Sir Alexander Radcliffe, of Ordsall, Knt.

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Alexander RADCLIFFE of Ordsall (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1476

Died: 5 Feb 1548/9

Notes: Grandson and heir of Sir William, was twenty two years old at the age of his succession. He married Alice, daughter of Sir John Booth of Barton, the same family with which three generations before his family had been in fierce feud. Alexander was eight years the senior of his kinsmen, Robert, Lord FitzWalter, with whom he as on terms of intimate friendship, the two cousins serving their military appreticeship together. At the Battle of the Spurs Alexander conducted himself with distinction and was knighted by Henry VIII at Lille. Returning to Lancashire, after peace with France had been arranged, Alexander applied himself to official duties wish so much zeal and ability that he rapidly rose to be one of the great figures in the county. He served the office of High Sheriff on four occasions, in 1523-4, 1528-9, 1538-9 and 1547-8. This was the high tide of the Reformation, and though his family were afterwards persecuted for recusancy it would appear that the sympathies of Sir Alexander with the new order were strong enough to provide proof of his loyalty. He was Serjeant of Salford when Henry VIII, deceived by his nephew, James V of Scotland, at the instigation of the wily Cardinal Beaton, determined to invade the kingdom of the Scots, and Sir Alexander gathered a great muster of his townsmen from the neighbourhood of Salford to take part in the expedition. Alexander died on the 5 Feb 1548 in his seventy-third year and was buried in the Collegiate Church at Manchester. At his death he was holding, besides his chief manor of Ordsall, lands in Salford, Flixton, Hope, Tockholes, and Livesey, tenements in Shoresworth, Pendleton, and Moston, and three parts of the manor of Newcroft in Urmston.

Father: John RADCLIFFE

Mother: Elizabeth BRERETON

Married: Alice BOOTH (dau. of John Booth)

Children:

1. William RADCLIFFE of Ordsall (Sir)

2. Alexander RADCLIFFE

3. John RADCLIFFE

4. Edmund RADCLIFFE

5. Anne RADCLIFFE

6. Elizabeth RADCLIFFE

7. Eleanor RADCLIFFE

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Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Radcliffe-123

Alexander was knighted, probably on 14 October 1513.[1]

Alexander's date of death was recorded in a Book of Hours once owned by Dame Elizabeth Atherton. It notes: Alexander Radclyff of Ordysall, Knt d 5 Feb 1548. [2]

Sources

1. W A Shaw. The Knights of England, Vol. II, Sherratt and Hughes, 1906, p. 42, Internet Archive < Archive.Org >
2. Obits of the Radcliffes of Ordsall < PDF >
3. Burke's Landed gentry vol.2, p.1092 < GoogleBooks >
4. Tudor Place < link >