Richard Spileman

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷³⁸
"Richard Bussel (1153-1164). gave two carucates in Stanedis and Langeton to Richard Spileman in marriage to his sister. Thusrstan Banastre holds that land (1212) by one sor hawk (yearly)." [Testa. vol. ii. fol. 816] Richard Spilemans daughter married to Leising, whose two sons, Ralph de Standish and Siward de Langtre parted the two townships between themselves in the year 1206. [Final concords, 8 John, no. 42]. Both died before Michaelmas, 1219, Ralph only a few weeks before that date.

~The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey, Vol. II, part I, p. 514

• Background Information. ⁷⁷⁵
In the 12th century, if not earlier, Standish and Langtree were members of the Penwortham barony, and Richard Bussel, lord of Penwortham from about 1150 to 1164 [V.C.H. Lancs. i, 337], gave them to Richard Spileman, who had married the grantor's sister. They were assessed as one plough-land each. In 1212 Thurstan Banastre held them by the service of a sore hawk annually [Lancs. Inq. and Extents (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 31]. The Banastre lordship, which appears to be that held later by William de Ferrers Earl of Derby, and then by 'the lords of Leylandshire,' [Inq. and Extents, i, 29.] was a mesne between the lord of Penwortham and the immediate tenants, who adopted the local surnames\emdashStandish and Langtree and are supposed to have descended from Richard Spileman, having perhaps married his daughters and co-heirs.

~A History of the County of Lancaster, Volume VI, pp. 192-199

Richard married Daughter of Warine Bussel, daughter of Warine de Bussel Baron of Penwortham and Unknown. (Daughter of Warine Bussel was born in 1118 in Penwortham, Lancashire, England.)