William (Grandison) de Grandison (abt. 1255 - 1335)

Born about 1255 in Cassington, Oxfordshire, England

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Died 27 Jun 1335 at about age 80 in Gascony, France

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Biography

William was born in 1256. William De Grandison ... He passed away in 1335. ^[1]

Research notes

Created Baron Grandison by writ of summons dated 21 September 1299, the same as his older brother, Otho. A menial servant in the service of Edmund Earl of Lancaster who granted him the manors of Radley and Menastreworth in Gloucestershire. In 20 Edward I (about 1292) he obtained license to crenellate his house at Asperton in Gloucestershire. ^[2] Married Sybil youngest daughter and heiress of Sir John de Tregoz and so acquired the manors of Burnham in Somerset and Eton (Eaton Tregoz) in Herefordshire. Issue 3 sons and a daughter. Piers, John Bishop of Exeter, Otho. But names 3 daughters, Mabella, Katherine and Agnes. Died before 1335. Succeeded by his eldest son, Peter. ^[3]

An Inquisition Post Mortem taken at Gloucester, Thursday after the Conception, 18 Richard II (writ dated 21 October that year), following the death of Margaret, widow of Thomas de Grauntson (sic) son of Otes de Grauntson, names the following sisters for Otes: Agnes Northwod, Katherine mother of William earl of Salisbury, and Mabel.^[4] These are clearly children #4, #10 and #6 in the current list (although Katherine should appear before Mabel). The full set of relationships described is:

Roger Northwod son of John Northwod son of Roger son of Agnes sister of Otes de Grauntson, father of the said Thomas

William earl of Salisbury, son of Katharine second sister of the said Otes

Thomas Faukunberge, son of Maud daughter of Sybil daughter of Mabel third sister of the said Otes

Alice late the wife of Thomas Wake, daughter of the said Mabel

John Tudenham, knight, son of Katharine, daughter of the said Mabel

Roger Beauchamp, son of Roger son of Sybil daughter of the said Mabel

This would seem to cast doubt on some of the children attached to this profile, although it could be that they all died without issue, or that there was some prior arrangement that meant that Otes' share only reverted to those three sisters.

There were several Inquisitions following the death of Thomas son of Otes, for which the writ was issued 9 November, 49 Edward III.^[5] These show that he died at the age of forty on Thursday the feast of All Saints last. The facts relevant to his family tree are:

Thomas held the manor of Dymmok in fee tail. King Edward I granted it, together with 46l. 6s. 3d. rent in the manor and town of Derteford, co. Kent, to William de Grandissono and Sibyl his wife, grandfather and grandmother of the said Thomas, to wit, father and mother of Otto his father

as he died without heir of his body, his next heirs are William de Monte Acuto, earl of Salisbury, aged 40 years and more, son of Katharine one of the sisters of the said Otto, John Northwode, knight, of Kent, aged 30 years and more, son of Roger son of Agnes another sister of Otto, Roger Beauchamp, aged 13 years, son of Roger son of Sibyl daughter of Mabel a third sister of Otto, Thomas Facombergh, knight, aged 30 years and more, son of Maud another daughter of the said Mabel, Alice wife of Thomas Wake of Bl[isworth], knight, aged 50 years, a third daughter of the said Mabel, and Katharine late the wife of Robert Todenham, knight, aged 50 years, a fourth daughter of the said Mabel (This accords with the detail in the IPM for Margaret.)

Peter de Graunson, his uncle, was seised of the manor in demesne as of fee, and gave it to him and the heirs of his body, with remainder to Elizabeth la Despenser and her heirs

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Timothy Griffen Makahilahila Kamehameha, Sunday, December 15, 2013.
2. ↑ British History online: Ashperton
3. ↑ A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Sir Bernard Burke
4. ↑ M. C. B. Dawes, H. C. Johnson, M. M. Condon, C. A. Cook and H. E. Jones. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Richard II, File 83," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, Volume 17, Richard II, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1988), 183-196. British History Online, accessed November 2, 2019, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol17/pp183-196.
5. ↑ A. E. Stamp, J. B. W. Chapman, Cyril Flower, M. C. B. Dawes and L. C. Hector. "Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 245," in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 14, Edward III, (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1952), 129-143. British History Online, accessed November 2, 2019, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol14/pp129-143.

• Project Medlands English Nobility: Grandson

• "Royal Ancestry" Douglas Richardson 2013, Vol. III. p. 98

• Thepeerage.com: William Grandison, 1st Lord Grandison Cites: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 373

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_seigneurs_de_Grandson

• Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: The First Marriage and Issue of William de Grandison, 1st Lord Grandison (d.1335)
• Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom Page 74: Grandison

• British History online: Wilmington

• #S-1968866219 Page: Ancestry Family Trees Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=2886322&pid=1758170240

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