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Richard Fitz-Eustace, the husband of Awbrey, died about the 24 Hen. II.
(1178), leaving one son, John, who founded the Cistercian Abbey of
Stanlaw in Cheshire, the present establishment of Whalley. He was slain
at Tyre in the crusade, A.D. 1190, the second of the reign of Richard
I., leaving issue, Richard a leper, and Roger, who followed his father
to the Holy Land, but of whose fate no tidings had been heard since his
departure thence on his return to Europe. Besides these were two sons,
Eustace and Peter, and a daughter named Alice.
Roger Fitz-Eustace and his friend William de Bellamonte--from whom are
descended the Beaumonts of Whitley-Beaumont, in Yorkshire--had fought
side by side at the memorable siege of Acre; but whether alive or dead
the certainty was not yet known, though there might be good grounds for
the apprehension generally entertained, that they were held in captivity
by infidels or by princes miscalled Christian, the bitterest enemies to
the faith they professed.
Clitheroe Castle was built by Roger de Poictou, or, as he is otherwise
called, Roger Pictavensis, of a noble family in Normandy, and related to
the Conqueror.
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