Richard Fiennes, ''jure uxoris'' 7th Baron Dacre (1415 – 25 November 1483) was an English knight and hereditary keeper of

Herstmonceux Castle Herstmonceux Castle is a brick-built castle, dating from the 15th century, near Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. It is one of the oldest significant brick buildings still standing in England. The castle was renowned for being one of the f ...

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. He was the son of Sir

Roger Fiennes Sir Roger Fiennes (1384–1449) was an English knight of the shire, High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, and builder of Herstmonceux Castle. He was also Treasurer of King Henry VI's household. Origins Roger Fiennes was the son of William de Fienne ...

, Member of

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(M.P.) for Sussex. and Elizabeth Holland. His paternal uncle was

James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (22 September 1395 – 4 July 1450) was an English soldier and politician. He was born at Herstmonceux, Sussex, the second son of Sir William Fiennes (1 August 1357 – 18 January 1402) and his wife Elizabe ...

.Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes'' (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 3, page 3532. Hereinafter cited as ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition''. Sir Richard Fiennes was the hereditary keeper of

, an office which descended in the Fiennes family until the execution of the ninth baron. By patent of 7 November 1458, King

Henry VI of England Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English thron ...

accepted him as Lord Dacre, and by two writs in 1459 and 1482 Fiennes was summoned to Parliament as

Baron Dacre Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. History The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Mult ...

. In 1473 the King made the final award of the lands of the sixth Baron Dacre between the

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, Humphrey Dacre, the younger of Joan's two surviving uncles; and the

heir general In English law, heirs of the body is the principle that certain types of property pass to a descendant of the original holder, recipient or grantee according to a fixed order of kinship. Upon the death of the grantee, a designated inheritance such ...

, Richard Fiennes, in right of his wife Joan Dacre, who had succeeded to the ''suo jure'' title on 5 January 1458. Most of the estates went to the heir male with remainder to the heir general while the peerage went to Richard Fiennes in right of his wife. Peerage lawyers have claimed that Richard Fiennes's summons to parliament created a new barony; for, though his wife was a peeress in her own right, his summons was not a courtesy one. J. Horace Round held that the award of 1473 assigning the heir general and her husband precedence of the old barony, over that of the heir male, was a recognition of his wife's accession to the original barony. Richard married

Joan Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre Joan Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre (c. 1433 – 8 March 1485/86) was a ''suo jure'' peeress of England. She was born in Gilsland, the daughter of Sir Thomas Dacre (1410–1448) and Elizabeth Bowett. Marriage Joan Dacre married Sir Richard Fiennes ...

in June 1446. Children of Richard Fiennes and Joan Dacre: *Sir John Fiennes, born c.1447 in Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England; married

Alice FitzHugh Alice FitzHugh (c. 1448 – 10 July 1516) was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh, and Lady Alice Neville. Alice was born at the ancestral castle of Ravensworth. She married Sir John Fiennes, the son of Sir Ri ...

; father of

Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre (1472 – 9 September 1534) was an English peer and soldier, the son of Sir John Fiennes. Career He was born in 1472, the son of Sir John Fiennes (born c.1447, son of Richard Fiennes, 7th Baron Dacre born 1415) ...

*Sir Thomas Fiennes *Elizabeth Fiennes, married

John Clinton, 6th Baron Clinton Sir John Clinton, 6th Baron Clinton (c. 1429 – 29 February 1488), of Maxstoke, was an English peer.Dates given in the Julian calendar, with the start of year adjusted to 1 January (see Old Style and New Style dates) Biography John Clinton was ...

, great-grandfather of

Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln Edward Fiennes, or Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln KG (151216 January 1584/85) was an English landowner, peer, and Lord High Admiral. He rendered valuable service to four of the Tudor monarchs. Family Edward Clinton, or Fiennes, was born a ...

*Richard Fiennes *Roger Fiennes Another unnamed daughter is stated in the 1623 Heralds' Visitation of Gloucestershire to have been the 1st and short-lived wife of Sir Walter Denys(d.1505) of Alveston, Glos., son & heir of

Maurice Denys Sir Maurice Denys (1516–1563) of Siston Court, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, and of St John's Street, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, was an English lawyer and property speculator during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time he served ...

:Maclean, Sir John (ed.) ''The Visitation of the County of Gloucester Taken in the Year 1623 by Henry Chitty & John Phillipot'', London, 1885, p. 50, Dennis "...da. to...ffines L. Dacres of the South 1 wiffe"

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