Robert le Boteler

• Preferred Name: Robert le Boteler^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Alternate Name: Pincerna
  
• Alternate Name: Robert Pincerna
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 1100 in Oversley, Arrow, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
  
• Occupation: Butler to the Earl of Chester
  
• FSID: GXT3-PS1
  
• Titles of Nobility: with note: Description: 3rd Baron Warrington
  
• Death: 1185
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  ANNALS OF THE LORDS OF WARRINGTON FOR THE FIRST FIVE CENTURIES AFTER THE CONQUEST.
  BY William Beamont, Esq.
  
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  Robert Pincerna became the Earl of Chester's butler (Note: A butler was not a servant, but a noble person who managed the estate/castle/manor.) upon the death of his father, Richard.
  He married Ivetta, the daughter of William Helgot. William probably descended from the owners of Holegate or Helgot in Corvedale in Shropshire.
  
  Robert shows up in written records as witnesses, once for a charter of William Vernon to Quarr abbey and again about 1147 as a witness to a charter of Henry de Lacy. He gave his son-in-law, Roger de Gondevill, a garden near the bridge at Chester. Early in the reign of Henry II, Robert is said to have been a baron by tenure. He held the twelfth part of a knight's fee in Lincolnshire among the kings enfeoffed by Simon St. Liz, earl of Northampton, after the death of Henry I.
  
  After Randle Gernons(his master) the Earl of Cheshire was taken hostage by King Stephen, Robert gave the abbot of Combermere a moiety of his township of Pulton to found a Abbey for Cistercian monks to pray for the heath and safetely of earl Randle Gernons. This charter was sealed by Robert, his wife Ivetta and his son Robert.
  
  The Earl of Cheshire was released by King Stephen, but was poisoned by William Peverel in 1153. The Earl's son, Hugh Kyveliok was his seccessor, and Kyviliok confirmed Robert's gift to the abbot of Combermere.
  
  [In the second through fourth years (of the reign) of Henry II (1155-1557) . Contributor note: The Pincernas of Warwickshire were of the Branch of Hugo, father of Ralph Pincerna of Ovetsley, Warwickshire who was the butler for Alester Kenilworth. Ralph was the father of Robert of Budiford, Warwickshire.] different branch of Pincernas, son of Ralph.
  
  After this date, his name no longer shows up in documents so we can assume that he died sometime after 1157.
  Children of Robert and Ivetta:
  • Robert de Engelbi who in the foundation charter of Pulton is called the founder's heir-at-law
  • Richard, who ultimately succeeded to the Pincerna estates after the death of his brother Robert who died childless
  • William Pincerna, witness to charter made about 1153
  • Gilbert Pincerna Hugh, who in 1171 was witness to his brother Richard's charter to Calk abbey.
  • Hugh, who in 1171 was witness to his brother Richard's charter to Calk Abbey and was possible a clerk
  • Ranulphus or Randulphus Clericus,who was witness to the same charter to Calk Abbey. He may be the Radulf.fil.Robert Pincerna who held lands in Budiford in Warwickshire in i Richard I (pipe rolls p 117). He may also be the same Radulf who is mentioned in 9 Edward Ii (1316) as having long before helda house in Bridge-street, Chester. (History of Ches. vol ii, p 302)
  • Matilda, who married Roger de Gonderville
  • Edelina, who married Roger de Somerville
  ~The Annals of the Lords of Warrington, pgs. 25-31
  
  === Notes and sources for Robert... ===
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  Robert Pincerna became the Earl of Chester's butler upon the death of his father, Richard. He married Ivetta, the daughter of William Helgot. William probably descended from the owners of Holegate or Helgot in Corvedale in Shropshire.
  
  Robert shows up in written records as witnesses, once for a charter of William Vernon to Quarr abbey and again about 1147 as a witness to a charter of Henry de Lacy. He gave his son-in-law, Roger de Gondevill, a garden near the bridge at Chester. Early in the reign of Henry II, Robert is said to have been a baron by tenure. He held the twelfth part of a knight's fee in Lincolnshire among the kings enfeoffed by Simon St. Liz, earl of Northampton, after the death of Henry I.
  
  After (Randle Gernons) the Earl of Cheshire was taken hostage by King Stephen, Robert gave the abbot of Combermere a moiety of his township of Pulton to found a convent of Cistercian monks to pray for the heath and safetely of earl Randle Gernons. This charter was sealed by Robert, his wife Ivetta and his son Robert. The Earl of Cheshire was released by King Stephen, but was poisoned by William Peverel in 1153. The Earl's son, Hugh Kyveliok was his seccessor, and Kyviliok confirmed Robert's gift to the abbot of Combermere.
  
  In the second through fourth years (of the reign) of Henry II (1155-1557) Robert Pincerna held land of Budiford in Warwickshire. After this date, his name no longer shows up in documents so we can assume that he died sometime after 1157.
  
  Children of Robert and Ivetta:
  • Robert de Engelbi who in the foundation charter of Pulton is called the founder's heir-atlaw
  • Richard, who ultimately succeeded to the Pincerna estates after the death of his brother Robert who died childless
  • William Pincerna, witness to charter made about 1153
  • Gilbert PincernaHugh, who in 1171 was witness to his brother Richard's charter to Calk abbey.
  • Matilda, who married Roger de Gonderville
  • Edelina, who married Roger de Somerville
  ~The Annals of the Lords of Warrington, pgs. 25-31
  
  Robert married Ivetta de Helgot, daughter of William Helgot and Unknown.730
  
  === L Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees p 38 ===
  L Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees p 38

• m. 1120 in , , , England,
• m. 1120 in England
• m. 1120 in Oversley, Arrow, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom
• m. 1126

1. Richard le Boteler 4th Lord of Warrington, b. 1130 in Pulford, Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom     d. 1175 in Bewsey Hall, Warrington, Warrington district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
2. Matilda le Boteler, b. 1120 in Ingleby, Derbyshire, England    
3. William Pincerna le Boteler, b. ABT 1133 in Warrington, Lancashire, England     d. 1162

• m. in Europe

1. Ralph le Boteler of Oversley, b. 1141 in Oversley, Warwickshire, England     d. 17 DEC 1226 in Salo, Shropshire, England

1. Title: Butler Surname Meaning, History & Origin
   Author: select surnames website Exclusive Member of Mediavine Family
   Publication: Name: https://selectsurnames.com/butler/;
   Note: Butler Surname Meaning In England Butler as an occupational name originally denoted a servant in charge of the wine cellar, from the Norman French word butuiller. It eventually came to be used to describe a servant of high responsibility in a noble household, mostly leaving behind its association with the supply of wine. The surname has its counterparts in France with Boutler and in Germany with Buttlar. Butler Surname Resources on The Internet The Butler Society. A one-name society. The Butler Dynasty. The Butler family in Ireland. John Butler. John Butler of Butler’s Rangers. The Butlers of Oak Brook Butlers of Chicago. Laurence Butler Irish rebel and Australian cabinet maker. Butler Surname Ancestry England. Butlers in England were in many cases at first butlers. From Robert de Pincerna, butler to the Earl of Chester in 1086 came Sir William le Boteler, lord of Warrington and sheriff of Lancashire in the 13th century. His family later became the Butlers of Warrington and Bewsey.
   
2. Title: The Meaning of the Word "Pincerna"
   Author: Internet
   Publication: Name: http://www.latin-dictionary.org/pincerna;
   Note: pincerna Latin Dictionary JM Latin English Dictionary N M cupbearer| butler| one who mixes drinks/serves wine; bartender; samolier
   Page: To explain the meaning of the word Pincerna. Calling him Robert Pincerna Boteler is like calling him the same descriptive name twice in two different languages.
   
3. Title: Robert le Boteler, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-QF6T : 25 May 2022), Robert le Boteler, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 144405786, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-QF6T;
   
4. Title: Annals of the Lords of Warrington for the first five centuries after the conquest : with historical notices of the place and neighbourhood
   Author: • Author: Beamont, William, 1797?-1889 • Language: English;English;English • Provenance: Owning Institution:Mid-Continent Public Library, http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/ • Patron Usage Instructions: https://www.familysearch.org/terms
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/annalslordswarr01beamgoog#page/n72/mode/2up;
   Note: Chapter V -Richard Pincerna pages 24-31 (in memories) - page 31, Robert Pincerna de Ingleby Page 30 errs in stating that Edelina married Roger de Somerville, it was Matilda le Boteler who married him. See the History of Tatenhill Parish, in sources and memories.
   
5. Title: Our royal, titled, noble and commoner ancestors
   Author: Citations [S4712] Unknown author, Wallop Family, Vol. 4, line 188.
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p548.htm#i16461;
   Note: Robert Pincerna1 Last Edited 4 Apr 2020 M, #16461, d. after 1153 Father Richard Pincerna, Lord Pulton d. a 1119 Robert Pincerna Butler to the Earl of Chester. He married Ivetta Helgot, daughter of William Helgot. Robert Pincerna died after 1153. Family Ivetta Helgot Child Richard Pincerna, Lord Warrington+ d. 1176
   
6. Title: Wikipedia - Bewsey Hall
   Author: References "Bewsey Old Hall". The Guide to Cheshire, Derbyshire and the Wirral. Retrieved 2 April 2018. "Full Text of the Place Names of Lancashire". Full Text of the Place Names of Lancashire. Retrieved 3 April 2018. A History of Warrington, Harry Boscow, Page 50, ISBN 1 874712 24 7 "Le Neves Pedigrees of the Knights". The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Volume 35. 1881. ISBN 9780788404320. "(227) Atherton of Atherton Hall and Bewsey Hall". Landed Families of Britain and Ireland. "Bewsey Old Hall". Oxbow Books.com. Oxbow Books. Retrieved 2 April 2018. "Bewsey Old Hall". Next Big Thing Developments. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewsey_Old_Hall;
   Note: Bewsey Old Hall is a brick built, three storey, mainly Jacobean building, incorporating or reusing elements of a former medieval hall[1] situated on the edge of Sankey Valley Park in Warrington, Cheshire. Bewsey Old Hall and estate was home to the Lords of Warrington from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century. The name 'Bewsey' is believed to have been derived from the French 'Beau Se', or 'is beautiful' and likely refers to the hall's position on the edge of Burton Wood, next to Sankey Brook[2] History Sir William Fitz Almeric Le Boteler, Lord of Warrington built Bewsey Old Hall following the destruction by fire of his original house, which was located nearer the current town centre on the Mote Hill (near to the site of the current parish church, St Elphins). The date of the fire is not recorded exactly, but is believed to be between the years 1256 and 1259. In order to build the house, Boteler obtained lands in Burton Wood from his feudal Lord, Earl Ferrar in 1260 and from Prince Edmund in 1270.[3] A monastic grange, owned by the monks of Titley Abbey, in Essex, previously occupied the site.[1] The first hall, a single storey wooden medieval hall, of which nothing now remains was replaced by a brick building in the 16th century. Thomas Boteler, the founder of Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High School was born at Bewsey Old Hall in 1461. In 1463, his father Sir John FitzJohn le Boteler was murdered and Thomas's elder brother, William, inherited the estates. William died at the age of 22, fighting in the Lancastrian ranks at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 and Thomas inherited the estates and was knighted in 1504. He died at Bewsey Old Hall on 27 April 1522 and was buried in the Boteler chapel of the St. Elphin's Church. Bewsey Old Hall passed to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester in 1586 in settlement of gambling debts when Edward Boteler died without an heir. Dudley sold the estate to lawyer Thomas Ireland, of Childwall, and the house remained in the possession of the Ireland family for six generations until 1675.[1] Sir Thomas was knighted at Bewsey by King James I in 1617, the king later stayed the night at Bewsey.[1] Sir Thomas Ireland was father in law of Gilbert Ireland.[4] In 1675 Bewsey Old Hall was inherited by Richard Atherton from the Dame Margaret Ireland, the widow of Gilbert Ireland.[5] Bewsey Old Hall was never Atherton's primary residence, preferring Atherton Hall, Leigh as his main home. In the mid eighteenth century his descendants added a new wing to the building. Legend states that the Stuart prince Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed the night there, on his retreat from Derby during the Jacobite rising of 1745.[1] The house passed by marriage to the Lilford family in 1797, when the Atherton estate was inherited by Thomas Powys, Lord Lilford, who preferred to live at the family seat, Lilford Hall in Northamptonshire. The Lilfords also inherited Atherton Hall, however, they considered one property in Lancashire adequate for their needs and lavished considerable expense on Bewsey Hall. After failing to sell Atherton Hall which was less than a century old, it was demolished in 1824, with some of the furniture and carpets being sent to Bewsey. They later demolished the eighteenth century wing and in 1860-61 a new half-timbered house (Bewsey New Hall) was built on a different site west of Camp Road for Thomas Powys, 4th Baron Lilford as a replacement for the Old Hall, with the original hall being converted into two farmhouses and let to tenants.[1] The new building was almost certainly designed by W.G. Habershon, but Lady Lilford disliked the house so much that she refused to live in it and it was largely demolished in the 1940s, apart from a fragment of the west wing.[6] Building and grounds The original fourteenth century moat only partly holds water today. The building has distinctive chimneystacks and stone mullion windows which are most likely the work of Sir Thomas Ireland and date back to around 1600. Bewsey's remaining medieval structures were demolished during the eighteenth century, when the hall was extended, and landscaping works filled in parts of the moat and enlarged others as water features. In 1863, a 'New Hall' was built, and Bewsey Old Hall was left in the hands of tenants, until, in considerable disrepair, it was acquired by Warrington Development Corporation in 1974.[7] Notable events Sir John Boteler, Lord of Warrington, was murdered in his bed in 1521 at Bewsey Hall, the murderers allegedly acting on the orders of his brother-in-law, Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, with whom he had been on bad terms for some time. Sir Piers Legh and Sir William Savage, whom Stanley had employed to carry out the deed, bribed the porter at Bewsey to place a lighted taper in a certain window when the house had settled down for the evening. They then crossed the moat in a coracle like boat and stole into Sir John's bed chamber, a struggle with the chamberlain ensued who was also murdered. They later hung the treacherous servant from a tree in the Bewsey estate, so that he could not give evidence against them.[1]
   
7. Title: Tudor Place
   Publication: Name: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BUTLER4.htm#Robert%20PINCERNA%20(Butler%20to%20Earl%20of%20Chester)1;
   Note: Robert PINCERNA (Butler to Earl of Chester) Born: ABT 1100 Died: ABT 1160, Cheshire, England Father: Richard PINCERNA (Butler to Earl of Chester) Mother: ¿? Married: Ivetta HELGOT (b. ABT 1105) (dau. of William Helgot) Children: 1. Richard PINCERNA (Butler of Warrington) 2. William Le BOTELER
   
8. Title: Battle Abbey Roll
   Author: pages 91-92
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=yV8JAAAAIAAJ&q=Pincerna#v=snippet&q=Pincerna&f=false;
   
9. Title: The signs of the Times: Robert "Pincerna" LE BOTELER
   Author: This Web Site was Created 30 Nov 2015 with Legacy 4.0 from Millennia 1 Medieval Cossington, A Narrative based upon the Researches of the late George Francis Farnham, M.A., F.S.A., by S. H. Skillington (PDF), pp. 214-5. 2 Chetham miscellanies: Remains, Historical & Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, The Chetham Society, Vol. LXXXVI., 1872, pp. 25-29.
   Publication: Name: https://thesignsofthetimes.com.au/37/694691.htm;
   Note: ...[The] chief lord of Cossington in the twelfth century was one or other of the earls of Chester, "under whom the family of Pincerna" or Boteler [i.e. Butler] held in demesne. Towards the close of of the twelfth century the manorial rights held by Boteler were divided by the marriages of his two daughters and co-heirs, one to Roger de Somervill and the other to Ralph de Meisham." The evidence for this division of the Boteler holding in Cossington is an official record, of which the following is a sufficient abstract:— Pipe Roll, 29 Henry II, 1182-3. Roger de Sumervill renders account of £15 that he may have a moiety of the land of Robert Pincerna (Boteler) with his daughter. Ralph de Meisham renders account of £20 to have the other moiety of the above land with the other daughter. The next record in which the names of Somervill and Meisham appear relates to the advowson of Cossington church:— Curia Regis Roll 12, m. i, Leic., temp. Richard I. Roger de Sumervill and William de Meisham put themselves on the Grand Assize against the abbot of St. Severus concerning the advowson of the church of Cusington and ask for recognition which of them has the greater right. 1 ------------------------------------- Robert Pincerna, who succeeded his father, and like him was the earl's butler, married Ivetta, the daughter of William Helgot. (Kuerden's MSS) This William was probably descended from the owners of Holegate or Helgot in Corvedale in Shropshire (Blakeway's Hist. Shrewsbury, vol. i. p. 37 ; vol. ii. pp. 17 to 24), between whom and the Lancashire Garnets there seems to have been an early connection. (Rot. de Oblatis et Finibus, p. 403.) ... It does not appear, however, that Ivetta Helgot brought with her any estate to her husband...There seems, in Robert Pincerna's time, to have been some connexion between the families of Pincerna and the earls of Devonshire, for Robert Pincerna occurs at this time as a witness to a charter of William Vernon earl of that place to Quarr abbey. (Dugdale's Monasticon under Quarr.) About the year 1147 he occurs also as witness to a charter of Henry de Lacy. ( Whalley Coucher Book, p. 76.) He gave Roger de Gondeville his son-in-law a garden near the bridge at Chester. Early in the reign of Henry II., in whose reign he is said to have been a baron by tenure (Haydn's Book of Dignities, p. 517), he held the twelfth part of a knight's fee in Lincolnshire among the knights enfeoffed by Simon St. Liz earl of Northampton, after the death of king Henry I (Lib. Nig. Scacc., vol. i. p. 270.) But his name has been strangely used and abused in a forged charter of William the Conqueror, which was exemplified by an inspeximus in the time of Edward III. (Blakeway's Hist. Shrewsbury, vol. ii. pp. 15, 16.) Randle Gernons earl of Chester, Robert Pincerna's master, passed his whole life in war and unrest. With alternate success he opposed king Stephen, and levied war against him during a great part of his reign. In 1141 the king coming suddenly upon him surprised him in Lincoln castle, but he escaped by the outer postern, and hastened to muster a sufficient force to attack the king in return, and, although he at first succeeded and made the king his prisoner, he was unfortunate soon after, and being himself taken prisoner by the king about the year 1145 he was shut up in close confinement in the castle of Lincoln. (Hist. Lincoln) As the earl's loyal liegeman, Robert Pincerna was probably with his master in his several battles ; on the last occasion however he escaped being taken prisoner with him, and, that he might use his liberty for his master's good, he resolved to found a religious house where continual prayer should be made for the earl's safety, and he accordingly gave to God, the Virgin Mary, and William first abbot of Combermere, a moiety of his township of Pulton (perhaps he had only a moiety, the other half having passed to his brother William), to found there a convent of Cistercian monks to pray for the health and safety of his master the earl Randle Gernons (then a prisoner of king Stephen) and of the earls Hugh and Randle his predecessors, and of his own wife Ivetta, his son and heir Robert, and the souls of his ancestors. (Hist. Ches., vol. ii. p. 464.) This charter was sealed by the grantor and Ivetta his wife, and by Robert their son and heir apparent ; and, which is rare, the grantor and his wife are set down among the witnesses of the gift, and, which is still stranger, another of the witnesses calls himself "Willielmus spuens mendacium," or, according to the Monasticon " Spernens mendacium." (Ibid) In or about the year 1151 Robert Pincerna became a benefactor of the priory of Stoke near Clare, a cell of the abbey of Bec in Normandy. (Taylor's index to the Monasticon) Earl Randle soon afterwards was set at liberty, so that the prayers his butler had instituted for him, one may hope, had not been in vain. His misfortunes however were not ended, for in 1153 he died of poison, administered to him by William Peverel. After the death of earl Randle Gernons, Hugh Kyveliok, his son and successor, by this charter confirmed Robert Pincerna's gift : "Hugh, earl of Chester, to his constable, steward, justice, sheriff, barons, knights, ministers, and all his [liege] men, as well French as English, present and to come, greeting. Know ye that I have granted, and by this my charter have for ever confirmed, to the monks of Pulton all the moiety of Pulton, with all its appurtenances, which they hold in fee farm from Robert Pincerna, and whence any service ariseth to me. And know ye that I claim for the said monks freedom and quiet from every service belonging to me from the same land, and henceforth I will look to Robert Pincerna for the same service ; wherefore I will that no one by any means destrain the same monks for such service, and I enjoin that no one in any wise presume to molest them on that account. Witnesses : the abbot of Chester, John constable of Chester, William Patric, Alured de Cumbrai, Radulf fitz Warin, Richard de Pulford, WilHam the chaplain, with many others. Dated at Chester." (Translated from the original in the possession of the marquis of Westminster.) This charter is sealed with the earl's seal, an armed knight on horseback in full career, and with a head in front face as a secretum. This seal without the secretum is engraved in the History of Cheshire (vol. i. p. 32). The deed has no date, but as John was not constable until 1172, it is probable that Robert Pincerna the founder had then been dead some years. The situation of the abbey was too near to the Welsh, and its limits proved too narrow for the monks, who ultimately removed to the neighbourhood of Leek, where they built a new home and called it Dieu la cresse - "may God increase it." (Hist. Ches., vol. ii. p. 463.)... In the second, third and fourth years of Henry II. (1155 to 1157) Robert Pincerna occurs as holding the lands of Budiford in Warwickshire; after that time the entries cease, and it is probable that he died. (Pipe Rolls, pp. 44, 86, 186.) Robert Pincerna seems to have had a house at Engleby in Derbyshire, and his son and heir Robert was called de Engleby, probably from having been born there. Robert was a loyal servant to the earl, and gave proof of his affection for him by founding an abbey for his safety.
   
10. Title: Robert le Boteler, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1J-QF6T : 25 May 2022), Robert le Boteler, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 144405786, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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