Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397–1431) was holder by right of his wife (''

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'') of the

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and part of the

feudal barony of Barnstaple From AD 1066, the feudal barony of Barnstaple was a large English feudal barony, feudal barony with its Caput baroniae, caput at the town of Barnstaple in north Devon, England. It was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed i ...

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, England.

Biography

He was the son of Richard Hankford (died 1419), MP for

in 1414 and 1416, the son of Sir

William Hankford Sir William Hankford KB (or Hankeford) (c. 1350 – 1423) of Annery in Devon, was an English lawyer, and Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1413 until 1423. Origins His parentage is not known, but he came from a gentry family which origin ...

( – 1423) KB, of Annery in Devon,

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. On the death of his grandfather in 1423 he became his heir because his father had pre-deceased him (in 1419). The Hankford family had been long established at the estate of Hankford, from which they took their name, near Bulkworthy in the parish of

Buckland Brewer Buckland Brewer is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England, 4.7 miles south of Bideford. Historically the parish formed part of Shebbear Hundred. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 777, increasin ...

, North

. Hankford served in France during the

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in the retinue of his brother-in-law Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury (c. 1388–1428), and was knighted at

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between 8 July and 6 October 1429, aged about 32. He died in 1431 at the age of about 34.

Marriages and children

Hankford married twice. Firstly at some time before 1420 he married Elizabeth FitzWarin (1403–1426/8)Cokayne, p. 506 (or "FitzWarren"), daughter of

Fulk FitzWarin, 6th Baron FitzWarin Fulk is an old European personal name, probably deriving from the Germanic ''folk'' ("people" or "chieftain"). It is cognate with the French Foulques, the German Volk, the Italian Fulco and the Swedish Folke, along with other variants such as Fulke ...

(1389–1407) and sole heiress of her brother Fulk FitzWarin, 7th Baron FitzWarin (1406–1420), feudal baron of Bampton and holder of part of the

, including that barony's seat of Tawstock. By Elizabeth FitzWarin he had two daughters and co-heiresses. The eldest was Thomasine (1422/3–1453) who inherited from her mother Bampton and Tawstock and many other manors and married

William Bourchier, 9th Baron FitzWarin William Bourchier (1407–1470) ''jure uxoris'' 9th Baron FitzWarin, was an English nobleman. He was summoned to Parliament in 1448 as Baron FitzWarin in right of his wife Thomasine Hankford. He was the second son of William Bourchier, 1st Cou ...

(1407–1470). The younger daughter, Elizabeth, died young in 1433. Hankford's second wife was Anne de Montagu (died 1457), a daughter of John de Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c.1350–1400). She survived him and remarried twice. On her death she was buried with her third husband ( John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter) in the church of St Katharine by the Tower in the

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.Cokayne, pp. 506-7 Hankford had a daughter by Anne,

Anne Hankford Anne Hankford (c. 1431 – 13 November 1485) was the first wife of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (c. 1426- 3 August 1515). She was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn. She was a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397 – 143 ...

(c. 1431–1485), who inherited Annery from her father. She married the extremely wealthy

Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond PC (1426 – 3 August 1515) was the youngest son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII's first Parliament in November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, by E ...

(died 1515).

References

;Sources * * Prince, John,
The Worthies of Devon
'. A new edition, with notes. London, 1810. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hankford, Richard 02 People from Torridge District 1397 births 1431 deaths Medieval English knights