Robert de Lathom

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).