Title:

Baron/Lord

First Name:

Ranulph

Last Name:

Dacre

Memorial Type:

Funerary monument - other

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

Contemporary (pre-1500)

Inscription:

Hic Jacet Ranulphus/ dominus de dakar et gillesland verus miles et strennus in bello / pro rege Henrico vi / anno mcccclxi xxix die mensi marcii videlicet dominica ramis palmarum / cujus anime propicietur deus amen. Fallow provides three alternative readings of the inscription.

Allegiance:

Lancastrian

Condition:

Poor

Condition Description:

Weathering to the stonework and inscription no longer visible

Memorial Notes:

Lord Dacre was a Lancastrian nobleman killed at the battle of Towton (1461). Inscription from T.M. Fallow, ‘The Dacre Tomb in Saxton Churchyard’, The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal 10 (1887), 303-8