William fitz Walkelin

Events 

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1214.

Place of Death: unknown.

William’s wife is a widow in 16 John. (Pipe Rolls).

Relationships

Father: uncertain.

See the Commentary section below.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Alina.

Alina is named as William’s widow in the Pipe Rolls.

Children: 

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

Hawise (died about 1218) married Sir Robert le Sauvage about 1199.

Evidence

1170  Derby.

At Michaelmas, 1170, 9l. of land in Stainsby, co. Derby, was delivered to William fitz Walkeline, out of the farm of the honour of Lancaster. (Farrer, Lanc. Inq., p. 108)  (Lanc. Pipe Rolls, p. 20). Farrer’s note in the Lanc. Pipe Rolls (p. 21): “The King had granted nine librates of land, being the Manor of Stainsby in the Hundred of Scarsdale, co. Derby, before Michaelmas, 1170, to William fitz Walkeline, for one niais hawk yearly. This grant was afterwards confirmed by King Henry in December 1174, when he was at Chivilli (Chevaillee). Stainsby was part of the Domesday fief of Roger of Poictou.”

1171

[T]he sheriff of Lancs. owed  £13. 16s. on the land which William f. Walchelin and Nigel de Gresley held. (Statham) (Pipe Roll 17 Hen. II, p. 29)

1172

Roger de Herleberga owed £18. 16s, of which sum £13. 16s. remained on William f. Walchelin and Nigel de Gresley for that year, and for the previous year £13. 16s. also. (Statham) (Pipe Roll 18 Hen. II, p. 64)

1175

The same Roger accounted for £13. 16s. which remained on William f. Walchelin and Nigel de Gresley for the 3d. year. Under "lands given" William f. Walchelin occurs tor £22. 10s. in Stainsby (" Steinbeia ") for two and a half years by the king's writ, and the sheriff accounted for the firm of the third year for the Easter term and for lands given to William f. Walchelin in Stainsby, £4. 10s. for half a year. (Statham) (Pipe Roll 21 Hen. II, p. 7)

1176

Under the honour of Lanc., William f. Walchelin is returned as having received £9. land in Stainsby and Nigel de Gresley £4. 16s. lands in Drakelow. (Statham) (Pipe Roll 22 Hen. II, p. 89) Several similar entries follow until 1201. (RC, p. 111)

1179

William fitz Walkelin was one of the “viewers” of the work at Clipston par. (Statham) (Pipe Roll 25 Hen II, p. 81)

1186

The sheriff of Derbyshire rendered an account of ½ marc from William f. Walchelin for a default. (Statham) (Pipe Rolls 32 Henry II, p. 107)

1199/1200

Grant to William fil Walkelin: Stainesby Manor, and the right of hunting in Nottingham and Derbyshire. (Yeatman 2:3, p. 3, from the Charter Rolls).

1201

Rob’ Salvagius: 26 li. 13 s. 4 d. and a palfrey for having the the daughter of Will’ filius Walkelin. (Rot. Canc., p. 237) [Sussex]

The sheriff renders an account of 10 pounds of William filius Walkel’ for 4 knight’s fees. (Rot. Canc., p. 317) [Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire]

On April 3, 1201, John confirmed to William f. Walchelin and his heirs the manor of Stainsby for £10, which he had formerly had of the king’s father. (Stainsby) (Rot. Chart., p. 43b)

1208

Amerciaments by H. Bass.

Will fil Walkelin  (Yeats, Extracts p. 85, citing the Pipe Rolls)

1211

Pleas of the Forest.

Fines: William fil Walkelin 10 m. for a default.  (Yeats, Extracts p. 88, citing the Pipe Rolls)

1212  Derby.

William, son of Wa[l]kelin, holds Stainesbi with the appurtenances by rendering yearly a certain sor hawk, by the gift of King Henry. (Farrer, Lanc. Inq., p. 108).  

From the Book of Fees: 

(p. 223) Nottinghamshire. Willelmus filius Wakelin tenet Stainesbi cum pertinenciis reddendo per annum quendam nisum sorum ex dono Henrici Regis.

(p. 228) Extra Limam. Willelmus filius Waukelini Steynesbi per j. nisum sorum.

(p. 231) Nottingham and Derby: Willelmus filius Walkelini tenet Steynesby per j. spervarium sorum.

1214-15

New Oblations.

Aliina, widow of William fil Walkelin, 30 m. and 1 palfrey for having her reasonable dower with the chattels which belonged to her of the free tenement of the said William, and that she be not destrained to marry.  (Yeats, Extracts p. 93, citing the Pipe Rolls)

undated:

Will fil Walkelin, grant to Roger Deincourt, free common for one helde in the woods of Steynesby. T. John and Robert Deincourt, Robert Brette, Henry de Stretton. Roger Sidenhall, Robert de Somerville, Mich de Derl, Robert Brimington, William de Street (Strutt). John fil Richard, The same grant to Roger Deincourt, his rights in the wood of Steynesby, T. Hugo de Dronsf, Ralf Lutterel, Roger and Robert de Sidenhall, Robert de Brimington, Henry fil Walkelin, Peter fil Walkelin, Robert fil Walkelin, and Will de Plesley. (Yeatman vol. 3, section 5, p. 129, citing Welbec Cart. fo. 115)

Commentary

It would seem from his name in records, usually something like Willelmus filius Walkelini, that William’s father must have been named Walkelin. But Statham (1931) argues that “fitz Walkelin” had already become a surname, and that William’s father was Robert fitz Walkelin. Statham gives Robert’s father as Walchelin de Radbourne, although he states the descent from Walkelin to William is speculative. In 1934, Statham suggested that Walchelin de Radbourne may have been a younger son of Robert I, earl Ferrars.

References

Fisher, F. N. “Egginton Court Rolls 1306/7 - 1311/12”  in Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society vol.. 75 (1955).

Lancashire Inquests, Extents, and Feudal Aids. A.D. 1205 - A.D. 1307 (William Farrer, ed.) (The Record Society, 1903).

Lancashire Pipe Rolls and Early Lancashire ChartersI (W. Farrer, ed.) (Liverpool, 1902).

Liber feodorum. The Book of Fees commonly called Testa de Nevill. part I. 1198-1242 (His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1920).

Pipe Rolls (The Pipe Roll Society, 1884 - )

Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi asservati. (Thomas Duffus Hardy, ec.) (1837).

Rotulus Cancellarii, vel Antigraphum Magni Rotuli Pipae de Terto Anno Regni Regni Johannis (1833).

Statham, S.P.H. “Later Descendants of Domesday Tenants in Derbyshire” in Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society vol. 52 (1931).

Statham, S.P.H. “The manor of William de Ferrars” in Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society vol. 55 (1934).

Yeatman, John Pym, et alia The Feudal History of the County of Derby (1886).