William le Boteler “Butler”

His wife was Elizabeth Haandsacr. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. They had no known children.

Pedigree Chart (3 generations)

William le Boteler “Butler” (c1331-1369)	William le Boteler (1298-1361)	William le Boteler (1274-<1334)	William le Boteler (1245-1283)
		William le Boteler (1274-<1334)	Angarad Ferch Gruffydd (1245-1308)
		Ela Hereburgh (c1282-1343)	Roger Hereburgh (c1260-1284)
		Ela Hereburgh (c1282-1343)	Ida Odengsells (c1265-c1325)
	Margaret FitzAlan (c1292-c1354)

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Note 1

An early marriage between the Botelers of Wem and the de Ferrers line — through Ankaret le Boteler [1310–1361] and Thomas de Ferrers [1305–1353] —

shows an established partnership between those families and the wider Sybil-descended group.

By the early 14th century, the lines of Henry [de Baskerville] Hesketh of Hesketh [~1206 - ?] and Sir William Hawkins Hesketh [~1243 - ~1327] are

established in the Hesketh and Heskin area, along with the Clerk and Taillour lines, forming a working local network.

At the same time, the Lancashire Botelers are split between the Warrington barony, which ends c.1328, and the Wem barony, created 1308 and continuing

During the final phase of the Wem line, Nicholas le Boteler is active in Lancashire from about 1331 to 1368, holding land beside Hesketh and supporting

the group, including land transfers into their hands. This places the Wem interest directly next to the developing Hesketh network.

In 1369, the 3rd Baron of Wem dies and the line passes through Elizabeth, effectively ending the male baronial line. At the same time, Nicholas

What follows is a short gap in authority for the Botelers. The local Hesketh-side group remains in place, but the Boteler structure is no longer unified.

The turning point comes in 1389, when Elizabeth Boteler of the Warrington line marries Richard Boteler of the Rawcliffe line under papal dispensation.

After this, authority stabilizes. By the 1390s, Sir John Boteler of Rawcliffe appears as sheriff, marking the return of a functioning Lancashire leadership.

!Source: VCH SHROPSHIRE, Wem Rural, Northwood http://www.vchshropshire.org/_Wem_Rural_Texts/Northwood.pdf

A tenement in the lord’s demesne named ‘the castellstede’ is recorded in 1561.51 Its 17 a.

contained a close named ‘fordecrofte’, suggesting it was located near the Roden. A medieval

fortification at the strategic river crossing into Wales is possible, however, there is no later

record of it. This location also coincides with the exclave of Wolverley township, bounded by

the Roden and, on the landward side, enclosed by a curvilinear ditch, whose origin may

About 2 km to the northeast stood the ‘vowry cross’, depicted on the 1631 map as standing in

isolation just outside bounds of Northwood. The custom of advocaria was claimed by Ralph <<<< Not our Northwood.

le Botiler as lord of Wem in 1255, so it is likely that a ‘vowry cross’ then existed at the

boundary of Wem and Whixall to signify where his authority began and ended.52 The cross is

53 SA, 167/5A, 18 Apr. 1612. A ‘new inclosure called the Bowry Crosse’ in 1648: ACA, MS

Note: 1. First this is not our Northwood. This is next to Wem Moss National Nature Reserve, near Whixall and Wolverley and Market Drayton and Whitchurch, which is the area of Richard Hotchkiss of Ashe, Whitchurch [~1462 - 1557]. That actually says it might be good to research it more fully sometime.

2. Please understand that this other Northwood was not part of Wem, but was included in its Church Advowson, with the border marked by a vowry cross.

!Source: William le Boteler [abt. 1331 - 1369] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Butler-3351

Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller, Botyller, or le Botiller, of Wemme, knight, following a writ of 20 August, 43 Edward III [1369].[10]

Wemme. The manor [of Wemme] [extent given], with the advowson of the church, held of the king in chief by service of two-thirds of a knight’s fee. He held it in fee tail, as above. The extent includes woods called ‘Northwode,’ ‘Brokhurst’ and ‘Shutles,’ two parks with deer, a fishpond, a market held every week on Sunday, and a fair on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul. <<<< Not our Northwood.

10.0 10.1 M. C. B. Dawes and J. B. W. Chapman, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 206', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 12, Edward III [London, 1938], pp. 284-303. Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller, Botyller, or le Botiller, of Wemme, knight [Item 324]. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol12/pp284-303 [accessed 12 July 2021].

2. Please understand that this other Northwood was not part of Wem, but was included in its Church Advowson, with the border marked by a vowry cross.

!Source: William [Butler] le Boteler [abt. 1331 - 1369] https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Butler-3351

Sir William "3rd Lord Boteler of Wem and Oversley" le Boteler formerly Butler aka le Botiller

William Boteler was the son of Sir William le Boteler, 2nd Lord Boteler, and Margaret FitzAlan aka Arundel, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel.[1][2][3][4][5]

On the death of his father in 1361 he was around 30 years of age and inherited the Barony becoming 3rd Lord Botiller of Wem and Oversley.[1][6][7][8]

He married before 5 July 1343 Elizabeth de Handesacre, presumed to be the daughter of Sir William de Handesacre and Eleanor.[1][3][4]

Sir William le Botiller, 3rd Lord le Botiller of Wem and Oversley, died without a surviving male heir on 14 August 1369.[1][10]

The Barony passed via his daughter Elizabeth to her first husband Robert de Ferrers.[1]

Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller, Botyller, or le Botiller, of Wemme, knight, following a writ of 20 August, 43 Edward III [1369].[10]

Leicester. Inq. made at Northburgh, Tuesday after the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 43 Edward III.

Northburgh. The manor , with the advowson of the church, held of the earl of Warwick by knight’s service, but by what quantity of a knight’s fee the jurors know not. The extent includes rents of tenants in bondage and by the rolls of court worth 17l. yearly.

He died on Tuesday the eve of the Assumption last [14 Aug]. Elizabeth his daughter, aged 24 years, is his heir.

Warwick. Inq. made at Stretford on Avene, Saturday the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 43 Edward III.

Ouresleye and Mershton Botyller. The manors , held of the duke of Lancaster, as of the honor of Leicester, by knight’s service, but by what quantity of a knight’s fee the jurors know not. Date of death and heir as above.

Writ to the escheator in Stafford and Salop and the march of Wales adjacent. 20 August, 43 Edward III.

Writ of certiorari to the escheator in Salop on information that lands &c. late of the said William, who held of the king in chief, were entailed in the time of one of his ancestors on him and the heirs male of his body, so that the custody of the lands and the marriage of the heir male ought to belong to the king. 25 August, 43 Edward III.

Stafford. Inq. taken at Tyrleye, 8 August , 43 Edward III, by virtue of two writs attached hereto.

Tyrleye. The manor , held of the king in chief by service of one knight’s fee. He held it in fee tail, to him and the heirs of his body, as appears by a fine levied in the king’s court with the king’s licence. The extent includes a park, and woods called ‘Swynyord’ and ‘Rounhay.’

He held no other lands &c. in the county. He died on 14 August last. Heir as above.

SALOP. Inq. taken at Shrewsbury, 6 September, 43 Edward III, by virtue of two writs attached hereto.

Wemme. The manor , with the advowson of the church, held of the king in chief by service of two-thirds of a knight’s fee. He held it in fee tail, as above. The extent includes woods called ‘Northwode,’ ‘Brokhurst’ and ‘Shutles,’ two parks with deer, a fishpond, a market held every week on Sunday, and a fair on the feast of SS. Peter and Paul.

Hynstoke. The manor , held of the king in chief by service of half a knight’s fee. He held it in tail as above. The extent includes a wood called ‘Lokkeleye.’

Quixsale. A certain parcel, held to him and his heirs of James de Audeleye by service of a pair of white spurs. In the said parcel he held 6s. 8d. yearly rent of free tenants.

Lopynton. The manor, held of the king in chief by knight’s service to him and Elizabeth late his wife and the heirs male of their bodies, with reversion in fee to William le Botiller, his father, by a fine levied in the king’s court with the king’s licence. There is no chief messuage or demesne land, but 10l. rents of free tenants and bondmen, and 40d. a year pleas and perquisites of court. Little Drayton. 8s. yearly rent in the hamlet, held of the abbot of Shrewsbury by service of doing suit to the court of Betton twice a year and rendering 6d. yearly to the abbot.

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.[5]

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 The Complete Peerage. Vol II. Bass to Canning. 1912. Boteler, pp 230-232 Internet Archive.

↑ 2.0 2.1 Calendar of the Close Rolls, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edward III. Vol. XIV. AD 1374-1377. HMSO, 1913, p 410 Internet Archive.

↑ 3.0 3.1 The Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire. By Sir Henry Chauncy. 1826. Boteler pedigree, p 57 Google Books.

↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition. Vol. I, pp 332-333 Boteler Google Books.

↑ 5.0 5.1 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. 1905, p 223 Internet Archive.

↑ M. C. B. Dawes, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 157', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 11, Edward III , pp. 20-40. Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller or Botyler of Wemme . British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol11/pp20-40 [accessed 12 July 2021].

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

↑ 10.0 10.1 M. C. B. Dawes and J. B. W. Chapman, 'Inquisitions Post Mortem, Edward III, File 206', in Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem: Volume 12, Edward III , pp. 284-303. Inquisition Post Mortem of William Botiller, Botyller, or le Botiller, of Wemme, knight . British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol12/pp284-303 [accessed 12 July 2021].

!Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Boteler#Barons_Boteler;_First_creation_

William Boteler, 2nd Baron Boteler of Wem , married Margaret, daughter of Richard Fitzalan, 1st Earl of Arundel

Elizabeth Boteler, 4th Baroness Boteler of Wem Her first husband was summoned in 1375 as Sir Robert Ferrers of Wem, which by modern usage would represent a novel peerage, but he was likely summoned as Baron Boteler of Wem, jure uxoris. Their son was Sir Robert Ferrers, who married to Countess Joan Beaufort, daughter of Prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

William le Boteler “Butler”

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Note 1