De was born about 1237, the son of John de Baskerville, de Northwood, of Botterell but his mother is unknown. The place is not known.
He died about 1266. The place is not known.
His wife was Isabella [Emma] FitzPaen, de Northwood, who he married in ABT 1259. The place has not been found. Their only known child was Robert (c1257-?).
| Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
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| Birth | ABT 1237 | ||||
| Death | ABT 1266 |
Note 1
!StyleName: de Baskerville, de Northwood of Botterell, Sir William [~1237 - ~1266]
!Note: Family lived in Aston Botterell.
!Note: in the below, “Land of Emma Paen” is labeled over Northwood in a map of the area. This is extremely misleading, as Emma Paen was only given as the person renting out a handfull of small, one or two acre tracts, not the owner of huge amounts of land. She was a widow to a William of Northwood and had a son Robert of Northwood. Paen is a Welsh first name, which appears as ap Paen and verch Paen for patrynomic last names. In this case, that has been given sometimes as a Normanized FtizPaen. I can find no evidence other than these deeds for and Emma Fitz Paen’s birth or marriage, so it is hard to tell where she comes from, but she is actually a minor player in these land deeds of Northwood. Her transaction were in the period from 1265 to 1275, and her son’s appear in 1290. on “Medieval Northwood”, there was a comment that, “In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.”
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It would appear that William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood and her son Robert Paen are this immediate family.
!Source: Medieval Northwood http://www.shropshirehistory.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20080304200904
Tracing the other tenants is not always easy as surnames were not well established in the 13th Century. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a significant number of individuals called “de Northwood” held land in Northwood; it is difficult to know if they were related or whether the apparent surname simply meant that they were from Northwood. Several families can be identified. There was Richard, son of Thomas, Matilda his wife and Alice his daughter. Additionally there was another Richard, sometimes called Richard Warner with his daughters Agnes and Emma. John, son of Nicholas de Northwood is probably from a third family. Two widows, Petroville and Margery were also of Northwood. A Northwood family was still resident in the township in the 16th Century. In 1259 there was a William de Northwood who married Emma, daughter of Paen de Northwood. Presumably after William’s death, Emma seems to have reverted to her father’s name and this was passed onto her son, Robert Paen.
[4] Salop Chartulary, No. 35, and Monasticon, iii, 517, 11.
[5] Patent 22 Edw. III, p. 8, memb 34, an invaluable record, and one which must be given at length hereafter. The subject which engaged the Chapter's attention was the parochial jurisdiction of St. Milburg.
!Source: EYTON's ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE. https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Vol01.html
224 ASTON BOTTERELL.
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Michaelmas, 1160, Robert, son of Robert Fitz Lunn, is then entered on the Sheriff's account, as owing £20. for fine of his land. [6] This I suppose to have been a fine on succession, and to have been payable to the Crown, by reason of Fitz Alan's Barony having, half a year before, come into the King's hand.
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In September, 1161, Robert Fitz Louun renders account of his fine of £20. It had gone to pay for works at the Castle of Blancmuster , and he was quit. [7]
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In 1165, Robert Fitz Luun is registered as holding 1 Knight's fee of Fitz Alan's Barony. [8]
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When this family became extinct in the male line, or how the family of Botterell succeeded to Aston, I cannot say. An interval of forty- five years elapsed between the latest notice of Fitz Lunn, and the earliest of Botterell.
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In Easter Term, 1200, William Boterell appears as the third of four Knights who were to choose a Jury of the King's Great Assize. The cause concerned lands in Norley Regis, and the other three Knights were of Stottesden Hundred. Hugh de Sidbury precedes William Boterell, otherwise we might have hesitated as to whether the latter was of Aston, or whether the contemporary coheir of Robert Corbet's Barony, whose position in Shropshire was very high, had officiated on this occasion. Whether, or how nearly, they were related is still a question.
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Among the fines which had been recently offered to the Crown at Michaelmas, 1202, was one by Robert de Wudecot of 10 merks, that he might have trial , concerning one knight's fee in Eston, against William Botterell. [10]
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A similar entry prior to Michaelmas, 1203, gives the same Robert, as fining and paying 20s., that the suit which was in the County Court between him and William Boterell, concerning one Knight's fee in Eston, be transferred to the Courts at Westminster. [11]
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In Easter Term, 1203, at Westminster, a day was given to Robert de Wodecot, plaintiff, and William Boterell, in a suit about one Knight's fee, viz. in 3 weeks of Easter, [12] ; but I find no further mention of the suit.
!Source: EYTON's ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE. https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Vol01.html
ASTON BOTTERELL. 225
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At Salop Assizes, October, 1203, William Botterell was amerced half a merk, for some transgression. [13]
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At Salop Assizes, November, 1221, William Boterell was a Juror in a cause of " Great Assize". [14]
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He had also a suit against Thomas de Baskervill for disseizing him of his tenement in Norwinde , which he failed to prosecute, and so he and his sureties were amerced. [15]
!Source: EYTON's ANTIQUITIES OF SHROPSHIRE Vol. !V. https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Vol04.html
176 STOTTESDEN.
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I now return to say something of other Under-Tenants in Northwood and at an earlier period. In Michaelmas Term, 1266, Isabella, widow of William de Northwood, was suing Roger de Northwood, Reginald de Cherlee , Ralph de Arraz, John le Clerk, of Suthbury , Nicholas de Cherlee, >>> Nicholas de Northwode <<<, and Agnes le Warener, for her dower or thirds in several messuages or small parcels of land in Northwode. [169] Soon afterwards Ema de Norwod is suing Hugh Peche , under writ of mort d'ancestre, for half a virgate and seven acres in Norwood. [169] About this time Emma Paen, of Nordwud , gives to John de Langeberge, Clerk, an acre in Nordwud, for half a merk paid down and a ½d. rent.- Witnesses: Nicholas le Forcer, Ralph de Lawa and William his son, William de Stepple, John de Beaulieu , Hugh de Hwrthin. [170]