William de Waleran

• Preferred Name: William de Waleran^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1162 in Longford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.0333 LONG: E1.7667
  
• Alt. Birth: 1162 in Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.3923 LONG: E2.0435
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Longford Castle
  
• Alt. Death: 1215 in Longford, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.0333 LONG: E1.7667
  
• Occupation: Knight with note: David Nash Ford's A 'Bear Family History: Greed, Lies & the Walerond Inheritance
  
• Death: ABT 1236 in Longford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.0333 LONG: E1.7667
  
• FSID: GHB2-3W6
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  William FitzWaleran De Deane (Fitzwaleran).
  Also known as: "De /Waleraund/wallerund/de/."
  Birth: circa 1110, Sutton Waldron, Dorset, England.
  Death: 1155 in the UK.
  Immediate Family:
  Son of William FitzWaleran,
  Father of William Walerand.

• m. 1182 in Longford Castle, Bodenham, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

1. William Walerand, b. ABT 1190 in Longford, Derbyshire, England     d. 1273 in Chipping, Gloucestershire, England

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sir William Walerand - Published information: birth: about 1193; Longford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
   Note: Published information: birth: about 1193; Longford, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom Published information: male Published information: birth-name: William Walerand Published information: death: 1236; England, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2036922561
   
2. Title: Wikiwand: Longford Castle
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Longford_Castle;
   Note: Longford Castle is located on the banks of the River Avon south of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It is the seat of the Earl of Radnor, and an example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. In 1573 Thomas Gorges acquired the manor (at the time written "Langford"), which was originally owned by the Servington (or Cervington) family. Prior to this the existing mansion house had been damaged by fire. In c.1576 Thomas Gorges married Helena Snakenborg, the Swedish born dowager Marchioness of Northampton and Lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth. They rebuilt the Longford property as a triangular Swedish pattern castle on the banks of the River Avon. The building work became very expensive due to problems with the subsoil. Sir Thomas Gorges, who was now governor of Hurst Castle, persuaded his wife to beg of the Queen a shipwreck he knew from the defeated Spanish Armada. The gift was granted and the gold and silver retrieved from the shipwreck funded the completion of the castle under the final supervision of John Thorpe in 1591. The family lived in the castle for several years before its final completion. The main building had several floors and was triangular with a round tower in each corner; the three towers representing the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. There was a chapel, kitchen department, several boudoirs and sitting rooms, as well as bedrooms. Fresh cold water was pumped to various floors and there were water closets operating with rainwater. A park, fruit garden and kitchen garden were attached. In 1717 Longford Castle became the Bouverie home, purchased by Sir Edward des Bouverie from the Coleraines. It is said that Sir Edward saw and fell in love with the castle in the valley as he rode past, having enough money in his saddle bags to effect the purchase there and then. Subsequent generations of the family beautified the interior of the castle and surrounding park. However, Jacob, 2nd Earl of Radnor (1749-1828), employed James Wyatt to change Longford from a reasonably modest chateau into a hexagonal palace "to the despair of future generations." He destroyed one of the Elizabethan towers and replaced it with a larger one of his own design, added two more towers and linked each to each other. The palace concept was not finished. It was Jacob, 4th Earl of Radnor (1815-1889), who oversaw the last significant changes to the castle architecture, undertaken by Anthony Salvin. These included the formation of a second courtyard, the doming over of the central courtyard and the addition of a square tower that can be seen in the aerial photograph. The castle is Grade I listed. It is currently the seat of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 9th Earl of Radnor, and is open to the public for pre-booked tours on 28 days of each year. Other notable uses Longford was the model for the 'Castle of Amphialeus' in Sir Philip Sidney's The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (1580, pub. 1590). In the 1914-18 war the castle was a hospital. In the 1939-45 war the castle was occupied by British and American troops and entertained Montgomery, Mark Clark and Creagh. Longford Castle is shown from the air at the end of the movie The Princess Diaries as the castle in Genovia.
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sir William Walerand -
   Author: David Nash Ford's :"A 'Bear Family History"; online
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742584
   
4. Title: David Nash Ford's A 'Bear Family History: Greed, Lies & the Walerond Inheritance
   Publication: Name: http://www.mayfamilyhistory.co.uk/abear/delabere/walerond.html;
   Note: Intrigue in De La Bere Family During the mid fourteenth century the Royal Commissioners heard an on-going court case which proves that at least one branch of the De la Bere family managed to get a foothold into Herefordshire at an early period. The case concerns the estate of Robert Walerond, Lord of Kilpeck Castle, and those who claimed to be his heirs. Robert Walerond died in 1272, seized of vast estates all over the country centred on Kilpeck in Herefordshire. His lands were inherited successively by his nephews, Robert and then John, but by the end of the thirteenth century the two boys were dead, and the path of the inheritance was unclear. Robert Senior was the son of Sir William Walerond and Isabel daughter of Roger De Berkeley. Though the father of his two nephews, William, was his only full sibling, he did have at least three half-sisters through his mother. Sybil, the eldest, (wife of both Hugh De Plugenet and Andrew De la Bere) was daughter of Isabel's first husband, Josce De Dinan. Alice (wife of both Alan De Plugenet (grandson of Hugh) and John De Eddeworth) and Cecily (wife of John De Everingham) were daughters of Isabel's third husband, Thomas De Rocheford. At the death of the young John Walerond, his guardian, Alan, Baron De Plugenet, son of the above mentioned Alan and Alice (De Rocheford) De Plugenet, not only claimed his rightful inheritance passed down from his grandmother, but also the Walerond inheritance of her second husband! This should not have been possible, but Baron De Plugenet deceived the inheritance courts into believing that his mother was in fact a daughter of Lady Isabel and Sir William Walerond, and not of Thomas De Rocheford! Though his son, Alan, 2nd Baron De Plugenet, was sued (unsuccessfully) for his fraudulent claims by Richard De la Bere (great grandson of Andrew and Sybil (De Dinan) De la Bere), the 1st Baron De Plugenet lived a long and prosperous life at Kilpeck Castle. The Walerond estates were not to remain forever in De Plugenet hands, however. The 2nd Baron De Plugenet was the last of the male line, dying in 1325; and his sister, Joan, Baroness Plugenet, wife of Henry De Bohun, a relation of the Earl of Hereford, died childless two years later. So Richard De la Bere evidently decided it was his turn to try a little fraud. After all, it had worked so well for his cousins. On the death of the Baroness Plugenet in 1327, her lands reverted to the King; but it wasn't long before Richard came forward to claim his supposed rights. He asserted, in court, that he was not descended from Andrew De la Bere and his wife Sybil De Dinan. Instead he claimed that Andrew's wife had been Alice De Walerond (alias De Rocheford), and that Alan, 1st Baron De Plugenet, was a bastard son of Andrew, born while Alice was still married to Alan De Plugenet Senior! And he got away with it! In 1331, Edward III turned the Walerond lands over to Richard De la Bere. He took up residence at Kilpeck Castle and lived happily ever after. Life, however, was not so jolly for Richard’s son and eventual heir, Thomas. Twenty-six years later, in 1353, Sybil, the widow of Alan, 2nd Baron De Plugenet finally died. She had been holding half of her husband’s estates in dower, so this ought to have been a happy occasion for the man who was now to inherit all of the Walerond lands. However, something went wrong. The crown set up an enquiry into the rights of the De la Bere family over Kilpeck, Hazelbury Plucknet and the other etsates. Thomas, like his father insisted that he was the great grandson of a brother “of the whole blood” of Alan, 1st Baron De Plugenet, and thus entitled to the inheritance of his ancestor, Sir William Walerond. Although the exact ruling of the commissioners is unknown, they certainly did not look favourably on Thomas’s claims, for he never regained his lands, and Kilpeck Castle was granted to the Baroness' step-son. Thomas then disappears from the records, and nothing else is known about him or his family. His grandfather, Richard, may well be the man who retired to the manor of Westcote, near Binstead, in North Hampshire. He died there in 1333, and his striking effigy, recording his alias of Richard De Westcote, can still be seen in the parish church. References to his will, dated 11th November 1332, in the Records of London’s Husting Court show that he owned land in the Capital. To his daughter, Joan, he left some “houses lately built by me in Phelipes Lane for life”. It is not even clear from where this branch of the De la Bere family stem. It is possible Andrew De la Bere was uncle to Simon De la Bere of Thornham.