Agnes de Barton

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir Gilbert de Barton.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (4: sub Barton).

Mother: Cecily.

Gilbert’s wife is given as Cecily by Farrer (p. 729 n.). 

Spouse: John Grelley.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (4: sub Barton), which notes that John’s place in the Grelley pedigree is unknown. Sir Thomas Grelley had the wardship and marriage of Agnes.

Children: 

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Loretta Grelley married John del Booth.

Evidence

from the Lancashire VCH (4: sub Barton):

It appears that Agnes was married to John Grelley, whose place in the Grelley pedigree is unknown; for Loretta, daughter of John Grelley, was in 1292 a plaintiff in a Barton case; Assize R. 408, m. 4 d.

Agnes, as daughter of Gilbert de Barton, was plaintiff from 1275 onwards in various suits respecting the manor. Against Peter Grelley, uncle of Robert, she sought half the manor in 1275, and next year demanded two-thirds, or two-thirds of a moiety, against Robert Grelley; De Banco R. 7, m. 21; 13, m. 3; 17, m. 25d. 

Cecily, the widow of Gilbert de Barton, had the other third; ibid. R. 33, m. 48; see De Trafford D. no. 199, 200. 

Agnes may have married, secondly, Alexander le Mey of Bromyhurst; Alexander and his wife Agnes in 1277 granted to the former's son Alexander a messuage and two parts of an oxgang of land in Barton, to be held of the heirs of Agnes; Final Conc. i, 152. 

If so, she was living, a widow, in 1292; Assize R. 408, m. 32, 3 d. 

The Mey family long continued to hold lands in Barton.

References

The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey v.2 pt. 2 (William Farrer tr. and ed.)(Chetham Society new series v. 43, 1900). 

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911).