Sir Oskatel Lathom

from: http://tsgf.pbworks.com/f/Latham+of+Knowsley+and+Whiston.pdf (pg.3)

"The Stanley (of Alderly) papers make similar claims in a descent of "Latham of Latham", showing Sir Thomas as "Lord of Latham and Knowsley", husband of "Isabella Venables", brother of Edward of Latham of Parbold and dying in 1384. Sir Thomas' daughter and heir is shown here as Isabella, wife of Sir John Stanley (died 1413) and then of Sir Geoffrey Worsley. Sir Oskatel Latham is identified as a base son of Sir Thomas by Mary Oskatel and is called ancestor to the Latham's of Earlham.

"Omerod" shows that "Seacombe's" heraldic evidence (that the crest of the "eagle and child" having originated from the circumstances of Oskatel's birth) is nonsense and that the "eagle and child" was shown in some painted windows at Asbury as the crest of the younger son's of Sir Robert de Lathom from the very earliest usage of crests by knightly families."