Robert de Lathom (died 1325)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: the beginning of 1325.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom).

Relationships

Father: Sir Robert de Lathom.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom).

Mother: Joan de Millom.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom). Ormerod (p. 63) and Baines (4:199) give Robert’s first wife, Amicia de Alfreton, as the mother, but the VCH notes that the fact that her manors did not remain with the Lathom family suggests that she died without children. Ormerod and Baines show no awareness of Robert's second marriage.

Spouse: Katherine.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom). It is recorded in Robert’s inquisition post mortem (Hulton 2:552).

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.)

Sir Thomas de Lathum (about 1301 - 17 September 1370)

Jane.

Hugh de Lathom.

Philip de Lathom of Astbury.

Evidence

The 1325 inquisition post mortem of Robert (Hulton 2:552).

References

Baines, Edward, William Robert Whatton, and Brooke Herford. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (London: 1893).

The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey (W.A. Hulton, ed.) Volume 2 (Chetham Society, vol. XI, 1847).

A History of the 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).