William de Vaux - Lord of Direlton

• Preferred Name: William de Vaux - Lord of Direlton^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: William Vallibus
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 1298 in Dirleton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.0475 LONG: E2.778 with note: Dirleton Castle?
  
• Burial: 1364 in Dirleton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.0475 LONG: E2.778
  
• Death: 1364 in Dirleton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.0475 LONG: E2.778
  
• FSID: G9L8-B3R
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/William-de-Vaux-lord-of-DIrleton/6000000019290174168
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vaux-101
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Laird of Dirleton
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  William was one of the Scottish prisoners taken at the Battle of Durham. After being held in England as a prisoner, he returned to Scotland and was prominent in affairs there. He was a party to the ransom of King David II and was a principal in other negotiations and treaties between Scotland and England. William married Catherine Douglas22. Their first son, Thomas, was killed at the siege of Berwick, 1355. Their second son, Johannis21 carried on the line of descent. http://matsonfamily.net/welchancestry/family_vance.htm
  
  === William Vaux was taken prisoner in 1346 ===
  William Vaux was taken prisoner in 1346 at Nevil's Cross and was detained in England. Later he returned to Scotland, and his name appears in many transactions during that period, especially as a party to the ransom of King David II.
  
  === HINTS: http://www.linkpendium.com/vaux-family/. Or: ===
  https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/282087-redirection
  
  === William Vaux was succeeded by two co-hei ===
  William Vaux was succeeded by two co-heiresses, but it is uncertain whether they were his own daughters or those of his elder brother, Thomas Vaux. (Thomas Vaux had been killed at the seige of Berwick in 1355.) The older of the two sisters married Sir John Halyburton, and the younger married Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, ancestor of the well-known Earl of Bothwell, husban dof Queen Mary.
  
  === Relative hints ===
  https://books.google.com/books?id=yCUwAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA510&lpg=PA510&dq=Vaux+family+Parish+genealogy+records+of+England&source=bl&ots=xdvJ8fd153&sig=ACfU3U1XIZ20m-y3TDEP8FvnfUrZ9GV3PA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjp4fm3uYTpAhVEXKwKHY8TAQMQ6AEwDXoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=Vaux%20family%20Parish%20genealogy%20records%20of%20England&f=false

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: William DeVaux - Published information: birth-name: William DeVaux
   Note: Published information: birth-name: William DeVaux Published information: male Published information: birth: 1298; Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland Published information: death: 1364; Dirleton, East Lothian, Scotland
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246324317
   
2. Title: William (Vaux) de Vaux on WikiTree
   Author: WikiTree contributors, "William (Vaux) de Vaux", WikiTree, http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vaux-101 (accessed 10 June 2021)
   Publication: Name: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vaux-101;
   
3. Title: Nobility
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/William-de-Vaux-lord-of-DIrleton/6000000019290174168;
   
4. Title: Geni
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/William-de-Vaux-lord-of-DIrleton/6000000019290174168;
   
5. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: (Lord) William De Vaux -
   Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: IV:332
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741135