Gilbert de Notton
- Marriage: Margaret de Eland 946
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 946
Gilbert de Notton, eldest son of Gilbert, the Seneschal, married Margery, daughter of Hugh de Eland of Eland and Rochdale, who gave the said Gilbert in frank marriage with his daughter, certain lands in Naden in Spotland [Whalley Coucher, p 640]. The said Gilbert also purchased from Robert de Mitton certain lands which had been bestowed upon Jordan de Mitton (the said Robert's grandfather), early in the reign of Henry II, by Hugh de Eland, in frank marriage with his daughter Wymark, viz, two oxgangs of land in Wardleworth, and two oxgangs in Heley [Whalley Coucher, pp 623, 627]. This land afterwards became the nucleus of the Byron estates in the lordship of Rochdale. Gilbert de Notton, jun, by his said wife had issue a son, Roger, who succeeded to his father's Yorkshire estate in Silkstone, Farnley Tias, and Woodsome, of which the former estate passed by the marriage of his daughter and heir, Christiana, to William Heron, and so to the family of John, Lord Darcy. [Hunter's Deanery of Doncaster]
~The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey, Vol. II, P. II, p. 728 footnote
Gilbert married Margaret de Eland, daughter of Hugh de Eland and Unknown.946 (Margaret de Eland died after 1235 1030 and was buried in Lede Chapel 1030.)
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