Sir Robert Banastre

Lord of Makerfield

Lord of Newton and Walton

Events

Date of Birth: about 1241.

Place of Birth: unknown.

This estimated date is given by the Lancashire VCH (1:372).

Date of Death: 1291, between 3 February and Michaelmas term.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by the Lancashire VCH (1:373).

Relationships

Father: Robert Banastre.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:574) and by the Lancashire VCH (1:371).

(probable) Mother: Clemence, daughter of Philip de Orreby.

Her name is known to be Clemence/Clemency/Clementia, but her relationship to Philip de Orreby is conjectural. This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:574). Farrer (p. 99) states that in 1219 Philip de Orreby purchased the wardship and marriage of Robert son and heir of Thurstan Banastre for 500 marks. Langton (p. 21) notes that although there is no direct evidence that Philip had a daughter, he would be unlikely to have paid 500 marks unless he intended to marry a daughter of his to Robert. Langton also gives evidence from seals of arms that seems to support this relationship. The Lancashire VCH (1:571) states that Philip paid only 50 marks.

Spouse: Alesia, daughter of Robert de Grendon. Married 1269.

The Lancashire VCH (6:sub Walton-le-Dale) gives Alesia as the wife of Sir Robert. Ormerod (5:574) and the Lancashire VCH (1:372-373, citing Ormerod and Dr. Kuerden’s MSS) give Alice, daughter of Gilbert Woodcock, but the Lancashire VCH (6:sub Walton-le-Dale fn 22) states that this is an error.

Children:

James Banastre married Ellen, daughter of William le Boteler.

Clemency Banastre married William de Lea.

References

Benalt, Thomas. The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire (1533) Part I. (William Langton, ed.) (Chetham Society, 1876).

Farrer, William. Honors and Knights’ Fees: Volume II (Manchester University Press, 1925).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 1 (Victoria County Histories, 1906).

A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6 (Victoria County Histories, 1911).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).