Alan de Pennington

  General Notes:

Family of Pennington taken from the footnotes of The History of Lancaster V. VIII, Pennington, pp. 338-342:

Gamel (Henry II)
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Benedict - Meldred
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Alan
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Thomas m. Agnes -likely brother of Alice m. Roger Venables
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Alan
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William m. Alice de Mulcaster ⁷⁷⁵

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Sir Rogers Venables was the baron of Kinderton, in abt 1240, died about 1261, married to Alice daughter of Alan de Peninton, of Peninton-hall, Lancaster abt. 1240.

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, pp. 198-199

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁵
Gamel de Pennington, whose name occurs on the ancient tympanum at Beckside, is supposed to have been the founder of Conishead Priory in the time of Henry II [V.C.H. Lancs. ii, 140; Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. x, App. v, 223'9698] ; he gave it the church of Pennington. [Farrer, Lancs. Pipe R. 357, 366] Benedict de Pennington and Alan his son and heir occur in the latter part of the 12th century [Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 195; Farrer, op. cit. 63, 68 ] ; in 1202 Alan son of Benedict granted 2 oxgangs of land in Pennington to Hugh son of Edward. [Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 10] The custody of Alan son and heir of Thomas de Pennington was in dispute in 1250. [Cur. Reg. R. 143, m. 1, 31 d.; 145, m. 2 d.] The same Alan may still have been in possession in 1292, when there were disputes between Alan de Pennington and the Abbot of Furness and the Prior of Conishead. The abbot, as head of the wapentake of Furness, had made a distraint at Pennington for puture of a servant and 'witnessman,' which Alan regarded as illegal, but he was non-suited. [Assize R. 408, m. 101]

~A History of the County of Lancaster: Vol. VIII, pp. 338-342

• Web Reference: Muncaster Castle Pennington Family Tree.
Richard de Lucy at Carlisle on 1 Dec 1208, I John (King John in the 10th year of his reign) gave to Alan, his whole land and fee of Renglas (Ravenglass) which Alan was to hold of Richard de Lucy (Lord of Egremont). "The same Richard granted to Alan all his tenement of Mulcastre, to hold by the service of one-twelfth part of one knights fee and foreign service, belonging to the King". Died 1255.