William le Boteler

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Personal and Family Information
Pedigree Chart
Events
Notes

Personal and Family Information

William was born on 11 JUN 1274 in Wem, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, the son of William le Boteler and Angarad Ferch Gruffydd.

He died before 14 SEP 1334 in Wem, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.

His wife was Ela Hereburgh. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Ankaret (c1310-1361).

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

	William le Boteler (1274-<1334)		William le Boteler (1245-1283)



			Angarad Ferch Gruffydd (1245-1308)

Events

Event

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Birth

11 JUN 1274

Place:

Wem, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Death

BEF 14 SEP 1334

Place:

Wem, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Notes

Note 1

!Source: William le Boteler https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boteler-286

Born 11 Jun 1274 in Wem, Shropshire, England [uncertain]

Died before 14 Sep 1334 before age 60 in Wem, Shropshire, England [uncertain]

William "Baron of Wemme" le Boteler formerly Boteler aka le Botiller, Butler edit

Son of William Boteler and Angharad Boteler edit

Brother of Nigel le Boteler, John Boteler, Gawaine Boteler, Anne Talbot and Elizabeth Greystoke [half] add sibling

Husband of Beatrice Boteler — married before 1298 [location unknown]

Husband of Ela Boteler — married before 1310 in England map icon [uncertain] add/edit spouses

Father of Isabel Basset, William le Boteler, Thomas Boteler, William le Botiller, Edmund le Boteler, Alice Longford, Ankaret de Ferrers, Edward le Boteler, Ida Trussell and Denise Shareshull add/edit children

Biography

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William was born on 11 Jun 1274, a younger son of William le Boteler of Wem, Shropshire, and Angharad, daughter of Griffith ap Madoc ap Griffith Maelor.[2][3][4][5][6]

Complete Peerage[2] styles him the 1st Baron of Wemme.

He was recorded in the Inquisition Post Mortem of his grandmother, Maud, Lady of Wemme, late the Wife of Walter de Hopton.[7] Writ to be returned to the barons of the exchequer, 14 June, 18 Edw. I. [1290]. Concerned the manor of Wemme, Shropshire. William, son of William le Botiler, aged 16, was her next heir.

He was also recorded in the Inquisition Post Mortem of his brother Gawaine le Butiller.[8] Writ, 21 March, 18 Edw. I. [1289/1290]. Salop. "William le Buteler his brother, aged 16 at the feast of St. Barnabas, 18 Edw. I. is his next heir."

Marriages

He married first Beatrice [surname unknown].[2][9]

William le Bottiller of Wemme married second Ela, the daughter of Roger de Herdeburgh. She had a sister Isabella.[2][10]

Children

Children by Beatrice:

William [2][3][9]

Isabella[9][11]

[possibly] Thomas [12]

Children by Ela:

Edmund

Edward

William

Ankaret

Ida

Alice

Dyonisia

Inquisition Post Mortem of William le Botiller of Wemme 1334

The Inquisition Post Mortem of William le Botiller or le Boteler of Wemme following a Writ of 14 September, 8 Edward III [1334] noted that he held lands in Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Salop.[13]

William his son, aged 36 years at the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Mary last, was his heir.

Regarding his lands at Wemme and Hynstoke in Shropshire: Alice de Monte Gomeri sometime the wife of Gauwyn le Botiler held a third part in dower, and John Lestraunge, lord of Whitchurch , and Ancareta his wife held Dodynton, which was also part of the manor of Wemme.

Pleas

Michaelmas 1337 Ela, formerly the wife of William le Botiller of Wemme, and John de Payto junior and Alice his wife, sued William le Botiller of Wemme, Chivaler, for the manor of Wylye which Ela's grandfather, Hugh, had given to Nicholas de Hardeburgh and his issue, and Nicholas had died without issue and the right reverted to the donour and his heirs. The plaintiffs, Ela and John de Payto junior and Alice his wife, won their case.[10]

At Michaelmas in 2 Henry IV, 1401[3] "Thomas Molynton and Elizabeth, his wife, sued Ankaret, formerly wife of Richard Talbot, Chivaler, for the manor of Dodynton, which Ralph le Boteller, of Wemme, and Matilda, his wife, gave to William, their son, and Ankaret, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies. This pedigree was provided:

Ralph le Boteller of Wemme and Matilda, his wife, had:

William who married Ankaret in the time of Edward I and had:

William who had:

Willliam, who was living in I Edward III, and had:

William who had:

Elizabeth who was married to Thomas Molynton, the plaintiffs

Ankaret, formerly wife of Richard Talbot, Chivaler, claimed by a fine levied in 1 Edward III, 1327, by William le Boteller, the manor of Dodynton was settled on William for life, with remainder to John Lestrange of Blankminster, and Ankaret, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, and gave this descent:

John Lestrange of Blankminster, and Ankaret, his wife, had

John, who had:

John, who had;

Elizabeth who had no descendants;

Ankaret, the defendant, at one time married to Richard Talbot.

Note. Evidently the case turns on Sir William having two sons called William, one by each wife. In the pedigree presented by the plaintiffs, the 3rd William is the elder half-brother. His granddaughter Elizabeth, the heiress of Wem, married Robert de Ferrers and had a son Robert, but outlived both of them and had two more husbands.

In the defense statement, Ankaret is Sir William's daughter by his 2nd wife, Ela de Herdeburgh. The implication is that the manor had been settled on the younger half-brother, Ela's son - the remainder clause coming into play because he died childless.

This was probably true, since otherwise, it's hard to see how the Stranges would ever have got their hands on the property. If so, then the case was a blatant attempt to steal the property by deluding the court.

Arms

Arms of Botiller of Weston Turville, Buckinghamshire:[14]

"Gules a fesse checky argent and sable between six crosslet or"

Sources

↑ 'Parishes: Weston Turville', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2, ed. William Page , pp. 365-372. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol2/pp365-372

↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Complete Peerage. Vol II. Bass to Canning. 1912. Boteler, pp 230-232 Internet Archive.

↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Wrottesley, Plea Rolls, p. 223.

↑ Antiquities of Shropshire. By the Rev R W Eyton. Vol VIII, 1859, pp 20-22 Manor of Hinstock Internet Archive.

↑ Antiquities of Shropshire. By the Rev R W Eyton. Vol IX, 1859, pp 168-176 Wem Internet Archive.

↑ Wrottesley G Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls Collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the Original Rolls in the Public Record Office. p 165 Internet Archive.

↑ 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward I, File 57', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 2, Edward I, ed. J E E S Sharp , pp. 467-479. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol2/pp467-479 [accessed 30 June 2020]. Entry 774.

↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, , I:371.

↑ 10.0 10.1 Wrottesley, Plea Rolls, p. 31.

↑ The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, 1912, Vol. II, p 7 Internet Archive.

↑ The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Willey: in the County of Bedford. 1872-1878, p 11 link.

↑ J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 38', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 7, Edward III , pp. 397-406. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol7/pp397-406 [accessed 3 June 2020]. Inquisition Post Mortem of William le Botiller or le Boteler of Wemme. Entry 593.

↑ 'Parishes: Weston Turville', in A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 2, ed. William Page , pp. 365-372. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/bucks/vol2/pp365-372 [accessed 2 June 2020].