Hugh Malbank

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• Background Information. ⁶⁸¹
"Isdem Willelmus tenet Manesselle; Levenot tenuit, et liber homo fuit. Ibi una hida geldabilis; terra est una caruca; ibi unus radman, ii servi, & ii bordarri habent unam carucam : ibi una acra prati, silva una leuva longa, et una lata, et iv haiae, et aira accipitris. Valebat et valet iv solidos; wasta fuit," - Domesday, apud Ormerod, vol. III, p. 180

At the Norman conquest almost every Saxon proprietor was ejected: but it is recorded in Domesday that "William Malbedeng, Baron of Nantwich, held Eteshale, Church Minshull, Minshull Veron and Sproston." [Ormerod, vol. iii. p. 3] In the Confirmation Charter in which Earl Ranulf, gave Combermere Abbey, in the year 1230, we read of William Malbank, and Hugh, his father, as connected with the area.

~An Account of the Parish of Church Minshull, in Cheshire, by Rev. Geo B. Sanford, pgs. 86-87

• Background Information. ⁷⁹⁵
Before the Conquest, Algar, Earl of Mercia, was the lord of the manor of Sandon. It was given to William Baron Malbank by Hugh, Earl of Cheshire, who recieved it from William the Conqueror. William Baron Malbank's son Hugh, founded Combermere-abbey; and his son William gave Sandon Church to the Monks.

~ A Topographical History of Staffordshire, pg. 305

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
Hugh Malbanck, second baron of Wich Malbank, son and heir of William and Adelia, witnessed the charters of earls Richard and Randle I. to Chester Abbey, the first of which is dated 1109. Shortly beore 1130, grants his charter to the abbey which he had recently founded at Combermere. His wife, Petronilla, was a witness of these charters.

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. III, p. 422