Born: 1490, Ethal, Northumberland, England

Died: AFT 1547/ ABT 1550/16 Jan-Feb 1550

Buried: Priory Church of the Holy Trinity (St. Catherine Christ`s Church or Cree Church) Aldgate, London, England

Father: George MANNERS (12° B. Ros)

Mother: Anne St. LEGER (B. Ros)

Married 1: ¿?

Children:

1. John MANNERS

Married 2: Margaret DYMOKE

Son of Sir George Manners, 12° B. Ros of Hamlake, by Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas St. Leger and princess Anne Plantagenet; brother of Thomas, first Earl of Rutland. His father became Baron Ros in 1487 by the death of his mother, Eleanor, sister and coheiress of Edmund, eleventh lord Ros of Hamlake, Trusbut and Belvoir. Anne St Leger (niece of Edward IV) gave him relationship with the Plantagenets.

Appointed deputy-warden of the east and middle marches by Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Manners asked that Sir Robert Constable aid him in the east march. Esquire of the body of Henry VIII. In 1547 obtained a grant of several manors and lands in the counties of Leicester, Salop, Stafford and Worcester (from the original, in the Lord Treasurer`s remmebrancer`s Office, 3. Pasch.O.I Edw VI. Rot.143).

Sir Richard Manners married the daughter of Sir Robert Dymoke, Knight, of Scrivelsby, co. Lincoln, the King's hereditary champion; sister of Sir Edward Dymoke, a lady who had been twice previously married, her first husband having been Richard Vernon, of Tong Castle and Haddon, and her second husband Sir William Coffin, Knight (d. 1538), and by her had issue, none of whom, however, succeeded him in his Manor and Estate of Lapley, as he seems to have re-sold it in 1549, to Sir Richard Brooke of Madeley Court, Salop, for £476.

Sir Richard Manners seems to have been somewhat of a dealer or speculator in land, and not unsuccessfully, for in 1547 he had bought all the possessions of the College of Tong, which included the Lapley Estate, for the sum of £486, and now we find him selling Lapley alone for £476, and, at the same time, the Tong possessions to James Wolriche, gentleman, of Tonge, for £200, thus making a considerable profit.

In the return of his funeral, the mourners were entertained at dinner at the house of his nephew, Henry, Earl of Rutland, in or near Whittington College. After, his funeral memorial was moved to the library of Belvoir Castle by his nephew, by complete the plan of his father of collect together from the ruined monasteries the memorials of their ancestors. A monumental stone from Croxton abbey remained in the library at Belvoir in 1722, and is supposed to be still there, with this inscription:

“….. Iyeth the harte of Syr Richard

manners knight, son to sir george

manners Lorde roos, and brither to

Syr Thomas manners lord Roos late

Erle of Rutland, whiche syr Richard

Departed out of this worlde the xxx day of

…. Vary in the yere of our lord god

MCCCCCL; his bodye is burned at

The hye alter in rhryst rhyrche

at London; of whole scule god

have mercy.  Amen.”

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