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• Name: William PEVERIL, Baron Of Peverel
• Sex: M
• Birth: 2 ^b
• Death: After 1155 in Nottingham ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• William PEVEREL, Baron Of Peverel Death: 28 Jan 1113/4
Mother:

• Adeline Death: After 1129

Family:
Marriage:

• Oddona on 0 .^m1
  
• Oddona

Children:

1. William PEVEREL Birth: 1
2. Henry PEVERIL Birth: 2

Marriage:

• Avice De LANCASTER on 1 .^m2
  
• Avice De LANCASTER Death: 1 Jan 1191

Children:

1. Margaret PEVERIL

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

second son, second named William [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p494],

parents:

[Ref: CP IV AppI p761, CP IV AppI p771, Keats-Rohan DD p1069, Keats-Rohan DP p494, Watney WALLOP #779],

father:

[Ref: Sanders Baronies p136]

Sources for death Information

date:

1154 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p603]

living 1155 [Ref: CP IV AppI p771, Watney WALLOP #779],

place:

of Nottingham [Ref: CP IV p192]

Sources with Information about marriage to Oddona

date:

first marriage of William [Ref: CP IV AppI p762, CP IV AppI p771, Keats-Rohan DD p1067, Keats-Rohan DD p1069],

child:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1066, Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

Sources with Information about marriage to Avice De LANCASTER

date:

first marriage of Avice [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p539, Keats-Rohan DD p603]

second marriage of William [Ref: CP IV AppI p762, CP IV AppI p771, Keats-Rohan DD p1069],

names:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p42],

child:

[Ref: Watney WALLOP #779]

Research Notes:
inherited Barony of Peverel from father [Ref: Sanders Baronies p136]

of Nottingham [Ref: Watney WALLOP #779]

called "the younger" [Ref: CP IV AppI p762, Watney WALLOP #779]

1138: one of the principal supporters of King Stephen at the battle of the Standard [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

one of the chief supporters of King Stephen [Ref: CP IV AppI p762, Watney WALLOP #779]

1137: a commander at the battle of The Standard [Ref: Watney WALLOP #779]

1141: taken prisoner at the battle of Linsoln [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

taken prisoner at the battle of Lincoln [Ref: CP IV AppI p762]

1141: lost his lands, the Empress granting them to William Paynel [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

1143: recovered his lands [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

abt 1145: founder of the Augustinian priory of St James at Northampton [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

1153/54: disgraced [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p539]

1153: his lands were regranted to Ranulf of Chester by Henry duke of Normandy [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

1153-4: lands were seized by Henry of Anjou; some of the lands passed to Robert de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, but the vast mass of the estate was retained by the crown [Ref: Sanders Baronies p136]

Mar 1152/3: Henry, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, by a charter expedited at Devizes, formulated what he was prepared to give to the Earl of Chester as the price of his support; not, indeed, even to the half of the kingdom, but yet no inconsiderable portion of it. ... These grants never took effect. Nine months afterwards, in Dec 1153, the Earl died, poisoned, as men said, by William Peverel [Ref: CP IV AppI p763]

estates were forfeited for a time, and his castle of Nottingham was committed by the Empress to the custody of William Paynel; he recovred it in 1143 [Ref: CP IV AppI p762]

1154: accused of the death by poisoning of Ranulf Earl of Chester; fled to a monastery where he became a monk on the approach of Henry II [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

son Henry by Oddona predeceased him; eventual heiress was his daughter Margaret, wife of Robert II Earl Ferrers [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p1069]

Shortly after his accession to the throne, King Henry visited Nottinghamshire, in order, as the annalists state, to disinherit William Peverel for having poisoned the Earl, but more probably to punish him for what had been previously termed his wickedness and treason. William, on the King's approach, retired to one of his religious foundations - perhaps Lenton - where he became a monk. And the honour of Peverel remained in the Crown for nearly half a century [Ref: CP IV AppI p765]



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