HARCOURT, Richard

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Knight

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Died:
Died of the Plague

Sir married GREY, Lady Jane in 1318 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. Lady (daughter of DEGREY, Lord Grey of Codner, Steward of Aquitaine, Constable of Nottingham Castle Richard and FITZPANE, Joane) was born in 1302 in Castle Codnor, Derby, Derbyshire, England; died on 6 Jun 1369 in Ellenhall, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Knight
• _MILT: 1314; At Battle of Bannockburn

Sir + LA ZOUCHE, Eleanor. Eleanor (daughter of LA ZOUCHE, Eudo and DECANTILUPE, Millicent) was born in 1273 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England; died in 1300 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard De Grey was a special favourite of King John and in return for his services in the later years of King John’s life, Richard was awarded the ‘Right of Presentation’ to Heanor church and lands in Leicestershire.

During the reign of Henry III, Richard was made Governor of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey in 1226. Then ten years later in 1236, he became Sheriff of Northumberland.

Richard and his brother John were among the few Lords and nobles who supported Henry III’s plan to invade the Holy land in another crusade. This earned them the gratitude of the King at a level not normally given to Barons their age and Richard was made Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports.

Richard was also made custodian of the castles at Bamburgh and Newcastle-on-Tyne. In 1238 he was made Constable of Kenilworth and in the following year Sheriff of Essex and Hertford and Constable of the Tower of London, where he was responsible for storing money and goods of the order of Cluny for the King. In 1238 Richard founded the Carmelite friary in Aylesford, Kent with friars he brought to England on his return from the Holy Land.

Richard married FITZPANE, Joane in 1303. Joane was born in 1287 in Codnor, Derbyshire, England; died in 1335 in Aylesford, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Monmouthshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Knight

Sir married DE BEKE, Margaret in 1274 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Margaret was born in 1249 in Lincolnshire, England; died in 1304 in Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 22 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Baron Zouche

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Eudo was a professional soldier; late in life he married Millicent de Cantilupe by whom he had three daughters and two sons. Their elder son William la Zouche was summoned by writ to Parliament as Baron Zouche of Haryngworth, on 16 August 1308. His daughter Elizabeth married Nicholas Poyntz. His great-great-great-grandson, the fifth Baron, married Alice Seymour, 6th Baroness St Maur, and assumed that peerage in her right. Their son succeeded to both titles; his stepmother, Elizabeth St. John, was an aunt of the future King Henry VII, a connection which proved useful to later members of the family. The seventh Baron was attainted in 1485 for loyalty to King Richard III but was eventually restored to his title and a part of his lands. On the death in 1625 of Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche, 12th Baron St Maur, the peerages fell into abeyance between his two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary.

Eudo married DECANTILUPE, Millicent on 13 Dec 1273 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. Millicent (daughter of CANTILUPE, William de and DE BRAOSE, Eva) was born in 1250 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales; died on 7 Jan 1298 in Harringworth, Northamptonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 22nd GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: 1st Baron Grey of Codnor

Notes:

Wealthy and powerful Baron holding lands in Thurrock Essex and lands in Derbyshire.
Served King Richard I of England abroad on crusade.

Henry married DECOURTENAY, Eleanor in 1281 in Devon, England. Eleanor (daughter of COURTENAY, Hugh and ST JOHN, Agnes) was born in 1254 in Okehampton, Devon, England; died on 6 Jun 1301 in Codnor, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]