Sir Thomas de Lathom

Sir Thomas was named “Oskell” in a fable or legend which has survived in several versions.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: the beginning of 1382.

The date is given by the Lancashire VCH (vol. 3, sub Lathom), which notes that the writ of Diem clausit extr. was issued 21 March 1381-2.

Place of Death: Knowsley.

The place is given by Baines (4:199).

Place of Burial: Burscough Priory.

The place is given in an inquisition of 1385 (Towneley, p. 19).

Relationships

Father: Sir Thomas de Lathum.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (4:205) and by the Lancashire VCH (vol. 3, sub Lathom).

Mother: Eleanor de Ferrers.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (4:205) and by the Lancashire VCH (vol. 3, sub Lathom).

Spouse: Joan Venables.

This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (vol. 3, sub Lathom). Ormerod (Miscellanea Palatina p. 65) gives an earlier marriage to Isabel de Pilkington; however, footnote 53 in the VCH entry cited above shows that this was based on a mistaken date. An entry from the Feet of Fines (FoF p. 196) confirms that Thomas’s wife was Joan. However, Jones (p. 15) gives Isabel Pilkington.

Children:

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

Thomas de Lathom (died 5 November 1382) married (1) Isabella de Pilkington.

Edward.

Isabel (died 26 October 1414) married Sir John de Stanley.

Margaret.

Katherine.

Cicely.

Evidence

An inquisition post mortem (Towneley p. 17).

Another inquisition (Towneley p. 18), which describes how, while Thomas lay incapacitated in the last three months of his life, his wife carried on an affair, and then had Thomas buried without ceremony.

References

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

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Feet of Fines for the County of York from 1347 to 1377, 21-51 Edward III (W. Paley Baildon, ed.) Record Series vol. LII. for the year 1914 (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1915)

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

Jones, Michael K. "Sir William Stanley of Holt" in Welsh History Review Vol. 14, no. 1 (June 1988), pp. 1-22.

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).

Towneley, Christopher; Roger Dodsworth; and William Langton. Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem, made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth, extracted from manuscripts at Towneley. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1875-1876), page 105.