STONOR, Ralph
- Born: 1372, Stonor, Oxfordshire, England
- Marriage (1): BELKNAP, Joanna in 1391 in Stonor, Oxfordshire, England
- Died: Nov 1394, Ireland at age 22
Research Notes:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stonor-94
Biography
He was the son of Edmund Stonor and Elizabeth Lisle.[1]
15 Nov 1383 Commission to Thomas Seyvill, serjeant-at-arms, Edmund Chymbham Westminster. and Thomas Semely to bring to London and deliver to Robert Bealknap, who is to maintain them suitably, Ralph brother of John, son and heir of Edmund de Stonore;, tenant in chief, and Elizabeth sister and heir apparent of the said John and Ralph; the marriage of John the heir, and, if he die, of succeeding heirs, having been granted by letters patent to John Holt and by him to the said Robert, and there being a crafty design on the part of some to marry the said Ralph and Elizabeth because of the weak health of the aforesaid heir[2]
Marriages[3]
He married firstly a daughter of James Butler 2nd Earl of Ormonde
He married secondly Jane, daughter of Sir Robert Belknapp
He died serving with Richard II in Ireland in November 1394, while still a young man, leaving two infant sons: Gilbert (1393-6) and Thomas, who had been born only a few months earlier.[4]
Sir Ralph Stonor was also returned as Holding Hoo Manor in 1394; his Widow Joan was Granted it as Dower in 1395 and took it to her 2nd husband Edmund Hampden, who received Rents from Hoo & Watcombe from 1396 to about 1407. [5]
Sources
? Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. volume 1, page 658.
? Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public record office / prepared under the superintendence of the deputy keeper of the records 1381-1385 Richard II v. 2 Page 202
? A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours Volume 2 By John Burke · 1835 Page 441
? STONOR, Thomas (1394-1431), of Stonor, Oxon.Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 Available from Boydell and Brewer Authors: Richmond / L. S. Woodger
? Aston Rowant & Chilterns Spring Line Villages Chilterns & Spring Line Villages \endash Heritage & History Watlington Manor Estates
See also
Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office -- Henry IV (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1971.), 2:335.
Carpenter, Christine (Editor), Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.), p. xviii
Turner, William Henry, The Visitations of the County of Oxford, 1566, 1574 & 1634 (London: Harleian Society, 1871.), p. 143.
Visitation of Oxfordshire Page 143: Stonor
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Stonor (Stonore) family (per. c. 1315\endash c. 1500) Christine Carpenter
British History online: Condicote
Ralph married Joanna BELKNAP, daughter of Sir Robert BELKNAP and Juliana DARSET, in 1391 in Stonor, Oxfordshire, England. (Joanna BELKNAP was born about 1356 in Hempstead, Kent, England and died in 1420 in Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England.)
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