General Notes

Sir William de Brereton, heir to his father, by deed without date,receives from Randle de Torhaunt, later called Thornton, in frankmarriage with his daughter Margery, all the rents which Thomas de Warinheld from Peter de Torhaunt, father of the said Randle, in MiddlewichHundred. This Randle de Torhaunt must have been Randle le Roter, Lord ofThornton, who became possessed of the Manor of Thornton and is stated byCollins to have been a son of David le Clerk, Secretary to RandleBlundeville, Earl of Chester. Randle assumed the name of le
Roter, and also of Thornton from his place of residence, and is sometimesdesignated by both. Randle Thornton died before the 28th of Henry III,having married Amicia, daughter of Richard Kingsley and his wife Joan,daughter and co-heiress of Alexander Sylvester, Lord of Stourton andForester of Wirral, and had a son Ranulph, who died sine prole, and 5daughters: Amicia, Emma, Agnes, Joan and Margaret, of whom Amicia, theeldest, was mother of Margery Thornton, wife of William.