Sir Roger de Mainwaring, Sr.

Roger Mesnilwarin, son of Randulfus, gave Plumley to Chester Abbey, England before 1119

Wikitree: Sir Roger Mainwaring

• Sir Roger Mainwaring, son and heir of Ralph Mainwaring, was a knight, Lord of Warmincham, Cheshire, England. He flourished during the reign of King Henry III, from 1216 to 1272. (Summarized from the book "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell" by Carl Boyer, 3rd as found at todmar.net)
• He was a generous benefactor to the Cistercian abbey of Dieulacres, a religious house on the banks of the Churnet, near Leek, which had been founded by Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester, whom, in his gift, he expressly calls uncle.
• He had three sons: Sir Thomas, his heir; Randle, an ecclesiastic; Sir William, who had the lordship of Over Peover by gift of his father.
• SOURCES
  • County families of Lancashire and Cheshire, by James Croston
  • Genealogy of Shropshire [by Joseph Morris] vol. 3 p. 1116
  • The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester (1882), Ormerod, George, ( vol. 1 p. 478; vol. 3 p. 226, 229
  • A short history of the Mainwaring family (1890), Finley, Reginald Mainwaring, (1890. Facsimile reprint, London: The Research Publishing Co., 1976), p. 29
  • The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry (1928), Watney, Vernon James, (4 volumes. Oxford: John Johnson, 1928), vol 2 p. 525.