John de Stanley of Stanley and Storeton

Lord of Stanlegh and Storeton

Forester of Wirral

Events

Date of Birth: probably about 1285. 

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Irvine. 

Living: 1313.

Ormerod (2:415) states that John was living 6-7 Edw.2.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: William de Stanley.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12/1:247). It is supported by a pedigree recorded in 1361 contained within Chester Plea Roll No. 67. 35 E.3. m. 98, recording a suit of quo warranto to show John’s son William de Stanley’s claim to the hereditary forestership of Wirral (Wrottesley p. 149).

Mother: Joan, daughter of Philip de Baumville.

This relationship is recorded in the pedigree cited above.

Spouse: Emma. Marriage settlement dated 13 February 1310. 

This relationship is given by Irvine, citing a marriage settlement. The Complete Peerage (12/1:247), gives Mabel, daughter of Sir James Hawsket, but notes that there appears to be no contemporary record of Mabel or Sir James’s existence, and that the name Hawkset seems not to appear elsewhere. Irvine argues that Emma was probably a Molyneux, since the charter was given at Sefton. 

Children:

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

William de Stanley (died April 1360) married Alice, daughter of Hugh Mascy.

John de Stanley (living in 1348).

References

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).

Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880).

W. Fergusson Irvine. “The Early Stanleys” in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire Vol. 105, 1953. 

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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

Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls:collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office (1905).