Sir Richard Fiennes

Richard Fiennes 1st/7th Lord Dacre 'of the South' (1415 – 25 November 1483) in Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England was the son of Sir Roger Fiennes.

Richard married Joan de Dacre Baroness Dacre of Gilsland.

Sir Richard Fiennes was the hereditary keeper of Herstmonceaux Castle, an office which descended in the Fiennes family until the execution of the ninth baron. By patent of 7 November 1458 King Henry VI of England accepted him as Lord Dacre, and by two writs in 1459 and 1482 Fiennes was summoned to Parliament as Baron Dacre. In 1473 the King made the final award of the lands of the sixth Baron Dacre between the heir male, Humphrey Dacre, the younger of Joan’s two uncles; and the heir general, Richard Fiennes, in right of his wife Joan Dacre.

Most of the estates went to the heir male with remainder to the heir general while the peerage went to Richard Fiennes in right of his wife. Peerage lawyers have claimed that Richard Fiennes’s summons to parliament created a new barony; for, though his wife was a peeress in her own right, his summons was not a courtesy one. J. Horace Round held that the award of 1473 assigning the heir general and her husband precedence of the old barony, over that of the heir male, was a recognition of his wife’s accession to the original barony.

Children of Richard Fiennes and Joan de Dacre:
*Sir John Fiennes born c. 1447 in Hurstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England.
*Sir Thomas Fiennes
*Sir William Fiennes
*Elizabeth Fiennes (born Clinton of Marstoke)
*Richard Fiennes
*Roger Fiennes

ources

* [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tapperofamily/ahnen.htm Generations of Margaret Fiennes, Baroness Dacre]
* [http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/FIENNES.htm The Fiennes family]