Robert de Worsley

Events 

Date of Birth: before 1299.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1346 and 1350.

Place of Death: unknown.

Agnes claimed to be Robert’s widow in 1350, having married him in 1346.

Relationships

Father: Henry de Worsley.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (v. 4: sub Worsley).

Mother: Margaret de Shoresworth.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (v. 4: sub Worsley, sub Denton).

Spouse: Cecily Bramhall.

This relationship is given by Dugdale in his 1664-5 visitation (p. 339).

Alleged Spouse: Agnes. Said to be married 30 August 1346.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (v. 4: sub Worsley). Agnes claimed the marriage, which Robert’s son William denied.

Children (by Cecily): 

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

William de Worsley.

John de Worsley.

Helen de Worsley married Thomas del Booth.

Children (illegitimate): 

Robert de Worsley.

Evidence

from the Lancashire VCH (v. 4: sub Worsley):

In 1299 Henry son of Richard de Worsley granted to Robert his son land in Worsley called Mokenis, the bounds beginning at Acornsyke, where it was met by the fall of Kronkysker, between Worsley and Astley; along the fall to Blackbrook, thence by the bounds of Astley and Irlam, across the moss to Ringand Pits, and thence going down to the Meadowyard; Ellesmere D. no. 147. 

This was perhaps the grant confirmed in 1301; Final Conc. i, 193. 

In 1322 Margaret, formerly wife of Henry, sold and released to Robert her son all her goods in Worsley, movable and immovable, for £40 sterling which he had paid her; Ellesmere D. no. 140.

.In 1350 Agnes widow of Robert de Worsley claimed her dower in twenty-one messuages and various lands in Worsley and Heaton Norris. William son of Robert, in defending, denied Agnes's marriage, but she averred that it took place on the Wednesday after 29 Aug. 1346, at the door of St. Mary's Church, Deane; De Banco R. 363, m. 78 d. 

William son of Robert de Worsley occurs again in 1353; Assize R. 435, m. 9 d. William de Worsley had licence for his oratory in 1360, 1362, and 1366; Lich. Epis. Reg. v, fol. 4, 8, 15.

References

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4 (1911).