Richard de Keynes

Bef 1200 - 1241  (> 41 years)

• Name	Richard de Keynes
  Birth	Bef 1200	of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1241	of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England
  Person ID	I6041	Petersen-de Lanskoy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	William de Keynes,   b. of Greatworth, Northamptonshire, England
  Mother	Gunnor
  Family ID	F2646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah de Huntingfield,   b. of Huntingfield, Suffolk, England d. Aft 1228, of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England
  Marriage	From 1221 to 1223	, , England
  Children	1. William de Keynes   d. Aft 1241   2. Richard de Keynes,   b. Abt 1228, of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England d. Bef 1295, of Horsted Keynes, Sussex, England (Age < 66 years)   3. de Keynes
  Family ID	F2643	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  RESEARCH_NOTES: 1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013): “SARAH DE HUNTINGFIELD, married (1st) after 11 Dec. 1213 WILLIAM BISET, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Shamblehurst and Rockbourne, Hampshire, son and heir of Henry Biset, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, and Rockbourne, Hampshire, by an unknown wife. They had no issue. WILLIAM BISET died before 1 Nov. 1220. She married (2nd) after 1221 (when she was in the king's gift) but before Hilary 1223 (date of lawsuit) RICHARD DE KEYNES (or KAYNES), of Horsted Keynes, Selmeston, and Iteford, Sussex, Greatworth, Cosgrove, Puxley (in Passenham), and Tiffield, Northamptonshire, etc., son and heir of William de Keynes, of Greatworth, Northamptonshire, etc., by his wife, Gunnor. They had two sons, William (minor at father's death, and evidently died after 1241) and Richard, and one daughter. He had livery of his father's lands 5 April 1218, and fought at the Siege of Bytham Castle in 1221. In Hilary term 1223 Richard and his wife, Sarah, were sued for dower in the vill of Kidderminster, Worcestershire by her former husband, William Biset's step-mother, Iseult Pantulf, and her husband, Amaury de Saint Amand. His wife, Sarah, was living 1226/8. RICHARD DE KEYNES died in 1241. Coll. Top. et Gen. 6 (1840): 154-157 (Biset). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 336. Feudal Aids 4 (1906): 43. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 582, VCH Worcester 3 (1913): 159. Sussex Arch. Colls. 63 (1922): 180-202. Book of Fees 2 (1923): 378, 602-3. Book of Fees 2 (1923): 692, 932, 944, 1337. Stenton Rolls of the Justices in Eyre for Lincolnshire (1218-1219) & Worcestershire (1221) (Selden Soc. 53) (1934): 520. Stenton Rolls of Justices in Eyre for Gloucestershire, Warwickshire & Shropshire (1221) (Selden Soc. 59) (1940): 105-106. Curia Regis Rolls 9. (1952): 76, 129-130, 293; 10 (1949): 18-19, 26, 119. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 304: 2. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 77-98.”