He is said to have married Sarah de Beauchamp after 7 January 1269. On 26 July 1276 he was granted protection as he was going to Navarre with Edmund, the king's brother. On 30 March 1281 he was licensed to hunt and take with his own hands fox, cat, hare and wolf throughout the king's forest of Dean. In 1297 and 1298 he was trice summoned to serve against the Scots. On 14 July 1297 he was appointed to the custody of the castle and town of Cardiff; on 30 July, to assess and collect a one-eighth and one-fifth of movables in Staffordshire; and on 23 October 1299 he was in a commission in Gloucestershire. His seal was appended to the Baron's letter to the Pope, as on 12 February 1301, as Richard Talbot, Lord of Eccleswall. On 12 May 1301 he was directed to select 700 footmen in Gloucestershire and the Forest of Dean and conduct them to Berwick-on-Tweed; and on 21 November to select 500 and conduct them to Linlithgow. On 18 December 1301 he had letters of credence to expound to the knights, men and community in County Gloucester the need of their aiding the king and his army in Scotland with 500 quarters of wheat; and on 1 March 1306 he was required to provide wheat and wine from county Gloucester for the same purpose. He died shortly before 3 September 1306.

Source: Leo van de Pas