William le Boteler

1309 - 1380  (71 years)

• Name	William le Boteler  [1]
  Birth	1309	of Bewsey in Warrington, Lancashire, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Mar 1380  [4, 5]
  Person ID	I13486	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	10 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	William le Boteler,   b. of Bewsey in Warrington, Lancashire, England d. Abt 1328
  Mother	Sibyl   d. Aft 1330
  Family ID	F21172	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth de Havering
  Children	+ 1. John le Boteler,   b. Abt 1328, of Bewsey in Warrington, Lancashire, England d. Between Apr 1399 and Jan 1400 (Age ~ 71 years)
  Family ID	F8455	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "In 1335 he was summoned to be at Newcastle-upon-Tyne with horse and arms to attend the king in the campaign against the Scots, this being the last occasion in which he was summoned in the same form as the barons of the realm. In 1336, as 'William le Boteler, son and heir of William le Boteler of Weryngton,' he confirmed the gift of an annuity of 40s. yearly to Cockersand Abbey made by his great-grandfather, William the butler, kt., in consideration of the remission of a mark yearly of the annuity during the lifetime of his mother Sibyl. In 1337, together with Thomas de Lathum, he was ordered to raise a force of 1,500 men-at-arms in the county, and to lead them into Scotland. On 16 July, 1338, he and John the butler, being about to set out on the king's service in France, had letters of protection from pleas whilst absent from the kingdom. From this time he is described as 'chivaler.' In 1340, shortly after the marriage of his eldest son, Richard, to Joan, daughter of Thomas de Dutton of Dutton, kt., he settled his Lancashire estates and his manor of Exhall, co. Warwick, upon himself and Elizabeth his wife for their lives, remainder to Richard his son and Joan his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to his younger son John and the heirs of his body. In 1341 he was in the king's service either at Berwick-upon Tweed, in the marches, or elsewhere in Scotland. [...] William the butler was probably in the French war before Calais and at Crecy in 1346, his name appearing in a list of those to whom wages of war were due. At a muster of Lancashire men-at-arms and archers made in 1359, William the butler, chivaler, had Robert de Sankey and Richard de Rixton assigned to his aid, because a great part of his lands and tenements were not in his hands." [VCH Lancaster (citation details below), volume 1, ed. William Farrer and J. Brownbill]

  
  

• Sources

  [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., "living in 1330". [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site., year only. [S812] The Victoria County History of Lancaster. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk.