William (Brereton) of Brereton Esq (abt. 1438 - bef. 1507)

Born about 1438 in Brereton, Cheshire, England

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William Brereton was the oldest son and heir of Sir William Brereton and his first wife, Phillippa, the daughter of Sir Hugh Halse^[1] or Hulse, and the sister of Thomas Hulse.^[2] Sir William, William's father, was the son of William Brereton and his wife, Alice, the daughter of John Corbet of Leighton and sister and heir to Richard.^[1] William's grandfather, Sir William Brereton, was at Harfleur (Siege of Harfleur 18 August-22 September 1415),^[2] and was dead when his father died, the father's Inquisition was held 4 Henry VI,^[3] 1 September 1425-31 August 1426. At that Inquisition in 4 Henry VI, William's father, aged 12, so born in 1414, was heir to his grandfather, Sir William Brereton, lord of Brereton.^[3]

William had siblings:

1. Elizabeth, the wife of John Radcliffe of Ordeshall;^[2]
2. Jane, the wife of Unknown Cotton of Rudware;^[2]
3. Eleanor, the wife of 1) Thomas Bulkeley of Eyton, and 2) Hugh Cholmundeley;^[2]
4. Matilda, the wife of Thomas Needham of Shavington,^[2] or not Shavington but of Cranage;^[3]
5. Andrew, married 1) Agnes (or Anne^[3]), the daughter of Robert Ligh of Adlington,^[1] and 2) Anne Done;^[1]
6. Hugh Brereton of Hassall Grene, who married Anne, the daughter of Robert Donn who was the brother of Sir John,^[1]and younger son of John Done of Utkinton. Hugh was a younger son, of Wimbersley;^[2]
7. Sir John Brereton, who married 1) Katherine, the daughter and heir of Morrice Barkley (Maurice Berkeley of Beverston, widow of John lord Stourton^[2]), and 2) Jane, the daughter and heir of Geoffrey Massy of Tatton relict of William Stanley Junior.^{[1] [2]}
8. Robert;^[2]
9. Roger;^[2]
10. Henry;^[2] and
11. Matthew;^[2]

After William's mother, Philippa, died, his father married between 16 and 19 Edward IV (4 March 1476-3 March 1480), a second wife, Matild, the daughter of John Dutton of Dutton, esq, and widow of sir William Bothe of Dunham, Inq 5 Henry VII (22 August 1489-21 August 1490), they had no children.^[3]

William Brereton esq^r of ye body to K. H. 7, died without issue,^[1] was his father's oldest son and heir, and he married Katherine the daughter of sir John Byron, IPM 22 Henry VII (22 August 1506-21 August 1507).^[2]

William's father, Sir William, was dead before 13 June, 19 Edward IV (1479), because on that date Matilda, late wife of the said sir William Brereton, and widow also of sir William Bothe, knight, had assignment of dower by settlement of Sir William Brereton's lands in Droitwich, Cudington, Shocklach, and Caldcote.^[4] An Inquisition post mortem held in 2 Richard III, 1484/5 found that William Brereton, esq, was the son and heir of Sir William Brereton, knight, and therefore heir to the properties Matilda had held in dower from his father.^[2] On 10 June 3 Richard III, enrollment of a mandate to the escheator to deliver to William Brereton, esq, son and heir of sir William Brereton, knight as per Inq 2 Richard III.^[4]

An Inquisition held in 22 Henry VII (22 August 1506-21 August 1507) found William Brereton was next of kin and heir to William Brereton, esq, who had held a fourth and a half a fourth of the moiety of the manor of Malpas, from the king as earl of Chester, value per annum 40l.^[4] In April 1507, an inquisition post mortem found William Brereton died seised in demesne as of fee tail of a quarter of a moiety of the manor of Malpas and a moiety of the other quarter of the said moiety, with the advowson of the fourth turn of the moiety of the church of Malpas, the second turn of the church of Tylston and the advowson of the chapel of Herthull; the said quarter and the moiety of the other quarter being held of the Lord King as Earl of Chester by one twentieth of a Barony, and being of the annual value of £40, and Sir John Dudley also had the advowson of the said churches.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} John Paul Rylands, ed., "The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms", The Publications of the Harleian Society, XVIII, (London: Harleian Society, 1882), accessed 11 April, 2015, https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/40/mode/2up pp.41-2.
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14} George Ormerod, "Containing the hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield; Appendix and General Index", The history of the county palatine and city of Chester compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, III, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), accessed 11 April 2015, https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp03orme#page/n69/mode/2up pp.51.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA, "Containing the Hundreds of Northwich, Nantwich, and Macclesfield", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition, Ed. Thomas Helsby, Esq, Vol. III, (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882), pp.89.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} George Ormerod, ed., "Containing the hundreds of Edisbury, Wirral, and Broxton", The history of the county palatine and city of Chester compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, Vol. II, (London: Lackington, Hughs, Harding, Mavor, and Jones, 1819), accessed 11 April 2015, https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp02orme#page/336/mode/2up pp.337-8.
5. ↑ The National Archives Website: Discovery: DCH - CHOLMONDELEY OF CHOLMONDELEY: MALPAS SECTION: DCH/C/438 - INQUISITION POST MORTEM (extract) of William Brereton, who died seised in demesne as of..., https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/a5ee31e9-0557-48ad-9aed-73f4376bdd87 : accessed 25 October, 2022.