Family and Education
s. and h. of Sir Richard de la Bere (d.1447) of Kinnersley. Sir Richard had four daughters by a wife named Elizabeth, to whom he was married by 1422, but she is unlikely to have been our MP’s mother: C146/395. In a Chancery petition dating at the earliest from 1450, the youngest of the daughters was said to be only 19, and thus they are unlikely to have been full sisters of Kynard, who was born no later than 1410: C1/19/132. m. Joan (d. 11 Aug. 1471), da. of Sir Thomas Barre (d.1420) of Rotherwas, Herefs., by Alice, da. of Richard, Lord Talbot; sis. and in her issue coh. of Sir John Barre*, prob. 1s. Richard†, 3da. Kntd. ?30 May 1445.
Offices Held
Attestor, parlty. election, Herefs. 1442.
Commr. to distribute allowance on tax, Herefs. Jan. 1436; of gaol delivery, Hereford castle Aug. 1440, Apr. 1444; to bring to the Exchequer the issues of the lordship of Fownhope, Herefs. Aug. 1445.
Escheator, Herefs. 6 Nov. 1438 – 5 Nov. 1439.
Justice itinerant, Humphrey, earl of Stafford and duke of Buckingham’s lordships of Brecon, Hay and Huntingdon Jan. 1443, ?1445, Newport, Wentloog and Machen ?1445.
J.p. Herefs. 12 Feb. 1443 – d.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Kinnersley, Herefs.
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Commons 1422-1461
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Oxford 1644
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