John de Stanley Lord of Stanley & Stourton

  General Notes:

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage (Stanley), p. 247 mentions that "he is said to have married Mabel, daughter of Sir James Hawkset of Stourton Parva, but note says there is no authority for this. ¹⁴¹

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Stanley of Hooton Pedigree, p. 415, also has John marrying Mabel the daughter of sir James de Hausket ⁷¹³

~Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 225, states that no such family as the Hawskets were associated with the Stanleys at the time. Boyer further adds that W. Ferguson Irvine in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. CV, p. 45, states a charter dated in Sefton, Lancashire, 13 Feb 1310 that proves John's father endowed him with the manors of Stanlegh and Over Elkeston in Staffordshire, and named John's wife as Emma, who man have been the duaghter of Walter Molyneux or of Sir Robert Lathom. ⁷²¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands John de Stanley, son of William de Stanley and his wife Joan de Baumville, may have married Mabel, daughter of James Hawkset of Stourton Parva. John and his wife had two children, William and John Stanley of Greswithin, Cumberland, ancestor of the Stanley family of Ponsonby Hall, Cumberland.