John Radcliffe, II

 John Radcliffe was the son of Sir John Radcliffe.1 He married Elizabeth FitzWalter, Baroness FitzWalter, daughter of Walter FitzWalter, 7th Lord FitzWalter and Elizabeth Chidiok, on 27 October 1444.1 He died on 28 March 1461 at Ferrybridge, killed in action fighting for the Yorkists.1

    He lived at Attleborough, Norfolk, England

• John Radcliffe, Esq.1,2,3,4,5,6,7
• M, #45853, b. circa 1430, d. 28 March 1461
• Father Sir John Radcliffe, 2nd Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, Joint Chief Butler of Ireland, Bailli of Evreux, Constable of Bordeaux, Seneschal of Aquitaine1,8,9 b. c 1383, d. 26 Feb 1441 or 4 Mar 1441
• Mother Katherine Burnell1,8,9 b. c 1406, d. 13 Oct 1452
• John Radcliffe, Esq. was born circa 1430 at of Attleborough, Norfolk, England; Age 23 in 1453.1,2,5 He married Elizabeth FitzWalter, daughter of Sir Walter FitzWalter, 5th Lord FitzWalter, Seigneur de la Haye-du-Puits & la Roche-Tesson, Captain of Vire and Elizabeth Chidiock, before 27 October 1444; They had 1 son (Sir John, 6th Lord FitzWalter).10,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 John Radcliffe, Esq. died on 28 March 1461 at Battle of Ferrybridge, Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, England; On the eve of the Battle of Towton.1,2,3,5,6
• Family Elizabeth FitzWalter b. 28 Jul 1430, d. bt Jun 1483 - 22 Aug 1485
• Child
  • Sir John Radcliffe, 6th Lord FitzWalter, Joint High Steward of England+11,1,2,5 b. 1 Jan 1452, d. c 24 Nov 1496
• Citations
• [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 174.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 372.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 87-88.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 215.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 41.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 459.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 659.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 371-372.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 40-41.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 484.
• [S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 486-487.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1526.htm#... ____________________________
• Robert (John) RADCLIFFE (Sir)
• Born: ABT 1430
• Died: 28 Mar 1461, Ferrybridge (in battle)
• Father: John RADCLIFFE of Attleborough (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Cecilia MORTIMER
• Married: Elizabeth FITZWALTER (b. 28 Jul 1430, Henham - d. BEF 22 Aug 1485) (dau. Walter FitzWalter, 7° B. FitzWalter and Elizabeth Chidiock) (m.2 John Dynham, B. Dynham) BEF 27 Oct 1444
• Children:
  • 1. John RADCLIFFE (1º B. Fitzwalter)
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/RADCLIFFE1.htm#Robert (John) RADCLIFFE (Sir) ________________
• RADCLIFFE, Sir John (d.1441), of Attleborough, Norf.
• yr. s. of James Radcliffe of Radcliffe, Lancs. and bro. of Richard†. m. (1) ?in 1405, Cecily (d.1423), da. and coh.of Sir Thomas Mortimer (d. bef. 1387), of Newnham, Cambs. and Attleborough, by Mary, da. of Nicholas Park, wid. of Sir John Herling (d. bef. 1403), 1s.; (2) bef. June 1426, Katherine (c.1407-13 Oct. 1452), da. and coh. of Sir Edward Burnell (o.s. of Hugh, Lord Burnell) of Thurning and Billingford, Norf., 1s. Kntd. Aug. 1415; KG 22 Apr. 1429.
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• Radcliffe’s wife, Cecily, had died at Bordeaux in 1423, and it was probably during his stay in England which began in 1425 that he contracted his second marriage, to Katherine Burnell. She, one of the three grand daughters and heirs general of Hugh, Lord Burnell (d.1420), had been betrothed in 1416 to the eldest son of John Talbot, Lord Furnival (later earl of Shrewsbury), to whom her grandfather had promised a substantial dowry of some 30 manors in Shropshire and Staffordshire. Yet the descent of these estates was governed by entails made a century earlier in favour of the male line; and, in fact, Lord Burnell possessed not a single acre of which he was free to dispose. Evidently discovering this, the Talbots had withdrawn from the arrangement, and Katherine had remained single. Whether Sir John was fully cognizant of the weakness of his wife’s title to the Burnell estates is difficult to ascertain. He may have believed that she was at least sure of the manors of Billingford, Thurning and East Ryston in Norfolk, which had been settled on her father and his issue; and soon after their nuptuals he took steps to secure possession of certain of the Burnell properties in the west Midlands. But they had yet to defeat the claims of William, 7th Lord Lovell, the heir male, and litigation, begun in 1426, was to continue for 11 years, interrupted only by Radcliffe’s periods of absence overseas. In the end Lovell triumphed, although, by deeds dated in December 1439 and July 1440, he formally allowed the Radcliffes and their issue the three manors in Norfolk they had long considered theirs by right, as well as Southmere and Docking in the same county.10
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• Sir John probably remained in Gascony until early in 1433. But while he was unable to exert direct pressure on the King’s Council for preferential treatment at the Exchequer, his financial position worsened, and, moreover, the grant of the Begney estates was withdrawn on a conciliar decision. At home once more, he took steps to reverse this situation: he petitioned the Commons in the Parliament of 1433, begging them to ask the King and Lords to grant him lands in England equal in value to those he had lost in Aquitaine; and he asked the same Parliament to make a formal declaration that as Melcombe was no longer a port where royal customs were collected, his assignments would be valid at Poole. The urgency of the situation in Gascony had enabled him to secure on 16 May, before Parliament met, grants of the revenues of the counties of Caernarvon and Merioneth and of the lordship of Chirk and Chirksland, until he should have received £7,030 owed to him. These revenues were to be paid to him by the chamberlain of North Wales, whose office was to be granted to Radcliffe himself nine months later, on the understanding that, although he was to forego an official salary, he would be allowed £727 10s.2d. p.a. on his account until the government’s debt was cancelled. At the same time (in May 1433), he was given, for the nominal payment of 800 marks, custody of all the estates late of Walter, 5th Lord Fitzwalter, together with the wardship and marriage of Fitzwalter’s only child, Elizabeth. He made sure that these valuable holdings would remain in his family by wedding Elizabeth to his own son, John. Over the next few months various other less important but still lucrative wardships also came his way, including that of the Mautby heiress (who later married Sir John Fastolf’s friend, John Paston).14
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• Radcliffe died on 26 Feb. or 4 Mar. 1441 and was buried in the choir of Attleborough church. Most of his first wife’s estates then passed to her grand daughter Anne, the only child of Sir Robert Herling and already wife of Sir William Chamberlain. His own heir was the son of his second marriage, John (c.1430-1461), who adopted the title of Lord Fitzwalter in right of his wife, but never received a summons to Parliament. From him were descended the Lords Fitzwalter and earls of Sussex. Our MP’s widow married John Ferrers, and survived until 1452.18
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ra... ____________________________