Arderne family, Lords of Aldford
Dates: Thirteenth to fifteenth centuries in the Aldford descent
Biography
The Ardernes were a major Cheshire landholding family whose principal Aldford line held the manor and associated castle after the early thirteenth-century transfer from Richard de Aldford.
Notes / Sources
This entry is deliberately collective because the available source does not securely identify all intermediate Arderne holders.
Research sources:
- Craig Thornber, A Scrapbook of Cheshire Antiquities: Aldford, summarising George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, 2nd ed., vol. II, pp. 754-760. — https://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/aldford.html
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