However, like his near-contemporaries Thomas De L'Isle or John Rippinghale, his vocation did not deter him from indulging in vigilantism and outlawry.
A warrant for Richard's arrest was issued in March 1326 for his part in connection with the assassination of Sir Roger Bellere,[1] and he was also involved in much of his siblings' later strifes.
The chronicler Henry Knighton, our principal witness to the activities of the Folvilles, claims that the 'savage, audacious' Richard was in charge of the socialem comitivam ('allied company') which attacked Willoughby.
In either 1340 or 1341, he and some of his retinue were cornered in the church of Teigh by Sir Robert de Colville,[4] a keeper of the King's peace.
After the event Pope Clement VI instructed Thomas Bek, Bishop of Lincoln, to absolve Robert and his men for killing the priest, on condition that they were whipped at each of main churches in the area, by way of penance.