Baron of Halton
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: probably before 1130.
This date is given by the Lancashire VCH (1:298). Ormerod (1:690) gives 1133.
Relationships
Father: Nigel, baron of Halton.
This relationship is given by the Lancashire VCH (1:297) and by Ormerod (1:690).
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Brother: Richard.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (1:690).
Relative: Walter de Gand.
Walter described William as "nepos meus" (Keats-Rohan, p. 486; Lancashire VCH 1:298).
Children:
William fitz William.
Agnes married (1) Eustace fitz John; married (2) Robert fitz Count.
Maud married Aubert de Grelley.
References
Keats-Rohan, Katharine. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 (The Boydell Press, 1999).
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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).
Page, William (ed.) The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Lancashire. Volume 1. (London: 1906).
Tout, T.F. “Eustace fitz John (d. 1157)” rev. Paul Dalton in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2008).
“William son of Nigel” on the Open Domesday site.