Robert de Clitheroe

  General Notes:

Robert, son of Robert and father of Sibyl who marries, first, Richard de Radcyiffe, second, Richard Mauleverer, and third Roger Fulthorp.

~A History of the Parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, in the County of York, Clitheroe pedigree, p. 165

He is also given in The Book of the Radclyffes, p. 141, as the father of Sibyle, wife of Richard de Radclyffe. ^745,1400

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
In 1342 Robert de Clitheroe paid 13s. 4d. for the thegnage estate, formerly Thomas de Hulton's, in this town [Cal. Pat. 1338-40, p. 75; Mins. Accts. 1091, no. 6]. He had been married to Sibyl daughter of Richard de Hodleston, in 1331, made a settlement of his estates in 1340, and died before December 1343, when his feoffees delivered two-thirds of the manor and other estates to his son Robert and one-third to his widow [Towneley MS. DD, no. 1242, 2084]. The marriage of Robert de Clitheroe was acquired by Adam de Hoghton, who married him to his sister Sibyl, relict of William de Bold. The issue of the marriage was an only daughter Sibyl, upon whom her father settled his manor and estates in 1362, and married her to Richard son of John de Radcliffe of Ordsall [Ibid. 1069, 2015, 2038; HH, no. 198]. In 1371 he and his wife had licence for an oratory at Salesbury. He died in 1375, and his son-in-law Radcliffe in 1380, leaving issue Joan de Radcliffe, born about 1379 [Ibid. 174; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, App. 353].

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

Robert married Sibyl de Houghton, daughter of Sir Richard de Houghton Knight and Sibella de Lea ⁷⁶³.^,1400