Richard de Houghton

• Preferred Name: Richard de Houghton^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Richard Houghton
  
• Alternate Name: Richard de Hocton
  
• Alternate Name: Richard de Hoghton
  
• Gender: M
  
• LdsSealingToParents: 15 SEP 1994 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight
  
• LdsEndowment: 9 MAR 1932 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Birth: 1268 in Warrington, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.39 LONG: E2.598
  
• Death: DEC 1341 in Lea, Lancashire, England at LATI: N3.7676 LONG: E2.7594
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-Richard-de-Houghton-Knight/6000000008614875644?through=6000000006444553709
  
• Burial: DEC 1341 in England
  
• LdsBaptism: 9 FEB 1932 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• FSID: KNZ4-FQZ
  
• Notes:

  Memorial
  
  Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton
  
  === !History of Cheshire v 2, 3 !Burkes Peer ===
  !History of Cheshire v 2, 3 !Burkes Peerage
  
  === !See notes for daughter Sibilla de Haugh ===
  !See notes for daughter Sibilla de Haughton.
  
  === Name: Richard de Hoghton , MP, Sir Knigh ===
  Name: Richard de Hoghton , MP, Sir Knight
  
  Note:
  [jweber.FTW]
  
  Sir Richard de Hoghton; MP Lancs 1322, 1326-7 and 1337. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  -----From "The Pedigree of de Hoghton of Hoghton Tower"------
  -----Visitors Information Brochure (nice place to visit)--------------
  
  General Statement of Hoghton family pedigree: The de Hoghtons are of ancient lineage, descended from Harvey de Walter, one of the companions of William the Conqueror, and through the female line from the Lady Godiva of Coventry, wife of Leofric III the Great, Earl of Mercia. After the third generation from the Norman Conquest, Richard and William de Hoghton first assumed the family name around 1150. The great-grandson, Sir Adam de Hoghton, was knighted and died in 1290.
  
  Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton Estates. Warden of the Ports, knighted by Edward III in 1336 and given permission to empark in 1327. It was from Lea Hall (his private residence), that Thomas Hoghton went into exile in 1569, having re-built Hoghton Tower 1560-1565.
  
  Note: There is a Master Richard de Hoghton 1290-1316, Sheriff of Lancaster 1282, 1291 & 1301 mentioned in the brochure as a predecessor of this Richard. May have been an uncle.
  
  === {{British Isles 742-1499}} ===
  {{British Isles 742-1499}}
  == Biography ==" Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton Estates.Warden of the Ports, knighted by Edward III in 1336 and given permission to empark in 1327. It was from Lea Hall (his private residence), that Thomas Hoghton went into exile in 1569, having re-built Hoghton Tower 1560-1565." http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I02748
  
  Sir Richard de Hoghton was born bef. 1278 ("Thursday before St. Gregory the Pope, 2 Edward III.", "Richard de Hoghton, aged 50 years and more") at Hoghton, Lancashire, England.
  He married Sybil de Lea, daughter of William de Lea and Clemence de Banastre, in 1313. The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod, 1819, p. 106[https://archive.org/stream/historyofparisho00fishuoft#page/84/mode/2up The history of theParish of Preston in Amounderness in the county of Lancaster] pp. 84-5
  
  '''Family'''
  
  * Sybil de Lea d. c 1330
  
  '''Children'''
  
  * Sir Adam de Hoghton
  * Katherine Hoghton b. c 1318, d. a 1368 m. Hugh Venables* Siblyl Hoghton m. (1) William de Bold (2) Robert de Cliderhou (Clitheroe?)
  
  === Hoghton Manor ===:"[[Houghton-98|Sir Richard]] in 1337, shortly before his death, procured the king's charter for himself and his son [[Hoghton-45|Adam]] to have free warren in their demesne lands of Hoghton and Withnell and toinclose 500 acres of land for a park. (fn. 31) [[Hoghton-45|Sir Adam]], the son, succeeded, and held the manors for about fifty years. (fn.32) He was several times knight of the shire, (fn. 33) and dying in 1385 (fn. 34) was succeeded by his son [[Hoghton-47|Sir Richard de Hoghton]], one of whose first acts was to obtain the royal licence for an extension of the park. (fn. 35) In 1383 and 1402 he was knight of the shire. (fn. 36) He died in 1415 (fn. 37)" ... "His son [[Hoghton-50|Sir William]] having predeceased him the heir was his grandson [[Hoghton-30|Richard]] son of [[Hoghton-50|Sir William]], of the age of twenty-four or more. (fn. 38)"
  
  == Sources ==
  
  See also:* Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, Page: 789* J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 13," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 7, Edward III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1909), 130-142.
  * Parish of Blackburn, County of Lancaster: A History of Blackburn p.711
  *"Townships: Hoghton," in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill
  
  ==Notes==Footnote 29, from the BHO Townships: Hoghton link, touches on how the Richard, son of Adam I, and Richard, son of Adam II, as well as Richard son of Richard and Richard son of Adam, can be confusing.
  [https://archive.org/stream/historyofparisho00fishuoft#page/262/mode/2up Pedigree, from History of the Parish of Preston]
  
  === note ===
  vol 3, pg 199, "The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" by George Ormerod
  
  vol 2, pg 574 Ormerod's "History of Cheshire"
  
  pg 42, Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, 1664/5
  
  pg 750, Burke's Peerage, 1970 edition
  
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  === Sir Richard de Hoghton; MP Lancs 1322, 1 ===
  Sir Richard de Hoghton; MP Lancs 1322, 1326-7 and 1337. [Burke's Peerage]
  
  -----From "The Pedigree of de Hoghton of Hoghton Tower"------
  -----Visitors Information Brochure (nice place to visit)--------------
  
  General Statement of Hoghton family pedigree: The de Hoghtons are of ancient lineage, descended from Harvey de Walter, one of the companions of William the Conqueror, and through the female line from the Lady Godiva of Coventry, wife of Leofric III the Great, Earl of Mercia. After the third generation from the Norman Conquest, Richard and William de Hoghton first assumed the family name around 1150. The great-grandson, Sir Adam de Hoghton, was knighted and died in 1290.
  
  Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton Estates. Warden of the Ports, knighted by Edward III in 1336 and given permission to empark in 1327. It was from Lea Hall (his private residence), that Thomas Hoghton went into exile in 1569, having re-built Hoghton Tower 1560-1565.
  
  Note: There is a Master Richard de Hoghton 1290-1316, Sheriff of Lancaster 1282, 1291 & 1301 mentioned in the brochure as a predecessor of this Richard. May have been an uncle.
  
  === !Name,Child(Katherine)-Cheshire Pedigree ===
  !Name,Child(Katherine)-Cheshire Pedigrees 1566-1580 from Visitation FHL BK Q942.71 D23eed pg 476(copied)
  
  === vol 3, pg 199, "The History of the Count ===
  vol 3, pg 199, "The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester" by George Ormerod
  
  vol 2, pg 574 Ormerod's "History of Cheshire"
  
  pg 42, Visitation of Lancashire by Sir William Dugdale, 1664/5
  
  pg 750, Burke's Peerage, 1970 edition
  
  General Statement of Hoghton family pedigree: The de Hoghtons are of ancient lineage, descended from Harvey de Walter, one of the companions of William the Conqueror, and through the female line from the Lady Godiva of Coventry, wife of Leofric III the Great, Earl of Mercia. After the third generation from the Norman Conquest, Richard and William de Hoghton first assumed the family name around 1150. The great-grandson,Sir Adam de Hoghton, was knighted and died in 1290.
  
  Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the Shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton Estates. Wardenof the Ports, knighted by Edward III in 1336 and given permission to empark in 1327. It was from Lea Hall (his private residence), that Thomas Hoghton went into exile in 1569, having re-built Hoghton Tower 1560-1565.
  
  Note - There is a Master Richard de Hoghton 1290-1316, Sheriff of Lancaster 1282, 1291 & 1301 mentioned in the brochure as a predecessor of this Richard. May have been an uncle.
  
  === ORMERODS HIST. OF CHESHIRE ENG,. V 3 P 1 ===
  ORMERODS HIST. OF CHESHIRE ENG,. V 3 P 198-9

• m. ABT 1305 in Mollington, Cheshire, England
• m. 1307 in Mollington, Basastre, Cheshire, England

1. Katherine Houghton, b. 1308 in Mollington, Cheshire, England     d. 1368 in Kinderton, Cheshire, England

1. Title: Petition to Retain Manor of Mollington, Chester, Cheshire, England
   Publication: Name: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9062796;