Cecilia

Cecilia married Thurstan Banastre, son of Robert Banastre and Unknown. (Thurstan Banastre died about Sep 1218 in Lancashire, England 763,845.)

Notes

Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. II, p. 574, Banastre, Lee & Hoghton, of Molynton Pedigree, p. 574-575.

Thurstan Banastre, gave five hundred marks for an Inquisition to try whether the Makerfeld fee should descend to him from Robert his father, and Warrin his brother, 14 Oct 1213. He died about 1219. He married Cecily, who married, second Richard de Mohaut.

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Thurstan Banastre, in 1213, gave five hundred Marks to King John, to have an inquisition whether the land of Makerfield should descend to him on the part of Robert his father and Warin his brother. He married a woman named Cecilia and died 1218/19, leaving two sons:

1. Robert, who succeeded him
2. Thurstan, the ancestor of the Banastres of Bank, to whom his brother gave his lands of Newton, in Wirral Hundred, Cheshire.

~The Coucher Book, Or Chatulary of Whalley Abbey, Vol. I, p. 114

Extracted from The Fee of Makerfield, with an account of some of it’s lords, the Barons of Newton. By William Beamont, Esq. (Read February 22, 1872.) page 97-99. < PDF >

“… We do not know whom Robert married, but we know that he left three sons, Richard, the eldest, who dying without issue before the year 1204, was succeeded by his brother Warin, who married a wife named Sara, and dying without issue was succeeded, in 16 John, (1213,) by Thurstan, his youngest brother, whose wife's name was Cecilia. …”

References

1. http://cybergata.com/roots/11647.htm cites
   1. 763 Thomas Benalt, William Langton, College of Arms (Great Britain), The Visitation of Lancashire and a Part of Cheshire: Made in the Twenty-Fourth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, Parts I & II, Published 1882. Printed for the Chetham Society, found on Google Books: Part I < GoogleBooks > & Part ll < GoogleBooks >
   2. 845 Archaeologia Cambrensis, A Record of the Antiquities of Wales and it Marches, and the Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, Vol. I, "Notice of the Family of Robert Banastre, on of the Benefactors of Basingwerk Abbey," Cambrian Archaeological Association, Published by W. Pickering in 1846, London, Printed in Manchester by Charles Simme and Co., found on < GoogleBooks >