Richard de Vernon of Oxfordshire, fl. 1131-1144
Richard de Vernon of Chinnor, Oxfordshire was of age by 1131, and so presumably born in the first decade of the 12th century. He had succeeded his father Hugh de Vernon in 1131, when according to the Pipe Rolls of that year he paid £40 to enter on his father Hugh de Vernon's Oxfordshire lands.
He appears in a charter from 1123-1131 signed at Rouen, in which Alexander the Bishop of Lincoln was "permitted to give an exchange to Richard de Vernon of equal value to the land of Richard which the bishop needs for the augmentation of his park at Thame".
Richard was a benefactor to Thame Abbey. He gave a hide of his land at Sydenham, part of Chinnor manor, before 1146, and another hide some time later, before 1155. Just before this, in 1144, he appears in a charter with Earl Ranulf of Chester.
He granted land at Croxton, Cambridgeshire to Cecily, the wife of his son and heir Walter de Vernon. This passed in turn to their daughter Isabel de Vernon. He also had a daughter Alice, to whom he gave a hide and a mill of the hamlet of Henton as a marriage portion, with the consent of his son and heir Walter. Alice did service to Walter while he held Chinnor manor, and she did service to Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, the Vernons' successor as lord of Chinnor in 1203.
Eventually, Richard was succeeded in his Cheshire estate by his younger son Warin de Vernon, who became the Baron of Shipbrook. Another son, Richard de Vernon, made an advantageous marriage to the co-heiress Avice Avenel, and became Lord of Haddon.
He appears in a charter from 1123-1131 signed at Rouen, in which Alexander the Bishop of Lincoln was "permitted to give an exchange to Richard de Vernon of equal value to the land of Richard which the bishop needs for the augmentation of his park at Thame".
Richard was a benefactor to Thame Abbey. He gave a hide of his land at Sydenham, part of Chinnor manor, before 1146, and another hide some time later, before 1155. Just before this, in 1144, he appears in a charter with Earl Ranulf of Chester.
He granted land at Croxton, Cambridgeshire to Cecily, the wife of his son and heir Walter de Vernon. This passed in turn to their daughter Isabel de Vernon. He also had a daughter Alice, to whom he gave a hide and a mill of the hamlet of Henton as a marriage portion, with the consent of his son and heir Walter. Alice did service to Walter while he held Chinnor manor, and she did service to Saer de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, the Vernons' successor as lord of Chinnor in 1203.
Eventually, Richard was succeeded in his Cheshire estate by his younger son Warin de Vernon, who became the Baron of Shipbrook. Another son, Richard de Vernon, made an advantageous marriage to the co-heiress Avice Avenel, and became Lord of Haddon.