Robert de Rodelent

   Another name for Robert was Robert de Thurstanston.

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol II, p. 507, Robert de Rodelent, grantee of Thurstanston, and numerous other manors at the time of the conquest. He is the likely ancestor of Matthew de Rolent who came to be called Matthew de thurstanston. ⁷¹³

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁹²¹
The manor of Thurstanston appears from the Doomsday survey to have been given, along with adjacent townships, to Robert de Rodelent. Once Robert de Rodelent died it passed to Matthew de Rodelent, who was likely the illegitimate son of Robert. Once his brother became a monk at Chester, Matthew presented the church to the abbot and convent of St. Werborgh, in that city. William, the son of this Matthew, assumed the the local name, confirmed the gift of his father to the abbey.
~The History of the Hundred of Wirral, p. 263