Richard Arches

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Canting arms of Arches of Eythrope and Cranwell (in Waddesdon) and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire (also of Arches of Arches manor, East Hendred, Berkshire) : Gules, three arches argent ArchesofArches&EythropeArms.PNG
Canting arms of Arches of Eythrope and Cranwell (in Waddesdon) and Little Kimble, Buckinghamshire (also of Arches of Arches manor, East Hendred, Berkshire) : Gules, three arches argent

Sir Richard Arches (died 1417), of Eythrope, in the parish of Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, was MP for Buckinghamshire in 1402. He was knighted before 1401. [1]

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Origins

He was probably the son of Richard Arches of Eythrope (anciently Eythorpe, "Ethorp", etc.), by his wife Lucy Abberbury (or Adderbury), daughter of Sir Richard I Adderbury (c. 1331 – 1399) [2] of Donnington Castle, Berkshire and Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, twice MP for Oxfordshire. His family, whose name was Latinised to de Arcubus [3] ("from the arches" [4] ) had been established in Buckinghamshire since at the latest 1309, [5] and held in that county the manors of Little Kimble, and in the parish of Waddesdon the estates of Eythrope [6] and Cranwell. [5]

The estate of Arches within the manor of East Hendred in Berkshire had long been held by a family which was called Arches or D'Arches [7] Their heir was the family of Eyston. John Arches (d. circa 1405) of Arches was elected four-times as MP for Berkshire, in 1384, 1390, 1402 and 1404. [8] A family relationship between the Arches families of Arches and Eythrope, which both bore the same canting arms of Gules, three arches argent, [9] was suggested by Bertha Putnam in her work on Sir William Shareshull, [10] but as was remarked upon by Woodger, her suggestion that Sir Richard Arches (died 1417) was the son of Ralph Arches, son of John Arches (d. circa 1405) of East Hendred was clearly physically impossible. [1]

Career

Between 1394 and 1395 he took part in the first military expedition to Ireland of King Richard II and was knighted soon afterwards. He was elected MP for Buckinghamshire in 1402. He was appointed a Commissioner of Array for Buckinghamshire in 1403 and served as a Justice of the Peace for Oxfordshire from 1410 to 1412. In July 1417 he embarked in King Henry V's army for the conquest of Normandy, serving in the retinue of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1388–1428). He died in Normandy on 5 September 1417, presumably killed in action. [1]

Marriages and children

He married twice:

Lands held

In Buckinghamshire: [17]

Arches also inherited, or possibly purchased at reduced cost, [1] five Oxfordshire manors from his childless uncle Sir Richard II Adderbury (died 1416), of Donnington Castle, Berkshire, twice MP for Oxfordshire. These manors were Souldern, Steeple Aston, Sibford, Ludwell, and Glympton. In addition, he acquired, via his first wife's inheritance, possession of the Oxfordshire manors of Horley, Ilbury and Wykeham.

Succession

His son and heir John Arches (born 1410) died as a child soon after his father's death, and thus his heir became his daughter Joan Arches, later the wife of Sir John Dinham (1406–1458) of Nutwell, Devon. Their son and heir was John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham (1433–1501), KG. [23] The arms of Arches were later quartered by Lord Dinham and later by his heirs the Bourchier family, Earls of Bath. [24]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Woodger, HoP biog of Sir Richard Arches
  2. "ADDERBURY (ABBERBURY), Sir Richard I (c.1331-1399), of Donnington, Berks. and Steeple Aston, Oxon. | History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  3. Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806, re Waddesden Hundred; Woodger, HoP biog of Sir Richard Arches
  4. Cassel's Latin Dictionary arcus
  5. 1 2 Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806, re Waddesden Hundred
  6. Modern spelling, formerly Eythorpe, Ethorp (Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806) etc.
  7. Heraldic Visitation of Berkshire, vol.56, p.26, within pedigree of Eyston family
  8. Woodger, L.S., Biography of Arches, John (d.c.1405), of Arches in East Hendred, Berks., published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386–1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993
  9. Arches arms later quartered by Dinham, see e.g. Chope, R.P., The Book of Hartland, Torquay, 1940, p.37; visible in stained glass in Bampton Church, Devon (manor of Bampton held by Bourchiers) and sculpted on the Tudor gatehouse of the Bourchier seat Tawstock Court, Devon. See also Flemish tapestry of Lord Dinham (died 1501) in the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York (Cloister Collection)
  10. Putnam, Bertha H., The Place in Legal History of Sir William Shareshull, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1350–1361: A Study of Judicial & Administrative Methods in the Reign of Edward III. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1950, pp.286-7, appendix 1
  11. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, new edition, Vol IV, p.377 (Baron Dinham), note h, quoting Sir Richard's Inquisition post mortem
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  13. "GREVILLE, Richard (d.1421), of Ilbury in Deddington, Oxon. | History of Parliament Online". historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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  17. "Eythorpe", Cranwell & Little Kimble, per Cokayne, Complete Peerage, new edition, Vol IV, p.377 (Baron Dinham)
  18. HoP biog
  19. 1 2 3 Victoria County History, Buckinghamshire, Vol.2, 1908, Parishes: Little Kimble
  20. Modern spelling, formerly Eythorpe, Ethorp (Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806, re: Waddesdon) etc.
  21. 1 2 Lysons, Magna Britannia, 1806, re: Waddesdon
  22. Victoria County History, A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2, William Page (editor), 1908, pp.267-271: 'The parishes of Stone hundred: Cuddington', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2 (1908), pp. 267-271.
  23. Cokayne, Complete Peerage, new edition, Vol IV, p.377 (Baron Dinham)
  24. http://www.middlesex-heraldry.org.uk re:monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (died 1612) in the Earl of Bedford's chapel at Chenies, Bucks

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