General Notes

Name Prefix:<NPFX> Lady
BIOGRAPHY: Lady Cecilia was of Kirkland. Daughter of one of the most powerful barons in the north. Montbegons had vast holdings from the Conqueror and on the creation of the Honour of Lancaster by Henry the First, they were ceded further lands. In 1149, when Stephen temporarily resigned to the Earl of Chester his lands between Ribble and Mersey, the Montbegon holdings were exempt from the grant in a desire to retain the favor of this most powerful baron.