Ranulph Dacre, Sheriff of Cumberland and Yorkshire

Not the same as Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre. Iseud English Is not a known daughter.

Ralph Dacre, son of William Dacre, married Joan de Lucy, daughter of Alan de Multon and Alice de Lucy. (Joan de Lucy was born after 1220 and died after 9 Apr 1305 2.)-

Their children were:

1. William Dacre. Married 1) Joan Gernet 2) Anne Derwentwater
2. Mary Dacre. Married Sir Ralph [II] de Vernon of Shipbrook, Cheshire

He held the office of Sheriff of Cumberland between 1268 and 1270.1 He held the office of Sheriff of Yorkshire between 1278 and 1280.

His first wife was Geva, who died sometime after 20 January 1271/2, that is she was last noted to be living on that date. Ranulph subsequently married Joan de Lucy [de Luci] de Kellet of Lancashire, daughter of Alan de Multon and Alice. She got her name as an heir of Richard de Lucy of Egremont, the de Multon's having assumed the more prestigious name. She was born circa 1245.

Sir Ranulph de Dacre, then Sheriff of Lancaster, was witness to a land grant to the church of St. Mary, Lancaster, along with Sir Benedict Gernet and John Gernet of Caton. "By his wife Joane, daughter of Lady Alice de Lucy, he had a son and heir,--William." - from "Selections from the Household Books of the Lord William Howard of Naworth Castle" by William Howard, George Ornsby. Randolf died on 3 May 1286.

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Also known as Ranulph, Sir Ralph was the Sheriff of Cumberland and Yorkshire. He was a staunch supporter of King Henry III in his conflict with his barons, and was appointed as Sheriff of Cumberland in 1258, succeeding his father, then in 1279 he was made Sheriff of Yorkshire.

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Ranulph was born in about 1236, almost certainly in Dacre, Cumberland, England. He was the son of William Dacre, but his mother's name is not known.

Career

His father had been a supporter of the King, Henry III, throughout his career, and the first record we have of Ranulph is of his being required in 1263/4 by command to seize for the king the lands of a Baron who had rebelled against the king. [1]

In 1267 he was Governor of Carlisle Castle. [2]

In 1268, the year his father died, he was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland, and served until 1270. [3]

In 1278/9 he was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and he served until 1280. [4]

He seems to have taken increasingly important posts from this time, and in 1281/2 he was overseas on the king's affairs on a mission that was planned to take six months [5], and a further mission was planned for 1285/6, but he probably died either before leaving or on the trip. [6]

In 1283 he was appointed Constable of the Tower of London and served until 1285. [7]

Family

He married Joanne de Luci on an unknown date, and was the assignee of various territories and rights by frank-marriage from her mother, [8]. Joanne was the daughter of Alan de Multon and Alice de Luci; their children adopted her surname. His son William was born in about 1265.

Origins of the Dacre Name

It is most likely that the name originates, like many others at the time, from the location of the family in Dacre, Cumberland, England. There were, and are, two villages named Dacre in the North of England, one near Penrith in Cumberland and the other near Harrogate in Yorkshire. The Yorkshire Dacre is mentioned in Domesday [9], but not all of Cumberland was involved in Domesday as it was part of Scotland at the time.

There have been suggestions that the name originates from a Welsh and Breton word, deigr, meaning a stream, but this seems unlikely as there do not seem to be Welsh or Breton connections in the family.

~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree," p. 252.

Sir Ralph de Vernon, Knight who married first, Mary, daughter of the Lord of Darce of the north, and married second, Maud Grosvernor, sister of Robert Grosvenor of Budworth.

References

• http://cybergata.com/roots/1296.htm Ralfe de Vernon married Mary Darce, daughter of Sir Randolf de Darce Baron Dacre of Gillesland and Margaret de Multon Baroness of Multon. (Mary Darce was born in Cumberland, England.) Margaret de Multon married Randolph de Dacre after being abducted by her future husband. Seems in error.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dacre-3 cites

1. Patent Roll 48 Henry III Membrane 3 as cited in The baronage of England, or, An historical account of the lives and most memorable actions of our English nobility in the Saxons time to the Norman conquest, and from thence, of those who had their rise before the end of King Henry the Third's reign deduced from publick records, antient historians, and other authorities Dugdale Page 22 at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A36794.0001.001/1:12.23?rgn=div2;... (Accessed September 25 2021)
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9. Dacre in The National Archives, Kew - Exchequer, Office of First Fruits and Tenths and the Court of Augmentations 1086 Ref. E31/2/2/6331 at https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=Dacre&_cr1=E... (Accessed September 18 2021)
10. https://buist-keatch.org/buist/chesney/14403.html cites
    1. 1 J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (London: n.p., n.d.), 2 Edward I: 355-362.
    2. 2 J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem (London: n.p., n.d.), 4 Edward I: 211-200.
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