William Pygot
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Robert Pygot.
This relationship is recorded in contemporary charters (See below.)
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William Pygot.
Descendant, possibly William’s grandson: William Pigott.
Evidence
from the St Werburgh Chartulary:
[The notes to the charters are Tait’s.]
no. 841.
Letter from William, son of Robert Pigot, to Hugh de Waverton, instructing him to render to abbot T[homas L] the homage, etc., which he owed him (William) for a tenement in Waverton. Endorsement that Robert de Pulford, clerk, did homage to abbot S[imon] for that tenement. 1249-65.
Willelmus filius Roberti Pigot mandauit Hugoni de Wauerton quatinus homagium et seruicium quod sibi et heredibus suis facere debuit de tenemento in Wauerton T[home] abbati Cestrie de cetero faciat. Scribitur in dorso huius litere quod Robertus de Pulford clericus fecit S[ymoni] abbati Cestrie homagium suum de tenemento de Wauerton coram multis ibi nominatis.
no. 568.
Grant by William, son of Robert Pigot, to St. Werburgh of the homage and service owed to him by Hugh de Waverton for his whole tenement in Wa vert on and Hatton. 1249-65.
Willelmus filius Roberti Pigot dedit beate Werburge homagium et totum seruicium sibi debitum ab Hugone de Wauerton de toto tenemento suo de Wauerton et de Hatton, cum omnibus pertinenciis.
The consequent instruction to Hugh de Waverton to render his homage, etc., to abbot Thomas (L) — No. 841 — fixes the date wdthin narrow limits.
Hugh de Waverton seems to have died before 1274 (No. 564). William, son of Robert Pigot, also quitclaimed (in 1268) his rights in the vill and advowson of Prestbury and gave land at Butley, etc. {Ann. Cestr. 98 ; Nos. 575, 587)..
no. 575.
Grant by William, son of Robert Pigot, to the abbey of an acre of his demesne in Butley, adjoining the river Bollin, between the monks' land of Prestbury and Birtles, with power to attach their pool and mill to the grantor's land and with water and other easements. William also quitclaimed any right which his ancestors were thought to have in the vill and church of Prestbury. 1268.
Willelmus filius Roberti Pigot dedit sancte Werburge vnam acram dominice terre sue in Butteleg[a], iacentem iuxta aquam de Bolni inter terram sancte Werburge de Prestebur[ia] et Birchelis, vna cum attachiamento stagni et molendini eorum ad terram predicti Willelmi de Butteleg[a] ascendendo per aquam, cum refiuxu et agistiamento aque et omnibus aliis aysiamentis ad dictum molendinum pertinentibus. Insuper idem Willelmus recognouit villam de Prestebur[ia] et aduocacionem ecclesie de eadem esse ius sancte Werburge, et si aliquando antecessores sui hec putabantur habuisse, illud penitus sancte Werburge quiet e clamauit.
no. 564.
Confirmation by William, son of Robert Pigot, of the grant of Chelford to the abbey (No. 563). 1271-74.
Omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum visuris uel audituris Willelmus filius Roberti Pigot salutem in Domino sempiternam. Nouerit vniuersitas vestra me pro salute anime mee et antecessorum et successorum meorum concessisse, confirmasse et presenti carta mea pro me et heredibus meis inperpetuum quiete clamasse Deo et ecclesie beate Werburge Cestrie et domino Symoni abbati et conuentui eiusdem loci eorumque successoribus uel assignatis totam villam de Chelleford' cum molendino et cum dominio et redditibus de Asthull' et cum omnibus aliis pertinenciis infra dictas villas et extra. Habendam et tenendam de me et heredibus meis dictis abbati, etc., adeo libere et quiete, plene, pacifice et integre sicut carta quam Robertus Pigot pater meus Roberto filio lordani de Worth inde fecit plenius testatur, que dictos abbatem et conuentum de dicta villa de Chelleford' cum pertinenciis feofauit, saluis mihi et heredibus meis dominio et homagio de Wythintona. Reddendo inde annuatim mihi, etc., vnum par calcarium alborum et vnam sagittam barbatam et soluendo pro me, etc., tamquam attornati nostri, heredibus domini Hugonis Dispensatoris tres solidos et heredibus domini Hugonis de Wauertona quatuor solidos argenti in festo Omnium Sanctorum de illis septem solidis quos mihi et heredibus meis de predictis villis reddere tenebantur, pro omni seruicio seculari, consuetudine, exaccione et demanda, saluo forinseco [seruicio] domino Cestresir' debito, sicut in predicta carta patris mei plenius continetur. Remisi eciam dictis dominis abbati, etc., et hac presenti carta mea pro me, etc., inperpetuum quiete clamaui homagium quod pref atus Robertus filius lordani de Worth et heredes sui uel sui assignati de predictis villis, Chelleford' et Asthuir mihi, etc., facere deberent vna cum wardis, releuiis, escaetis et omnibus aliis commoditatibus et approuiamentis qui mihi vel, etc., aliquo casu contingente de dictis terris accidere uel accrescere possent. Et ego, etc. (warranty clause). Testibus, Dominis Reginaldo de Grey tunc iusticiario Cestrie, Thoma de Meyngarin, Petro de Ardena, Roberto de Stokeport, Hugone de Hattona tunc vicecomite Cestresir', Roberto de Hux[leg'] tunc constabulario castri Cestrie, lohanne de Wetenhale, Ricardo de Orreby, Rogero de Daueneport, Henrico de Birchel', lohanne f rat re eius, Rogero de Vernona, Willelmo de Baggeleg', Ricardo de Craulache, Ricardo Bonetable, Thoma de Gorstre, Rogero de Bernulf[shawe], Willelmo de Wythintona, et aliis.
Helsby erroneously identified the grantor with William, son of Robert de Mugebroc (Orm. iii. 711). See note to No. 565. William Pigot in 1268 renounced in favour of the abbey any right he might have to the advowson of Prestbury (No. 575 ; Ann. Cestr. 98). He died 1287-8 (Orm. iii. 667).
It will be noticed that the lordship and rent of Withington, which were included in his father's grant to Robert de Worth and in Worth's gift to the abbey, are by this deed reserved for the Pigots. The barbed arrow in the service is not mentioned in the preceding charters.
no. 587.
Grant by William, son of Robert Pigot, to the abbey of his whole land of Heybirches, bounded by Titherington, the Bollin, Nouthereuese and a ditch, with rights of enclosure, etc. ; grant also of two ''eyes" near the Bollin on the Mottram (St. Andrew) side, paying los. a year. c. 1250-88.
Willelmus filius Roberti Pigot dedit sancte W^erburge Cestrie totam terram suam de Heyebirches infra diuisas, scilicet a ductu aque currentis inter Tiderton et Heyebirches, qui ductus descendit in Bolyn, et sic descendendo in Bolyn usque ad riuulum iuxta pontem de Tiderton, et sic per ilium riuulum ascendendo inter metas de Nouthereuese et Heyebirches usque fossatum quod se extendit usque ad dictum ductum aque currentis inter Tudirton et Heyeleyes (sic), ad includendum et omne commodum faciendum. Preterea dedit totas illas insulas iuxta Bolyn uersus Mottrom, cum omnibus pertinenciis, reddendo x solidos annuos ad festum Omnium Sanctorum.
from the Annales Cestrienses:
1268.
Willelmus Pigot dedit deo et ecclesie Sancte Werburge totum jus suum si quid habuit in advocacione de Prestebury.
from the inquisition post mortem of Hugh de Hatton:
Chester. 13 Edw. I [1285]
Waverton. A fourth part of the manor, rendering 1d. yearly to William Pygot, which the abbot of Chester bought of the said William.
from the Cheshire Archives catalogue:
c. 1280
Charter between Richard de Stokeport and Richard de Worth’. [DDS 6/20]
William Pigot is a witness.
References
Annales Cestrienses: Chronicle of the Abbey of S. Werburg, at Chester. (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1887).
Calendars of Inquisitions Post Mortem (His/Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1904-).
The Chartulary or Register of The Abbey of St. Werburgh Chester (ed. James Tait) Part I (Chetham Society, 1920), Part II (Chetham Society, 1923).
Farrer, William. Honors and Knights’ Fees: an attempt to identify the component parts of certain honors and to trace the descent of the tenants of the same who held by knight's service or serjeanty from the eleventh to the fourteenth century. 3 vols. (Manchester University Press, 1923-1925).
Fletcher, W.G.D. “The Sequestration Papers of Thomas Pigott, of Chetwynd” in The Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 3rd series, vol. 6 (1906).