William de Wystanston
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: about 1335.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William de Wystanston.
This relationship is recorded in a case from the Chester Plea Rolls (See the Evidence section below.) William’s mother was said to be “Avice, lady of Wystaston”.
Mother: unknown.
The Joan below was perhaps a second marriage to the widow of Hugh de Blackenhall, Hamon’s father.
Spouse: Alice.
See the Evidence section below.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William de Wystantson.
Hamo de Wystanston.
Evidence
from Ormerod (3:513):
Blakenhall
1 Edward II [1307]
Hamon de Blachenhale obtained from Richard Friend two parts of this manor for life, remainder to Hugh son of Hamon, &c. Joan, wife of William de Wistanston, then holding the third part in dower.
from Ormerod (3:330):
Wistaston
6 Edward II [1312/3]
William, son of William de Wystanston, and Alice his wife, and William son of Hamond de Wystanston, and Agnes his wife, levy a fine of a salt-pit in Wich Malbank, in favor of Roger son of William de Bulkylegh.
13 Edward II [1319/20]
William lord of Wystanston grants, by charter enrolled, to Roger de Brescy, one fourth part of the wood and soil in Wystanston.
14 Edward II [1320/21]
William de Wystanston and Alice his wife, grant a tenement here to Robert de Praers and Urian his son.
3 Edward III [1329/30]
William son of William de Wystanston, and Alice his wife, levy a fine of lands, &c. in Wystanston, Nantwich, Leghton, Northbury, and Wyreswalle [in favour of Walter de Bromlegh, clerk.]
8 Edward III [1334/5]
Enrollment of Inquisition finding that it was not to the damage of the earl, &c. that William de Wystanston should divert a way nine perches in length leading under the park of the said William from Monkescopenhale towards Wich Malbank, and hold the said way to himself and his heirs provided that he made another way in lieu of the one so diverted.
10 Edward III [1336/7]
Alice widow of William de Wystanston sued Hamo de Wystanston junior for dower of a third part of the manor of Wystanston, excepting two messuages, two mills, 50 acres of land, and 40 of wood.
10 Edward III
Hamo son of William de Wystanston levies a fine of a fourth part of the manor of Wystanston to Thomas Chanu; a fourth of the same manor to William Hamelyn…; and a fourth of the same, and the advowson of the church of Wistanston, to Thomas del Wode of Wistanston.
10 Edward III
Hamon, son of William de Wistanston, passes over [by fine] one fourth [of the manor] of Wistanston to Richard del Hogh de Thorneton, for £20, and another quarter to Thomas del Wood.
from the Chester Plea Rolls:
Chester Plea Roll. No. 114. 13. Hen. 4. [1411-1412]
Cestria. – Margery, late wife of John, son of Wililam le Brescy, and Hugh de Malpas and Elena, his wife, and John de Birchenhall sued Joan, late wife of Roger de Brescy, for land in Wystaston, which Avice, lady of Wystaston, gave to William, her son, and to the heirs of his body.
The attached pedigree shows:
[1] William, son of Avice, was seised temp. Ed. 1.
[2] His son was William.
[3] His sons William [ob.s.p.] and Hamon [ob.s.p.] were succeeded by their sister Annora.
[4] Annora’s daughters were:
(a) Margery, mother of Margery the wife of John le Brescy, plaintiff;
(b) Elena, mother of Elena wife of Hugh de Malpas, plaintiffs; and
(c) Joan, mother of John father of John de Byrchynhull, plaintiff.
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).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls collected from the Pleadings in the Various Courts of Law, A.D. 1200 to 1500. (1905).