Robert Stockport

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Sir Robert de Stokeport, mesne lord of Stockport under the family of Despenser during the time of the Norman earldom, (either by grant to himself, or inheriting it with other possessioon of Robert Fitz Waltheof) occurs in Monasticon, as witness to a deed made temp. Ric. I being witnessed aslo by Jonn as earl of Moreton, and [another sir Robert, viz. his grandson] is mentioned in Burton's Leicestershire, as having given the manor of Little Appleby, and advowson of Great Appleby in that county, to William de Vernon. ["This Appleby was the property of Matilda de Stokeport or Banastre (wife of the above, first Sir Robert) either from father or mother as she fined for recognizance of novel disseizin therein, 1206, Rot. de Obl. et Fin. 348"]

This Sir Robert was a man of very considerable property, being possessed, amongst other estates, if not of whole, yet of a great part of Stockport, Poynton, Wydesford, Bredbury, Romily, Wernith, Hattersley, Wodcley, Offerton, and Etchels, and a capital messuage in Cheadle, all in Cheshire ; and of Plumpton and Formby in Lancashire ; he died in or before 1205/6, leaving a widow, Matilda Banastre, daughter of Richard Fitz Roger and his wife Margaret, eldest daughter and coheir of Thurstan Banastre (a collateral of the family of Banastre, lords of Prestatyn).


~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. III, pp. 790-791

Robert married Matilda Banastre, daughter of Richard Fitz Roger Lord of Wood Plumpton and Margery de Banastre.⁷¹³