Isabel de Lathom
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 26 October 1414.
Isabel’s inquisition post mortem gives the date of her death as “die Veneris prox: ante festum Omnium Sanctorum anno Henrici quinti secundo.” (Towneley p. 106).
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Sir Thomas de Lathom.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:249). Confirmation from the Feet of Fines is given below.
Mother: Joan Venables.
This relationship is given by the VCH of Lancashire (3:251). Ormerod (Miscellanea Palatina p. 65) argues that Isabel’s mother was Isabel de Pilkington; however, footnote 9 on the page of the VCH cited above shows that this was based on a mistaken date. The entry from the Feet of Fines given below confirms that Isabel’s mother was Joan.
Spouse: Sir John de Stanley, knight. Married in or before 1385.
This relationship is given by Bennett (ODNB), by Coward (p. 3), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:249). It is recorded in Isabel’s inquisition post mortem (Towneley p. 105). The marriage took place in the face of opposition from John of Gaunt.
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.)
Henry de Stanley.
Sir Thomas de Stanley of Elford, Staffordshire, married Matilda de Arderne.
Sir Ralph de Stanley.
others.
Evidence
From the Feet of Fines (FoF p. 196):
20. Westminster. Quindene of Easter, 50 Edw. III, 1376.
Thomas de Lathum, chivaler, and Joan his wife, quer., Robert Breton, vicar of the church of Hyton, and Thomas de la Rydynge, chaplain, def., of 4 messuages, 5 tofts, 6 ½ carucates of land and 4 acres of meadow in Easthaitfeld : To hold to Thomas de Lathum and Joan and the heirs male of their bodies; remainder to Thomas son of the same Thomas de Lathum and the heirs male of his body; remainder to Isabel daughter of Thomas de Lathum and Joan and the heirs male of her body; remainder to Cicely, sister of Isabel, and the heirs male of her body; remainder to the right heirs of Thomas de Lathum.
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).
Feet of Fines for the County of York from 1347 to 1377, 21-51 Edward III (W. Paley Baildon, ed.) Record Series vol. LII. for the year 1914 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1915)
A History of the Lancashire volume 3, part of The Victoria History of the Counties of England (London, 1907).
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).
Ormerod, George. Miscellanea Palatina: consisting of genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families and of a memoir on the Cheshire Domesday roll. (London: T. Richards], 1851)
Towneley, Christopher; Roger Dodsworth; and William Langton. Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem, made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth, extracted from manuscripts at Towneley. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1875-1876), page 105.