Richard Danvers1
M, b. circa 1330, d. 1403
| Father | John Danvers b. c 1295 |
| Mother | Isabel de La Lee |
Richard was born circa 1330 in Oxfordshire, England, at the Manor of Ipswell. Richard married Agnes Brancestre, daughter of Sir John Brancestre and Margaret Mile. He grew up in the secluded village of Ipswell. Being from a secluded area may have saved him from the Black Death which ravaged England in 1348 & 1349. In 1369, there is record of Richard purchasing homes & land in Little Bourten. This was the land of his ancestors. He succeeded his father-in-law & resided at the Colthorp Manor house as did several generations of his descendants. In the 1390's there are several records of Richard & his wife Agnes buying & selling lands. In a manuscript of a charter dated 1403, there was listed the names of Richard & his son John. Richard departed this life soon after 1403 in the manor house at Colthorpe, Oxfordshire, England.
Family | Agnes Brancestre |
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Citations
- [S493] M.D. F. N. MacNamara, Memorials of the Danvers Family [of Dautsey and Culworth], page 87 - "For some generations Colthorpe was the residence of the family of Daqnvers. Richard Danvers, styled of Colthorpe, married the heiress of John Brancester, of Colthorpe, and is said to have been descended from Roland D'Anvers of the time of William the Conqueror; he had a son, John Danvers, styled of Banbury and Colthorpe, who lived in the reigns of Henry the Forth, Fifth, and Sixth."