Alice de Worsley

  General Notes:

~George Ormerod's The History of County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol. I, p. 442 Vol III, p. 467 ⁷¹³

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁸²⁶
Four years later Talpeshaw in Newton was granted with remainders to Sir Lawrence de Dutton (brother of Joan), Sir Geoffrey de Worsley, and Sir John Mascy of Tatton and his wife Alice daughter of Geoffrey de Worsley; [Raines, loc. cit. 238]. The reason for the Worsley remainder is that Geoffrey, the father of Sir Geoffrey and Alice, had married Anabel daughter of Gilbert de Haydock [Raines, loc. cit. 421].

'Townships: Haydock', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, pp. 137-140, footnote 24

Sir Geoffrey de Worsley (Alice's brother), married Mary daughter of Sir Thomas de Felton, about 1376; but a divorce was procured in 1381, and Mary retired to a nunnery. Thereon Sir Geoffrey married Isabel daughter and eventual heir of Sir Thomas de Lathom, but died shortly afterwards leaving a daughter by her named Elizabeth, only one year old. His former wife then left her convent, asserting that she had only entered it by compulsion, and as she also established the validity of her marriage, the infant daughter of Sir Geoffrey lost the inheritance as illegitimate, the manors of Worsley and Hulton passing into the hands of Alice sister of Sir Geoffrey and wife of Sir John Massey.

'Townships: Worsley', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 4, pp. 376-392

Alice married Sir John Mascy Knight, son of Hugh Mascy and Unknown, in 1372 in Cheshire, England ⁷¹³.^,826 (Sir John Mascy Knight was born about 1338 in Talton, Cheshire, England ⁸²⁶ and died on 22 Jul 1403 in Battle of Shrewsbury ⁸²⁶.)