Geoffery de Worsley

His son Geoffrey succeeded and was in possession in 1254; (fn. 14) he died before 1268, leaving a widow Agnes. (fn. 15) His son and heir Richard de Worsley made several grants and acquisitions of land, (fn. 16) and was still living in 1292. (fn. 17) He had many children, including Richard, who seems to have died about the same time as his father; (fn. 18) Henry, who succeeded, and held Worsley for about ten years, dying in or before 1304; (fn. 19) and Jordan, who had Wardley. Henry de Worsley was twice married, and left two sons, Richard and Robert; the latter, by the second wife, (fn. 20) had a share of the manor, known as Booths, assigned to him in 1323, so that in future, out of the free rent, he and his heirs were to pay 2s. to the chief lord, leaving 18s. to be paid by the lord of Worsley. (fn. 21) Richard, who was living in 1332, (fn. 22) was succeeded by his son Henry, dead in 1350; (fn. 23) and Henry in turn was followed by his grandson Sir Geoffrey de Worsley, son of Geoffrey. (fn. 24)

Sir Geoffrey de Worsley, who fought in the French wars, married Mary daughter of Sir Thomas de Felton, about 1376; but a divorce was procured in 1381, and Mary retired to a nunnery. (fn. 25) Thereon Sir Geoffrey married Isabel daughter and eventual heir of Sir Thomas de Lathom, but died shortly afterwards leaving a daughter by her named Elizabeth, only one year old. His former wife then left her convent, asserting that she had only entered it by compulsion, and as she also established the validity of her marriage, the infant daughter of Sir Geoffrey lost the inheritance as illegitimate, the manors of Worsley and Hulton passing into the hands of Alice sister of Sir Geoffrey and wife of Sir John Massey. (fn. 26)

1. ID: I243472
2. Name: Geoffrey [<] de Worsley
3. Sex: M
4. Birth: ABT 1195 in Worsley, Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, England
5. Death: BEF 1268

Father: Richard [<] de Worsley b: 1175 in Worsley, Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, England

Mother: Maud [<] de Hulton b: ABT 1175 in Hulton, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Marriage 1 Dau Agnes b: ABT 1195 in England

Marriage 2 Maud [<] de Singleton

Children

  1. Has Children Richard [<] de Worsley b: ABT 1219 in Worsley, Barton upon Irwell, Lancashire, England

Per British History Online: "The lands which Richard de Worsley and Hugh the clerk had granted to Cockersand were by Abbot Roger given to Geoffrey son of Richard de Worsley at a rent of 2s., half a mark being payable at the death of himself, his wife, or heirs; ibid.110. 139. In 1268 Richard de Worsley was in possession, so Geoffrey had died before this year; Cockersand Chart.ii, 718.

"In 1254, he was one of the jury to inquire into certain trespasses on Thomas Grelley's parks; Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 193. He occurs also in the Assize Roll of 1246 (R. 404, m. 7). He made grants in Hulton; Ellesmere D. no. 40, 45.

"To his daughter Isabel, wife of Richard de Bolton, Geoffrey gave in free marriage certain land in Holeclough, with easements in Worsley, Mokenis excepted, the rent being a pair of white gloves; Ellesmere D. no. 115. This land Richard de Hulton in 1289 granted to his son Henry; ibid. no. 141."

Children

Sons Richard and Roger; daughter Isabel.

"Geoffrey had two sons: —Richard, who succeeded as heir, and Roger, who founded the line of the Worsleys of Kempnough, an old half-timbered house, still existing, about a mile distant from Wardley Hall, and which in the time of Elizabeth obtained an unenviable notoriety on account of the supposed demoniacal possession for a period of two years of some members of the family then inhabiting it." (Ref: Historic sites of Lancashire and Cheshire, by James Croston, publ. 1883.)