Richard Fiennes, 7th Baron Dacre ''

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'' (1415 – 25 November 1483) was an English politician and hereditary keeper of

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Life and ancestry

He was the son of Sir Roger Fiennes, Member of

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(M.P.) for Sussex, and Elizabeth Holland, whose paternal grandfather was the brother of

Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent Thomas Holland, 2nd Baron Holand, and ''jure uxoris'' 1st Earl of Kent, Order of the Garter, KG (26 December 1360) was an Kingdom of England, English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. By the time of the Crécy campai ...

. 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 Elizab ...

.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''. He was the hereditary keeper of

, an office which descended in the Fiennes family until the execution of

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. By patent of 7 November 1458, King

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

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. 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 Dacre's two surviving uncles) and the

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(Richard Fiennes, in right of his wife, Joan Dacre, who had succeeded to the baronial title ''

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'' on 5 January 1458). Most of the estates went to the heir male, with remainder to the heir general, while the peerage went to Fiennes in right of his wife. Peerage lawyers have claimed that 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.

Marriage and issue

In June 1446, he married Joan Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre. Their children were: *Sir John Fiennes, born c. 1447 at Herstmonceux Castle; married Alice FitzHugh; father of Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre. *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) He was the son of John de ...

, 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 ...

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

References

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