Richard de la Vache

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Reynold Grey married, before 10 January 1327/8, Maud, apparently the daughter of Richard de la Vache. He died at Shirland, 28 May or 4 June 1370, aged 58. His widow's dower was ordered to be assigned, 14 August 1370, and the manors of Toseland, Hemingby, Shirland, &c., which she and her husband had held jointly at his death, were liberated to her, 26 July and 20 October 1370, and 20 April 1371. She died at Shirland, 14 September 1391.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 176-177 & Vol. XIV, p. 356

• Background Information. ¹²⁹⁶
Richard de la Vache married Matilda, a co-heiress of the Mansel family during the reign of Henry III. Richard is said to have died seised of the manor of Shenley in 1366, and to have been succeeded in this estate by his son Philip.

History and Topography of Buckinghamshire, p. 596