Gilbert de Haydock

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸²⁶
Hugh de Haydock had a son Gilbert, who married Alice daughter of Matthew de Bold, and received lands in Bold with her. their son and heir was named Matthew, and in 1286 ten messuages, eight oxgangs and 4 acres of land in Haydock and Bold were settled on Matthew by his father [Final Conc. i. 164], and the moeity of the manor of Haydock was grant in 1292. Matthew was probably not the eldest son, for in 1260 Gilbert de Southworth granted all his lands in Warrington to Hugh son of Gilbert de Haydock in marriage with his daughter Agnes [Raines, loc. cit. 75]. Gilbert wrote in 1285 to 'his beloved and faithful man' William son of Richard le Roter of Cayley, telling him that he had granted his service to his son Matthew, to whom in future the accustomed homage and service must be rendered [Raines, loc. cit. 227]. Some other acts of Gilbert's are known. In 1299 he gave Matthew his son lands in Haydock and Bold [Raines, loc. cit. 235], and he seems to have died about 1300.

~ A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. IV, pp. 137-140

• Background Information. ⁷⁵¹
Gilbert de Haydock, married to Alicia, daughter of Mathew de Bold, to whom her father gave land in Bold in frank marriage by deed. Gilbert appears to have have had a daughter named Alice, to whom and to her husband, Richard de Moston, Robert Banastre gave the vill of Poulton in 1285. Gilbert's son and heir was Matthew.

~The Visitation of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. II, p. 157

Gilbert married Alicia de Bold, daughter of Matthew de Bold and Unknown.²⁷⁰