Title: High Sheriff of Lancaster
Name: Sir Ralph de Bickerstath
Herald date: 1309-1315
Argent of a cross patonce Sable five mullets Or.
From Bickerstaffe near Ormskirk, Sir Ralph was another northern lord caught up in the events of Adam be Banestre’s revolt of 1315. Wounded at the Battle of Preston, he sought sanctuary at Croston Church where he died of his injuries.
