sentences:  The prior supplied the chaplain to the hereditary Constables of Chester and to the Barons of Halton.During the 12th century, the main benefactors of the priory were the Barons of Halton, but after 1200 their gifts reduced, mainly because they transferred their interests to the Cistercian abbey at Stanlow, which had been founded in 1178 by John fitz Richard, the sixth baron.Archaeologist J. Patrick Greene states that it is unlikely that any of the Barons of Halton were buried in Norton Priory.