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Richard Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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Richard Shakespeare
Born	1490, Wroxall
Died	before 10 February 1561
Nationality	English
Occupation	Farmer
Known for	Grandfather of William Shakespeare
Spouse	Abigail Webb
Children	John Shakespeare; Henry Shakespeare

Richard Shakespeare (1490 – before 10 February 1561) was a husbandman of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, four miles (6.5 km) north-northeast of Stratford-upon-Avon, the father of John Shakespeare and the grandfather of William Shakespeare.^[1]^[2]

Life

Shakespeare was born in the Wroxall area, about 7 miles (11 km) to the north in Warwickshire.^[3] At some time before 1529, he removed to Snitterfield, where he was a tenant farmer until his death on land owned by Robert Arden, the father of Mary Arden, who married John, the poet's father.^[4]

Richard Shakespeare is mentioned in the court and manorial records as a prosperous farmer with livestock. Thomas Atwood alias Taylor, a prosperous vintner and clothier who was a member of the Stratford Guild, bequeathed him a team of four oxen he was keeping. He was fined two pence for not attending the manor court in 1529, and he was charged with overburdening the commons with his cattle and fined for letting them run loose in the meadows and neglecting to ring or yoke his swine.^[5]

At the time of his death, Richard leased 80 acres of farm land on which his house stood, situated from the corner of High Street (now Bell Lane) down to the ford over the stream that flowed through the village into the Avon.^[6] His estate was valued at £38 17s (equivalent to £16,237 in 2023).^[7]

References

^ Chambers, E.K. (1930). William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems, 2 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-811774-4, OCLC 353406, I:11, II:26.
^ Schoenbaum, Samuel (1987). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (Revised ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-505161-0, pp. 14, 16.
^ Honan, Park (1998). Shakespeare: A Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-811792-2, p. 28.
^ Schoenbaum, 15.
^ Schoenbaum, 15.
^ Wood, Michael (2003). Shakespeare, New York: Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-09264-0, p. 21.
^ Honan, Park (1998). Shakespeare: A Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-811792-2, p. 28.

William Shakespeare's family tree

Direct ascendants and descendants of William Shakespeare are shown with a blue background

Shakespeare's siblings are shown with a red background

Anne Hathaway and ascendants are shown with a yellow background

People related to Shakespeare only through marriage are shown with a green background

Relations whose identity is not known are shown with a dashed border

Years given are usually approximate and typically reflect baptismal and burial years, rather than birth and death.

For remarriages, the number in parentheses after the name indicates the order of the marriages.

Richard
Shakespeare
(1490–before 1561)

(unknown)

Robert
Arden
(died 1556)

John
Shakespeare
(c. 1531–1601)

Mary
Arden
(c. 1537–1608)

(unknown) (1)

Richard
Hathaway
(–1581)

Joan
Hathaway (2)
(–1599)

Joan
(1558–1558)

Margaret
(1562–1563)

Gilbert
Shakespeare
(1566–1612)

Joan
Shakespeare
(1569–1646)

William
Shakespeare
(1564–1616)

Anne
Hathaway
(1555–1623)

Anne
(1571–1579)

Richard
(1574–1613)

Edmund
Shakespeare
(1580–1607)

John
Hall
(1575–1635)

Susanna
Hall
(1583–1649)

Judith
Quiney
(1585–1662)

Thomas
Quiney
(1589–1662)

Hamnet
Shakespeare
(1585–1596)

Thomas
Nash (1)
(1593–1647)

Elisabeth
Barnard
(1608–1670)

John
Barnard (2)
(1604–1674)

Shakespeare
Quiney
(1616–1617)

Richard
Quiney
(1618–1639)

Thomas
Quiney
(1620–1639)

Sources

Chambers, E. K. (1930). William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. Vol. I 11–12, 18, Vol. II 8–9. OCLC 353406.
Schoenbaum, S. (1977). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 292. ISBN 0195051610.

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