John le Norreys of Speke, Formby, and West Derby, Lancashire

  General Notes:

~Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, 147.John by summons was called to the Great Counit at Wetminister in 1324 ⁷²⁹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁹
Alan le Noreis and Margery Haselwal, brother and sister-in-law of John le Noreis, had a son named Patrick le Noreis, who was heir of his late mother, and father, who released his land in 6 or 7 Edward II. On the death of Patrick, 11 Edward II, his interest in Speke finally passed to his uncle John le Noreis and aunt Nicola Haselwal, who were now the holders both parts of the one-fourth grant from Nicola's father Patrick de Hasewal.

John le Noreis was summoned to select jurors on a trial respecting the advowson of Walton-on-the-Hill, in Placita de quo Warranto, 1292, and he summoned from Lancashire with many Knights and Men at Arms to attend the Great Council of Westminster in 1324. This John "lyved many years." [Harl. M.S.1997, p. 88 b.]

Joahn and Nichola were the parents of Alan le Noreis, son and heir, and possibly, although not idedentified as their son, Sir Henry le Noreis. Ormerod, the author of this article, questions the possibility that Sir Herny was placed incorrectly in the Visitation of 1567 within this line.*

~Ormerod, " Memoir of the Lancashire House of Le Noreis or Norres, and of it Speke Branch in Particular," Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, ser.1 v.2 1849-1850, p. 150

*Ealier in his article, Ormerod mentions that he was consulting with the then recent Sir Wiliam Norreis for this article and it was the belief of Sir William Norreis that the there were errors made by the Visiting Heralds when they made the pedigree for the Norreys line. First, the Speke and Sutton line were collateral line, rather than the Speke growing out of the Sutton line. He also points out that the inculsion of a second Henrey after Alan, father of Henry, John, Alan and Robert. That Henry was not from Speke. [p. 143]

John married Nichola de Haselwell, daughter of Sir Patrick de Haselwell Sheriff of Chester and Agnes Thurstanston, in 1276-1208 in Speke, Lancashire, England ⁷²⁹.^,923 (Nichola de Haselwell died after 1284 in Cheshire, England ⁷²⁹.)