Robert founded Burscough Priory in or before 1189.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1198.
Place of Death: unknown.
The Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom) states that Robert’s widow, Amabel, was suing her stepson for dower in 1199. Sub Huyton with Roby, it gives the date of about 1198.
Relationships
Father: Henry de Lathom.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (p. 61) and by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: the daughter and heiress of Orm son of Ailward.
This relationship is given by a footnote by Farrer in Final Concords (p. 8).
Spouse: Amabel, daughter of Simon.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom).
Children (by his first wife):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Richard de Lathom married Alice.
Children (by Amabel):
Richard de Knowsley
Adam de Knowsley married Goditha about 1246.
William de Knowsley
References
Final Concords for Lancashire Part 1, 1196-1307, ed. William Farrer (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire: London, 1899).
A History of the County of Lancashire volume 3, part of The Victoria History of the Counties of England (London, 1907).
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).