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Yorkshire, Harewood

Sir Richard Redman / Redmayne 1426 of Levens, Westmorland and 2nd wife Elizabeth Aldburgh c1417-22, widow of Sir Brian Stapleton of Carlton d1391 by whom she had a son Brian . Elizabeth was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William de Aldeburgh / Aldburgh, Lord of the manor of Harewood Castle (they married in 1393).

Children at least 2 sons and 2 daughters

1. Matthew d1416 m Johanna daughter of Sir Thomas Tunstall, of Thurland Castle, whose son Edward 1510 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8389510178/ succeeded here.

2. Richard of Bossall

3 Joan m Sir Thomas Wentworth

4. daughter m Richard Duckett d1448 of Grayrigg

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In 1392 Elizabeth and her sister Sibyl www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8390159566/ jointly inherited Harewood castle and estate on the death of their brother William and were responsibe for building this church c1410.

Sir Richard had m1 and had 1 son Matthew who dsp in his father's lifetime. Sir Richard was Sheriff of Cumberland 1390-1413, later Sheriff and MP for Yorkshire, and Speaker in 1415 of the House of Commons, later taking part in the Battle of Agincourt.,

They were buried in the church of the Black Friars at York with Elizabeth's 1st husband Sir Brian Stapleton

After Elizabeth's death Richard m3 he married Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe, Chief Justice of England www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8390344858/

By his will Sir Richard left the manors of Levens and certain Harewood estates to his younger son Richard in trust for his grandson Richard, then a minor ; on the death of this Richard without heirs to his son Richard, and failing heirs of the latter to John Redman, son of Elene Grene, &c. The manors of Kereby and Kirkby (Kirkby Overblow) he devised to Brian de Stapleton, son of Sir Brian

Stapleton by his (Sir Richard's) first wife, Elizabeth Aldeburgh, under certain conditions as to forfeiture, &c.

 

www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member...

In later years ttheir descendants married into the Gascoigne / Gascoyne family who eventually became Lords of the manor

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