Person:Thomas Lathom (2)

Alleged Marriage to Isabel de Pilkington

George Ormerod in Miscellanea Palatina argued that this Thomas married Isabel de Pilkington, daughter of Roger de Pilkington, and that his son, Thomas, married another Isabel de Pilkington, daugher of another Roger de Pilkington. He based this on an Inquistion Post Mortem whose date is stated by the Victoria County History cited below to be in error: "There is certainly a mistake in the date of the first cited inquest; as it stands this inquiry, alleged to be taken on 3 July, 1383, is immediately followed by another into the lands of John Kekewich, who died six months later. The first date should be 3 July, 1384, and the inquest certainly relates to the younger Thomas. This clears away the alleged double Lathom-Pilkington marriage. As the regnal year for Richard II began on 22 June the error of carrying the seventh year a week or so later is easily explained."

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry. (2004, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD)
   p.677.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 (21)
   57-33.
3. ↑ Ormerod, George. Miscellanea Palatina: consisting of genealogical essays illustrative of Cheshire and Lancashire families and of a memoir on the Cheshire Domesday roll. (London: T. Richards], 1851)
   Pages 64, 65, and the Lathom Pedigree Chart.

   "Sir Thomas Lathom of Lathom, Kt., son and heir, seised, in 1370, of Lathom, died 6 Rich. II, 1382 (being the Sir Oskell of the metrical legend). Seal, an eagle displayed, charged on the breast with the shield of Lathom."

4. ↑ Farrer, William, and John Brownbill. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster. (London: A. Constable, 1906-1914)
   Volume 3 page 251 .

   "Sir Thomas de Lathom, the younger, succeeded his father in 1370. He was the Sir Oskell of the Lathom legend. He made an enfeoffment of his estates in 1376. He paid his quota of the aid to make the duke of Lancaster's son a knight in 1378. Two years later he was pardoned certain offences committed within the forest of West Derby, Joan his wife and Edward their son being included in the grant. His wife Joan was the daughter of Hugh Venables of Kinderton; his children were Thomas, Edward, Isabel, Margaret, and Katherine. He died at the beginning of 1382, having been lord of Lathom for twelve years."

5.   Pilkington, John. History of the Pilkington family of Lancashire and its branches, from 1066 to 1600. (Liverpool: Priv. print. for the author by C. Tinling & Co., 1912)
   page 44.
6. ↑ Farrer, William, and John Brownbill. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster. (London: A. Constable, 1906-1914)
   Volume 3 page 251 .

   George Ormerod in Miscellanea Palatina argued that this Thomas married Isabel de Pilkington, daughter of Roger de Pilkington, and that his son, Thomas, married another Isabel de Pilkington, daugher of another Roger de Pilkington. He based this on an Inquistion Post Mortem whose date is stated by the Victoria County History (footnote 9 on page 251) to be in error: "There is certainly a mistake in the date of the first cited inquest; as it stands this inquiry, alleged to be taken on 3 July, 1383, is immediately followed by another into the lands of John Kekewich, who died six months later. The first date should be 3 July, 1384, and the inquest certainly relates to the younger Thomas. This clears away the alleged double Lathom-Pilkington marriage. As the regnal year for Richard II began on 22 June the error of carrying the seventh year a week or so later is easily explained."

7. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
   Volume 4 page 205.
8.   Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward III. (Nendlen/Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1971)
   Volume 16, page 320.

   May 8, 1376.
   Commission to Thomas de Lathom,Adam de Hoghton,and Thomas de Suthworth,knights,and Richard de Houghton,to make inquisition in the county of Lancaster touching all extortions, oppressions, falsities, damages,grievances, excesses, champerties, ambidextries and other misdeeds done against the king's people in that county.

9.   Towneley, Christopher; Roger Dodsworth; and William Langton. Abstracts of inquisitions post mortem, made by Christopher Towneley and Roger Dodsworth, extracted from manuscripts at Towneley. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1875-1876)
   pages and 19.

   This IPM deals with the adultery of Thomas' wife Joan during the last four years of his life as he lay "languidus" and "decrepitus". It states that she gave a perfunctory burial to her husband, and then immediately married her lover, Roger de Fazakerlegh.

10.   Baines, Edward, and James Croston. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (revised). (Manchester, England: John Heywood, 1888-1893)
    4:199.
11.   Ormerod, George. Parentalia. Genealogical memoirs. (not published, 1851)
    pp. 69-70.