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Over Peover Cheshire

Randle Mainwaring 1456 & wife Margery Venables == in the south chapel they built.

 

He wears a complete suit of plate armour, his feet resting on a lion and his head on the family crest of an asses head (An ancester having his horse killed under him insisted on carrying out the family motto, "Forward, if I can," and mounted a donkey to keep going).

Margery wears a long robe and an ornate "mitre" head-dress

 

He entered court service as "et sagittarius de coronâ" [royal archer) to Richard ll in 1398 and later "armiger regis", (the kingʼs servant) to Henry IV,

He had also (with others) the custody of the manor of kerincham in Cheshire and, as a result of an attachment to the court of the Earl of Chester, was in 1405 granted for life the office of "equitator forestæ de Marâ et Mondrum" which then included much of the Hundred of Nantwich and all of Edisbury. Afterwards when that Earl succeeded as Henry V Randle was granted two parts of the serjeanty of Macclesfield during the minority of his kinsman John Davenport +++ , whose family held the hereditary serjeanty

 

Randle (sometimes called Honkyn) was the 2nd son of William Mainwaring 1365 and 2nd wife Elizabeth 1416 daughter of Lord Nicholas Leycester of Nether Tabley, Bucklow, and Mary daughter of William de Mobberley & Maude Downes

He was the grandson of Sir William Mainwaring & Mary daughter of Henry Davenport of Marton and Agnes de Macclesfield

He was heir to his brother John Mainwaring 1410 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/057f27 who had in turn been heir to their older half brother William 1399 flic.kr/p/cUuguJ at Acton, who was the issue of their father's 1st marriage to Joan daughter of William de Praers of Baddiley

 

He m Margery daughter of Hugh Venables Baron of Kinderton by Margery daughter of Hugh Cotton of Rudheth & Isabel Heaton; and afterwards petitioned the king for the enjoyment of her dower having married her without the kingʼs licence.

Margery was the widow of Richard Buckley 1391 of Cheadle , son of William Bukeley / Bulkeley & Alice Vern. with a young son & daughter: Richard 1391 - 1454 who m Alice Bostock: & Margery wife of Sir Lawrence Warren of Poynton

Children of Randle & Margery:

1. John 1482 m1 Margaret daughter of Sir John Delves & Philippa Harcourt; m2 Joan Warren (1 x great grandparents of Sir John Mainwaring 1515 of Over Peover www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/AREw73 )

2. William 1497 flic.kr/p/ebUaAC (from whom the Manwarings of Ightfield Shropshire descend) m Margaret daughter of John Warren of Ightfield & Matilda Cheney

3. Randle / Ralph 1456 from whom the Mainwarings of Carincham descend, m Margaret daughter of Sir John Savage 1463 of Clifton by Eleanor 1452 daughter of Sir William de Brereton and Anyll de Venables

1. Elizabeth m Raufe / Ralph 1452 of Wynehill Staffs son of William de Egerton and Ellin / Helen Hawkestone

2. Cicely 1401 - 1483 m Thomas Fowleshurst of Crewe son of Thomas Fulleshurst and Joan Venables (sister of Margery ==)

3 Joan 1402 - 1487 m 1411 John 1474 +++ son and heir of Raufe / Ralph Davenport by Joan Legh / grandson of Sir Ralph Davenport of Marton flic.kr/p/8HC5wq & great grandson of Sir John Davenport flic.kr/p/8HBRoY of Marton (?)

4. Ellen 1480 m Thomas 1449 of Gawsworth son of Sir Lawrence Fitton and Agnes Hesketh (Thomas was the brother of Laurence Fyton at Sonning Berks flic.kr/p/gLp3uf )

5. Agnes 1406 - 1426 was to marry William Bromley, *** but died before, he then married her sister:

6. Margaret 1432 m William Bromley 1436 *** of Badington son of Sir John Bromely; m2 Judge Sir John Nedham 1480 of Crannach, son of Sir Robert de Needham and Dorothy Savage

6. Phillippa 1433 m Robert son of Richard Chamberlaine and Catherine Cotes

7. Isabel

8. Clemence 1414 m William Beeston

 

Randle also had 2 illegitimate sons:

1. Hugh Mainwaring, whose mother was Emme Farrington. He m Margaret, sister and eventual heir of Ralph Croxton of Croxton, (ancestors of the Mainwarings of Croxton near Middlewich)

2,. Thomas Mainwaring of North-Rode

- Church of St Laurence, Over Peover / Peover Superior, Cheshire

seearoundbritain.com/venues/over-peover-church-knutsford/...

www.myfamilyhistory.me/2017/11/randle-mainwaring.html

 

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