Richard de Wydeville

Please see attached CPR (v. 11) document of pages RE known Wydevills. If anyone one has access to the expensive Douglas Richardson books, searching them may provide more documentation. The Complete Peerage and FMG do not know Richard's ancestry.
Without further primary sources coming to light, all continuing lineal connections, starting with the fictive parents of Richard, represent guesswork, not legitimate genealogy. The CPR states: "Richard de Wydeville, b. about 1310, was the first member of the Wydevill family of Grafton (Regis), Northants, to achieve more than local prominence."[Footnote: "His parentage is unknown; but the family of Wydevill or Wodevill had long been seated at Grafton.]

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RICHARD de Wydeville of Grafton, Northamptonshire ([1310]-[after Jul 1378]). m firstly ---. The name of Richard´s family is not known. m secondly as her second husband, ELIZABETH Lyons, widow of Sir NICHOLAS Chetwode, daughter of Sir JOHN Lyons of Warkworth & his wife ---. Richard & his first wife had one child: ...

a) JOHN de Wydeville ([1341/43]-[after 8 Sep 1403]). m firstly KATHERINE Fermbrand, daughter of [JOHN Fermbrand of Biddenham, Bedfordshire & his wife ---]. m secondly (before 1379) as her second husband, ISABEL, widow of ROBERT Passelaw of Drayton Parslow, daughter of ---.

brief biography

High Sheriff of Northamptonshire

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Surname has also been reported to be:

• Wydevill
• Woodville
• de Wyndeville

links

• https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ww/wydeville1.php#top (membership required to view without interruption)
• https://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ww/wydeville1.php#con1 (membership required to view without interruption)
• 'Richard De WYDEVILLE (Sheriff of Northampton)
• 'Born: ABT 1310, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England
• 'Died: AFT Jul 1378
• 'Notes: the first member of the Wydevill family of Grafton (Regis), Northants, to achieve more than local prominence. He was in possession of the family estates in 1345. He was joint collector of that county's share in the 30,000 sacks of wool granted to the King as a subsidy in 1347; in 1354, a commissioner to enforce the Statute of Labourers, and of oyer and terminer, &c., in Northants, Bucks and Beds, 1358-62; 1360-62, acting Sheriff, 1362-68 and 1370-71 High Sheriff, of Northants; 1361-70, escheator in Northants; Knight of the shire in seven parliaments between 1362 and 1377; surveyor of the works at Moorend castle (Potterspury) in 1363 and later. He married, 2ndly, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Lyons of Warkworth, heir of her brother John Lyons and widow of Sir Nicholas Chetwode. He appears to have been living in Jul 1378. [Complete Peerage XI:15-6.