Herbert de Orreby

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Herbert, son of Alard.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:548). Barraclough (p. 355), following Farrer, suggests that Ormerod's pedigree must be treated with considerable reserve.

Mother: Agnes, daughter of Simon fitz William of Kyme.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:548).

Spouse: Lucy.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:548). Barraclough (p. 355) states that she was possibly granddaughter and heiress of Hugh son of Bigod, but "the descent is far from clear."

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 Ormerod.)

Richard de Orreby. (Possibly father of Richard de Orreby).

Thomas de Orreby.

References

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).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).

Richards, Raymond. The Manor of Gawsworth (Manchester: E.J.Morten, 1974; first published 1957).

The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237. (Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.). (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. CXXVI: 1988).