Elena Boteler

  General Notes:

~The Coucher Book, Or Chatulary of Whalley Abbey, Vol. I, p. 115 ⁸²³

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹²
Robert Fitz Robert Banastre married Alice, the daughter of Gilbert Woocock, and was living in 1289, but he died soon after leaving his widow surviving. They had issue of a son and a daughter; James, who married Elena, the daughter of Sir William le Boteler, Baron of Warrington, by whom he had issue, though whom the barony of Newton was transmitted to to her descendant, and Clementia, to whom, on her marriage to William de Lea, her father made a grant of Mollington Banastre, in Cheshire. James, heir in a line of direct succession, the last male of his house, died before his own father.
~An Essay on Songs and Ballads: Illustrated by Examples from Shakespeare, and thos Current in Lancashire, pgs. 107-108

Elena married James Banastre, son of Sir Robert Banastre and Alice Woodcock.⁷¹² (James Banastre was born about 1266 in Lancashire, England and died after 1289 in Lancashire, England ⁷¹².)