Ralph Davenport

• A history and genealogy of the Davenport family, in England and America, from A. D. 1086 to 1850 .. (1851)
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• Sir Thomas Davenport, of Davenport, knight, son of Roger, and grandson of Vivian de Davenport, married for his first wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas de Macclesfield, in 1287. She was the mother of his issue. His second wife was Roesia, daughter of Ralph de Vernon, and widow of Sir William de Brereton.
• In 1309, he grants a lease of the office of sergeancy for two years to his son Thomas, and his pledges for two years, at an annual rent of sixteen marks of silver.
• This Thomas, second son of Sir Thomas, was male ancestor of the Davenports of Whetrough, Bromhall, Henbury, Coventiy, and Woodford (now of Capesthorne).*
• Sir John Davenport, knight, eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas, married his father's step-daughter, Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton, by Roesia Vernon ; to his second wife he had Agnes de Bradford.
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• The first of these marriages took place in 1301, when "Thomas, son of Roger de Davenport," grants to Sir William Brereton, knight, the marriage of his eldest son John, (to marry him to Margery, daughter of the said William,) for 60 marks. Witnesses, Hugh Massey, Ralph Vernon, Hugh de Venables, knights, &c.; dated at Brereton. Harl. MSS. 2074 : 148. Four years after this, a sentence was procured from the Court of Chester, declaring the marriage null, having been celebrated without the consent of the parties, both being under age. The pedigrees, however, make Margery Brereton the mother of Sir John's children, which must of course suppose them to have been re-united ; which fact seems further proved by a settlement, in 12th year of Edward II., (1319,) when Thomas de Davenport obtained from Richard, Chaplain, of Prestbury, the manors of Davenport and Marton, remainder to John his son and Margery his wife ; remainder to the heirs of Thomas.
• The issue of Sir John were as follows : 1st, Thomas ; 2d, John, who became rector of the Church in Swettenham, (a village on the side of the Dane, opposite to Davenport,) in 1335, of which Church his father and several of the
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• succeeding Johns were patrons;* 3d, Ralph, the continuer of the direct male line ; 4th, Richard ; 5th, Roger ; 6th, Urian, who was distinguished for his great stature and military achievements ; 7th, Arthur, ancestor of the Davenports of Calveley, who was slain on the part of the Percies in the battle of Shrewsbury, in 1403.f
  • f Sir John's daughters were Margaret, who married Sir John Hyde, son of Robert Hyde, Lord of Norbury, and Isabella, who married Robert Eaton, baron of Stockport, and re-married to John de Stafford.
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• Sir Ralph Davenport, knight, succeeded his father, Sir John, and was engaged in the service of king Richard II., binding himself by indenture in 1380, to serve the king with three archers, well mounted and armed, to make war for a year beyond the sea where God pleased.
• This Ralph Davenport, chevalier, held, inter alia, lands in Swettenham, from St. John of Jerusalem, also the manors of Davenport, Withington, Marton, &c. He died in 1383.*
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• John Davenport, son of Ralph, and grandson of Sir Ralph, was a minor in 1416, and was married to Joan, daughter of Randle Mainwaring, of Peover, on whom were estated the manor of Swettenham, and the advowson of the Church and all the lands which Thomas de Swettenham , lord of Swettenham, had in Cheshire, by deed, dated Monday, in the 4th week in Lent, 21 Henry VI. (1443). _________________
• Ralph Davenport
• M, #54839, b. 1 May 1378, d. 30 September 1415
• Father Sir Ralph Davenport d. 11 Jan 1383
• Mother Joyce d. a 1410
• Ralph Davenport was born on 1 May 1378 at Davenport, Cheshire, England. He married Johanna Legh, daughter of Sir Robert Legh, Sheriff of Cheshire and Isabella Belgrave, circa 1400 at of Adlington, Cheshire, England. Ralph Davenport died on 30 September 1415 at Davenport, Cheshire, England, at age 37.
• Family Johanna Legh
• Children
  • John Davenport, Esq.+ d. 27 Jul 1474
  • Joan Davenport+1 b. c 1402
• Citations
• 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1825.htm#... __________________________

(Ormerod) Underage in 1384.

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