General Notes

Lord of Brereton.  He was his grandfather's heir.  He took part in the crusade, under the Black Prince, which restored Peter the Cruel to the throne of Castile, 1367.  He had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands, 1368,  and was a witness before the case of Scrope v. Grosvenor at the court of chivalry, 1369.  The Brereton family, lords of the manor of Brereton, and later joint tenure barons of Malpas, in Cheshire is said to have been founded by a younger son of Gilbert de Venables, from whom they are descended through a later connection with that family - this supposition is supported by the similarity of the arms that they bore, which differ on in tincture. A full pedigree is given in George Ormerod's Cheshire (1817, 1888) and also in Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage. The family was raised to the peerage in the seventeenth century, but is now extinct in the senior line.