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Sir Richard de Vernon II, 12101270 (aged 60 years)

Name
Sir Richard /de Vernon II/
Name prefix
Sir
Given names
Richard
Surname prefix
de
Surname
Vernon II
Family with parents
father
11901235
Birth: about 1190 35 35 Shipbrook, Cheshire, England
Death: 1235Shipbrook, Cheshire, England
mother
Marriage Marriage
himself
7 years
younger brother
12161286
Birth: before 1216 26 21
Death: about 1286Lostock, Cheshire, England
Family with Helewise de Gernon
himself
wife
Marriage Marriage
Birth
before 1210 20 15
Marriage
Birth of a brother
Death of a father
Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a wife
Death of a mother
Death
before 1270 (aged 60 years)
Last change
17 July 202310:27:05
Author of last change: 7mikefh
Note

Birth
bef 1210
Eldest son and heir; parents married before 1206 given that his grandfather Robert de Stockport, who granted them lands, was dead by then.

Occupation
1249
Chief Justice of Cheshire

Property
1250 • Haddon, Derbyshire
Survey of the honour made in 1250 records Richard de Vernon holding Haddon and Baslow at a value of £20 a year.

Occupation
9 May 1253 • Castleton, Derbyshire
The king has committed to Richard de Vernun the custody of the castle and vill of the Peak with appurtenances for as long as it pleases the king. Order to all the tenants of the honour of the Peak to be intendant and respondent to Richard as king’s bailiff.

Property
1254-1256 • Harlaston, Staffordshire
Lord of Harlaston; chief lord was Earl of Derby.

Occupation
1264
Baronial Keeper of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Enemy of the King
Aug 1265
After the Battle of Evesham; around this time his nephew by marriage Gilbert le Franceys was a witness to his good behaviour.

Property
17 Oct 1265 • Haddon, Derbyshire
King Henry III gave to Eleanor of Castile, Queen consort of Edward, the manor of Haddon, lately belonging to Richard de Vernon - rebel (Patent Roll of 49th Henry III [1265])

Banished
abt 1265
Banished temp. Hen III

Military
1265 • Derbyshire
Retuned on a list of rebels in Leicestershire to King Henry III as having held Peak Castle for Henry de Montfort; his estate was thereafter seized by the King.

Property
1268 • Marple, Cheshire
Apparently still held Marple after his Haddon estate had been seized by the King for disloyalty in 1265 - "Richard de Vernon, Lord Merpel, was readmitted to the King's grade for good behaviour"

Children
One source suggests he had a son Richard who he intended to marry his niece Hawise, who went on to marry Gilbert le Franceys. If he had any children, they had died before 1270 when his widow Helewise's heir was her sister Ada le Furnival