Alice de Mascy

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

(possible) Father: Sir Hugh (or Hamon) Mascy of Timperley.

Bennett (ODNB) gives Alice’s father as Hugh. Ormerod (2:365) gives her father as Hamon. Earwaker (2:602) states that Alice was the daughter of Hugh and sister of Sir Hamo Massey of Dunham, Cheshire.

Mother: uncertain.

Ormerod (2:365) gives the mother as Matilda, daughter of heiress of Sir William de Tymperley, knight. The uncertainty is due to the Complete Peerage’s suggestion that the Mascy-Stanley marriage may have happened one generation earlier.

Spouse: William de Stanley.

This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB) and by Coward (p. 3). The Complete Peerage (12/1:247 fn m) suggests that the marriage of a Mascy to a Stanley may have actually taken place in an earlier generation.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Irvine.)

Alice de Stanley (born about 1330) married Ranulph le Roter of Kingsley.

Sir William de Stanley (died 18 June 1398).

Sir John de Stanley (died 6 January 1413/14) married Isabel, daughter of Sir Thomas Lathom.

Ellen de Stanley married John de Merton in 1359.

References

Bennett, Michael J., “Stanley, Sir John (c. 1350-1414)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Coward, Barry. The Stanleys, Lords Stanley and Earls of Derby 1385-1672. Volume 30 of Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Third Series. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1983).

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

Irvine, W. Fergusson. “The Early Stanleys” in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol. 105, 1953.

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls:collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office (1905).