Sybil Clitheroe

  General Notes:

Richard was married a second time to Sybil, the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Clithoroe of Salesbury, and they had a daughter, also named Joan, who married Sir Henry de Hoghton in 1401.

~The book of the Radclyffes, p. 141 ⁷⁴⁵

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁴⁵
Richard was married a second time to Sybil, the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Clithoroe of Salesbury, and they had a daughter, also named Joan, who married Sir Henry (called Richard in The Houghton Genealogy) de Hoghton in 1401.

~The Book of the Radclyffes, page 140-141

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
The issue of the marriage Robert de Clitheroe to Sibyl de Hoghton was an only daughter Sibyl, upon whom her father settled his manor and estates in 1362, and married her to Richard son of John de Radcliffe of Ordsall [Towneley MS. DD, 1069, 2015, 2038; HH, no. 198]. In 1371 he and his wife had licence for an oratory at Salesbury. He died in 1375, and his son-in-law Radcliffe in 1380, leaving issue Joan de Radcliffe, born about 1379 [Ibid. 174; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 353]. Sibyl widow of Richard de Radcliffe afterwards married Richard Mauleverer of Beamsley, and after his death without issue by her married for her third husband, in 1386, Roger de Fulthorpe, kt., a judge of Common Pleas, who was attainted of treason in 1388 and exiled to Ireland, where he died in 1392, leaving issue by a former marriage only [Towneley MS. DD, no. 1104, 1317, 2029, 2037; HH, 215\endash 19; Surtees, Hist. of Durham, iii, 126. Sibyl de Clitheroe, widow, contributed to the poll tax levied in 1379; Lancs. Subs. bdle. 130, no. 28].

~A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume VI, pp. 252-257

Sybil married Sir Richard de Radcliffe, son of Sir John Radcliffe Kinght of Ordsall and Joanna de Holand.⁸²⁷ (Sir Richard de Radcliffe was born in 1301/1325 in Lancashire, England and died in 1380 in Lancashire, England ⁷⁴⁵.)