Richard de Wrenbury

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, p. 628, Philip married Margaret, the daughter of Richard de Wrenbury, by Catherine his wife. ⁷¹³

~County Families of Lancashire & Cheshire, pg. 120-121, Margaret, daughter of Richard de Wrenbury, by Katharine, daughter of the Lady Matilda de Courtray.⁷²⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: Cheshire Towns and Villages .
The quiet country township of Wrenbury was a Parish in the old Nantwich Hundred which included the hamlets of Porters Hill, Wrenbury Heath and Wrenburywood. It is currently in the Wrenbury Ward of Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council, within the Cholmondeley Electoral Division of Cheshire County Council and in the Eddisbury Parliamentary Constituency. It was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as "Wareneberie" and changed its name to "Wrennebury" in 1230 which probably translates from old English as 'old forest inhabited by wrens'. In the mid-14th century, during the reign of Edward III, the estate of Wrenbury was held by John de Wrenbury and passed through the female line to the Olton family and then to the Starkey family who lived at Wrenbury Hall.

~Cheshire Towns and Villages

Richard married Catherine de Courtenay. (Catherine de Courtenay died in Cheshire, England.)