Benedict de Pennington

  General Notes:

Family of Pennington taken from the footnotes of The History of Lancaster V. VIII, Pennington, pp. 338-342:

Gamel (Henry II)
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Benedict - Meldred
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Alan
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Thomas m. Agnes -likely brother of Alice m. Roger Venables
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Alan
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William m. Alice de Mulcaster ⁷⁷⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁵
Gamel de Pennington, whose name occurs on the ancient tympanum at Beckside, is supposed to have been the founder of Conishead Priory in the time of Henry II [V.C.H. Lancs. ii, 140; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. x, App. v, 223'9698] ; he gave it the church of Pennington. [Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 357, 366] Benedict de Pennington^* and Alan his son and heir occur in the latter part of the 12th century [Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 195; Farrer, op. cit. 63, 68 ] ; in 1202 Alan son of Benedict granted 2 oxgangs of land in Pennington to Hugh son of Edward. [Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 10]

^* Meldred brother of Benedict de Pennington also occurs; [Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 190]. He is no doubt the Meldred son of Gamel de Pennington who gave land to Conishead Priory; [Dugdale, Mon. vi, 556]. Thus Benedict was a son of Gamel. Jocelin de Pennington was Abbot of Furness about 1182.

~A History of the County of Lancaster: Vol. VIII, pp. 338-342