Gospatric de Samlesbury

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁷
Gospatric (the Foot of Patric) was the first recorded Lord of Samlesbury. He lived during the reign of Henry II (1154-1189), and founded a chapel at Samelsbury. Gospatric was followed by his son, Roger de Samlesbury a.k. Rogerus fil Gospatric.

~The Genealogy of the Southworths, p. 407

• Background Information. ⁸²³
Gospatrick, lord of Samlesbury, had four known sons and one known daughter:

Roger de Samlesbury
Richard de Samlesbury
Alan de Samlesbury who married Amabel Blakeburn
Uctred clericus
A daughter who married Geoffrey, dean of Whalleye

~From the footnotes of The Coucher Book on Chartulary of Whalley-Abbey, Vol. I, p. 121

• 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 [1]. 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].

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.

[1] Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 16, 54, 58, 75; Gospatric also had issue Richard, Alan, who married Amabel de Blakeburn, Ughtred the clerk of Whalley, to whom Geoffrey Dean of Whalley gave, and Roger de Lacy constable of Chester confirmed, Clerk Hill in Whalley (q.v.), and a daughter who married Geoffrey the younger, Dean of Whalley; Whalley Couch. (Chet. Soc.), 285\endash 8.

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

• Pedigree. ¹⁵³⁰
Baines's The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Volume 4, pp. 65-58, Southworth of Southworth and Samlesbury Pedigree from Inquisitions, Deeds, Charter, The Heralds' Visitations, Wills, Register, etc.