Alan de Singleton

  General Notes:

~Abstracts of Inquisitions Post Mortem, p. 16, Joan, daughter of Alan de Singleton and heir to her brother Thomas. ⁸¹⁹

~Final Concords of the County of Lancaster, Part I, p. 201, Joan, daughter and heiress of Alan de Singleton, as heir to her brother Thomas, who died young. She married Thomas Banastre of Bretherton, great-grandfather of Sir Thomas Banastre, K.G., who was drowned at sea, 16 Dec 1379. ¹⁰³¹

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁹⁰⁸
Alan de Singleton, son and heir of William de Singleton, married twice. Alan was married first to Hawise de Cottam, and with her had a son, Thomas, who died s.p. and a daughter named Joan. Joan de Singleton married Thomas Banastre and carried the Singleton estates in Singleton, Broughton, Billsborough, Dillworth and elsewhere into the Banestre family. William de Singleton married a second time to Catherine Conyers, daughter of Robert Conyers by his wife Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir Adam de Yealand, by whom he acquired a considerable estate in Claughton and elsewhere. Alan and Catherine had two sons, Gilbert, his heir, and Ranulph.

~ The Chartulary of Cockersand, Vol. I, Part II, p. 263

• Family Background. ¹⁰³¹
Broughton was given by William, count of Boulogne and Mortain, and Earl of Warren, to Ughtred, son of Huck, to hold by the service of 8s [Dodsworth MSS., cxlix, f.49]. It descended to Richard, son of Ughtred, who was put out of seisn by Theobald Walter. King John afterwards seized it, upon the death of Theobald, and in the Survey of 1212, it was described as being in the King's hands [Testa, ii, f.822]. Aterwards the King gave it to William le Sauser, but it was restored to Alan de Singleton, son of Richard, by Henry III, and was in the hands of Alan's son and heir, William de Singleton, on 22 Mar 1261, when it was found by inquisition that the manor ought not to be tailaged [Escaeta, 45 Hen. III, no. 37]. He was the father of Alan de Singleton, and probably of Thomas, both named in the concord.

~ The Concords of the County of Lancaster, Part I, pp. 142-143

Alan married Hawise de Cottam.⁹⁰⁸