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 1350 - 1423 (~ 72 years)
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| Name |
Ralph Eure |
| Title |
Sir |
| Suffix |
Knight |
| Birth |
~1350 |
Witton Castle, Witton-le-Wear, Durham, England  [1, 2, 3] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Governor of Newcastle castle [4] |
| Occupation |
Member of Parliament [4] |
| Occupation |
Sherriff of Northumberland [5] |
| Occupation |
Sherriff of York [4] |
| Will |
9 Sep 1422 [4] |
| Death |
10 Mar 1423 |
Derlynton, West Aukland, Durham, England [3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I35718 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
27 Apr 2019 |
| Father |
Sir John Eure, Knight, b. Stokesly, Yorkshire, England d. ~1362, Kirkley, Castle Ward, Northumberland, England |
| Mother |
Margaret de Grey, b. 1314, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, , England d. Bef 27 May 1378, Newcastle, Northumberland, England (Age 64 years) |
| Marriage |
0Mar 1326 |
(Northumberland, England) [6, 7, 8] |
| Family ID |
F13160 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Isabel de Atholl, b. ~ 1361, Felton, Northumberland, England d. Bef 1387 (Age ~ 25 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef May 1372 |
(Durham) England [1, 3, 5] |
| Children |
| | 1. Margaret Eure, b. ~ 1374, Witton Castle, Witton-le-Wear, Durham, England d. ~ 1444-1445 (Age ~ 71 years) |
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| Photos |
 | Witton Castle, County Durham, England
Witton Castle is a much-altered 15th-century castle. Sir Ralph Eure obtained a licence to crenellate his manor house in 1410 and created the castle. |
| Family ID |
F13147 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
| Family 2 |
Katherine Aton, b. Aft 1340, Yorkshire, England d. 1387, England (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Marriage |
Y [9] |
| Children |
| | 1. Katherine Eure, b. Abt 1400, Witton le Wear, Durham, England d. 31 Aug 1459 (Age ~ 59 years) |
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| Family ID |
F20130 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Notes |
- BIRTH: Calculate date> aged 36 or more in 1386, and was heir about 1369 to his older brother, Robert de Eure.
IDENTITY: The Genealogist's Magazine, vol. 17 p. 86: "The Ralph de Eure who married Catharine de Aton was a witness in the Scrope-Grosvenor controversy, at which time he was 36+. He was certainly married to Catharine (his third wife) by 1387, and his son william is shown as 26 in 1422. While it would be possible for a Ralph who married Catharine by 1387 to be born of a marriage in 1361, this was his third marriage, and he is known to have had 9 children by his second, before he married Catharine, so that it is not possible to identify him as son of John and Isabel [Clifford]. Instead, he is clearly the Ralph who was brother and heir of Robert, son of John. The pedigrees give him a first wife, Isabel de Atholl, coheiress of her father Aylmar de Atholl. She died s.p. and he married a daughter of Thomas de Grey, by whom with others he had an eldest son Ralph (died s.p.) and a number of daughters, one of whom was probably named Margaret for his mother. His third wife, and mother of his heir, was Catharine de Aton."
KINSHIP: This last Ralph Bulmer [son of Ralph Bulmer and Agnes Sutton] survived his father only four years, and dying in 11 Hen. IV. left Ralph his son and heir, then an infant only three years of age, who married a daughter of the Baron of Hilton, and had issue. Sir William his son and heir, who by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Robert Eure (youngest son of Sir Ralph Eure by his second wife Katharine de Aton), was father to Sir Ralph Bulmer and other children (Townsend, "Additions to Dugdale's Baronage," Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, vo. 8 pp. 69-71). [2]
- HONORS: Knighted.
RESIDENCE: Of Witton Castle (in Weardale), Durham {Witton Castle, Witton-le-Wear, Durham, England}.
RESIDENCE: Of Durham, Yorkshire
RESIDENCE: Of Stokesley, Yorkshire
RESIDENCE: Of Kirkley, Northumberland
RESIDENCE: Of Berwick Hill, Northumberland
PROPERTY: In right of 1st wife, of Felton, Northumberland {Felton, Northumberland, England}.
PROPERTY: In right of 2nd wife, of Malton, Yorkshire
PROPERTY: In right of 2nd wife, of Boughton Spittle, Yorkshire [3]
- Sir Ralph Eure obtained a licence to crenellate his manor house in 1410 and created the castle. For more info go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witton_Castle [10]
- Ralph de EureIn Bishop Hatfield’s Survey of 1381 Ralph de Eure was listed as the only free tenant in Escomb. He held about 50 acres of land there plus 4 other parcels of land in the chapelry and lived in Witton Castle, which he fortified in 1410. Bishop John Fordham later granted to Sir Ralph an area called Westland at Escomb and 89 acres of forest there. He also held land across the county, especially in South Durham and in Weardale. Half of his landed wealth was said to be in Durham and he held other land in North Yorkshire. He was also Lord of Stokesley. In 1409 he leased 5 mines in areas of South Durham for the princely sum of ¹112 – 13s – 4d.
He was a younger son of Sir John de Eure and Isabella Clifford. He married twice (Isabel and Katherine) and had nine children.
He held a variety of positions including Palatine Steward for Durham under Bishops Walter Skirlaw and Langley; MP for Northumberland in 1380 and 1381; Sheriff of Northumberland 1389-97; Constable of York 1392, 1396; MP for Yorkshire 1393, 1397 and 1399.
He helped put down Archbishop Scrope’s rebellion under Henry IV
The family has been traced back to John Fitz Robert (d.1240) whose eldest son took the name de Baliol and the younger sons took the surname Eure after their father’s manor in Buckinghamshire.
The family motto was Vince malum bono and the coat of arms included 3 scallop shells and was found on a screen in a church in Darlington (1381-1407). Sir Ralph was a landowner in the parish at this time.
Descendents of the family held key positions in the region; eg. In 18th – 19th year of Henry VII (1503-4) Rodolphus Eure was sheriff of Northumberland as was Willielmus Eure in 1527-8. The family was enobled by Henry VIII. Another of Sir Ralph’s descendents, William Eure, was colonel in the army of Charles I during the Civil War and was killed at the battle of Marston Moor in 1645.
The family continued until 1674, when the line died out as there were no male heirs.
Sources
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatinate of Durham Vol 1 and 2 – W. Fordyce (1820)
14th Century England Vol 4– J.S. Hamilton [11]
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