Richard Hankford

Sir Richard Hankford (c.1397–1431) was jure uxoris feudal baron of Bampton and baron of part of the feudal barony of Barnstaple, in Devon.

He was the son of Richard Hankford (died 1419), MP for Devon in 1414 and 1416, the son of Sir William Hankford (c. 1350 – 1423) KB, of Annery in Devon, Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1413 until 1423.

On the death of his grandfather Sir William Hankford in 1423 he became his heir because his father had pre-deceased him (in 1419). The Hankford family had been long established at the estate of Hankford, from which they took their name, near Bulkworthy in the parish of Buckland Brewer, North Devon.

Richard Hankford married twice:

On 22 June 1419 the king took his fealty, his homage being respited, and he obtained livery of the estates of his paternal inheritance in Devon and Somerset. On 5 December 1420 the king took his fealty for the lands inherited by his first wife Elizabeth FitzWarin. On 5 June 1424 he obtained lands from inheritance from his grandfather Sir William Hankford in Devon, Cornwall, Wiltshire and Middlesex. On 20 May 1425 the king took his fealty for his further inheritance of lands in Devon and Somerset inherited by his wife from her grandmother Elizabeth Cogan (died 1397), heiress of the feudal barony of Bampton.

Richard served in France during the Hundred Years' War in the retinue of his brother-in-law Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury (c. 1388–1428), and was knighted at St Albans between 8 July and 6 October 1429, aged about 32.

He died in 1431 at the age of about 34.

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