Cecily de Samlesbury

  General Notes:

~From the footnotes of The Coucher Book on Chartulary of Whalley-Abbey, Vol. I, p. 121, Roger de Samlesbury, son of Gospatrick was succeeded by his son, Sir William de Samlesbury, who left three daughters:
1. Cecily married John de Ewayas de Samlesbury
2. Margaret married Robert de Haunton
3. Elizabeth married Sir Robert de Holland of Hale. ⁸²³

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁷
Cecil de Samlesbury, daughter of William de Samlesbury, married Sir John d'Eways, and from her he gained part of the Samlesbury estates.

~The Genealogy of the Southworths, p. 408

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
This successor was William de Samlesbury, Roger's eldest son [Lancs. Assize R. (Rec. Soc. xlvii), 17], who increased his estates by marrying Avina daughter and heir of William de Notton, lord of Breightmet in the parish of Bolton-le-Moors [Towneley MS. HH, no. 2064], by whom he had issue Margery, Cecily and Elizabeth. He died about 1256, his widow obtaining the manor of Breightmet in satisfaction of her dower [Excerpta e Rot. Fin. (Rec. Com.), ii, 237; Final Conc. i, 131]. His eldest daughter Margery married first in or before 1257 Richard son and heir-apparent of William de Clifton [Final Conc. i, 130], who died shortly after his marriage, and secondly Robert de Hampton of Allonby, co. Cumb., and died without issue before July 1267 [Chart. R. no. 54, m. 4]; Cecily the second daughter married before 13 April 1259 John Deuyas; and Elizabeth married after that date Robert de Holand son and heir of Thurstan de Holand.

'Townships: Samlesbury', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, pp. 303-313

Cecily married Sir John d’Ewyas Knight, son of Sir Nicholas d’Ewyas Knight and Alice Foliot, in 1295.⁸²⁷ (Sir John d’Ewyas Knight died By the end of 1309 in Lancashire, England ⁸²⁷.)