Sir John de Southworth Knight

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots. . ." (9:37)
He fought at Flodden on 9 September 1513 and, in 1542, became high sheriff of Lancashire. Between 1542 and 1545 he enlarged Samlesbury Hall. ¹⁶⁰

~Visitation of Lancashire by William Flower, 1567, pg. 26, married to Helene, daughter of Sir Richard Langton, knight, baron of Newton and lord of Walton
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Titles.
Lord of Salesbury
Sheriff of Lancaster
Knighted 1503-1504

John married Ellen de Langton, daughter of Sir Richard de Langton Baron of Newton and Isabel Gerard, in 1519.¹⁶⁰ (Ellen de Langton was born about 1482 in Newton, Leicestershire, England ¹⁶⁰.)