Career
He was invested as a Knight before 8 June 1422. He held the office of Treasurer of the Household between 1439 and 1446, and built Herstmonceux Castle with spoils from the Hundred Years" War. Sir Roger was a brother of James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele.
Richard married Joan Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre in June 1446.
Sir Richard Fiennes was the hereditary keeper of Herstmonceaux Castle, an office which descended in the Fiennes family until the execution of the ninth baron. By patent of 7 November 1458 King Henry VI of England accepted him as Lord Dacre, and by two writs in 1459 and 1482 Fiennes was summoned to Parliament as Baron Dacre.
Children of Richard Fiennes and Joan Dacre:
Sir John Fiennes, born c.1447 in Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England. Married Alice FitzHugh.
Father of Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre
Sir Thomas Fiennes
Elizabeth Fiennes, married John de Clinton, 6th Baron Clinton, great-grandfather of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln
Richard Fiennes
Roger Fiennes
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