Richard de Vernon Lord of Vernon, first Baron of Shipbroke

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree," p. 252, Richard de Vernon, grantee of Shipbrook, father of William de Vernon, baron of Shipbrook ⁷¹³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁶
Richard de Vernon, Lord of Vernon, who was on of the Barons created by Hugh Lupus, to whom William the Conqueror, in the 20th year of his reign, granted the county-palatine of Chester.

It appears from the Doomsday book, that this Ricahrd de Vernon, first Baron of Shipbroke, held the lands and manors of Aston, Picton, Shipbroke, Crew, Hetune, Cocheshall, Wice, Malatune, Wanetun, Devenham, Dovestock, Adeline, Boetbury, and others. He was a benefactor, with Hugh Lupus, to the abbey of St. Werburgh in Chester, and during the reign of William II, gave tithes of Easton and Picton, to that abbey. He was succeeded by his eldest son and heir, William de Vernon, whose son was Hugh de Vernon.
~Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. 7, pgs. 396-397