Sir Richard Clayton Knight & Lord of Clayton

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷⁸⁴
Robert de Byron and his wife Cecilia, daughter and heir of Richard Clayton, had at least two sons, Robert, his eldest son and heir; Sir Richard Byron, who married Alice Ros, daughter of William de Ros, of Hamlake; Henry; and Peter.

~Collins's Peerage of England, Vol. VII, pg. 91

• Background Information. ¹⁰³³
Robert de Buron (Byron), son of Sir Roger de Buron, in I King John (1199-1200) married Cecilia, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Clayton, of clayton, and thereby obtained the manor and estates of Clayton.

~ Historical and Descriptive Notices of Droylsden, Past and Present, p. 37