Person:Roger de Malpas (2)

Ormerod, George; William Smith; William Webb; and Peter Leycester. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: Lackington, Hughes, Mavor & Jones, 1819 (London : Nichols, Son, and Bentley))
2:357-58.

p. 357: '... a family who bore the name of Malpas, and descended from Roger, an illegitimate son of William Belward.'
p. 358: "Roger de Malpas" is listed as an illegitimate child (shown by a wavy line rather than a straight line) of "William de Malpas" and "Beatrix de Montalt." The paternal grandfather of "William de Malpas" is shown as "William Belward, lord of a moiety of Malpas", implying that "William de Malpas" on this chart was of the Belward family, and thus is the same as the "William Belward" named on page 357.
↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated birth year of brother David le Clerc, and also to ensure approximately average generation size down to descendant David le Malpas who died as a minor abour 1420.