by Barraclough (p. 455).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Ellen.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:552).
Children:
Roger Fitton.
Evidence
Richard is a witness to many charters of contemporary earls of Cheshire (Ranulf de Blondeville and John "the Scot"). Earl John granted him three-quarters of the earl's demesne in Nessington together with 31 of the earl's cottars (Barraclough, no. 451, dated 1233-1237); the manor of Wimboldsley (Barraclough no. 452, dated to 1233-1237); and quittance from puture and toll throughout Cheshire and from finding judgers in the hundred of Macclesfield for the fee of Fulshaw (no. 453, dated to 1233-1237);
References
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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 Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237. (Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.). (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. CXXVI: 1988).
The Coucher Book, or Chartulary, of Whalley Abbey, Volume 3. (W.A. Hulton, ed.) (Chetham Society Vol. XVI, 1848).