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Name: Richard RICH , Knt., 1st Baron Rich
Birth: ABT. 1496
Death: 12 JUN 1567 in Rochford, co. Essex
Burial: 8 JUL 1567 South Chapel, Felsted, co. Essex
Note:
Of Leighs Priory, co. Essex. Married Elizabeth Jenks, d. 1558. Speaker of the House of Commons, 1536, knighted 1536, Barrister, Justice of Peace, Herts 1528, Essex 1530, M.P. for Colchester 1529-1536, Attorney-Gen. of Wales and the cos. palatine of Chester & Flint, 1532-1538.
CP X:774-75
Dugdale, Baronage 2:387-88 (appears to leave a generation off between Richard and Thomas)
MCS 122B:15
"The House of Rich" by Donald Lines Jacobus, TAG 21 (1944-45), pp. 234-238; TAG 22 (1945-46), pp. 27-37
PA3:653
Date: 18 Jun 2002
From: Clagett, Brice
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Richard Rich
The ancestry of Lord Chancellor Rich is obscure. It's been a long
time since I looked at Jacobus' articles, but I believe there are
problems with the descent as he shows it. If the Chancellor's
father was Richard Rich who married Joan Dingley, it appears to
be incorrect that he was the son of Thomas Rich, son of Richard
Rich the mercer of London. I think Thomas Rich, son of the mercer,
is the Thomas Rich whose will was proved in 1471, PCC 20 Wattys,
and who named no son Richard. See also Christine Carpenter, ed.,
Kingsford's Stonor Letters and Papers 1290-1483 (1996) p. xxvii.
Even the identity of the Chancellor's parents seems in doubt.
Bindoff's History of Parliament 1509-1558 vol. 3 p. 192 claims
that he was "the son of one John Rich of Penton Mewsey
[Hampshire], who in 1509 left a house in Islington, Middlesex, to
a son Richard, on condition that he was obedient to his mother."
Bindoff gives no reason for his apparent certainty that this son
Richard was the future Chancellor.
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