Sir Roger de Venables (d. c.1261)

✓ Sir Roger de Venables, knight, son and heir of Hugh; recovered Astbury church from St Werburgh's 1261 and died within a year ('miserabiliter obiit', the monks' chronicle). His wife Alice, da. of Alan de Peninton, was to be endowed in Eccleston - not stated to be the mother of his heir; not wired. Children Sir William, Roesia (m. Alexander de Bamville), probably Roger (parson of Rostherne). Source: Ormerod, History of Cheshire (1819), vol. III, pp.102-104 'Kinderton' (from Sir Peter Leycester's MS pedigrees and Erdeswick's 1600 transcript of the Kinderton charters), read 2 Nov 2026 (archive.org djvu text). [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.]