Ralph de Standish

The start of the Standish family can be found in the years following the Norman Conquest. After William of Normandy had more or less conquered England he gave large tracts of land which he had confiscated from the Saxons to the men who had helped him in battle. His kinsman, Roger de Poietou, was allotted the lands between the rivers Mersey and Ribble. He, in turn, parcelled these out amongst his retinue, and by this means the Bussel family aquired the Barony of Penwortham and the ancient Saxon Hundred of Leyland. The two adjacent vills of Stanedis and Longetre, as they were then spelt, the present day Standish and Langtree, formed part of this territory.

At the end of the twelfth century Warin Bussel was Baron of Penwortham, and when his daughter married Richard Spileman he gave to her the Vills of Stanedis and Longetre as part of her dowry. Two daughters born of this marriage each received one of the vills as her own marriage portion, the elder, Juliana, marrying Radulphus de Stanedis, who took the name Stanedis or Standish, and the younger, Edith, marrying Siward de Longetre, who took the name Longetre or Langtree.

With the marriage of Radulphus and Juliana, whose dowry gave them land and a name, the history of the Standish family had begun. Ownership of land brings legal documents or deeds and now, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, the story of the Standish family can be followed.

The start of the Standish family can be found in the years following the Norman Conquest. After William of Normandy had more or less conquered England he gave large tracts of land which he had confiscated from the Saxons to the men who had helped him in battle. His kinsman, Roger de Poietou, was allotted the lands between the rivers Mersey and Ribble. He, in turn, parcelled these out amongst his retinue, and by this means the Bussel family aquired the Barony of Penwortham and the ancient Saxon Hundred of Leyland. The two adjacent vills of Stanedis and Longetre, as they were then spelt, the present day Standish and Langtree, formed part of this territory.

At the end of the twelfth century Warin Bussel was Baron of Penwortham, and when his daughter married Richard Spileman he gave to her the Vills of Stanedis and Longetre as part of her dowry. Two daughters born of this marriage each received one of the vills as her own marriage portion, the elder, Juliana, marrying Radulphus de Stanedis, who took the name Stanedis or Standish, and the younger, Edith, marrying Siward de Longetre, who took the name Longetre or Langtree.

With the marriage of Radulphus and Juliana, whose dowry gave them land and a name, the history of the Standish family had begun. Ownership of land brings legal documents or deeds and now, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, the story of the Standish family can be followed.

The start of the Standish family can be found in the years following the Norman Conquest. After William of Normandy had more or less conquered England he gave large tracts of land which he had confiscated from the Saxons to the men who had helped him in battle. His kinsman, Roger de Poietou, was allotted the lands between the rivers Mersey and Ribble. He, in turn, parcelled these out amongst his retinue, and by this means the Bussel family aquired the Barony of Penwortham and the ancient Saxon Hundred of Leyland. The two adjacent vills of Stanedis and Longetre, as they were then spelt, the present day Standish and Langtree, formed part of this territory.

At the end of the twelfth century Warin Bussel was Baron of Penwortham, and when his daughter married Richard Spileman he gave to her the Vills of Stanedis and Longetre as part of her dowry. Two daughters born of this marriage each received one of the vills as her own marriage portion, the elder, Juliana, marrying Radulphus de Stanedis, who took the name Stanedis or Standish, and the younger, Edith, marrying Siward de Longetre, who took the name Longetre or Langtree.

With the marriage of Radulphus and Juliana, whose dowry gave them land and a name, the history of the Standish family had begun. Ownership of land brings legal documents or deeds and now, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, the story of the Standish family can be followed.

The start of the Standish family can be found in the years following the Norman Conquest. After William of Normandy had more or less conquered England he gave large tracts of land which he had confiscated from the Saxons to the men who had helped him in battle. His kinsman, Roger de Poietou, was allotted the lands between the rivers Mersey and Ribble. He, in turn, parcelled these out amongst his retinue, and by this means the Bussel family aquired the Barony of Penwortham and the ancient Saxon Hundred of Leyland. The two adjacent vills of Stanedis and Longetre, as they were then spelt, the present day Standish and Langtree, formed part of this territory.

At the end of the twelfth century Warin Bussel was Baron of Penwortham, and when his daughter married Richard Spileman he gave to her the Vills of Stanedis and Longetre as part of her dowry. Two daughters born of this marriage each received one of the vills as her own marriage portion, the elder, Juliana, marrying Radulphus de Stanedis, who took the name Stanedis or Standish, and the younger, Edith, marrying Siward de Longetre, who took the name Longetre or Langtree.

With the marriage of Radulphus and Juliana, whose dowry gave them land and a name, the history of the Standish family had begun. Ownership of land brings legal documents or deeds and now, from the beginning of the thirteenth century, the story of the Standish family can be followed.

References

• The Families of Standish of Standish, Lancashire, England, and Standish of ... (1959 - 77 pages) By Frederick Lewis Weis. Page 2-3. < GoogleBooks >