Richard Baynard

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Richard Baynard (c. 1371 – 7 January 1434) was an English administrator, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons of England in 1421.{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-04637.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.parliament.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618215353/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-04637.pdf |archive-date=18 June 2009 |url-status=dead}}

He was the fourth son and heir of Thomas Baynard of Messing in Essex by his wife Katherine.{{Cite web |title=BAYNARD, Richard (c.1371-1434), of Messing, Essex. {{!}} History of Parliament Online |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/baynard-richard-1371-1434 |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&lpg=PP1&hl=com&pg=RA2-PA353&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 |publisher=Douglas Richardson |isbn=978-1-4610-4520-5 |volume=III |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&lpg=PP1&hl=com&pg=RA2-PA353&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 353] |language=en}}

He was elected Knight of the shire (MP) for Essex six times (1406, Nov 1414, Dec 1421, 1423, 1427 and 1433).{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-04637.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=www.parliament.uk |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618215353/http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-04637.pdf |archive-date=18 June 2009 |url-status=dead}} and elected Speaker of the House in Dec 1421.

He was Controller, customs and subsidies Ipswich, Suffolk (1407–1408) and Keeper of Colchester gaol, Essex before March 1417.

He died in 1434. He had married four times. Firstly Joan, secondly Joyce, daughter and heiress of John Vyne, a London draper thirdly another Joan, daughter and heiress of John Sandherst, a London chandler, and fourthly Grace, daughter of John Burgoyne, and widow of John Peyton of Easthorpe, Essex with whom he had two sons and four daughters.

By his fourth wife, Grace Burgoyne, he had the two sons Richard Baynard, Esq., and Lewis Baynard, and two daughters who survived him, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Bray, and Margaret, the wife of John Knyvet, Esquire. He also had a natural son, John Baynard. His widow Grace died on 6 May 1439.

His son and heir Richard Baynard had two children: Richard Baynard, who died young, and Grace (d. 1508), who became his sole heiress and married twice. Firstly to Thomas Langley, before her father's decease, and secondly to Edmund Danyell, Esq., son of Sir Thomas Danyell, 'baron of Rathwire, in Ireland, and lord deputy there,' under King Edward IV, by Margaret, his wife, sister to John Howard, Duke of Norfolk.{{Cite book |last=Morant |first=Philip |url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-and-antiquit_morant-philip_1768_2_0/page/182/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The History and Antiquities of the County of Essex. Compiled from the best and most ancient Historians; From DOMESDAY-BOOK, INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM, and other the most valuable Records and MSS. &c. The whole digested, improved, perfected, and brought down to the present Time, By Philip Morant, M. A. Rector of ST. MARY'S COLCHESTER, and of ALDHAM near the same; and Fellow of the Socety of Antiquaries. Illustrated with Copper Plates. |publisher=London: Printed for T. OSBORNE, in Gray's-Inn; J. WHISTON, in Fleet-Street; S. BAKER, in York-Street; L. DAVIS and C. REYMERS, in Holborn; and B. WHITE, in Fleet-Street. |others= |year=1768 |volume=II |page=[https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-history-and-antiquit_morant-philip_1768_2_0/page/182/mode/2up?view=theater 182]}}