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Geoffrey de Worsley
- Preferred Name: Geoffrey de Worsley[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- Death: 1385
- FSID: K831-6P2
- Birth: 1335
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Source: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41442&strquery=worsley
**Sir Geoffrey de Worsley, who fought in the French wars, married Mary daughter of Sir Thomas de Felton, about 1376; but a divorce was procured in 1381, and Mary retired to a nunnery. (fn. 25) 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,
Source: Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ...
By Douglas Richardson, 2004 (Google books)
(264) ISABEL LATHOM, married (1st) (as his 2nd wife) about 1382 GEOFFREY DE WORSLEY, Knt., of Worsley (in Eccles), Lancashire. They had one daughter, Elizabeth (wife
of Arthur de Worsley). This marriage was declared unlawful, when his former wife, Mary Felton, left her convent, asserting she had only entered it by compulsion. SIR GEOFFREY DE WORSLEY died 30 March 1384/5. Isabel married (2nd) before the end of 1385 JOHN STANLEY… They had four sons… and two daughters…
Family 1: Isabel de Lathom, b. 1364 in Lathom St James, Lancashire, England d. 26 OCT 1414 in Knowsley, , Lancashire, England
Sources:
- Title: Sir Geoffrey de Worsley Married Isabel de Lathom, Wikipedia
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Felton_(KG);
- Title: Sir Geoffrey de Worsley Married to Mary Felton, Wikipedia
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Felton_(KG);
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