Fulk de Orreby , Sir Knight 
Fulk de was born before 1230 in Hatherton, Nantwich, Cheshire, England. Fulk de's father was Philip de Orreby , Justiciar of Chester, Sir and his mother was Alice de Baumville. He had a half-brother named Philip de. He died on August 23rd, 1261.General Notes
FULK DE ORREBY, son of Sir Philip the Justiciar by his 2nd wife, must have succeeded to his father's estates, because his widowed mother had dower by his assignment. He was a knight by 1238. He held sundry offices in the Palatinate-eg., in 1249 he was keeper of Chester Abbey during a vacancy, and in 1251 keeper of the Forest and escheatori in Cheshire. At Michaelmas 1259 he was appointed justiciar, and retained office till his death, 23 August 1261. He is said to have married Philippe, daughter and heir of John STRANGE of Dalby, and to have acquired with her Dalby and other lands in Lincs. His widow was named Sibyl. [Complete Peerage X:170]
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