Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: David le Clerk.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:600). It is given in a suit in the Chester plea rolls (Wrottesley p. 137). It is also given in the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 159, p. 160).
Mother: uncertain.
Ormerod (2:598) gives Catherine, daughter of Owain Vaughan, lord of Meilor, without providing any evidence that I can see. At (2:641), he shows David having two unnamed wives. The 1580 Visitation of Cheshire (p. 95, p. 159, p. 160) gives Margaret, daughter and heir of Ralph, baron of Malpas and his wife Beatrice, sister of Hugh Kevelioc.
Spouse: Margaret, daughter of Cadogan de Linton.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (2:598). The 1580 Visitation of Cheshire gives “Margeria filia Cadogan de Linton cum quo Peckfarton.” I am not sure how good the evidence is for it.
Mistress: Beatrice de Montalt.
This relationship is given by Ormerod, by Carter (p. 119), and by the 1580 Visitation of Cheshire. Ormerod (2:600) and Wrottesley (p. 137) cite a suit finding that Sir William’s son David was illegitimate.
Children (by Beatrice):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod and Carter.)
David married Constance, daughter of Owain Kevelioc.
Roger de Malpas.
Margaret married Sir Thomas de Crewe.
Margery married William de Birmingham.
Seven other daughters.
References
Carter, William F. "The Early Crewe Pedigree" in The Genealogist New Series, volume 37 (1921).
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).
The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580. Harleian Society vol. 18, 1882.
Wrottesley, George. 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 Records Office. (London, 1905).