Roger de Samlesbury

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁷
Roger married Margaret Osebert, daughter and heir of Walter Fitz Osebert, against her father's wishes. Rogerus fil Gospatric was summoned to the king's court at Westminster, 14 Oct 1194, to show why he married the daughter and heir of Walter Fitz Oseber without the assent and license of Teobald Walter.

~The Genealogy of the Southworths, p. 407

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
Samlesbury was held in the latter half of the 12th century by Gospatric son of Swain in thegnage by the yearly service of 12s. It is by no means improbable that he was a younger son of Swain son of Leofwin, lord of part of Hindley about the middle of the 12th century. In addition to his manor of Samlesbury he held half the manor of Alston in Amounderness, and in Salford Hundred half the manors of Harwood and Sharples, estates which his son Roger held in 1212 after Gospatric's death [Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 16, 54, 58, 75]. Roger, having married Margaret daughter and heir of Walter son of Osbert (de Clifton) without the consent of the chief lord, Theobald Walter, was summoned in 1194 to answer for this default [Rot. Cur. Reg. (Rec. Com.), i, 10, 114]. In 1224 his neighbour Edward de Brockholes demanded half the vill of Samlesbury from him, but after Roger's death accepted 10 marks from Roger's successor in 1227 to resign his claim [Curia Reg. R. 87, m. 4d.; 89, m. 10 d].

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

Roger married Margaret Fitz Osbern, daughter of Walter Fitz Osbern and Unknown, before 14 Oct 1194 in Lancashire, England.¹⁵⁷