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NameRichard de Montfichet 
[54, His own article], [119, Grandfather, Gilbert de Monfichet, p. 595], [121, Feudal barony of Stanstead Mountfitchet, p. 83], [128, Sept 2001, from web site.]
[54, His own article], [119, Grandfather, Gilbert de Monfichet, p. 595], [121, Feudal barony of Stanstead Mountfitchet, p. 83], [128, Sept 2001, from web site.]Birthca 1193
Deathca 1268
Generald.unm. dsp. Justice of the king's Forests. Sheriff of Essex.
FatherRichard (I) de Montfichet (-1204)
MotherMillicent
Notes for Richard de Montfichet
Probably the last survivor of the Magna Carta Sureties.
Feudal baron of Stansted Mountfichet.
Feudal baron of Stansted Mountfichet.
Armorial Blazon notes for Richard de Montfichet
BOMC and NSMCD&B both give him:
Gules three chevrons Or.
Gules three chevrons Or.
DNB Main notes for Richard de Montfichet
Montfichet, Richard de d. 1268
Name: Montfichet, Richard de
Dates: d. 1268
Active Date: 1248
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Justiciar
Sources: Matthew Paris; Annales Monastici; Calendars of Close and Patent...
Contributor: C. L. K. [Charles Lethbridge Kingsford]
Article
Montfichet, Richard de d. 1268, justiciar, was son of Richard de Montfichet, whom Henry II made forester of Essex. Richard the elder was son of Gilbert and grandson of William de Montfichet, founder of the abbey of Stratford-Langton Essex; he was with Richard I in Normandy in 1195, was sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1202, and died next year, leaving one son by his wife Milisent. The young Richard was then about ten years old, and was at first a ward of Roger de Lacy [q.v.]. He appears as witnessing several charters in 1214, and on 21 June 1215 received charge of the forests of Essex as his by hereditary right. He had nevertheless acted previously with the baronial party, and been present at the meeting at Stamford in March. He was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta, and as a prominent member of the party was excommunicated by the pope in 1216. He supported Louis of France both before and after John's death, and fighting at Lincoln against William Marshal on 20 May 1217 was then taken prisoner. He returned to loyalty, and recovered his lands in the following October (Cal. Rot. Claus. i. 327). In 1223 his lands were again for a time seized by the king in consequence of his presence at a prohibited tournament at Blythe. In 1225 he was a justice-itinerant for Essex and Hertfordshire (ib. ii. 76), and in the same year was a witness to the confirmation of Magna Charta. In 1234 he was admitted to sit as a baron of the exchequer, and in 1236 again witnessed the confirmation of the charter. He was justice of the forest for nineteen counties in 1237, and from 1242 to 1246 sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, the counties in which his estates lay. Montfichet was one of the baronial representatives on the committee to consider the king's demand for a subsidy in 1244, and probably therefore had a share in drafting the remarkable scheme of reform of that year (Matt. Paris, iv. 362-8). He died in 1268 without issue, and his estates passed to the children of his three sisters. Montfichet is of chief note for his share in the struggle for the charter. He was the last survivor of the twenty-five; his age probably prevented his taking any part in the later barons' war, which he outlived.
Sources
Matthew Paris; Annales Monastici; Calendars of Close and Patent Rolls; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 438-9; Foss's Judges of England, pp. 412-14; Stubbs's Constitutional History, ยง 175.
Contributor: C. L. K.
published 1894
Name: Montfichet, Richard de
Dates: d. 1268
Active Date: 1248
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Law
Occupation: Justiciar
Sources: Matthew Paris; Annales Monastici; Calendars of Close and Patent...
Contributor: C. L. K. [Charles Lethbridge Kingsford]
Article
Montfichet, Richard de d. 1268, justiciar, was son of Richard de Montfichet, whom Henry II made forester of Essex. Richard the elder was son of Gilbert and grandson of William de Montfichet, founder of the abbey of Stratford-Langton Essex; he was with Richard I in Normandy in 1195, was sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire in 1202, and died next year, leaving one son by his wife Milisent. The young Richard was then about ten years old, and was at first a ward of Roger de Lacy [q.v.]. He appears as witnessing several charters in 1214, and on 21 June 1215 received charge of the forests of Essex as his by hereditary right. He had nevertheless acted previously with the baronial party, and been present at the meeting at Stamford in March. He was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta, and as a prominent member of the party was excommunicated by the pope in 1216. He supported Louis of France both before and after John's death, and fighting at Lincoln against William Marshal on 20 May 1217 was then taken prisoner. He returned to loyalty, and recovered his lands in the following October (Cal. Rot. Claus. i. 327). In 1223 his lands were again for a time seized by the king in consequence of his presence at a prohibited tournament at Blythe. In 1225 he was a justice-itinerant for Essex and Hertfordshire (ib. ii. 76), and in the same year was a witness to the confirmation of Magna Charta. In 1234 he was admitted to sit as a baron of the exchequer, and in 1236 again witnessed the confirmation of the charter. He was justice of the forest for nineteen counties in 1237, and from 1242 to 1246 sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, the counties in which his estates lay. Montfichet was one of the baronial representatives on the committee to consider the king's demand for a subsidy in 1244, and probably therefore had a share in drafting the remarkable scheme of reform of that year (Matt. Paris, iv. 362-8). He died in 1268 without issue, and his estates passed to the children of his three sisters. Montfichet is of chief note for his share in the struggle for the charter. He was the last survivor of the twenty-five; his age probably prevented his taking any part in the later barons' war, which he outlived.
Sources
Matthew Paris; Annales Monastici; Calendars of Close and Patent Rolls; Dugdale's Baronage, i. 438-9; Foss's Judges of England, pp. 412-14; Stubbs's Constitutional History, ยง 175.
Contributor: C. L. K.
published 1894