Sir Richard Boteler Knight, First Lord of Houtrawcliff

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷³⁰
Richard was a younger son of Almeric and Alina. He married Alicia Carleton, and held a fourth of a knight's fee of the honor of Lancaster at Galfi in Norfolk. [Testa de Nevil, pg. 290] Richard was the founder of the House of Bulter of Roucliff. He held Roucliffe as a grant from Theobald Walter. The deed for this grant was dated 11 Jan 1265 [Dodsworth] and was confirmed by Richard de Thornhill [Whalley Coucher Book, vol. ii. p. 422, Chetham Soc.]. He was a witness to an undated charter of Robert Banastre to Robert de Samelsbury. And another undated charter made between 1270 and 1280. He often appears as a witness with his brother William.

~The Annals of the Lords of Warrington, pp. 60-61

Richard married Alicia Carleton, daughter of Sir William de Carleton Knight and Helen de Stainton, in 1281.⁷³⁰