Ranulf de Salisbury

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
Waldeve son of Ulfkil de Salesbury, who appears to have had half the township, we find him giving to the monks of Sawley in the latter part of the 12th century, with the assent of Gilbert his lord and Ralph his heir, a parcel of land, iron ore and dead wood for charcoal, and such necessary help in his wood as would suffice and as pertained to 1? oxgangs of his land in Salesbury. Ralph son of Waldeve confirmed and gave the monks other lands here 'to the help of their church and edifices' at Sawley [Sawley Reg. 80. Ralph's gifts were made temp. John]. Richard son of Ralph added gifts of land in places called Haselene Holth, the Mere, Huctrede's Greave, Claifurlang, the Kar by the riddings of Robert son of Adam, Ribbi and Award, Foxhole Clough, 4 acres in the field between Salesbury and Dinckley, the Suere, and near the riddings of Henry Kigelepeni and Siward son of Gilbert [Ibid. 80b]. Before 1241 he gave part of his lands to his cousin Gilbert, as already related, and a few years earlier gave the whole half of one-sixth part of the town to William the clerk of Clayton, with the yearly service of 5d. to the chief lord [Towneley MS. DD, no. 1970]. He probably died in 1240, for in that year the justices in eyre awarded seisin of the fourth part of the township to his daughters Agnes and Avice in a suit against their cousin Hugh son of Ranulf [Assize R. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 30]. A few years later Edmund de Lacy, constable of Chester, purchased 1 oxgang of land from these ladies, which he granted to Hugh son of Ranulf de Salesbury, with the service of 18s. per annum [Towneley MS. (Chet. Lib.), C 8, 8].

Ranulf, younger brother of Richard de Salesbury, was the father of Hugh, who increased his estates in the township by marriage with Margery sister and heir of Hugh de Heley [Hugh de Heley son of Adam gave to Hugh son of Ranulf de Salesbury with Margery his sister in free marriage land upon Haresrays field called Neherflat, adjoining land of Award Hurstrange; ibid. DD, no. 2081.]. He was living in 1268, when his cousins Agnes and Avice were demanding from him a tenement here, perhaps that which they had sold to Edmund de Lacy [Pat. 52 Hen. III (85), m. 12 d]. He had issue five daughters: Cecily, who became the wife of Hugh de Clitheroe about 1265; Dionisia, often called Diana, who married Thomas 'le Someter' son of William de Hulton, by whom she had issue a son Adam, who died young; Matilda died young; Agnes and Alice, who do not appear to have married [Towneley MS. DD, no. 2079, 2085; Lancs. Assize R. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), xlvii, 127].

~History of the County of Lancaster, Volume VI, pp. 252-257