Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre

Not the same as Ralph Dacre

From the English Wikipedia page on Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Dacre,_1st_Baron_Dacre

Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre (ca. 1290 – April 1339) was an English peer.

Dacre was the son of Sir William Dacre of Cumberland. In 1321 he was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret de Multon, Baroness Multon of Gilsland. He commanded the English in the Battle of Dornock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dornock

Lord Dacre died in April 1339 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, William.

Peerage of England

• Baron Dacre (1321–1339)
• New Creation
• Succeeded by William Dacre

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

• http://www.leighrayment.com/peers/peersD1.htm

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From the English Wikipedia page on Battle of Dornock

Battle of Dornock, Part of Second War of Scottish Independence

• Date: March 25, 1333
• Location: Dornock, on the western Anglo-Scottish border (54.984°N 3.202°W)
• Result: English victory

Belligerents, commanders and leaders:

• Kingdom of England, Ralph Dacre (1st Baron Dacre), and Sir Anthony Lucy
• Kingdom of Scotland, Sir William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale

Strength, casualties and losses:

• England: 800 (2)
• Scotland: 50+ (26+ killed)

The Battle of Dornock was fought on the 25 March 1333 during the Second War of Scottish Independence.

Background

In 1333 Edward Balliol, a claimant to the Scottish throne, sought support from the English King Edward III. In exchange for ceding the region of Lothian to England, Balliol was given assistance and replenished forces.[1] He returned to Scotland and attacked the Scottish at Berwick-upon-Tweed. After several retaliatory and counter attacks from both sides, the attempt failed and no tactical advantage was gained.[2]

Build Up

In response, William of Lochmaben, Sir Ralph Dacre and Sir Anthony Lucy led an English force of 800 men into Dumfriesshire. William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale[3] and 50 Scottish defenders along with Sir Humphrey Boys and Sir Humphrey Jardine moved to intercept them.

The battle

On the 25th March 1333, the small Scottish force intercepted the English at the village of Dornock. Little is known about the battle itself, as it was reportedly over very quickly, but 24 Scots (along with the two Humphreys) were killed and Douglas was taken prisoner. England reported only two losses.[2]

Aftermath

The rest of the Scots fled, and Douglas was imprisoned for two years under special instructions from King Edward.[4]

The Scottish poet Andrew Wyntoun noted the battle in his verse:

• That ikle tyme at Lowchmabne
• Off Annandyrdale the floure was tane
• With off the West Marche men
• That had thame in till Ingland then.
• Amang thaim Williame of Dowglas
• Takyn an till presone was.
• That was bot erlys for to tell
• Off infortwne that efftyr fell.

References

• 1.^ Edward Balliol
  • http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/balliol_2.htm
• 2.^ Battle of Dornock, 1333
  • http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Battles/dornock.htm
• 3.^ Battles involving the Douglases
  • http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Battles/Battles.htm
• 4.^ Overview of Sir William Douglas
  • http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst1627.html

Sources

Primary

• Knighton, Henry, Chronicon, ed. J. R. Lumby, 1889–1895.
• The Lanercost Chronicle, ed. and trans H. Maxwell, 1913.
• Wyntoun, Andrew of, The Original Chronicle of Scotland, ed. F. J. Amours, 1907.

Secondary

• Neilson, G., The Battle of Dornock, in Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Antiquarian and Natural History Society, 1895-6.
• Nicholson, R., Edward III and the Scots, 1965.

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Parts of the Douglas History page on the battle of Dormock that relates to Ralph Dacre:

http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/Battles/dornock.htm

In Scotland Donald of Mar was replaced as Guardian by Archibald Douglas, the brother of Sir James Douglas, also known as the Black Douglas, who had been one of King Robert Bruce's leading commanders. It was not a good choice, as time was to show, for Archibald had little in the way of soldierly skills.

He faced his first great test in March 1333, when Edward Balliol crossed the border with a large armed force, laying siege to the important port of Berwick-upon-Tweed on the eastern march. In 1319, in responding to a previous English attack on Berwick, Archibald's brother had led a large Scottish force into Yorkshire and to victory at the Battle of Myton. As a consequence the siege was abandoned.

The Guardian, perhaps hoping to imitate this famous episode, launched his own cross-border attack in the west on 22 March into Cumberland, harrying Gilsland. Not only did this fail to have any impact at all on the situation in the east, but it also provided Edward with justification, if any more was needed, for his own military preparations. Most serious of all it provoked a retaliatory raid, leading to the first reverse suffered by the Scots in the new war.

Chief among those affected by the Gilsland raid was Sir Ralph Dacre, Lord of Naworth and Keeper of Carlisle Castle. Two days after Douglas recrossed the border, Dacre, together with Sir Anthony Lucy, led a large party of English raiders into Dumfriesshire. They were accompanied by one William of Lochmaben, possibly a renegade Scot, the whole force-800 strong according to one source- advancing some twelve miles inland, looting and robbing on the way. The object of the raid seems to have been little more than one of simple reparation; for no sooner had enough cattle been collected than the English turned south, intending to cross the Solway by the ford at Dornock.

News of the incursion reached Lochindorb Castle, then under the command of William Douglas, afterwards known as the Knight of Liddesdale. Douglas, accompanied by several local knights, including Sir Humphrey Boys and Sir Humphrey Jardine-amusingly miscalled 'Sardyne' in one contemporary account-set off in pursuit. In all he had some 50 men, which either suggests that the English force was far smaller than claimed, or that the venture showed more of valour than good sense. They were all referred to by the chronicler of Lanercost as 'solemn malefactors'.

On 25 March the 'malefactors' intercepted their enemy, laden with booty, at Dornock. Without pausing the Scots, in the words of the chronicler, fell with one accord upon the person of Sir Anthony. The contest seems to have concluded in a remarkably short time. Boys and Jardine were killed along with some 24 men-at-arms. William Douglas was taken prisoner, as the rest of his party were driven off. On the English side only two squires are said to have fallen. Sir Anthony was badly wounded in the foot, eye and hand, but afterwards recovered.

Douglas was an important prisoner, and King Edward himself wrote to Dacre instructing that he and William Barde, another captive, should be kept safely ironed and in prison. Douglas was to remain in captivity for two years.

He was created 1st Lord Dacre [England by writ] on 15 May 1321. He held the office of Constable of Carlisle Castle in 1330. He held the office of Sheriff of Cumberland between 1330 and 1335/36. He was invested as a Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) between May 1336 and 1337. ____________________________________________

http://www.thepeerage.com/p1742.htm#i17419

Sir Randolf de Dacre, 1st Lord Dacre1 M, #17419, b. circa 1290, d. 1339 Last Edited=21 Feb 2011

Sir Randolf de Dacre, 1st Lord Dacre was born circa 1290.2 He was the son of Sir William de Dacre and Joan Gernet.2 He married Margaret de Multon, daughter of Sir Thomas de Multon, 1st Lord Multon and Eleanor de Burgh, before 1315.2 He died in 1339.

He was created 1st Lord Dacre [England by writ] on 15 May 1321.2 He held the office of Constable of Carlisle Castle in 1330.2 He held the office of Sheriff of Cumberland between 1330 and 1335/36.2 He was appointed Knight, Order of the Bath (K.B.) between May 1336 and 1337.2 Children of Sir Randolf de Dacre, 1st Lord Dacre and Margaret de Multon William de Dacre, 2nd Lord Dacre2 b. b 1322, d. Jul 1361 Randolf de Dacre, 3rd Lord Dacre3 b. c Oct 1322, d. bt 17 Aug 1375 - 18 Aug 1375 Hugh de Dacre, 4th Lord Dacre+3 b. c 1335, d. 24 Dec 1383 Citations [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 1. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 1013. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37] [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 3.

https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1122.htm...

Sir Randolf de Dacre1 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #33683, d. circa 20 April 1339 Father Sir William de Dacre b. 12 Mar 1266, d. c 24 Aug 1318 Mother Joan Garnett

Sir Randolf de Dacre married Margaret de Multon, daughter of Thomas de Multon and Margaret de Mauley. Sir Randolf de Dacre died circa 20 April 1339. Family Margaret de Multon b. 20 Jul 1300, d. 10 Dec 1361 Children William de Dacre, 2nd Lord Dacre b. c 1319, d. 18 Jul 1361 Randolph de Dacre, 3rd Lord Dacre b. c Oct 1322, d. 17 Aug 1375 or 18 Aug 1375 Hugh de Dacre, 4th Lord Dacre+ b. c 1335, d. 24 Dec 1383 Citations [S10481] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 1-5.
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Randolf de Dacre
BIRTH 1290
Cumbria, England
DEATH 20 Apr 1339 (aged 48–49)
Cumbria, England
BURIAL
Lanercost Priory
Lanercost, City of Carlisle, Cumbria, England
MEMORIAL ID 101046509