William de Lancaster II

• Preferred Name: William de Lancaster II^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/William-ll-de-Lancaster-1st-Feudal-Baron-of-Kendal/6000000009440143485?through=6000000000796852054
  
• Birth: ABT 1155 in Cumberland, England at LATI: N4.5307 LONG: E3.0762 with note: Brief life history at the bottom of the page states that he was born in approximately 1155. This also lines up with the dates of his siblings' births, with the only known date of birth attributed to a sibling being 1156.
  
• Death: 1184
  
• Burial: 1184 in Barrow in Furness, Lancashire, England at LATI: N4.1088 LONG: E3.2183 with note: Barrow in Furness was in Lancashire during this time.
  
• Find+A+Grave: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172616998/william-de_lancaster
  
• Occupation: Chamberlain to King Henry II
  
• Saladdin's+Victory+in+Jerusalem+during+the+2nd+Crusade: 1187 in Palestine, Kingdom of Jerusalem at LATI: N1.67 LONG: E5.25 with note: Description: Saladin is the Western name of Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, the Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria who famously defeated a massive army of Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin and captured the city of Jerusalem in 1187. At the height of his power, he ruled a unified Muslim region stretching from Egypt to Arabia. Saladin was celebrated by Muslims and many Westerners of later generations for his political and military skills, as well as his generosity and chivalry.
  
• FSID: 29YY-1JB
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  «b»Biography«/b»
  William II de Lancaster or William de Lancaster II are convenient modern names to distinguish him from his father and grandson. In his own time he was referred to by various names such as William de Loncastre or William fitz William (with various spellings).
  
  Born approximately 1155. This date has been adopted based on Charter from Henry II which records that "primus Willielmum de Lancaster, baronem de Kendale, qui prius vocabatur de Tailboys" married "Gundredam comitissam Warwic" and that she was the mother of his son William; thus born after 1153. This Charter is cited in MedLands. The same source also cites charters dated to the same time where "Willelmus de Lancastre" (the father) donated property to Leicester, St Mary de Pré, with the consent of "Willelmi filii mei et hæredis et Gundredæ uxoris meæ". Take care with this. This does not mean that William, this Profile and stated as son and heir, witnessed the charter it only suggests that he had been born. Notice of the actual Charter would be necessary to determine whether he was of age. The Charter by Henry II, the incumbent King at the time is clearly designed to legitimise the lineage.
  
  Died 1184, and was buried at Furness Abbey. "Willielmus de Lancastre", his grandson, donated property to Furness Abbey for the soul of "Agnetis sponsæ meæ" by charter 6 Nov 1240 stating, "avi mei…Willielmi de Lancastre" was buried in abbey.
  
  William de Lancaster II is chiefly noted as the founder of the Premonstratensian Hospital at Cockersand, which was erected into an abbey in 1190. He confirmed to the monks of St. Bees his father's and uncle's grants to that place. To the hospital of St. Leonard of York he gave land called Dochergh (now Docker, par. of Kendal) in exchange for land in Kendal, which had been given to the hospital by Ketel, son of Eldred, and land in Bartonhead which his father gave. He was a liberal benefactor to the canons of Conishead, to whom he gave land between Ulverston and Bardsea, the church of Ulverston and the estate of Gascow, near Ulverston.
  
  He died in 1184, and was buried in the presbytery at Furness. Robert of Torigni describes him as 'magnas honestatis et possessionis vir.'
  
  William and his father lived through the chaos of the English anarchy and the connected invasion of Scotland into his region. Perhaps somehow this led to the situation in 1179 when there was to be a duel against Gospatrick fitz Orme, a cousin who had done a major land swap with his father. Ragg suggests that the period must have led to "complications" for the whole region "arising out of the confusion", with all the various changes in overlordships, William having been overlord to Gospatrick at some point it seems. Jackson suspects that one pressure on people such as Gospatrick would be a suspicion of too much closeness to the Scots. Gospatrick was never heard of again, so perhaps William killed him in the duel, and William himself lived only a few more years. Both were apparently relatively old.
  
  «b»Family«/b»
  Married Helwise de Stuteville, daughter of Robert de Stuteville and Helwise
  
  1.) Hawise de Lancaster m. Gilbert fitz Roger fitz Reinfrid, son of Roger FitzReinfrid (d.1216/20).
  
  «b»Unknown mother. Illegitimate Issue:«/b»
  1.) Gilbert de Lancaster of Sockbridge
  
  2.) Jordan de Lancaster. P
  
  My Maternal 24th. Great Grandfather, William de Lancaster II
  Brief Life History of William
  When William de Lancaster II was born 1154, in Cumbria, England, his father, William de Lancaster I, was 40 and his mother, Gundreda de Warenne, was 36. He married Helewi
  
  My Maternal 24th. Great Grandmother, Helewyse de Stuteville
  Brief Life History of Helewise
  When Helewise de Stuteville was born in 1155, in Penrith, Cumberland, England, her father, Robert III de Stuteville, was 39 and her mother, Hawise Helewise, Lady Lazenby
  
  === He was steward to Henry II. ===
  He was steward to Henry II.
  
  From the collection of Jerry Dean Ferren.
  
  === Notes and sources for William... ===
  • Background Information. 1036
  Nichola, daughter of William de Hemingford, was granted in marriage by Henry II to Henry II's servant William Ruffus. William Ruffus and Nichola had three daughters: Emma, who married Bartholomew de Legh; Alice who married Ralph de Tuberville; and Isabel who married Berengar le Moyne. By 1242/3, Emma de Legh held Hemingford and Yelling three fees.
  
  ~A History of the County of Huntingdon: Volume 2, pp. 309-314
  
  • Background Information. 1376
  William, Chamberlain to Henry II, had two brothers, Herbert Ruffus, Lord of Walesale, and Richard Ruffus, Chamberlain to Henry Duke of Saxony. As well as being the Chamberlain to Henry II, William Ruffus was also justice of Eyre & the Sheriff of Surry in 1191 and of Buckingham in 1193.
  
  ~A History of Walsall and Its Neighbourhood, pp. 50, 53
  
  William married Nichola de Hemingford, daughter of William de Hemingford and Unknown.1036

• m. BEF 1170 in Westmorland, England

1. Helewise de Lancaster, b. ABT 1170 in Kendal, Westmorland, England     d. AFT SEP 1226 in Kendal, Westmorland, England

1. Title: DE LANCASTER Charters
   Author: Ragg, F. W. (1910). De Lancaster in Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society 10 (series 2). Vol 10, pp. 395-494. https://doi.org/10.5284/1064125., pp 398-399
   Publication: Name: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3195062;
   Note: Translation of Charter I on page 399: Know all who are and all who are to come that I William de Lancastre have given and granted and by this my charter have confirmed to Gilbert my son half of the manor of Sockbridge, namely of that Socabrec which Huctred (son of Ketell) held of my father in the part where Likmasike and Forellsike (or Sorelsike) descend to the Eamont ; to be held by him and his heirs freely and undisturbedly in honourable tenure and in its integrity in woodland and cleared land, in earth and water, in meadow and in pasture and in all its liberties, in fee and inheritance, of me and my heirs, for his free service, he giving to me and my heirs two shillings yearly—not to include the King's forensic service :—namely twelve pence at Pentecost and twelve pence at the feast of St. Martin. Witness : Helewisa my wife, Helesius de Stivetone, William de Lancastre, Gervase de Ainecurt, Horm the steward, Anselm son of Michael (le Fleming). William the chaplain. Uctred son of Osulf. tcwaas_002_1910_vol10_0024 DE LANCASTER. 399
   
2. Title: William de Lancaster II
   Author: Medieval Lands Project, Untitled English Nobility L-O
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/enguntlo.htm#_Toc64702013;
   
3. Title: The parentage of William de Lancaster, lord of Kendal
   Author: Washington, George (1962), "The parentage of William de Lancaster, lord of Kendal", Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiq. & Arch. Soc, New Series, 62: 95–97.
   Publication: Name: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/details.xhtml?recordId=3197218&recordType=Journal;
   Page: p 99 speculates on his birth year.
   
4. Title: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700 ...," by Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall, Kaleen E. Beall
   Author: Full Title: "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and Other Historical Individuals" Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004
   Publication: Name: http://interactive.ancestry.com/49030/FLHG_AncestralRoots-0118/10537?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dFLHG-AncestralRoots%26gss%3dsfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gsfn%3dwilliam%26gsln%3ddel%2blancaster%26gskw%3dline%2b88%26MSAV%3d0%26uidh%3dqup&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults&rc=203,280,285,315;1190,825,1364,860;203,1637,285,1671;300,1639,352,1671;399,2127,572,2161;714,2126,960,2161;668,2181,810,2215;204,2234,396,2268;386,2397,560,2432;697,2396,945,2431;1303,2557,1477,2591;956,2721,1202,2755;
   Note: page 94
   
5. Title: Descent from Ivo Taillebois Refuted
   Author: The chartulary of Cockersand abbey of the Premonstratensian order by Cockersand Abbey; Farrer, William, ed, 1898, Publisher [Manchester] Printed for the Chetham society
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/chartularycocke01farrgoog/page/n159/mode/2up;
   Note: pages 305 to 308 refutes the descent of William de Lancaster from Ivo Tailebois
   
6. Title: Robert de Stuteville, Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_III_de_Stuteville;
   
7. Title: William de Lancaster, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DJ-7JV1 : 3 April 2023), William de Lancaster, ; Burial, Barrow-In-Furness, Barrow-in-Furness Borough, Cumbria, England, Furness Abbey; citing record ID 172616998, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2DJ-7JV1;