Ralph de Vernon Baron Vernon of Shipbrook [18961] ²⁵

  General Notes:

became the seventh Baron and perhaps the most fantastic of all Vernons. According to all official English records, he lived until 1392, aged 150 years. If this fact bears out, he may well have been the oldest 'liver' in recorded history, until a few years ago when the Russians came up with a man 162 years old. Married twice and outlived most of his many great-grandchildren. He also added the 'maiden proper' on the crest of the coat-of-arms, holding a scythe in her hand and sheaves of wheat in her arm. In 1403 his grandson by his youngest son, Sir Richard the 8th Baron, was beheaded following the Battle of Shrewsbury (he was the Sir Richard Vernon made famous by Shakespeare in one of his plays), the baronage then fell to Sir Ralph 'the Younger' of Hanwell, a great-grandson of 'The Old Liver's oldest son, Sir Ralph. He died without male issue and, in 1404, it went to Sir James of Lostock and Haslington, who became the 10th Baron.

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Ralph married Mary Dacre Baroness Vernon of Shipbrook [18962] [MRIN: 9062], daughter of Randolph Dacre 1st Baron Dacre of Gillesland [17566] and Margaret Multon Baronesss Multon of Gillesland [17567]. (Mary Dacre Baroness Vernon of Shipbrook [18962] was born in 1315 in Dacre, Cumberland, England and died in 1370.)