Avina de Notton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: William de Notton, lord of Breighmet.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Samlesbury).

Mother: Cecily de Breightmet (or de Barton).

The Lancashire VCH (5:sub Breighmet) states that Cecily was the wife of William, and that property passed from Cecily’s father through her to the three daughters of Avina de Samlesbury.

Spouse: William de Samlesbury.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Samlesbury).

Children:

Margery (died July 1267) married (1), in or before 1257, Richard, son of William de Clifton; married (2) Robert de Hampton.

Cecily married, before 13 April 1259, John Deuyas.

Elizabeth married, after 13 April 1259, Robert de Holland.

Evidence

from the Lancashire Assize Rolls:

(p. 291)

1256-57

Avice who was wife of William de Samlesbury owes 2 marks for having a writ.

References

A Calendar of the Lancashire Assize Rolls (Col. John Parker trans.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, vol. XLIX: 1905).

A History of the County of Lancaster volume 5 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).

A History of the County of Lancaster volume 6 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).