'Radclyffe01'
Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Radclyffe of Hartshead, Radclyffe of Ordsal
The name of this family appears in various ways: Radclyff(e), Radcliff(e), Ratclyff(e), Ratcliff(e), etc. We use Radclyffe as we follow the article in BLG1952 which was the main source for most of this information.

Nicholas FitzGilbert de Tailbois of Radcliffe (b by 1100)
m. heiress of The Booths
1. Matthew de Radeclive
  A. Matthew de Radcyffe (a 1124 ?)
  i. William de Radcyffe (dsp)
2. Henry de Radeclive (a 1124)
  A. Richard de Radcyffe (d unm)
  B. William de Radcyffe, Sheriff of Lancashire (d 1220)
  m1. Cecilia de Montbegon, 'Lady of Kirkland'
i. Adam de Radcyffe (a 1248)
  m. ?? Curwen (dau of Alan de Curwen or Culwen)
  a. Robert de Radcyffe of Oswaldtwisle, Hartshead and Toltington (d 1290)
  m. Amabil de Trafford (dau of Sir Richard de Trafford)
  (1) Richard de Radcyffe (d 1326)
  m. Joan le Boteler (dau of William le Boteler, baron of Warrington)
  (A) Richard de Radcyffe (d 1324, rector)
  (B) William de Radcyffe of Radclyffe Tower, 'the Great William' (b c1280, d 1333)
  m. (1303) Margaret de Peasfurlong (dau of Adam de Peasfurlong)
  (C) Robert de Radcyffe of Pilsworth
  m1. Mary de Bury (dau of Adam de Bury)
  (i) Ralph de Radcyffe (dsp)
m2. Margaret (dau of Robert de Shoresworth)
  (ii) William de Radcyffe of Smithills
  m. Katherine de Norlegh (dau of Thurstan de Norleigh of Pemberton)
  (a) Sir Ralph de Radcyffe (d 12.05.1406)
  m. Margery (d 1417)
  ((1)) Sir Ralph de Radcyffe (d 1432)
  m1. ??
  ((A)) Sir Ralph de Radcyffe (b 1403)
  m1. Elene Massey (d before 1436, dau of Sir John Massey of Talton)
  m2. Janet
  ((i)) John Radcyffe (d 1455)
  ((ii)) Joan Radcyffe
  m. Ralph Barton of Holme
  ((a)) John Barton
  m. Cecily Radclyffe (dau of Ralph Radcyffe) @@ below
  ((iii)) Joan Radcyffe
  m3. Katherine
  ((B)) Katherine Radcyffe
  m2. Cecily
  ((C)) Edmund Radcyffe
  m. Elizabeth
  ((i)) Ralph Radcyffe
  m. Agnes
  ((a)) Cecily Radclyffe
  m. John Barton @@ above
  ((ii))+ other issue - Cecily, Ellen
  ((D))+ other issue - Emma, Douce
((2))+ other issue - George (a 1424, rector), Oliver, Nicholas
  (iii) John de Radcyffe (d c1367, rector of Bury)
  (D) Adam de Radcyffe (d 1331, rector of Bury)
  (E) Sir John de Radcyffe of Ordsall (d 1362)
  m. Joan de Holand (dau of Robert de Holand, 1st Lord Holand)
  (i) Richard Radcyffe of Ordsall (d 1380)
  m1. Matilda Legh (dau of Sir John Legh of Booths and Sandbach)
  (a) Sir John Radcyffe of Ordsall (b 1356, d 1421)
  m. (c1375) Margaret de Trafford (dau of Sir Henry de Trafford)
  ((1)) Sir John Radcyffe of Ordsall (b 1377, d 26.07.1442)
  m1. (1396) Clemency Standish (dau of Hugh de Standish of Duxbury)
((A)) Sir Alexander Radcyffe of Ordsall, Flixton and Shoresworth (b c1401, d 20.07.1475)
  m. Agnes Harrington (d 1490, dau of Sir William Harrington of Hornby Castle)
  ((B)) John Radcyffe (d 1444)
  ((i)) Alice Radcyffe
  m. William Ellcott of Handsward
  ((C)) Hugh Radcyffe (d 1444)
((D)) Robert Radcyffe of Mellor
  m. (c1430) Emma de Mellor (dau of Roger de Mellor)
  m2. Joan (dsp)
  ((2)) Elizabeth Radcyffe
  m. Sir Richard Venables of Kinderton
  ((3)) Joan Radcyffe
  m1. Robert Radclyffe of Todmorden
  m2. Robert de Smethwick of Smethwick
((4))+ other issue - Edmund (d 1446), Peter (d 1468), Alured (d 1462)
  (b) Joan Radcyffe
  m. James or John de Bosville of Chevet
  m2. Sybil de Clitheroe (dau of Sir Robert de Clitheroe of Salesbury)
  (c) Joan Radcyffe
  m. (1401) Sir Henry de Hoghton
  (ii) Sir John de Radcyffe
  m1. Ellen del Bothe (dau of Thomas del Bothe of Salford and Barton)
  m2. Margaret D'Anyers (dau of Thomas D'Anyers of Bradley-in-Appleton)
  (iii) Ellen de Radcyffe
  m. William de Fairfax of Walton
  (iv) Julia de Radcyffe
  m. Henry de Lacy of Cromwellbotham
  (v) Amabil de Radcyffe
  m. Robert de Neville of Hornby Castle
  (F) Elizabeth de Radcyffe
  m. Nicholas de Townsend
  (G) Amabel de Radcyffe
  m. Adam de Tetlow
  (H) Margaret de Radcyffe
  m. Henry de Bury (d 1315)
(I) Alicia de Radcyffe
  m. Hesketh of Hesketh
  (2) Roger de Radcyffe
  m. (c1291) ? de Badshaw (dau of Sir Robert de Bradshaw of Harwood)
  (3) Adam de Radcyffe
  m. Avice de Birchwood (dau of Hugh de Birchwood)
  (A) Alice de Radcyffe
  m. John de Hulton (son of Henry de Hulton)
  (4) Margaret or Margery de Radcyffe
  m1. Richard de Hulton of Hulton Park (d 1312)
  m2. (1315) Geoffrey de Chadderton (d 1320)
  b. William de Radcyffe (chaplain of Dublin Castle)
  c. John de Radcyffe (d c1298)
  ii. Geoffrey de Radcyffe of Bury
  m. ? de Bury (dau of Adam de Bury)
  iii. Hugh de Radcyffe of Hartshead
  m. Margery de Pennington (dau of Richard of Pennington)
  a. Richard de Radcyffe of Hartshead and Pennington
  b. William de Radcyffe of Hartshead and Pennington
  m2. Eugenia
  C. John de Radcyffe (dsp)
  m. Muriel Bamville (dau of Sir Thomas Bamville of Stourton)
  D. daughter
  m. Robert de Entwistle
3. Simon de Radeclive
  A. Alexander de Radcyffe
  i. Adam de Radcyffe
  m. Agnes de Church (sister of Ughtred de Church)
  a. Peter de Church
  (1)+ issue - Adam, William, Christina
  b. Agnes de Radcyffe
  m. Robert de Holt
  c.+ other issue - Roger, Robert
  ii. Peter de Radcyffe of Pilsworth
  m. _ Hulton
  a. William de Radcyffe (a 1260)

Main sources: BLG1952 (Radclyffe of Foxdenton and Hyde)
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