DE BYKERETONE, Richard ¹

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Richard married Lora DE CUNINGESBURGH, daughter of Sir William DE CUNINGESBURGH and Unknown. (Lora DE CUNINGESBURGH was born about 1293.)

  Marriage Notes:

"A writ was ... issued under the King's Seal of Scotland dated at Sanquhar 28 August 1307, and by the inquisition made at Rutherglen 17 September following before Sir Aylmer de Valence, Warden of Scotland, by William Marchal and others, it was found that the said land of Tolybothevile was formerly William de Cuningisburgh's, who gave it with Lora, his daughter and heir, to Richard, son of Sir John de Bykretone, in frank marriage, viz. to them and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten, and if they died without such heirs, to the said Sir John de Bykreton for his life, under reversion to Lora and her heirs ; that Richard died without an heir by Lora ; that the said Sir Thomas de la Haye lawfully married her ; that the said Sir John de Bykretone, the liferenter, died about fifteen days before last Pentecost ; and Lora and her heirs are the true heirs ; the land worth 40 marks in all times."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ¹