Sir William de Helsby

Lord of Helsby.

William is said to have been a crusader.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: before 1332.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Alan de Helsby alias de Acton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:64, 2:73).

Mother: Beatrice de Hatton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:73).

Spouse: Hawise Trussell. Married before 1303.

This relationship is given by Ormerod/Helsby (2:64, 2:73).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Lucy married Sir Peter de Thornton.

Alice married a knight surnamed Beston; possibly also married Rlaph de Vernon.

Joan (or perhaps Margaret) married …….. Griffyn, lord of Bartherton.

Katherine married Adam de Hatton

Joan (or perhaps Jane) married Sir……. de Trafford of Lancashire about 1309.

Evidence

from the Cheshire Archives catalogue :

(DCH/F*/2)

1307-1324

GRANT by William de Hapisford, chaplain, to William lord of Helisby [Helsby] and Hawisia his wife, and the heirs of the said William, of all the lands and tenements which the said William Lord of Helisby formerly gave and enfeoffed to him within the boundaries of HELISBY lying on both sides of the said vill of HELISBY, that is to say all that new ploughed land on the North lying in breadth between his wood called le Leywode and the field of the said vill and in length from the highway to Frodsham following the fence of the said plough to le Cnorvihurst and thus descending to Robert's bridge and then in breadth from the said bridge to the hedge of Le Heymor and in length from the said hedge of the Heymor following the field of the said vill of Helisby to the said highway to Frodsham, and all that new ploughed land on the West of the said vill lying in breadth from the assart of Richard de Hapisford his son in law to the wood towards Patfordissiche and in length from the moor of Helisby following the ditch of the said plough to the way of Horswelleruyding, and also one house and curtilage in the vill of HELISBY and 1½ selions in the fields of HELISBY with 1 meadow next to the spring (fontem), which said house, curtilage and land with the meadow he formerly bought of Margery daughter of Kylian de Helisby, and also his moiety of the mill which he has built with Henry son of Robert the Chamberlain of Frodisham on Leuyggisbroo with a meadow towards the bridge of Hapisford, which said meadow Robert son of Robert de Hapisford formerly held of him for life, at an annual rent of one clove at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. Warranty. Witnesses: Master Robert de Frodisham, William Gerard Richard le Roter de Kyngesley, Henry son of Robert Chamberlain of Frodesham, William de Bruggetrofford, [...] de Moldeword, Philipp de Ponte, William the clerk, n/d. Seal: Green, a floral design, '(M)at' de Becheton'.

(DCH/F*/5)

18 April 1324

LETTER OF ATTORNEY by William de Hellisby and Hawisia his wife to Richard de Mamcestre, chaplain, to deliver seisin to Peter Lord of Thornton and Lucy his wife, of their Manor of HELLISBY [Helsby] with appurtenances. Given at Hellisby the Wednesday next before the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, 1324, 17 Edward II. Seals: Brown, 2, on tongue; 1, a fleur de lis, 'S' WILLI' D(E) (HEL)LISB''; 2, a fleur de lis, inscription illegible. Parchment.

References

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. 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. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).