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Family and Education 2nd s. and h. of Sir Matthew Redmayne (d.c.1390) of Levens by his 1st w. Lucy. m. (1) at least 1s. d.v.p.; (2) prob. by Sept. 1397, Elizabeth (1364-21 Dec. 1417), e. da. of William, 1st Lord Aldeburgh (d.1388) of Aldeburgh and Harewood, and sis. and coh. of William 2nd. Lord Aldeburgh (d.1391), wid. of Sir Brian Stapleton (d.v.p. 1391) of Carlton, at least 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. Kntd. by 1376.

Offices Held Sheriff, Cumb. 15 Nov. 1389-7 Nov. 1390, 17 Nov. 1393-1 Nov. 1394, 1 Dec. 1396-3 Nov. 1397, 17 Nov. 1398-30 Sept. 1399, 8 Nov. 1401-29 Nov. 1402, 10 Dec. 1411-13 Nov. 1412, Yorks. 5 Nov. 1403-4 Dec. 1404, 1 Dec. 1415-20 Nov. 1416.

Commr. to oversee repairs to Carlisle castle Oct. 1390; make arrests, Westmld. Dec. 1395, Mar. 1396, Apr. 1397, Yorks., Westmld. Nov. 1398, Yorks. July 1403, Dec. 1405; of inquiry Nov. 1397 (oppressions and extortions), Lancs., Westmld., Yorks. Feb., Aug. 1398 (concealments), Yorks. July 1415 (abduction of the earl of Fife), Sept. 1424 (concealments); to enforce the statutes on weirs June 1398; suppress the spread of treasonous rumours May 1402; of array Aug. 1403, Westmld. July 1404, Yorks. Nov. 1404, July 1410, May 1415, Apr. 1418, Mar. 1419; oyer and terminer Aug. 1403 (trespasses), Yorks., Northumb., Cumb., Westmld. Aug. 1407 (treasons), Yorks. Apr. 1408 (murder of Sir Thomas Colville*), Dec. 1411 (attempted murder at Great Ouseburn); to treat with northern rebels and negotiate pardons, generally Apr. 1408; of sewers, Yorks. Aug. 1419; to raise royal loans Apr. 1421.

Master of the King’s horse c. Feb.-Aug. 1399.

J.p. Westmld. 8 July 1401-Feb. 1405, 16 Jan. 1414-July 1423, Yorks. (W. Riding) 22 Jan. 1405-14, 6 July 1415-d.

Escheator, Yorks. 22 Oct. 1404-1 Dec. 1405.

Parlty. cttee. to audit the accounts of the treasurers for wars 19 June 1406.

Ambassador to negotiate with the Scots 19 Jan.-13 Feb., 4 Apr.-7 May 1410.

Speaker 1415.

Biography Sir Richard’s ancestors came originally from Redmain in Cumberland, whence they took their name, although from the mid 12th century onwards they made the manor of Levens in Westmorland their home. As prominent local landowners with other estates at Troutbeck and Lupton, they played an important part in defending England from invasion by the Scots. Sir Matthew Redmayne, who spent much of his earlier life campaigning in France, served from 1379 as joint warden of the march towards Scotland and later held office as constable of Roxburgh as well. Although he fell into enemy hands (for the second time in his life) after the battle of Otterburn in 1388, he was soon released and died a free man some two years later. Such was Sir Matthew’s position in marcher society that he was able to marry (as his second wife) Joan, the grand daughter of Henry, 1st Lord Fitzhugh (d.1356), and widow of both William, Lord Greystoke (d.1359), and Anthony, Lord Lucy (d.1368). For a brief period he shared the wardenship of the march with his stepson, Ralph, Lord Greystoke, who was to prove a useful family contact among the northern nobility.

After the death of his elder son and namesake at some point in the early 1370s Sir Matthew began to involve his next heir, Richard, in his affairs. The young man had already been knighted when, in March 1376, he and his father offered financial guarantees that Robert Hawley would abide by an agreement with Edward III for ransoming the Aragonese nobleman, the count of Denia. Two years later, Sir Richard sued out royal letters of protection preparatory to his departure overseas, probably on one or other of the naval offensives then being mounted against the Spanish and the French. Little is known about his activities during this period, perhaps because he was campaigning in Europe, although by February 1382 he was back home to deliver an assignment of £100 made to his father, as keeper of Roxburgh, from the Exchequer. The Redmaynes held most of their Westmorland property as feudal tenants of the earls of Oxford, which no doubt explains why Sir Richard also helped to collect money allocated by the government to Robert de Vere, the then earl, who had just been promoted duke of Ireland. In October 1386 he took receipt of £26 as part of the wages of men whom the earl had mobilized against the threat of a French invasion. His connexion with de Vere was, however, to prove short lived, for the latter fled the country in December 1387 after an ignominious defeat at the battle of Radcot Bridge by the Lords Appellant, who had already brought charges of treason against him, and were later to secure his conviction in the Merciless Parliament. But the Appellants do not appear to have mistrusted Redmayne in any way. On the contrary, in late April 1388, while the Merciless Parliament was still in session, he obtained a grant of rents worth £10 a year from crown lands in Blencogo, Westmorland. The award was apparently conditional upon the surrender of securities of £80, underwritten by Sir John Ireby, the sitting Member for Cumberland, to Thomas, duke of Gloucester, chief among the Appellants.

Sir Richard’s administrative career began impressively enough, in November 1389, with his appointment as sheriff of Cumberland. Just two days before the end of his year in office he was retained for life by Richard II at an annual fee of 40 marks, charged upon the revenues of the county. His father may, perhaps, have lived to see his good fortune, although he was almost certainly dead by December 1390, when Sir Richard confirmed various family charters. The latter may, indeed, have been moved to make a pilgrimage to pray for his late father’s soul, as a few weeks later he arranged for the supply of foreign credit to the value of £100 through the banker, Angelo Christofori. All of the Redmayne estates now descended to Sir Richard, who, in January 1393, used his influence at Court to obtain a royal licence permitting him to enclose a park of 3,000 acres at Levens. That he spent a good deal of time on the border is evident from other letters patent of Richard II, issued three months later, whereby he and three companions were authorized to hold jousts of war at Carlisle against the Scots—a concession repeated again at the end of the decade.1 Towards the close of his second term as sheriff of Cumberland, in the autumn of 1394, Sir Richard indented to serve in the army which Richard II planned to lead against the rebel Irish clans. He spent eight months in Ireland, returning to Westmorland in late April 1395. During this period he intervened with the King to secure a pardon for his father’s retainer, Robert Harbottle*, who stood accused of murder; and in October 1395 the fine of £20 paid by the King’s esquire, Edmund Hampden*, for marrying without a royal licence, was assigned to him as a gift. Sir Richard’s standing at Court is also evident from his re-appointment to the shrievalty of Cumberland in December 1396 and again in November 1398, since on both occasions the King was strongly placed not only to nominate his most loyal and trusted servants as sheriffs, but also safely to ignore the statute of 1371 which required three years to elapse between such appointments. (Richard II’s flagrant disregard of this statute did, indeed, constitute one of the points in Thomas Haxey’s bill, presented by the Commons to the first Parliament of 1397.) Further rewards came Sir Richard’s way in the shape of a second annuity of 40 marks, assigned to him for life in October 1397 from the palatinate of Chester, and a grant in April 1399 of the wardship and marriage of the young Richard Kirkbred. Although the initial award of rents worth £50 p.a. from the Kirkbred estates in Cumberland was later reduced to 20 marks p.a., Sir Richard clearly remained high in the King’s favour: the royal letters of pardon accorded to him in April 1398 can have been little more than a formality. It is, however, worth noting that at some unspecified date John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, retained him at a fee of £20 p.a.; and that he may well already have established a connexion with Gaunt’s son and heir, Henry of Bolingbroke, one of the junior Lords Appellant, against whom Richard II was then poised to strike.2 But this incipient attachment to the house of Lancaster had not yet come to assume overriding importance in his career. On the contrary, his duties as master of the King’s horse brought him to Court more regularly than before; and it was no doubt because of his official responsibilities in this capacity that Richard II once again retained him to serve in Ireland. The attorneys whom he chose to supervise his affairs during his absence included Richard Clifford, the keeper of the privy seal, and Thomas Stanley, the keeper of the rolls in Chancery, as well as one of his feudal tenants, William Thornburgh*. He left England with the royal army in May 1399, and was thus overseas when Henry of Bolingbroke returned from exile to claim first his inheritance of Lancaster and eventually the English throne.

Notwithstanding his past history as a supporter of Richard II’s absolutist policies, Sir Richard seems to have encountered few problems in coming to terms with the new regime. Although he was removed from the shrievalty of Cumberland in September 1399, and later had to offer securities of £200, jointly with his brother John, as an earnest of their future good behaviour towards the archdeacon of Richmond, he did not otherwise suffer as a result of Bolingbroke’s coup d’état. The usurper was, after all, prepared to look kindly upon one of his father’s former retainers, especially as Sir Richard had influential advocates in the Lancastrian camp. His stepbrother, Lord Greystoke, may well have intervened on his behalf, as also may the earl of Northumberland and his son, ‘Hotspur’, with whom Sir Richard had long been connected through their work together in local government. Furthermore, Sir Richard’s recent marriage had greatly enhanced his status as a northern landowner, making him a particularly valuable ally whose support was well worth cultivating. We do not know exactly when he married Elizabeth, the elder sister and coheir of William, Lord Aldeburgh, although a collusive suit which he and Sir Matthew Redmayne, his son by an earlier, now undocumented marriage, brought in September 1397 over the manor of Woodhall near Wetherby in Yorkshire suggests that he had by then taken over the management of her estates.3 Elizabeth’s inheritance comprised one half of the manor of Harewood with extensive appurtenances throughout the West Riding and other property in Holderness. She also held the manor of Rufforth as dower after the death of her first husband, Sir Brian Stapleton, by whom she had a son named (Sir) Brian*, then a ward in the custody of (Sir) Robert Hilton*.4 Sir Richard was anxious to gain custody of the boy’s possessions, and also to obtain permission from the Crown for a new settlement of the Aldeburgh inheritance in favour of the two sons recently born to him and Elizabeth, so he had strong personal motives for changing allegiance. Henry IV certainly placed a high premium on his services. At the very beginning of his reign he confirmed him as keeper of the Kirkbred estates and also agreed to continue paying the retainder of £20 p.a. originally awarded by John of Gaunt.5 A few months later, Richard II’s other letters patent granting Sir Richard rents of £10 p.a. from Blencogo and his two separate annuities of 40 marks were also approved. Over the next few years various additional rewards came Sir Richard’s way in the form of gifts of game and timber from the duchy of Lancaster estates in Yorkshire, and two tenements in Liverpool confiscated in 1400 from Richard II’s nephew, the rebel earl of Kent.6 Sir Richard was, moreover, summoned to attend the great councils held at Westminster in August 1401 and 1405. Most important of all, King Henry was prepared to accommodate his wishes with regard to both the Stapleton and the Aldeburgh estates. In April 1401 he sanctioned a series of conveyances whereby the Yorkshire properties owned by Sir Richard’s wife were entailed upon their male issue, thus effectively disinheriting (Sir) Brian, who was left with nothing more than a reversionary interest.7 To add insult to injury, the youth’s manors of Carlton in Yorkshire and Kentmere in Westmorland were leased to Sir Richard at an annual rent of £106; and because his pension from the Crown soon began to fall into arrears he was eventually permitted to retain £50 a year of the rent to cover his losses. Not surprisingly in view of Henry IV’s generosity towards him, he remained staunchly loyal throughout the political upheavals of the early 15th century, and thus received an even greater share of patronage. In May 1406, for example, he obtained the wardship and marriage of another royal ward named Richard Newland, the terms of his custody being fixed in the following November while Parliament was in session. This marked Sir Richard’s first appearance in the Lower House, to which he was returned as representative for Yorkshire. Since his second marriage, he had spent an increasing amount of time on his wife’s estates, and had, indeed, by this date already served as both sheriff and escheator of Yorkshire. During the course of the Parliament Henry IV confirmed without charge a charter of King John granting rights of free warren on the manor of Harewood, and also made him an allowance of £20 to cover certain expenses which he had sustained in the north while on government business.8 One of his more gruesome tasks had involved the distribution of the head and quarters of a traitor executed at Pontefract for his support of the northern rebels, although King Henry had allocated a separate, and unusually generous sum of five marks for the costs involved. Sir Richard’s election to Parliament also gave him an opportunity to press for the suspension of proceedings in the Exchequer being brought against him and two other local landowners for failing to render an account as collectors of an aid on the marriage of Princess Blanche, in 1401, and here again King Henry was prepared to support him. Despite his lack of parliamentary experience, Sir Richard evidently commanded the respect of the Commons, who nominated him as one of the six serving Members to audit the accounts of the treasurers of the wars. Henry IV had himself opposed such an audit, although he could at least rely upon Sir Richard’s loyalty and discretion. These particular qualities were again put to the test in 1410, when Sir Richard served on two diplomatic missions to Scotland, for the negotiation of a truce. He seems to have discharged his duties successfully, and it was probably on the border that he first came into contact with Henry IV’s younger son, John, duke of Bedford, who was then not only warden of the east march but also feudal overlord of Sir Richard’s manor of Levens.

The Parliament of 1415 met in early November while the victorious Henry V was still absent in France, and Bedford held office as custos regni. Sir Richard, who had been confirmed in all his fees and annuities at the beginning of the new reign, was by then too old to perform military service, although his own son, Richard, and his stepson, (Sir) Brian Stapleton, both fought at Agincourt where between them they took a number of valuable prisoners. Sir Richard’s part in the expedition was confined to holding a muster of the duke of Gloucester’s men at Michaelmarsh near Romsey, but he still had a valuable part to play at home, and the duke of Bedford may well have exerted his influence to ensure that the Commons elected him as Speaker. His term of office was both remarkably short (lasting just eight or nine days), and unusually easy, since in the general euphoria following Henry V’s triumph at Agincourt the Commons were disposed to be generous. The grant for life of tunnage and poundage and the wool subsidy which they made to King Henry was, indeed, without precedent (save for the short-lived allocation of the wool customs to Richard II in 1398).9 Within a matter of days Henry V himself was back in London, where he gave his personal attention to the appointment of sheriffs. Sir Richard now began his eighth term as a sheriff in the north, during which he secured the return of his stepson, Sir Brian, and the latter’s great friend, Sir Robert Plumpton, to the first Parliament of 1416. Both men moved in the duke of Bedford’s circle too, a fact which must have influenced the outcome of the elections. Less happily, Redmayne’s last appointment as sheriff of Yorkshire saw the accumulation of ‘great losses and damages’ amounting to at least £80. Although the sum was promptly deducted from his account, the strain of years of administrative responsibility clearly began to take its toll; and in May 1417 Henry V excused him from holding office again. Yet Sir Richard’s expertise was not altogether lost, for Bedford continued to employ him as a councillor, and he was thus occupied, in October 1417, when news of his stepson’s death in Normandy reached England. A few days later he and the duke were received together into the confraternity of St. Albans abbey, where they made arrangements for prayers to be said for Sir Brian’s soul. As late as October 1419, Sir Richard is to be found acting as a receiver of money for Bedford at the Exchequer, although by this date he had already begun to retire gradually from public affairs, and was thus unable to exploit more fully the influence of his kinsman, Lord Fitzhugh, as the King’s chamberlain and treasurer of the Exchequer.

During the years immediately following Henry VI’s accession, in 1422, Sir Richard lived quietly on his estates, enjoying the various pensions which he still received from the Crown. One of his daughters had by then married the Westmorland MP, Richard Duckett*, and was thus well provided for, but two of his sons (half-brothers who shared the name of Matthew) had predeceased him, the elder dying soon after 1397, while the younger survived long enough to produce a son of his own, Richard†, in about 1416. It was thus necessary for Sir Richard to make careful arrangements for the setting up of a trust on his grandson’s behalf, especially as his second wife, Elizabeth, was also dead. On 1 May 1425 he drew up a will to this effect. As an old man, fast approaching death, Sir Richard clearly began to regret his rapacious behaviour towards his late stepson, Sir Brian; and it was no doubt in an attempt to make reparation to his descendants—while at the same time assuaging his own conscience—that he settled two of Elizabeth’s Yorkshire manors upon the Stapleton family. He died on 22 Mar. following, and was buried at the church of the Black Friars at York beside his second wife and many of her relatives (including Sir Brian). A magnificent tomb chest with effigies of Sir Richard and Elizabeth was placed in the parish church of Harewood as well. The young Richard Redmayne proved his age in 1437 and duly inherited his grandmother’s estates in Harewood, together with the manor of Levens and his father’s other property in Westmorland. His possessions there may also have included the two manors of Selside and Whinfell, which were the subject of litigation later in the century.10

Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 Author: C.R. Notes Unless otherwise stated, all references used in this biography are to be found in J.S. Roskell, Parl. and Pol. in Late Med. Eng. iii. 205-36. It is evident that Sir Richard was married twice, as in 1397 he had an adult son named Sir Matthew, who is omitted from all the family pedigrees (JUST 1/1509 rot. 4, 6). The genealogists are wrong in asserting that Sir Richard’s sister, Felicity, married the London mercer, John Woodcock*. The latter’s wife was the daughter of another mercer, Thomas Austyn (Corporation of London RO, hr 134/69).

1. W. Greenwood, Redmans of Levens and Harewood, 82. 2. C67/30 m.28; DL42/16 (3), ff. 109v, 120. 3. JUST 1/1509 rot. 4, 6. 4. CP25(1)278/146/13; Greenwood, 88. 5. DL42/16(3), ff. 109v, 120. 6. DL42/15, f. 127v, 16 (3), ff. 5v, 105v. 7. Greenwood, 81; CP25(1)279/149/36. 8. E404/22/194. 9. J.S. Roskell, Speakers, 161-4; E404/29/92; DL28/27/8. 10. C139/28/28; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 460. It was the young Richard Redmayne, not his grandfather, who married Elizabeth, a daughter of Sir William Gascoigne*, and a grand daughter of Chief Justice Gascoigne. The marriage may have been negotiated as early as 1417, when Sir Richard conveyed Kelfield to the Gascoignes (CP25(1)280/153/42).

Sir Richard Redman (or Redmayne)

Sir Richard had two sons named Matthew: one by an early marriage (name of wife unknown), and one by his marriage to Elizabeth Alderburgh.

Greenfield also posits that he married again after the death of Elizabeth de Alderburgh, this time to an Elizabeth de Gascoigne. The marriage between an Elizabeth de Gascoigne (daughter of William) and a Redman/Redmayne has been posited for a number of generations, This still needs better documentation.

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From William Greenfield's 1905 The Redmans of Levens and Harewood (scanned, resulting in some typos and spelling errors in the transliteration):

CHAPTER X.

Sir Richard (I.), of Harewood,
Speaker of the House of Commons.

SIR Richard Redman, who now assumed the headship of his family and who was destined to become its most distinguished member, must have been born not later than 1360 ; for in 1381-2 we find him a full-blown knight and drawing revenue from his lands. This fact disposes absolutely of the suggestion that he was the son of Joan Fitzhugh, who did not lose her second husband, Anthony, Lord Lucy, until Richard was at least eight years old. He was thus almost certainly the son of Sir Matthew and his first wife, Lucy, whose identity, as stated before, it still remains to establish.

Under the tutorship of his warlike father, Richard doubtless had an excellent training in arms ; and it is not improbable that he was with Sir Matthew at Roxburgh and Berwick, that he took his part in border-guarding and fighting, and that he may have wielded a sword in that " scuffle and scurry " at Otterbourne.

His ability and promise seem to have brought him specially under the King's favour and protection before he had reached the thirties, for in May of 1388, a few months before the affray at Otterbourne, there appears (Patent Rolls 11, Richard H.) a "grant for life to the King's knight, Richard Redman, of all the lands and tenements which the King has in the town of Blencogo " (in Cumberland). Two years later he was entrusted with the responsible duty of " the survey and the control of the castle, the gate and the towers of Carlisle," under Henry de Percy, the famous " Hotspur," and of estimating the cost of their repair. This was in October, 1390, and in the following month King Richard gave the young West- morland knight a still further evidence of his approval and favour in the form of a retaining salary for his services.

1390, Nov. 5. Grant for life until further order, with the assent of the Council, to Richard Redman, knight, retained for life to stay with the King, of forty marks a year, in support of his estate, from the issues of Cumber- land (Pat. Rolls, 13, Ric. II.). These royal grants of the lands of Blencogo and of the yearly retainer were con- firmed by Richard's successor, the fourth Henry, in the year of his accession, 1399. (Oct. 31). It is a little diffi- cult to understand the necessity of the royal allowance for the support of Richard's estates, since at this time he must have succeeded to his rich patrimony, as is evidenced by the fact that in this year he is described in a confirma- tion of a grant by Sir Matthew as his son and heir : —

" Ric'us Redman, miles, filius et heres d'ni Mathei Red- man mil, confirmat cartam Mathei de Redman supradict, quondam antecessoris sui. Test. D'no Will 'o de Thirke- keld mil' ; &c. Dat' apud Kirkeby Kendall, in festo S'c'i Thoma Appl'i, anno d'ni 1390." In the same year, too, we find him confirming an ancient grant of lands to the monks of Byland, made by Henry de Redman and his son Matthew (Hist. MSS. Com., Rep. 10, Pt. 4).

In this year Richard assumes a greater prominence and finds ampler scope for his exceptional gifts. Within the next twenty-three years he filled the office of sheriff of Cumberland no fewer than six times (in 1390-4-7-9, 1402 and 1413) ; and in 1390 he was further enriched by the following grant of lands in Heversham and Hutton Roof :—

Johannes, filius Radulphi Arneys, dedit Ric'o de Rede- mane, militi, omn' terras et tenement' sua in villis de Heversham et Hoton Rofe in Kendale. Test. Waltero de Strickland, milite, &c. (MS. Dods. 159, fol. 195).

Two years later we have interesting evidence of Sir Richard's love of knightly exercises, for we find him ask- ing and obtaining the King's permission to engage, to- gether with three companions-in-arms, in a friendly joust with William Haliburton and three others at Carlisle, from the first to the twenty-seventh of June, in the presence of Hotspur, to whom the spectacle of these eight knights engaging in daily tilts would no doubt prove highly entertaining.

This long festival of jousting must have been one of Sir Richard's farewells to bachelor days and licence ; for it could not have been long after that he wooed and won a daughter of the first Lord Aldeburgh, and thus brought about a most important revolution in the family history.

Sir Richard's wife was Elizabeth, one of the two daugh- ters of William, first Lord Aldeburgh, and sister of the second Lord who died in 1390, without offspring, leaving his sisters co-heirs to the barony and to large estates, in- cluding the castle and manor of Harewood. Of the sisters and co-heiresses, Elizabeth had first married Sir Bryan Stapleton, while Sybil found a husband in Sir William Ryther, of Ryther Castle.

The following pedigree will make this descent clear : —

John dk Isula = Matilda de Ferrers 2nd Lord Lisle de I (held one-third of Rougeinont. the manor of Harewood in dower). I Elizabeth = William 3rd Lord Lisle de Insula I ist Lord Aldeburi

de Rougemont ;

William Elizabeth de Aldeburgh Sybil

2nd Lord Aldeburgh =(i) Sir Bryan Stapleton =Sir Wm. Ryther,

ob, s.p. (will, 14 Nov. =(2) Sir Richard Redman, of Ryther Castle. 1390). of Levens.

It was after Sir Bryan Stapleton's death that this Red- man knight must have gone to woo the fair widow, fresh from his jousting at Carlisle. As a gallant cavalier of long lineage, the son of an old friend of her family, and with a reputation for skill in the arts of chivalry, he probably had no great difficulty in winning Elizabeth's hand and heart, richly-dowered though she was. At what precise time Richard married Elizabeth it is not possible to say. That it was not before 1393 is clear from a fine levied in that year by Elizabeth, late wife of Sir Brian Stapleton, Junior, and Sir William de Ryther and Sybil his wife, daughters and co-heiresses of Sir William de Aldeburgh, knight, deceased, of the manors of Hare- wood, Lofthouse, Stockhouse, Huby, Weeton, Rigton in the Forest, East Keswick, Dunkeswick, Healthwaite, Horsforth, Yeadon, Weard- ley, Stockton and Carlton, which were parcel of the manor of Harewood.

In saying that the marriage took place circa 1393-4 we shall probably not be very far from the truth.

Thus, early in the nineties of the fourteenth century we find Sir Richard, at the age of thirty-three or four, wedded to the wealthy widow of Sir Bryan Stapleton, the mother of a son and two daughters, and lady of half Harewood and more than a dozen other fat manors and townships ; the other moieties being in the ownership of Sir Wilham Ryther and Sybil his wife. From this period the Red- mans and Rythers appear to have occupied the castle of Harewood alternately, under an amicable arrangement which worked smoothly for many generations. When not in residence at Harewood, the Redmans would no doubt make their home at Levens, thus dividing their interests and activities between the two counties of Yorkshire and Westmorland. Sir Richard's wife appears among the legatees in the will of Sir Thomas Roos, of Ingmanthorp, an old family friend, dated 16th July, 1399 : — " Item lego domino Elizabethas Redman, meam legendam Sancto- rum " ; and again, fourteen years later. Sir Henry Vava- sour, of Haslewood, remembers her to the extent of leaving her a gold ring : — " Item lego dominas Elizabethse de Redman unum annulum de auro." {Test. Ebor. I., pp. 351-361. Surtees Society — and Duchetiana).

In 1399 Sir Richard found time to indulge again in the knightly exercise of jousting, for he obtained permission to hold a tournament at Carlisle ; and in the same year he went with John, 3rd Lord Cobham, to Ireland, a journey for which he had letters of protection. In the following May (1400) he was engaged in the delicate mission of treating for peace with the Scots ; and in 1403 he added to his duties those of sheriff of Yorkshire, an office which had, as we have seen, been held by his ancestor, Henry de Redman, two centuries earlier.

In 1401 the Patent Rolls disclose a licence for Richard Redman, chivaler, and Elizabeth, his wife, to enfeoff John de Ingelby and William Curthorpe, parson of the Church of Dyghton, of a moiety of the Manor of Harewood held in chief, and for the latter to regrant the same to them for life with successive remainders to Matthew their son and the heirs male of his body, Richard, his brother, and the heirs male of his body, the heirs male of the bodies of Richard and Elizabeth (by her former husband) and the heirs of his body and the right heirs of Elizabeth.

In the same year (April 14th) there was a grant to the King's knight, Richard Redman, in lieu of a like grant to him by letters patent dated 23rd April, 22 Richard II., which are invahd on account of the ommission of divers words which should be therein, of the custody of all lands late of Richard de Kirkebrid, Kt., deceased, tenant-in- chief, during the minority of Richard de Kirkebrid, his son and heir, with issues to the value of twenty marks yearly and the marriage of the heir without disparage- ment, provided he find a competent sustenance for the heir, maintain the horses, woods, enclosures and gardens without waste, support all charges and answer for any surplus. (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 2 Hen. IV.)

In 1404 Sir Richard found military employment in arraying all the men-at-arms, bowmen, &c., in the dis- tricts of Kendal and Lonsdale : — " Rex dilecto et fideli suo Ricardo Redeman, Chivaler, Salutem. Sciatis quod assignavimus vos ad arraiandum omnes homines ad arma et sagittarios ac alios homines defensabiles in partibus de Kendale et Lonsdale in com. Westmerlandiae. Teste Rege apud Pomfreyt, vij die Julii." (5 Hen. IV.)

In the following year he was empowered to exact fines from those implicated in the ill-fated Percy rising, in which the gallant, if too impulsive, Hotspur lost his life, at Shrewsbury. This year, too, Sir Richard was not only again sheriff for Yorkshire, but he was elected to represent that county in Parliament. In this new sphere of activity he must have exhibited considerable talents as well as zeal, for within eleven years of entering Parliament he reached, as we shall see, the highest office it has to bestow on its members.

In 1407 we find (Fines Term. Pasche, 8 Henry IV.) the following fine :

Finis inter. petentem et Ric'um Redman, Chivaler, et Eliza- betham uxorem, deforciantes, de medietate nianerii de Plarwood (the estate was evidently settled on them for their lives, with re- mainder in tail male to their sons, Matthew and Richard). Si nullus haeres masculus fit inter eos, remaneat heredibus Briani Stapleton, filii predicte Elizabethe ; si Brianus obierit sine prole remaneat rectis heredibus predicte Elizabethe." (Dods. MS. 159, fo. 196^.)

In the following year (1408) Sir Richard was appointed to receive submissions from the rebels who had flocked to the Earl of Northumberland's standard when he tried to raise the northern counties against Henry IV., and were defeated on Bramham Moor by Sir Thomas Rokesby, sheriff of Yorkshire ; and in 1409 he was appointed, with Richard Holme, canon of York, to arrange terms of peace with the Scottish Commissioners.

Rex dilectis et fidelibus suis Ricardo Redeman, Chivaler, et magistro Ricardo Holme, Canonico Ebor. Salutem. Sciatis quod nos Constituimus et assignamus vos deputatos nostros et nuncios speciales. Given at Westminster, 20th Nov., 1409. (Rot. Scot, ii., 192)

Thus we find Sir Richard, like so many of his fore- fathers, constantly occupied in responsible and useful work, as sheriff of two counties, as Member of Parliament, arrayer of troops, and as the conductor of negotiations for his Sovereign ; and in all this wide range of activities exhibiting conspicuous ability. In 1415 he reached the climax of his career. It was in this year that Henry V., taking advantage of the misfortunes of France, with her insane sovereign, Charles VI., and the bitter struggle for the Regency between his brother, the Duke of Orleans, and his cousin, the Duke of Burgundy, a struggle which resulted in civil warfare, determined to carry violent war into that distracted country.

Sir Richard was busily engaged during several months of this year in mobilising the forces with which Edward sailed for France, and which in October inflicted such a crushing defeat on the French army at Agincourt. He does not appear to have taken part in this victorious campaign ; for on the 5th of the following month (Nov., 1415) he was elected Speaker of the Parliament which sat at Northampton. In the office of Speaker he succeeded Thomas Chaucer, son of the great poet, and was followed in 1416 by Sir Walter Beauchamp.

Sir Richard's arms (without crest or motto) are to be seen in a window of the Speaker's House at Westminster: but as they were only put there in the first half of last century they are of no antiquarian interest. Richard seems to have reaped none of the substantial fruits which so often fall to Speakers of the House of Commons ; and in this respect might have been excused for feeling a little envious of the good fortune of Sir Walter Hungerford, one of the Speakers of the preceding year, who was made a Baron, Knight of the Garter, Admiral of the Fleet, and Treasurer of the Exchequer. His election as Speaker was evidently during the King's absence in France, for we find that he was " presented to the Regent for the con- firmation of his election." (Rolls of Parliament, 1415, iv., p. 63^)

Sir Richard's active life appears practically to have closed with his Speakership ; for although he lived eleven years longer, the Records contain but few evidences of his doings. From the Patent Rolls, Henry VI., we glean the following further references to him.

1422, 15 Deer. Inspeximus and confirmation of letters patent, dated 14 June, i Hy. V., inspecting and confirming the patents dated 31 Octr., i Hy. IV., inspecting and confirming letters patent dated 5 Nov., 14 Rd. II., in favour of Rd. Redman, Kt.

1423, 23 Apl. Inspeximus and confirmation of letters patent, etc.

(1) Letters patent dated i May, 11 Rd. II., in favour of Rd. Red- man, Kt.

(2) Letters patent, dated 5 Nov., 14 Rd. II.

(3) Letters patent, dated at Chester, 2 Oct., 21 Rd. II., in favour of same.

In 1418 his first wife, Elizabeth Aldeburgh, died ; and it is probable that before Sir Richard re-emerged from his retirement he had mourned one Elizabeth and wedded another — Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of the King's bench. Sir William, whose home was at Gawthorpe, in the parish of Harewood, was a near neighbour and old friend of Sir Richard, whose senior he was by about ten years ; and no doubt the two families of the Castle and Hall were on intimate terms. It was Sir William Gascoigne, it will be remembered, who refused to obey the King's command to sentence to death Archbishop Scrope and Mowbray, the Earl Mar- shal, after the northern insurrection, in 1405 ; and who is said, although the story lacks historical support, to have committed the dissolute " Prince Hal " to prison for in- solence in Court.

This fearless and famous judge, of whom Lord Camp- bell says, " never was the seat of judgment filled by a more upright or independent magistrate," died in 1419, the year after Sir Richard lost his first wife ; and it may have been the mutual sympathy induced by a common bereavement that led to a more tender sentiment between the widowed knight and the late judge's daughter. How- ever this may have been, Sir Richard and Elizabeth Gas- coigne became man and wife, probably about the year 1420.

A few years later we get the last glimpse of Sir Richard's prominent activities. In 1424 he was commissioned, in company with Sir Ralph Greystoke, Sir William Ryther, and Sir Robert Roos, " to make inquisition in the county of Yorkshire as to lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, services, wardships, marriages, and escheats alleged to have been concealed from the King within the said county." In 1423-4 he was engaged in magisterial work in the West Riding of Yorkshire ; and on Nov. 17, 1426, six months before his death, we find his younger son, Richard, " paying 10 marks for acquiring from Richard Redman, Kt., without licence, the Manor of Blencogo, Co. Cumberland (of which King Richard III. had given him a grant for life nearly forty years earlier), by the name of all the lands and tenements of the said Rd. Redeman,, Kt., in Blencogo, held in chief." Pat. Rolls, 5 Hen. VI.)

Sir Richard died on the 22nd May, in the following year, 1426, and by his will, which is given in full in the Appendix, left the Manor of Levens and certain Harewood estates to Richard, his younger son, in trust for his grandson and successor, Richard, then a boy of eight ; on the death of this grandson without heirs, to his own surviving 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.

Sir Richard's second wife, Elizabeth Gascoigne, sur- vived her husband more than eight years, dying on the 2ist December, 1434. On the ist of March of this year the following inquisition was taken at Selby, co. York, on her predecessor, Elizabeth Aldeburgh ;

The jury say she held for life the manor of Rughford, of the gift of Sir Brian de Stapilton, l<night, her son ; reversion at her death to the said Sir Brian ; held of the heirs of Peter de Brus. The site of the manor is a waste place, with a little wood. There are four tofts, 100 acres of demesne lands, etc., and a 40' rent issuing from 10 messuages in Rughford. Brian de Stapilton, son of the aforesaid Sir Brian, is her heir, at 21, on Friday after St. Leonard's day last. The said Sir Richard Redeman occupied the manor from his death till he died, viz 22 May, 1436. (Chy. Inq. p.m., 12 Hen. VI., No. 18).

It is commonly believed that Richard and his two wives were buried in Harewood Church, where their ^memory is perpetuated by two magnificent altar-tombs of which I give illustrations. This is evidently a mistake; for in the list of burials in the church of the Friar Preachers, or the Black Friars, of York (written by John Wrythe, Garter King-at-Arms) the following entries appear :

It' Mess' Richard Redman chTr

It' Elizabeth de Aldeburgh jadiz dame de Harwode.

Thus there appears to be little doubt that Richard and his first wife found their last resting-place not at Hare- wood but at York, in spite of the altar-tomb in Harewood church, on which they lie sculptured side by side. This church of the Friars Preachers, at York, was the Alde- burghs' favourite place of sepulture. The second Lord (Elizabeth's brother) and his wife were buried there. Sir Richard had two sons (both by Elizabeth Aldeburgh) :

(1) Matthew, who died during his father's lifetime ; and (2) Richard, who survived him, and is probably Richard of Bossall (of whom later),

and one daughter : Joan. She married Sir Thomas Wentvvorth, who fought bravely for Henry VI., at the Battle of Hexham. Joan's grandson was that Sir Thomas Wentworth who won his knighthood by his gallantry in the Battle of the Spurs ; who, from his great wealth, was nicknamed Golden Thomas ; and who, in his later years obtained permission from Henry VIII. to "wear his bonnet" in the Royal presence. But Joan's most famous descendant was the great and ill-fated Earl of Strafford, who died so bravely on the scaffold on Tower Hill, in May, 1641, the victim of a weak and capricious Sovereign whom he had served too well. From Joan, too, came the Marquis of Rocking- ham, George III.'s Prime Minister, and many another great noble who wrote his name largely on the scroll of his generation.

Sir George Duckett says that Sir Richard had another daughter, whose name he does not give, who became the wife of Richard Duket, " Lord of Grayrigg, Heversham, and Morland." He omits, however, to produce any evidence in support of this alliance. {Duchetiana, p. i5.)

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Sir Richard Redman (or Redmayne) (died 1426) was a British soldier, administrator and politician, being elected as a Member of Parliament representing Yorkshire and later acting as the Speaker of the House of Commons for the Parliament of 1415.

He was the son of Sir Matthew Redman, who served in France and Spain under John of Gaunt, and grandson of another Sir Matthew Redman[disambiguation needed] who was the Member of Parliament for Westmorland in 1357 and 1358.[1]

He began his career as a soldier, campaigning on the continent, and was knighted by 1376. He was appointed High Sheriff of Cumberland for 1387, 1391, 1394, 1397, 1401 and 1410 and High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1403 and 1415.

In 1393 Richard was granted leave to hold a tournament in Carlisle. In 1397, after campaigning in Ireland with Richard II he was appointed Master of the Horse. Between 1399 and 1400 he travelled to Ireland with John de Cobham, 3rd Baron Cobham before returning to England in May to create a peace with Scotland.

In 1405 he was commissioned to fine members of the gentry associated with the rebellion by Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, and was the same year elected to represent Yorkshire as a knight of the shire (MP), a job he returned to for the Parliaments of 1414, 1415, 1420 and 1421. In 1408 he was commissioned again to fine gentry associated with the Percy Rebellion after their defeat at the Battle of Bramham Moor.

In 1409 and 1410 he attempted to gain peace with the Scots; after this failed he was tasked with raising forces against them. In 1415 along with John Strange he raised forces against the French before the Hundred Years' War (1415–1429) and was elected speaker of the 1415 parliament, which met on 4 November and lasted only 8 days due to the loyalist feeling after the Battle of Agincourt before Parliament voted for supplies to maintain the war with France. In 1421 he was again commissioned to raise money for the war with France before his death in 1426.

He died in 1426 and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, York. An elaborate memorial to him was installed in Harewood church, Yorkshire, where his estates lay.

He had married twice, secondly to Elizabeth, the daughter of William, 1st Lord Aldeburgh of Aldeburgh and Harewood, and sister and coheiress of William, 2nd Lord Aldeburgh and widow of Sir Brian Stapleton of Carlton, with whom he had at least two sons and two daughters.

His surviving son, Matthew Redman, died before him in 1419 and he was succeeded by his grandson, Richard. Richard Redman, the Bishop of Exeter, was most likely his great-grandson.[1]

References

1 "Redman, Richard (d.1426)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

History of Parliament- REDMAYNE, Sir Richard (d. 1426) of Levens, Westmorland and Harewood, Yorks

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REDMAYNE, Sir Richard (d.1426), of Levens, Westmld. and Harewood, Yorks.

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Family and Education

• 2nd s. and h. of Sir Matthew Redmayne (d.c.1390) of Levens by his 1st w. Lucy.
• m. (1) at least 1s. d.v.p.;
• m. (2) prob. by Sept. 1397, Elizabeth (1364-21 Dec. 1417), e. da. of William, 1st Lord Aldeburgh (d.1388) of Aldeburgh and Harewood, and sis. and coh. of William 2nd. Lord Aldeburgh (d.1391), wid. of Sir Brian Stapleton (d.v.p. 1391) of Carlton, at least 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. Kntd. by 1376.

Offices Held

• Sheriff, Cumb. 15 Nov. 1389-7 Nov. 1390, 17 Nov. 1393-1 Nov. 1394, 1 Dec. 1396-3 Nov. 1397, 17 Nov. 1398-30 Sept. 1399, 8 Nov. 1401-29 Nov. 1402, 10 Dec. 1411-13 Nov. 1412, Yorks. 5 Nov. 1403-4 Dec. 1404, 1 Dec. 1415-20 Nov. 1416.
• Commr. to oversee repairs to Carlisle castle Oct. 1390; make arrests, Westmld. Dec. 1395, Mar. 1396, Apr. 1397, Yorks., Westmld. Nov. 1398, Yorks. July 1403, Dec. 1405; of inquiry Nov. 1397 (oppressions and extortions), Lancs., Westmld., Yorks. Feb., Aug. 1398 (concealments), Yorks. July 1415 (abduction of the earl of Fife), Sept. 1424 (concealments); to enforce the statutes on weirs June 1398; suppress the spread of treasonous rumours May 1402; of array Aug. 1403, Westmld. July 1404, Yorks. Nov. 1404, July 1410, May 1415, Apr. 1418, Mar. 1419; oyer and terminer Aug. 1403 (trespasses), Yorks., Northumb., Cumb., Westmld. Aug. 1407 (treasons), Yorks. Apr. 1408 (murder of Sir Thomas Colville*), Dec. 1411 (attempted murder at Great Ouseburn); to treat with northern rebels and negotiate pardons, generally Apr. 1408; of sewers, Yorks. Aug. 1419; to raise royal loans Apr. 1421.
• Master of the King’s horse c. Feb.-Aug. 1399.
• J.P. Westmld. 8 July 1401-Feb. 1405, 16 Jan. 1414-July 1423, Yorks. (W. Riding) 22 Jan. 1405-14, 6 July 1415-d.
• Escheator, Yorks. 22 Oct. 1404-1 Dec. 1405.
• Parlty. cttee. to audit the accounts of the treasurers for wars 19 June 1406.
• Ambassador to negotiate with the Scots 19 Jan.-13 Feb., 4 Apr.-7 May 1410.
• Speaker 1415.

Biography

• Sir Richard’s ancestors came originally from Redmain in Cumberland, whence they took their name, although from the mid 12th century onwards they made the manor of Levens in Westmorland their home. As prominent local landowners with other estates at Troutbeck and Lupton, they played an important part in defending England from invasion by the Scots.
• Sir Matthew Redmayne, who spent much of his earlier life campaigning in France, served from 1379 as joint warden of the march towards Scotland and later held office as constable of Roxburgh as well. Although he fell into enemy hands (for the second time in his life) after the battle of Otterburn in 1388, he was soon released and died a free man some two years later. Such was Sir Matthew’s position in marcher society that he was able to marry (as his second wife) Joan, the grand daughter of Henry, 1st Lord Fitzhugh (d.1356), and widow of both William, Lord Greystoke (d.1359), and Anthony, Lord Lucy (d.1368). For a brief period he shared the wardenship of the march with his stepson, Ralph, Lord Greystoke, who was to prove a useful family contact among the northern nobility.
• After the death of his elder son and namesake at some point in the early 1370s Sir Matthew began to involve his next heir, Richard, in his affairs. The young man had already been knighted when, in March 1376, he and his father offered financial guarantees that Robert Hawley would abide by an agreement with Edward III for ransoming the Aragonese nobleman, the count of Denia. Two years later, Sir Richard sued out royal letters of protection preparatory to his departure overseas, probably on one or other of the naval offensives then being mounted against the Spanish and the French. Little is known about his activities during this period, perhaps because he was campaigning in Europe, although by February 1382 he was back home to deliver an assignment of £100 made to his father, as keeper of Roxburgh, from the Exchequer.
• The Redmaynes held most of their Westmoreland property as feudal tenants of the earls of Oxford, which no doubt explains why Sir Richard also helped to collect money allocated by the government to Robert de Vere, the then earl, who had just been promoted duke of Ireland. In October 1386 he took receipt of £26 as part of the wages of men whom the earl had mobilized against the threat of a French invasion. His connection with de Vere was, however, to prove short lived, for the latter fled the country in December 1387 after an ignominious defeat at the battle of Radcot Bridge by the Lords Appellant, who had already brought charges of treason against him, and were later to secure his conviction in the Merciless Parliament. But the Appellants do not appear to have mistrusted Redmayne in any way. On the contrary, in late April 1388, while the Merciless Parliament was still in session, he obtained a grant of rents worth £10 a year from crown lands in Blencogo, Westmorland. The award was apparently conditional upon the surrender of securities of £80, underwritten by Sir John Ireby, the sitting Member for Cumberland, to Thomas, duke of Gloucester, chief among the Appellants.
• Sir Richard’s administrative career began impressively enough, in November 1389, with his appointment as sheriff of Cumberland. Just two days before the end of his year in office he was retained for life by Richard II at an annual fee of 40 marks, charged upon the revenues of the county. His father may, perhaps, have lived to see his good fortune, although he was almost certainly dead by December 1390, when Sir Richard confirmed various family charters. The latter may, indeed, have been moved to make a pilgrimage to pray for his late father’s soul, as a few weeks later he arranged for the supply of foreign credit to the value of £100 through the banker, Angelo Christofori.
• All of the Redmayne estates now descended to Sir Richard, who, in January 1393, used his influence at Court to obtain a royal licence permitting him to enclose a park of 3,000 acres at Levens. That he spent a good deal of time on the border is evident from other letters patent of Richard II, issued three months later, whereby he and three companions were authorized to hold jousts of war at Carlisle against the Scots—a concession repeated again at the end of the decade.1
• Towards the close of his second term as sheriff of Cumberland, in the autumn of 1394, Sir Richard indented to serve in the army which Richard II planned to lead against the rebel Irish clans. He spent eight months in Ireland, returning to Westmoreland in late April 1395. During this period he intervened with the King to secure a pardon for his father’s retainer, Robert Harbottle*, who stood accused of murder; and in October 1395 the fine of £20 paid by the King’s esquire, Edmund Hampden*, for marrying without a royal licence, was assigned to him as a gift.
• Sir Richard’s standing at Court is also evident from his re-appointment to the shrievalty of Cumberland in December 1396 and again in November 1398, since on both occasions the King was strongly placed not only to nominate his most loyal and trusted servants as sheriffs, but also safely to ignore the statute of 1371 which required three years to elapse between such appointments. (Richard II’s flagrant disregard of this statute did, indeed, constitute one of the points in Thomas Haxey’s bill, presented by the Commons to the first Parliament of 1397.) Further rewards came Sir Richard’s way in the shape of a second annuity of 40 marks, assigned to him for life in October 1397 from the palatinate of Chester, and a grant in April 1399 of the wardship and marriage of the young Richard Kirkbred. Although the initial award of rents worth £50 p.a. from the Kirkbred estates in Cumberland was later reduced to 20 marks p.a., Sir Richard clearly remained high in the King’s favour: the royal letters of pardon accorded to him in April 1398 can have been little more than a formality.
• It is, however, worth noting that at some unspecified date John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, retained him at a fee of £20 p.a.; and that he may well already have established a connection with Gaunt’s son and heir, Henry of Bolingbroke, one of the junior Lords Appellant, against whom Richard II was then poised to strike.2 But this incipient attachment to the house of Lancaster had not yet come to assume overriding importance in his career. On the contrary, his duties as master of the King’s horse brought him to Court more regularly than before; and it was no doubt because of his official responsibilities in this capacity that Richard II once again retained him to serve in Ireland. The attorneys whom he chose to supervise his affairs during his absence included Richard Clifford, the keeper of the privy seal, and Thomas Stanley, the keeper of the rolls in Chancery, as well as one of his feudal tenants, William Thornburgh*. He left England with the royal army in May 1399, and was thus overseas when Henry of Bolingbroke returned from exile to claim first his inheritance of Lancaster and eventually the English throne.
• Notwithstanding his past history as a supporter of Richard II’s absolutist policies, Sir Richard seems to have encountered few problems in coming to terms with the new regime. Although he was removed from the shrievalty of Cumberland in September 1399, and later had to offer securities of £200, jointly with his brother John, as an earnest of their future good behaviour towards the archdeacon of Richmond, he did not otherwise suffer as a result of Bolingbroke’s coup d’état. The usurper was, after all, prepared to look kindly upon one of his father’s former retainers, especially as Sir Richard had influential advocates in the Lancastrian camp. His stepbrother, Lord Greystoke, may well have intervened on his behalf, as also may the earl of Northumberland and his son, ‘Hotspur’, with whom Sir Richard had long been connected through their work together in local government.
• Furthermore, Sir Richard’s recent marriage had greatly enhanced his status as a northern landowner, making him a particularly valuable ally whose support was well worth cultivating. We do not know exactly when he married Elizabeth, the elder sister and coheir of William, Lord Aldeburgh, although a collusive suit which he and Sir Matthew Redmayne, his son by an earlier, now undocumented marriage, brought in September 1397 over the manor of Woodhall near Wetherby in Yorkshire suggests that he had by then taken over the management of her estates.3 Elizabeth’s inheritance comprised one half of the manor of Harewood with extensive appurtenances throughout the West Riding and other property in Holderness. She also held the manor of Rufforth as dower after the death of her first husband, Sir Brian Stapleton, by whom she had a son named (Sir) Brian*, then a ward in the custody of (Sir) Robert Hilton*.4 Sir Richard was anxious to gain custody of the boy’s possessions, and also to obtain permission from the Crown for a new settlement of the Aldeburgh inheritance in favour of the two sons recently born to him and Elizabeth, so he had strong personal motives for changing allegiance.
• Henry IV certainly placed a high premium on his services. At the very beginning of his reign he confirmed him as keeper of the Kirkbred estates and also agreed to continue paying the retainder of £20 p.a. originally awarded by John of Gaunt.5 A few months later, Richard II’s other letters patent granting Sir Richard rents of £10 p.a. from Blencogo and his two separate annuities of 40 marks were also approved. Over the next few years various additional rewards came Sir Richard’s way in the form of gifts of game and timber from the duchy of Lancaster estates in Yorkshire, and two tenements in Liverpool confiscated in 1400 from Richard II’s nephew, the rebel earl of Kent.6
• Sir Richard was, moreover, summoned to attend the great councils held at Westminster in August 1401 and 1405. Most important of all, King Henry was prepared to accommodate his wishes with regard to both the Stapleton and the Aldeburgh estates. In April 1401 he sanctioned a series of conveyances whereby the Yorkshire properties owned by Sir Richard’s wife were entailed upon their male issue, thus effectively disinheriting (Sir) Brian, who was left with nothing more than a reversionary interest.7 To add insult to injury, the youth’s manors of Carlton in Yorkshire and Kentmere in Westmorland were leased to Sir Richard at an annual rent of £106; and because his pension from the Crown soon began to fall into arrears he was eventually permitted to retain £50 a year of the rent to cover his losses.
• Not surprisingly in view of Henry IV’s generosity towards him, he remained staunchly loyal throughout the political upheavals of the early 15th century, and thus received an even greater share of patronage. In May 1406, for example, he obtained the wardship and marriage of another royal ward named Richard Newland, the terms of his custody being fixed in the following November while Parliament was in session. This marked Sir Richard’s first appearance in the Lower House, to which he was returned as representative for Yorkshire.
• Since his second marriage, he had spent an increasing amount of time on his wife’s estates, and had, indeed, by this date already served as both sheriff and escheator of Yorkshire. During the course of the Parliament Henry IV confirmed without charge a charter of King John granting rights of free warren on the manor of Harewood, and also made him an allowance of £20 to cover certain expenses which he had sustained in the north while on government business.8 One of his more gruesome tasks had involved the distribution of the head and quarters of a traitor executed at Pontefract for his support of the northern rebels, although King Henry had allocated a separate, and unusually generous sum of five marks for the costs involved.
• Sir Richard’s election to Parliament also gave him an opportunity to press for the suspension of proceedings in the Exchequer being brought against him and two other local landowners for failing to render an account as collectors of an aid on the marriage of Princess Blanche, in 1401, and here again King Henry was prepared to support him. Despite his lack of parliamentary experience, Sir Richard evidently commanded the respect of the Commons, who nominated him as one of the six serving Members to audit the accounts of the treasurers of the wars. Henry IV had himself opposed such an audit, although he could at least rely upon Sir Richard’s loyalty and discretion. These particular qualities were again put to the test in 1410, when Sir Richard served on two diplomatic missions to Scotland, for the negotiation of a truce. He seems to have discharged his duties successfully, and it was probably on the border that he first came into contact with Henry IV’s younger son, John, duke of Bedford, who was then not only warden of the east march but also feudal overlord of Sir Richard’s manor of Levens.
• The Parliament of 1415 met in early November while the victorious Henry V was still absent in France, and Bedford held office as custos regni. Sir Richard, who had been confirmed in all his fees and annuities at the beginning of the new reign, was by then too old to perform military service, although his own son, Richard, and his stepson, (Sir) Brian Stapleton, both fought at Agincourt where between them they took a number of valuable prisoners. Sir Richard’s part in the expedition was confined to holding a muster of the duke of Gloucester’s men at Michaelmarsh near Romsey, but he still had a valuable part to play at home, and the duke of Bedford may well have exerted his influence to ensure that the Commons elected him as Speaker. His term of office was both remarkably short (lasting just eight or nine days), and unusually easy, since in the general euphoria following Henry V’s triumph at Agincourt the Commons were disposed to be generous. The grant for life of tunnage and poundage and the wool subsidy which they made to King Henry was, indeed, without precedent (save for the short-lived allocation of the wool customs to Richard II in 1398).9
• Within a matter of days Henry V himself was back in London, where he gave his personal attention to the appointment of sheriffs. Sir Richard now began his eighth term as a sheriff in the north, during which he secured the return of his stepson, Sir Brian, and the latter’s great friend, Sir Robert Plumpton, to the first Parliament of 1416. Both men moved in the duke of Bedford’s circle too, a fact which must have influenced the outcome of the elections. Less happily, Redmayne’s last appointment as sheriff of Yorkshire saw the accumulation of ‘great losses and damages’ amounting to at least £80. Although the sum was promptly deducted from his account, the strain of years of administrative responsibility clearly began to take its toll; and in May 1417 Henry V excused him from holding office again. Yet Sir Richard’s expertise was not altogether lost, for Bedford continued to employ him as a councillor, and he was thus occupied, in October 1417, when news of his stepson’s death in Normandy reached England. A few days later he and the duke were received together into the confraternity of St. Albans abbey, where they made arrangements for prayers to be said for Sir Brian’s soul.
• As late as October 1419, Sir Richard is to be found acting as a receiver of money for Bedford at the Exchequer, although by this date he had already begun to retire gradually from public affairs, and was thus unable to exploit more fully the influence of his kinsman, Lord Fitzhugh, as the King’s chamberlain and treasurer of the Exchequer.
• During the years immediately following Henry VI’s accession, in 1422, Sir Richard lived quietly on his estates, enjoying the various pensions which he still received from the Crown. One of his daughters had by then married the Westmorland MP, Richard Duckett*, and was thus well provided for, but two of his sons (half-brothers who shared the name of Matthew) had predeceased him, the elder dying soon after 1397, while the younger survived long enough to produce a son of his own, Richard†, in about 1416. It was thus necessary for Sir Richard to make careful arrangements for the setting up of a trust on his grandson’s behalf, especially as his second wife, Elizabeth, was also dead. On 1 May 1425 he drew up a will to this effect. As an old man, fast approaching death, Sir Richard clearly began to regret his rapacious behaviour towards his late stepson, Sir Brian; and it was no doubt in an attempt to make reparation to his descendants—while at the same time assuaging his own conscience—that he settled two of Elizabeth’s Yorkshire manors upon the Stapleton family. He died on 22 Mar. following, and was buried at the church of the Black Friars at York beside his second wife and many of her relatives (including Sir Brian). A magnificent tomb chest with effigies of Sir Richard and Elizabeth was placed in the parish church of Harewood as well. The young Richard Redmayne proved his age in 1437 and duly inherited his grandmother’s estates in Harewood, together with the manor of Levens and his father’s other property in Westmorland. His possessions there may also have included the two manors of Selside and Whinfell, which were the subject of litigation later in the century.10
• Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
• Author: C.R.
• Notes
• Unless otherwise stated, all references used in this biography are to be found in J.S. Roskell, Parl. and Pol. in Late Med. Eng. iii. 205-36. It is evident that Sir Richard was married twice, as in 1397 he had an adult son named Sir Matthew, who is omitted from all the family pedigrees (JUST 1/1509 rot. 4, 6). The genealogists are wrong in asserting that Sir Richard’s sister, Felicity, married the London mercer, John Woodcock*. The latter’s wife was the daughter of another mercer, Thomas Austyn (Corporation of London RO, hr 134/69).
• 1. W. Greenwood, Redmans of Levens and Harewood, 82.
• 2. C67/30 m.28; DL42/16 (3), ff. 109v, 120.
• 3. JUST 1/1509 rot. 4, 6.
• 4. CP25(1)278/146/13; Greenwood, 88.
• 5. DL42/16(3), ff. 109v, 120.
• 6. DL42/15, f. 127v, 16 (3), ff. 5v, 105v.
• 7. Greenwood, 81; CP25(1)279/149/36.
• 8. E404/22/194.
• 9. J.S. Roskell, Speakers, 161-4; E404/29/92; DL28/27/8.
• 10. C139/28/28; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 460. It was the young Richard Redmayne, not his grandfather, who married Elizabeth, a daughter of Sir William Gascoigne*, and a grand daughter of Chief Justice Gascoigne. The marriage may have been negotiated as early as 1417, when Sir Richard conveyed

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From the Dictionary of the National Biography:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Redman,_Richard_(d.1426)_(DNB00)

REDMAN, Sir RICHARD (d. 1426), speaker of the House of Commons, was son of Sir Matthew Redman of Levens, Westmoreland, by his wife Joan. His father, probably a son of Sir Matthew Redman who sat for Westmoreland in the parliaments of 1357 and 1358 and died in 1360, served in France and Spain under John of Gaunt in 1373, 1375, and 1380. In 1381 he was warden of Roxburghe, and in 1389 a commissioner to treat with the Scottish envoys (Cal. Doc. relating to Scotland, 1357–1509; Cal. Patent Rolls, 1377–81, passim). He died about 1390, and in 1393 Richard was granted leave to hold a tournament at Carlisle.

• On 17 March 1399–1400 he received letters of protection for a journey to Ireland with John de Cobham, third lord Cobham [q. v.], and in May was treating for peace with the Scots.
• In 1405 he was commissioned to exact fines from those who had been concerned in the Percy rising, and in the same year represented Yorkshire in parliament; he was returned for the same constituency in 1414, 1415, 1420, and 1421. In 1408 he was appointed to receive submissions and levy fines on the rebels who had been defeated at Bramham Moor, and in 1409 and 1410 was engaged in negotiating with, and raising forces against, the Scots.
• In 1415, with John Strange, he took the principal part in mobilising the forces for the French war. In the parliament which met on 4 Nov. he was elected speaker; parliament was in a loyal mood after Agincourt, and, having rapidly voted supplies, was dissolved on 12 Nov. In 1421 Redman was commissioned to raise loans for the French war.
• He died in 1426, having married Elizabeth (d. 1434), widow of Sir Bryan Stapleton, and daughter of William de Aldburgh, lord of the manor of Harewood, Yorkshire; she brought him Harewood and other manors in Yorkshire (Cal. Inq. post mortem, iv. 108).
• His son, Matthew Redman, predeceased him in 1419 seised of a moiety of Harewood (ib. iv. 186). Richard Redman (d. 1505) [q. v.], bishop of Ely, was probably Matthew Redman's grandson.
  • Sources:
• [Rymer's Fœdera, orig. ed. vols. vii. viii. and ix. passim;
• Rolls of Parl. iv. 63 a;
• Palgrave's Antient Kal. and Inventories, ii. 55;
• Cal. of Documents relating to Scotland, passim;
• Official Ret. Memb. Parl.;
• Plumpton Corr. (Camden Soc.) passim;
• Wylie's Henry IV, iii. 158;
• Manning's Speakers;
• Miscell. Gen. et Herald. new ser. iii. 441–2.]

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• Sir Richard Redmayne1
• M, #34732, d. 22 May 1426
• Father Sir Matthew IV Redman, Governor of Berwick & Roxburgh b. c 1329, d. a 8 Jan 1398
• Mother Joan FitzHenry d. 1 Sep 1403
• Sir Richard Redmayne married Elizabeth Aldburgh, daughter of Sir William Aldborow, 1st Lord Harewood & Aldeburgh and Elizabeth de Harewood. Sir Richard Redmayne Lord of Harewood, Levens, etc; Sheriff of Yorkshire and Cumberland; Speaker of the House of Commons. He was born at of Harewood, Yorkshire, England. He married Elizabeth Gascoigne, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne, Chief Justice of the King's Bench and Elizabeth Mowbray, after 21 December 1417.2 Sir Richard Redmayne died on 22 May 1426.
• Family 1 Elizabeth Aldburgh b. b 1364, d. 21 Dec 1417
• Children
  • Joan (Jane) Redmayne+
  • Sir Matthew V Redmayne+ d. 1419
  • Richard Redmayne
• Family 2 Elizabeth Gascoigne b. c 1390, d. 1434
• Child
  • William Redmayne3 b. c 1419, d. c 1482
• Citations
• 1.[S10747] Unknown author, Redman of Levens and Harewood, by W. Greenwood, 1905, p. 1.
• 2.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• 3.[S11579] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I, by John Burke, Esq.,, p. 57.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1157.htm#...

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Harewood - All Saints

• Sir Richard Redman or Redmayne (1475) & Margaret (Middleton) He was the grandson and heir of the couple on the right.
• Sir Richard Redman or Redmayne (1426) & Elizabeth (Aldburgh) His second wife; his third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Chief Justice William Gascoigne and Elizabeth (Mowbray) (below)Alabaster.
• From: http://www.churchmonumentssociety.org/Yorks_W_Riding.html

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• Sir Richard Redman1
• M, #3417, d. 22 May 1426
• Last Edited=13 Jun 2003
• Sir Richard Redman married Elizabeth Aldeburgh, daughter of Sir William Aldeburgh, 1st Lord Aldeburgh and Elizabeth de l'Isle, between 7 September 1393 and 16 July 1399.1 He died on 22 May 1426.1
• He lived at Levens, Cumberland, England.1
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 102. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p342.htm#i3417
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• GASCOIGNE, Sir William (d.1422), of Gawthorpe, Yorks.
• s. and h. of Sir William Gascoigne (d. 6 Dec. 1419), c.j.KB, of Gawthorpe by his 1st w. Elizabeth, da. of Alexander Mowbray of Stokton-on-the-Moor. m. by c.1405, Joan, da. of Sir Henry Wyman, 2s. inc. William†, 3da. Kntd. by Oct. 1419.1
• ....The subject of this biography is first mentioned in 1417, when he obtained from his neighbour, Sir Richard Redmayne*, a grant of half the manor of Kelfield, which belonged to Redmayne’s wife, Elizabeth, a sister and coheir of William, 2nd Lord Aldeburgh. Relations between the Gascoignes and the Redmaynes remained cordial, and were later strengthened by the marriage of Sir Richard’s grandson to one of William Gascoigne’s daughters, who may actually have been betrothed at this time. Significantly enough, her sister, Anne, became the wife of William Ryther, the grandson of Lord Aldeburgh’s other sister, thus consolidating the connexion even further. Meanwhile, .... etc.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/ga...
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