Sir Richard de Radcliffe
- Born: 1301-1325, Lancashire, England
- Marriage: Sybil Clitheroe 745
- Died: 1380, Lancashire, England at age 79 745
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 745
Sir Richard de Radclyffe, was the son and heir of Sir John, and was known as "le Puigné" in order to distinuish him from his cousing, Richard Radclyffe on the Tower. He married Matilda, daughter and heir of Sir John Legh of Botths and Sancbach. Matilda brought the manor of Sandback, a moiety of Mobberley, and other extensive possessions of the Arderne inheritance in the county of Cheshire. He added these lands to had acquired from his own family, which made him on of the greatest landowners in Lancashire and Cheshire.
Richard was drowned in Rossendale Water, whie exercising his official duties on the Thusrday before the Feast of St. Margaret in 1380. With his first wife he had a son John, who was his heir. He also had a daughter named Joan who married James de Bosville of Chevet, Yorkshire.
Richard was married a second time to Sybil, the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Clithoroe of Salesbury, and they had a daughter, also named Joan, who married Sir Henry de Hoghton in 1401.
The Book of the Radclyffes, pages 140-141
Richard married Sybil Clitheroe, daughter of Robert de Clitheroe and Unknown. 745
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