Lane of Bentley Hall
LANE OF BENTLEY HALL (NOW OF KING'S BROMLEY MANOR) CO. STAFFORD BY HENRY MURRAY LANE (His Majesty's Chester Herald of Arms) ELLIOT STOCK LONDON: 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1910 BENTLEY. HALL 1,,·om an Old E'ngraving-, . LANE OF BENTLEY HALL (NOW OF KING'S BROMLEY MANOR), CO. STAFFORD HIS ancient and loyal family has been seated in the county of Stafford for eight hundred years. The T earliest name upon record is that of Sir Reginald de Lona of Halton, co. Chester, who was living in the reign of King Henry II., and married Elinor, daughter of Sir Adam de Bostock. His son and heir, Sir Richard de Lone, took to wife Alicia, daughter of Robert del Holme, Lord of the Manor of Tranmer. The great-grandfather {?) of Sir Reginald came into .England, according to Hollingshed, with the Conqueror, and the name occurs on the roll of Battle Abbey. Adam de Lona of Hampton, co. Stafford, and of Halton, co. Chester, son and heir of Sir Richard de Lone, married Isabella, daughter of Roger Cotgreave, by Elinor, daughter of Sir William Brereton. Among the Crusaders who went to the Holy Land under the banner of Creur de Lion was Adam Lane, or Lone, of Hampton. The Lanes of Halton intermarried with many of the leading Cheshire families. A Sir .Ralph Lane, tenip. William Rufus, married Agnes, daughter of Sir Hugh de Calverley ; another Sir Ralph ( of Halton and Bowden, co. Chester) 1narried Joan, daughter of Sir Reginald Fitton. His son Richard married Matilda, daughter of Sir 1\riatthew Ellis of Overleigh, co.
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