Sir Ralfe de Vernon Knight, Baron of Shipbrook

   Another name for Ralfe was Ralph de Vernon.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ^686,752
He married, first, Mary, daughter of Ralph, Lord Dacre; and secondly, Matilda, daughter of Robert Grosvenor of Budworth and widow of John Hatton. By his first wife he had had issue, Sir Ralph and Thomas Vernon, of Lostock. By his second wife he had a son, Richard, who had two sons, Sir Ralph and Sir Richard.

~Collins's Peerage of England, pp. 397-398

Collins placed this with Sir Ralph's father, but other genealogies & The History of the City of Chester by Joseph Hemingway place these women with Sir Ralph, Knight.

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree," p. 252, Sir Ralph de Vernon, Knight who married first, Mary, daughter of the Lord of Darce of the north, and married second, Maud Grosvernor, sister of Robert Grosvenor of Budworth.

Children with Mary Darce:
• Roese, wife of William de Brereton, Knight
• Agatha, wife of Sir Hugh Venables, Knight
• Hugh de Vernon
• Sir Ralph de Bernon, knight, son and heir apparent, died before his father, married Margaret, daughter of Urian de St. Pierre, who was a widow in 13 Edward II
• Richard de Vernon, rector of Stockport, 1306-1334, on whose rights and heirs the barony was settled, 19 Edward II
• Thomas de Vernon, youngest son, married Joane, daughter of Richard de Lostok, lord of Lostock Gralam, widow of William Toft

Children with Maud Grosvernor, which Ormerod shows as his mistress:

• William de Vernon, first named in settlement in remainder of the Grosvernor estate, 16 Edward II
• Richard de Vernon, grantee of manor of Mottram, 30 Edward I
• Robert de Vernon
• Matilda, named in settlements of Grosvernor and Thurstanston estates, and wife of William de Venables of Kynderton, 6 Edward III

Ralfe married Mary Darce, daughter of Sir Randolf de Darce Baron Dacre of Gillesland and Margaret de Multon Baroness of Multon. (Mary Darce was born in Cumberland, England.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Information. Margaret de Multon married Randolph de Dacre after being abducted by her future husband.

Ralfe next married Maude de Grosvenor, daughter of Robert le Grosvenor and Emma de Mobberley.⁷¹³ (Maude de Grosvenor was born in Hulme, Cheshire, England.)