Robert de Byron the elder

✓ Robert de Byron the elder, first Byron lord of Clayton: between 1194 and 1212 Robert Grelley, baron of Manchester, granted him 'fourteen oxgangs of his demesne of Manchester to be held by the service of half a knight' (VCH fn.20); m. Cecily; 'had several sons'. Ancestor of the Byrons of Clayton and Newstead (Lords Byron, and so of the poet - collateral). TOP: VCH does not name his father; the family's earlier Domesday ancestry (Ralph de Burun) is tradition, not wired. Source: Victoria County History of Lancaster vol. IV (1911), 'Townships: Droylsden' (Clayton), pp.282-287 and fns.20-44 (british-history.ac.uk), read 2 Nov 2026. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 2 Nov 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]