Sir Robert de Clitheroe

A History of the County of Lancaster, Vol. 6, pp. 252-257 shows Robert de Clitheroe who married Sybil de Hoghton as son of Robert de Clitheroe & Sibyl de Hodleston, and father of Sybil who married Richard Radcliffe.

'Townships: Salesbury', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 252-257. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol6/pp252-257 [accessed 27 November 2020].

In 1342 Robert de Clitheroe paid 13s. 4d. for the thegnage estate, formerly Thomas de Hulton's, in this town. (fn. 25) He had been married to Sibyl daughter of Richard de Hodleston, in 1331, made a settlement of his estates in 1340, and died before December 1343, when his feoffees delivered two-thirds of the manor and other estates to his son Robert and onethird to his widow. (fn. 26) The marriage of Robert de Clitheroe was acquired by Adam de Hoghton, who married him to his sister Sibyl, relict of William de Bold. The issue of the marriage was an only daughter Sibyl, upon whom her father settled his manor and estates in 1362, and married her to Richard son of John de Radcliffe of Ordsall. (fn. 27) In 1371 he and his wife had licence for an oratory at Salesbury. He died in 1375, and his son-in-law Radcliffe in 1380, leaving issue Joan de Radcliffe, born about 1379. (fn. 28) Sibyl widow of Richard de Radcliffe afterwards married Richard Mauleverer of Beamsley, and after his death without issue by her married for her third husband, in 1386, Roger de Fulthorpe, kt., a judge of Common Pleas, who was attainted of treason in 1388 and exiled to Ireland, where he died in 1392, leaving issue by a former marriage only. (fn. 29)

References

• 827 Edited by William Farrer & J. Brownbill, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, From British History Online.