William Radcliffe of Smithills

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1369.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Rawcliffe (HoP). Whitaker gives William as “of Smithills, in co. pal. Lanc. 4 Edw. III”, which is 1330/1.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Radcliffe of Radcliffe Tower.

This relationship is given by Baines and by Whitaker (2:317).

Mother: Margaret de Shoresworth.

This relationship is given by Baines and by Whitaker.

Spouse: Katherine de Norleigh.

Rawcliffe (HoP) gives Katherine as William’s wife.This relationship is also given by Baines and by Whitaker.

Children:

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

Sir Ralph Radcliffe (died 1406) married (1) unknown; married (2) Margery Ince.

John Radcliffe.

Joan Radcliffe married Sir John Ashton by 1366.

Isabella married William Barton.

A daughter married William Walton.

References

Baines, Edward. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. (Volume II, 1889)

Rawcliffe, Carole. “Radcliffe, Sir Ralph (d. 1406), of Blackburn and Smithills, Lancs.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421 (Boydell and Brewer, 1993).

“The parish of Radcliffe” in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5 (Victoria County History, London, 1911).

Whitaker, Thomas Dunham. An History of the Original Parish of Whalley and Honor of Clitheroe. v. 2 (4th ed., 1876).