William de Welle

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"[S]erved on the expedition to Ireland in 1210. In March 1215/6 he paid 20 mark fine to buy the King's favour; but in May 1217 his lands were granted to Fulk d'Oyri. He was again accepted as loyal in the autumn of 1217 and aided the Crown against William de Forz, Count of Aumale, in 1221. Between 1220 and 1232 he was active in judicial work for the King; and in January 1229/30 he was ordered to aid the sheriff of Lincolnshire in arresting ships to be sent to Portsmouth for the King's use. He was a collector of 1/40 in 1232 and of 1/30 in 1237; and was appointed, January 1240/1, to view the royal castles in Lincolnshire." [Complete Peerage V:437-438.]

William married Emma de Grainsby before 1208. Emma (daughter of William de Grainsby) died after 30 Sep 1226. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 24 Sep 1265

Notes:

CP says "possibly escheator in Lindsay, Lincs, in 1246."

Family/Spouse: Isabel de Periton. Isabel (daughter of Adam de Periton and Cecily) died before 5 Jan 1315; was buried in Malton Priory, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Faxton, Northamptonshire, England

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"He accompanied Hugh le Despenser on his mission to the King of the Romans, June 1294; was appointed, 1 March 1296/7, to receive clergy in Lincolnshire into the King's peace; was summoned for service beyond seas, 1297, and continually against the Scots, 1299-1310; fought in the King's division at the battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298; Constable of Rockingham Castle and Keeper of the forest between Stamford and Oxford, 17 January 1298 / 9-August 1307. He was summoned to Parliament from 6 February 1298/9 to 16 June 1311, by writs directed Ade de Welles, whereby he is held to have become Lord Welles or Welle. He was at the siege of Carlaverock, July 1300; joined in the Barons' letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1; was granted free warren in his demesne lands, 28 January 1301/2; served again in Scotland, 1303-04 and 1310; was summoned to attend the Coronation of Edward II, 18 January 1307/8; a Commr. de walliis et fossatis, co. Lincoln, 18 July 1310." [Complete Peerage V:439-40.]

"He went abroad with Hugh Despenser on a royal embassy to Germany in 1294. The date of his entry into the royal household is not known, but he was listed as a banneret of the king's household from 1297 to 1306. In 1297 he was among those appointed to receive fines from those clergy who wished to re-enter the king's protection during Edward I's dispute with Archbishop Winchelsey. It seems certain that he continued to support the king during the developing political crisis in that year; he participated in the fruitless royal expedition in Flanders in the autumn with a retinue of one knight and twelve squires. Two of the latter were knighted in the course of the campaign. Welles fought with Edward at the battle of Falkirk in 1298. In 1299 he was given custody of Rockingham Castle and was made keeper of the royal forests between Oxford and Stamford, a clear sign of royal favour. In the same year he was summoned to parliament as a baron. In 1300 he was present on the Caerlaverock campaign in Scotland, serving with a contingent of three knights and nine squires. He served in Scotland again in 1301 and in 1303–4. His involvement in the Scottish wars continued under Edward II, with service in the campaign of 1309–10. He was also summoned regularly to parliament." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Adam married Joan Engaine before 1297. Joan (daughter of John d'Engaine and Joan de Greinville) died on 1 Jun 1315; was buried in Greenfield Priory, Aby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 24 Feb 1345
• Alternate death: 27 Feb 1345

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"[S]erved in the Scotch wars, 1333 and 1335, and in France, 1342-3; d. 27 Feb 1344-5, having lands in co. Lincoln, co. Nottingham, Essex, and Northumberland." [The Wallop Family]

Summoned to Parliament from 27 Jan 1332 (or 1333) to 20 Apr 1344.

Adam married Margaret Bardolf before 1334. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Bardolf and Agnes) was born between 1310 and 1320; died before 24 Feb 1346; was buried in Greenfield Priory, Aby, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Summoned to Parliament by writ 15 Dec 1357 to 20 Nov 1360. Summoned against the Scots, 1355; overseas, 1359-60.

Family/Spouse: Maud de Ros. Maud (daughter of William IV de Ros and Margery de Badlesmere) was born about 1331 in of Helmsley, Yorkshire, England; died on 9 Dec 1388. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anne married James le Boteler before 17 Jun 1386. James (son of James le Boteler and Elizabeth Darcy) was born about 1360; died on 3 Sep 1405 in Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland; was buried in Gowran, Kilkenney, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margery married Stephen le Scrope before 15 Dec 1376. Stephen (son of Henry le Scrope and Joan) was born about 1345 in of Masham, Bedale, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Jan 1406; was buried in York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Welle. 5th Lord Welles. He was a lifelong retainer of John of Gaunt, whom he accompanied on the march from Calais to Bordeaux in 1373. He also took part in Richard II's 1385 expedition to Scotland. He was summoned to Parliament by writs from 20 Jan 1376 to 26 Feb 1421.

John married Eleanor Mowbray before 1368. Eleanor (daughter of John Mowbray and Elizabeth de Segrave) was born before 1361. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 28 May 1393

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4th Earl of Ormond. Lieutenant of Ireland. Very strongly Gaelicized, he spoke Irish and was the first Anglo-Irish lord to appoint a brehon. A learned man, he was the patron of the Book of the White Earl, an Irish literary and religious miscellany.

His political career was marked by a lengthy feud with the Talbot family. Twice, in 1422 and 1447, leading Talbots accused him of treason; he was exonerated on both occasions, although in the second instance both sides were rebuked for "disrupting the good governance of Ireland." Eventually the marriage of his daughter Elizabeth to a Talbot established better relations.

James married Joan Beauchamp before 29 Aug 1413. Joan (daughter of William Beauchamp and Joan Arundel) died on 3 Aug 1430; was buried in Mercer's Chapel, Cheapside, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died as a Minoress nun.

Maud married Baldwin de Freville before 1394. Baldwin (son of Baldwin de Freville and Joyce Botetourte) was born before 20 Nov 1368 in Weoley Castle, Northfield, Worcestershire, England; was christened on 20 Nov 1368 in Northfield, Worcestershire, England; died on 4 Oct 1400. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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4th Baron Scrope of Masham. Lord Treasurer of England.

John married Elizabeth Chaworth before 24 Aug 1418. Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Chaworth and Nichole Braybrooke) died before 12 Mar 1467. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Hugh Poynings before 29 Sep 1406. Hugh (son of Thomas Poynings and Joan le Strange) was born in of Chawton, Hampshire, England; died on 26 Dec 1426. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Godfrey Hilton before Jun 1433. Godfrey (son of Robert de Hilton and Isabel) was born in of Swine, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire, England; died on 5 Aug 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ives Welles. He took part in the rebellion of 1405, for which he was fined 100 marks and pardoned 7 Aug 1405.

Richardson's Royal Ancestry, published in 2013 (citation details below), has him dying before 26 Jul 1417, but in a 2021 post to SGM (citation details below), Richardson says that he "died testate at an unknown date." He cannot have died as late as 26 Jul 1417, since his widow Maud Greystoke married before 6 Oct 1414 (date of fine), as her second husband, Walter Fauconberge.

Eudes married Maud Greystoke about 1395. Maud (daughter of Ralph de Greystoke and Katherine Clifford) was born about 1380; died after 1437. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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7th Earl of Ormond. Also called Thomas Ormond. Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, 1486-1502. Chief Butler of Ireland. Privy councillor, 1504. He fought at the battle of Tewksbury in 1471.

From Wikipedia (accessed 30 Dec 2021):

Thomas Butler, as an Irish peer, should only have sat in the Irish Parliament. However, as a personal friend of Henry VII he was summoned to the English Parliament in November 1488 as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford chevaler". At this time he was already 8th Earl of Carrick and 7th Earl of Ormond, having succeeded his elder brothers James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, neither of whom left legitimate issue.

He was afterwards sworn [into] the Privy Council of England.

He was known as the Wool Earl, due to his enormous wealth. Besides being in the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England, making him one of the richest subjects in the realm.

In 1509, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon. He held this post until 1512.

Thomas married Anne Hankford before 11 Jul 1445. Anne (daughter of Richard Hankford and Anne de Montagu) was born about 1431; died on 13 Nov 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 11 Sep 1473

Elizabeth married John Talbot before Mar 1445. John (son of John Talbot and Maud Neville) was born in 1413; died on 10 Jul 1460 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England; was buried in Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Roger Aston. Roger (son of Thomas de Aston and Elizabeth de Leigh) was born in of Haywood in Colwich, Staffordshire, England; died in 1447. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Thomas Ferrers before 1418. Thomas (son of William Ferrers and Philippe Clifford) was born between 1392 and 1402 in of Hethe, Warwickshire, England; died on 6 Jan 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Hugh Willoughby before 23 May 1418. Hugh (son of Edmund Willoughby and Isabel Annesley) was born about 1380 in of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, England; died between 1448 and 1454; was buried in Willoughby On The Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 20 Oct 1498

Elizabeth married Henry le Scrope before 1436. Henry (son of Richard le Scrope and Margaret Neville) was born on 4 Jun 1418 in Bolton, Wensley, Yorkshire, England; died on 14 Jan 1459. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Richard Darcy. Richard (son of John Darcy and Joan de Greystock) was born about 1425; died before 1 Jun 1454. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: John Paulet. John (son of William Paulet and Eleanor de la Mare) died on 11 Jan 1437 in Nunney, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Privy councillor, 1434. Lieutenant of Ireland, 1438-42. Summoned to Parliament 25 Feb 1432 to 30 Jul 1460. Taken prisoner by Yorkists at the battle of Blore Heath. Fought at the second battle of St. Albans. Killed at the battle of Towton.

Lionel married Joan Waterton on 15 Aug 1417 in St. Oswald's, Methley, Yorkshire, England. Joan (daughter of Robert Waterton and Cecily Fleming) died after 18 Oct 1434; was buried in Methley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lionel married Margaret Beauchamp in Apr 1447. Margaret (daughter of John Beauchamp and Edith Stourton) was born about 1410; died before 3 Jun 1482. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]