William de Wrotham

• Preferred Name: William de Wrotham
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GMJ9-Z67
  
• Death: 1219 with note: Tous les renseignements d’état-civil et les liens de parenté correspondent. Numéros d’identification : LHL7-KC2 et GMJ9-Z67.
  
• Birth: 1130 in North Petherton, Somerset, England at LATI: N1.0918 LONG: E3.0141 with note: Newton GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === North Petherton is a very large parish, ===
  North Petherton is a very large parish, situated in a woody flat between the Towns of Bridgewater and Taunton, County Somerset. The Manor of North Petherton had, after the Conquest, for its possessors the ancient family of de Erlaga, or Erliegh, so denominated from the lordship of Erliegh near Reading, in County Berks. It remained in possession of the Erlieghs several generations, and by some means or other it came to the crown, where it remained until it passed to the Duke of Northumberland, who exchanged it with the Wrothams. A little to the eastward of the Town of Petherton is Petherton Park, which in 5th year of King John, 1204, he granted to William de Wrotham the whole lands of William Dennis that belonged to the custody of the Park of Petherton, with the houses and edifices thereon, together with the brushwood, deadwood, pannage and other perquisites belonging to the office of park keeper, the same being declared to belong to Newton, and other lands of William de Wortham in this county. At the time of this grant the said William was Forester of all the King's forests in Somerset and Dorset, being thereunto elected, and on payment of a fine of œ100 was admitted by the king. It must be understood that Foresters so chosen were called Forestarii Baronum et Militum, and were in the nature of trustees for the woods, etc., held by Barons, Knights of their own right, within the king's forests. These were very different from those foresters appointed for preservation of the king's rights. The service was enlarged until William became forester also in Devon and Cornwall. Upon his purchase of a part of Newton he gave the king 100 marks and two palfreys, all of which were comprehended in the Manor of Newton, and accounted to a whole knight's fee. He was later Sheriff of Kent, Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle. William died 3rd of Henry II, 1219, and left by his wife, Maude de Cornwall, two sons, William and Richard. William was Archdeacon of Taun ton and died soon after his father and had succeeded as heir to his father's lands, and to the office of Forester, which was executed by his brother Richard as long as Richard lived.

• m. ABT 1205 in Norfolk, England

1. Richard de Wrotham, Lord of Newton, b. ABT 1170 in Dover Castle, Kent, England     d. ABT 1219