Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: by 1289/90, before February 3.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Ormerod (5:574).
Relationships
Father: Sir Robert Banastre.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (5:574) and by the Lancashire VCH (1:373).
(presumed) Mother: Alesia, daughter of Robert de Grendon.
The Lancashire VCH (6:sub Walton-le-Dale) gives Alesia as the wife of Sir Robert. Ormerod (5:574) and the Lancashire VCH (1:372-373) give Alice, daughter of Gilbert Woodcock, as Sir Robert’s mother, but the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Walton-le-Dale fn 22) states that this is an error.
Spouse: William de Lea.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (7:sub Lea, Ashton, Ingol and Cottam) and by Ormerod (2:574).
Children:
Sibyl de Lea married Sir Richard de Hoghton.
Sir Henry de Lea (executed 1315).
References
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 1 (Victoria County Histories, 1906).
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).
A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 7 (Victoria County Histories, 1912).
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).