William de Warenne de Albo Monasterio

William was on crusade in 1219.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1246.

Place of Death: unknown.

William is recorded in the patent rolls 25 January 1246 and his son William had livery of his father’s lands on 1 April.

Relationships

Father: William fitz Randulf.

Farrer (HKF 3: p. 372) states that William was the son of William Fitz-Randulf. The relationship is recorded, for example, in Bracton’s notebook (cited below).

Mother: Emma.

“Mr Eyton found in the Lilleshall chartulary (f. 75) a grant by William de Warenne, son of Randulf, with the consent of his heirs, to the canons of Lilleshall, for the soul of his (late) wife Emma, of a mediety of the church of Halstead, reserving a vicarge.” (HKF 3:p. 372). In a 1219 case cited below, Matilda, the widow of William fitz Randolph, names William as the son and heir of William fitz Randolph, but it is not said he was Matilda’s son.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

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William de Albo Monasterio (died before 11 June 1260).

Hugh de Albo Monasterio.

Evidence

from Bracton’s Notebook (no. 59):

Assisa uenit recognitura si Aluredus de Esse pater Beatricie uxoris Radulfi le Taillur fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo de dimidia uirgata terre cum pertinenciis in Icham die etc. et si etc. quam terra Matillis de Albo Monasterio tenet, que uenit et dicit quod assisa non debet inde fieri, quia ipsa nichil clamat in terra illa nisi dotem ex dono Willelmi filii Rannulfi quondam uiri sui et uocat ad warantum Willelmum filium et heredem predicti Willelmi qui iter in terram Jerusalem et petit quod habeat terminum suum crucesignatorum.

Et Radulfus et uxor eius defendunt quod non tenent terram illam in dotem quia predictus Willelmus uir suus non tenuit terram illam die qua eam desponsauit, quia diu post ea cepit terram illam de quodam Willielmo filio Reinbaldi et alium ingressum non habet in terram illam.

Et quia ipsa nichil clamat nisi dotem nec potest sine waranto suo de dote respondere, Consideratum est quod pacem habeat crucesignatorum, et Radulfus et uxor eius inde sine die usque ad aduentum Willielmi, et tunc resummoneatur etc. et idem est iuratoribus.

[1219. Matilda alleges she has been endowed with land in Ickenham, Middlesex, by her late husband, William fitz Ranulf, and that his son, William, the warrantor, is a crusader.]

from the Calendar of the Close Rolls:

In 1238, a summons to attend the king at Oxford to confer on the truce with Wales was sent to:

…Johanni filio Alani, Willelmo de Warenn’ de Albo Monasterio, Willelmo filio Warini, Rogero de Chaundos, Radulfo de Thoeny, Rogero Pychard’, Thome Corbet, Radulfo de Mortuo Mari, Waltero de Clifford’, Waltero de Baskervill’, Johanni de Monem’, Fulconi filio Warini. [Foedera.]

1241.

Pro Robert de Maris. – Rex commisit Roberto de Maris terram in Esseby cum pertinentis quam Willelmus de Albo Monasterio tenuit ad se sustentandum in servicio regis quamdiu regi placuerit. Et mandatum est vicecomiti Norhampton’ quod eidem Roberto de eadem terra plenam seisinam habere faciat…

from A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex vol. 1:

183. Avelina, daughter of William de Craunford, and William de Albo Monasterio, whom Matilda de Albo Monasterio called to warrant. Land in Danleg’ (?). Anno 23. [1238/9]

from the Calendar of Patent Rolls:

1246. 25 January. Westminster.

To William de Warenne of Whitchurch (de Albo Monasterio). The king has learned that there is a frequent passage of his Welsh enemies and those who favour them taking victuals and other necessaries into Wales contrary to his prohibition and to the greatest damage of the king and the realm, through his castle of Whitchurch. And whereas the custom of the realm in the times of the king’s ancestors and approved by the king is that castles under suspicion in the March during war between the prince and the Welsh shall be held by the prince during the war, for the protection of those parts; the king commands him to deliver the said castle, as he loves all his lands in the realm, to J. D Grey, justice of Chester, to keep during pleasure.

Mandate to J. de Grey to receive and keep it.

References

A Calendar to the Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex vol. 1. (W.J. Hardy & W. Page eds.) (London, 1898).

Clay, Charles Travis and William Farrer eds. Early Yorkshire Charters, Volume 8: The Honour of Warenne. (Cambridge University Press, 1949).

Eyton, R.W. Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol. X. (1860).

Farrer, William. Honours and Knights’ Fees, volume 3. (1925)