Gilbert de Southworth

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁷
The Southworth family, took its name from the estate of Southworth belonging to the Barony of Newton. The two manors, Southworth and Croft were classed together for parochial purposes and were often named together. Many of its memebers served their country in war or peace, being knights banneret or knights of the shire. To Gilbert, son of Gilbert de Southworth, succeeded William de Southworth, whose name is on a document as witness in 1292 [45, Vol. XL, pp. 157-8]. His son was Gilbert Southworth, who lived about 1330. His son, Sir Gilbert de Southworth, married, before 1332, Alicia D'Ewyas.

~The Genealogy of the Southworths, p. 405