Sir Robert de Lathom

Sheriff of Lancashire (1249-1254, 1264-1266)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1290.

Place of Death: unknown.

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

Relationships

Father: Richard de Lathom.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (3:sub Lathom) and by Ormerod (p. 62).

Mother: Alice.

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

Spouse: Joan (Amicia) de Alfreton.

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

Spouse: Joan de Millom. Married between 1251 and 1256.

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

Children (by Joan de Millom):

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

Nicholas de Lathom.

Robert de Lathom (died 1325) married Katherine.

Thomas de Lathom.

Evidence

From a fine of 26 Henry III (28 October 1241-6 May 1242):

11 Feb.

148.

For Robert of Lathom and his wife. The king has taken the homage of Robert of Lathom , who has taken to wife Joan, sister and one of the heirs of Thomas son of Robert , who held of the king in chief, for the portion of Thomas’s inheritance which falls to her. Order to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire to take security from him for £7 10s. for his relief and to cause them to have seisin of a moiety of the lands formerly of Thomas, of which he was seised on the day he died, saving to the king the esnecy and the other moiety of the aforesaid lands until the legal age of Thomas de Chaworth, nephew and one of the heirs of the same Thomas, and parcener of the same Joan, who is underage, and they will remain in the king’s hand until the aforesaid coming of age.

[S’, in the Roll]

149.

It is written in the same manner to the sheriff of Leicestershire.

[S’, in the Roll]

Robert and Joan are also mentioned in other fines from 1242.

References

A History of the Lancashire volume 3, part of The Victoria History of the Counties of England (London, 1907).

Henry III Fine Rolls Project. The National Archives and King’s College London (accessed 14 March 2015)

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).