Person:Richard de Wever (2)

Richard de Wever
 
 
Facts and Events
Name[1] Richard de Wever
Gender Male
Marriage to Unknown
Other[1] 1302/03 acknowledged to be an hereditary forester of the forest of Mondrem
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Ormerod, George; William Smith; William Webb; and Peter Leycester. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819 (London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley))
    Volume 2 pages 113 and 114.

    "Richard de Wever, son or grandson of the preceding [Henry de Wever], claimed and was allowed a moiety of the forestship of Mondrem, 31 Edw. I. at the pleas of the forests of Mara and Mondrem, before sir Richard Willoughby and sir Richard Stafford, kts." [Harl. MSS 2115, 232]

    (Ormerod says the Cheshire pedigrees of Weever are so unreliable, it is not safe to add anything from them to the descent of Weever which he gives, which is based on deeds and inquisitions.)

  2.   Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    Volume 2 page 206 and page 210.