Richard Chichester (died 1496)

Origins

Career

Marriages and children

• Firstly to Margaret Keynes, a daughter of Nicholas Keynes, lord of the manor of Winkleigh, Devon, by whom he had three sons and two daughters, including:
• *John Chichester, eldest son and heir apparent, who married Thomasine Steyning, a daughter of William Steyning, but died childless and predeceased his father.
• *Nicholas Chichester, 2nd son, who also predeceased his father, having married Christine Paulet, the third daughter of Sir Nicholas Pawlet of Sampford Peverell in Devon, who survived him and remarried twice. By his wife Nicholas had children including:
• **John Chichester of Raleigh, heir to his grandfather, who by his marriage to the great heiress Margaret Beaumont, inherited substantial lands in Devon, including the manor of Shirwell, in which was Youlston, the former Beaumont seat, for which the Chichester family eventually abandoned Raleigh.
• *Richard Chichester, 3rd son, who married Thomasine de Hall, the heiress of Hall, in the parish of Bishops Tawton, and founded that line of the family, whose descendants still own the estate today.
• *Margaret Chichester, wife of John Hensley,
• *Elizabeth Chichester, the first wife of John Berry of Ilfracombe, Devon, whose son founded the family of Berry of East Leigh, Bideford.
• *, who married John IV Barnhous of Kingston, Staverton in Devon.
• Secondly he married Elizabeth Sapcott, a daughter of Sir John Sapcott, who survived her husband. Without children.

  Death