John de Malherbe

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹⁷⁰
By Matilda's (daughter of Adam Fitz Swain) second husband, John Malhert, she had two daughters and coheirs, Clementia, who married Eudo le Longvillers, and Mabilia, married to Geoffrey de Nevill (written 'de Novavilla'). The son of Clementia was John de Longvillers, whose son Sir John, of Hornby Castle, had an only daughter, Margaret, who married Geoffrey Neville (of 1268) and took to that family her father's large estates of Hornby Castle, Hutton Longvilliers in Yorkshire, and Appleby in Lincolnshire.

~ A History of Cawthorne, pp. 18

• Background Information. ⁷⁶⁴
The Chartulary of Monkbretton shows that John Malherbe, the elder, married Maud, widow of Adam de Montebegon, and one of the two daughters and coheirs of Adam fitz Swain. John Malherbe and Maud fitz Swain had a son also named John Malherbe who was the the grantee of Croston from his half-brother, Roger de Montebegon, son of Maud Fitz Swain and Adam Montebegon. Maud and John also had daughters: Mabel who married Geoffrey de Neville; and Clementia, who married Eudo de Lungvilers.

~ Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids, A.D. 1205 - A.D. 1307, p.62

John married Matilda Fitz Swain, daughter of Adam Fitz Swain and Unknown ¹⁴¹.^,170 (Matilda Fitz Swain was born in 1136 in Appleby, Lincolnshire, England.)