Sir Richard de Willoughby Knight. Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹²⁶⁰
Sir Richard de Willughby, senior, d. 18 Edward II, leaving Richard his son, above age 30. He purchased the manor of Wollaton of the Morteins.

~Heraldic Visitation of the Northern Counties in 1530, p. 4

• Web Reference: Articles from the Transactions of the Thoroton Society The Family of Willoughby.
Richard Bugge's son, as owner of the Willoughby property, became known as Richard de Willubi, Knight (temp. Edw. II.), he also "increased his patrimony exceedingly and was a lawyer and very rich, as by his will made 31 Ed. I. appeareth, wherein he appointed his body to be buried in the Church of All Saints in Willughby before the altar of St Nicholas."- [Thoroton, p. 35]. He died 1325, and a stone effigy, representing a knight in mail armour and his lady, which most probably is his [Godfrey's Churches of Rushcliffe, p. 318; Vide Notts. Visitations, Harleian Society], is still in the chapel of Willoughby Church. He founded, in the year 1304, a chantry at St. Peter's "for the soul of Richard Bugge, his father, and of all the faithful dead" [Calender Patent Rolls, 1301-1307]. "The jury, 32 Ed. I., found it not to be the king's loss if he granted to Richard de Willughby, that he might give five Marks Rent, with the Appurtenances in Nottingham, held of the said Richard, to a Chaplain in the Church of St. Peter at Nottingham, etc." [Thoroton, p. 492]. His son, another Sir Richard, succeeded him, and also did much for advancing the family.

Richard married.