Sir Richard de Houghton Knight

   Another name for Richard was Sir Richard de Hogton Knight.

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. II, p. 574, Banastre, Lee & Hoghton, of Molynton Pedigree, p. 574-575, son of Sir Adam de Hoghton. ⁷¹³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁷
Sir Richard de Hoghton, son of Sir Adam de Houghton returned as knight of the shire for Lancaster in 1383, 1403. He died in 1415. His wife was Joanna Radcliff*, daughter of Sir Richard de Radcliff. Their daughter married Sir John Southworth, son of Gilbert de Southworth.

~ Genalogy of the Southworths, p. 2

* All the other Sources, including A History of Lancaster, V. 6 and The Houghton Genealogy, name Joanna Radcliff to be the wife of Richard's brother Henry, and Richard's wife to be a woman named Jane or Joan.

• Background Information. ⁶⁸⁸
Sir Richard, the elder brother, and Robert Clifton, were returned as Knights of the Shire for Lancaster in 1383. He was also returned in 1403, with Sir Nicholas Haverington, Knight. In this year the Sheriffs were directed to levy twenty-seven pounds for their coming, attendance, and returning, computing sixty-nine days. In 1365, he had license to inclose and impark at Houghton, as appears from the Patent Rolls. He found a Chantry in the church Ribchester in 1406, and died in 1425. His wife was named Jane. Their children were:

Adam de Hogton, who died before his father.
Catherine, married Hugh Venables, Baron of Kinderton.
William
Edward, who held lands in Preston and Writtingron, and is supposed to be the progenitor of the Hoghtons of Sussex. [Visitation of Sussex in 1634]
Helen
Margaret, married Sir John Southworth of Salmesbury, Knight
Thomas, who was the progenitor of Peter Hoghton, of London, Alderman, who died 31 Ded 1593.

~The Houghton Genealogy, pp. 24-25

• Web Reference: Sir Richard Hogton from the History of Parliament: The House of Commons.
Sir Richard Hoghton was the son and heir of Sir Adam Hogton of Houghton by his first wife Margare, and brother to Sir Henry Hoghton. Sir Richard married a woman named Joan and was knighted by Dec. 1386.

Richard married Joane in 1401 in Cheshire, England.⁷⁴⁵