Person:William Atherton (9)

Sir William de Atherton, Kt.

• Nicholas Atherton was a retainer of the famous John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

William Atherton and Nicholas Atherton were present at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.

1.   Dugdale, William, and F. R. (Francis Robert) Raines. The visitation of the county palatine of Lancaster, made in the year 1664-5, by Sir William Dugdale, knight, Norroy king of arms. (Manchester: Chetham Society, 1872-73)
   pp. 20-1.

   Atherton of Atherton

2. ↑ sub Atherton, in Farrer, William, and John Brownbill. The Victoria history of the county of Lancaster. (London: A. Constable, 1906-1914)
   Vol. 3.

   Aged 30 at his father's death in 1414.

3.   Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton). History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co., 1884)
   Pages 415-417, 1884.
4.   Sir William Atherton (7), in Patrick Hogue (Samples). Transcribed Atherton Text.