Richard Massy of Rixton

✓ as named: Richard Massy of Rixton, Lancs, esq., father of Peter Massy of Horton. TOP - nothing further wired. Source: Ormerod, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (1819), vol. I, pp.532-535 'Aston of Aston juxta Sutton' (Sir Peter Leycester's text from the family evidences, with Ormerod's additions), read 2 Nov 2026 (archive.org djvu text). [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 2 Nov 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.] ||2 Nov 2026 (w80)|| VCH Lancs III p.335: Richard de Mascy, son and successor of Hamlet de Mascy and Katherine de Rixton; feoffment of Rixton and Glazebrook 1384; refused to go on John of Gaunt's Spanish expedition 1385; witness in Scrope v. Grosvenor 1386; living 1400, when he granted Cheshire lands to his son Peter pending the division of William de Horton's estate between his daughters Ellen and Margaret, wives of Richard's sons Hamlet and Peter, naming Maud his wife; d. before 1406. TOP removed. Source: Victoria County History, Lancashire vol. III (1907), 'Rixton with Glazebrook' pp.334-335 (after Mrs Tempest, 'Descent of the Mascys of Rixton', Trans. Hist. Soc. n.s. iii) (archive.org djvu text, read 2 Nov 2026).