M.T.Smith sites SOURCE 253 This Manuscript contains valuable collections relating to this family. Selden was possessed of two grants of lands to the Monastery of Evesham, County Worcester, in 1161 (reign of Henry II), to both of which John de Lyttleton was a witness. This is the most ancient mention of this family of the name of Lyttleton which has been met with; and as this land conveyed was at Lench, near South Lyttleton, it is probable that this John Lyttleton was the ancestor of the Lyttletons of Frankley, in Worcestershire. The family of Lyttleton has been of long standing in Worcestershire, and from an ancient pedigree it appears that it was seated at Frankley about 1235.
142p. 892 This Thomas de Lyttleton married his first wife, Emma de Frankley, an heiress, Lady of the Manor of Frankley, daugh. of Sir Simon Frankley, Knight, but whether he was a stranger in the country or resided in the town of South Lyttleton in the Vale of Evesham, as there is reason to think he did, is not recorded. He married 2nd Anselm, daugh. and heiress of William FitzWaryn, of Upton, County Worcester, by whom he had three sons, Thomas, Edmund and John. By the first wife he had an only daugh., Emma who married 1st Angerus de Tatlington, and the manor of Frankley went to her heirs. ( See generation 4 where the manor of Frankley comes to Thomas Lyttleton on failure of the issue of his cousin Thos. de Tatlington). Thomas de Lyttleton was one of the Justices Itinerant and Judge of the Common Pleas in 1228, and Sheriff of Worcester in 1229. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas. |