General Notes

Lady of Egerton.  She was her brother's coheiress, and reacquired a portion of the barony of Malpas that had gone after the death of William de Malpas to his illegitimate son David instead of to the rightful heir, his brother Philip de Egerton.  The Egerton family was one of the most notable in Cheshire. In the early years after the conquest they were barons of Malpas.  Malpas was one of the palatinate baronies created, along with Shipbrook, Kinderton, and others, by Hugh Lupus, the first Norman earl of Cheshire.  The idiosyncratic descent of this barony, which found its way down an illegitimate line and was divided and subdivided, is lengthy.  A full account is given in Ormerod's Cheshire.  The Brereton family in the fourteenth century were able to wrest various moieties of the barony from their cousins, and Sir William Brereton, grandson of Ellen de Egerton, was in possession of half the barony.