William de Courcy (died before 1130)
William de Courcy was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and baron.
William was the son of William de Courcy and his wife Emma de Falaise.[1] Through his mother, William inherited the barony of Stogursey in Somerset, as his mother was the sole heir of William de Falaise, the lord of Stogursey in Domesday Book.[2] William and Emma were also the parents of two other sons: Richard and Robert.[1]
William married Avice, the daughter and coheir of William Meschin,[1] and Cecily de Rumilly.[2] The marriage took place around 1125.[1]
William, along with his brother Robert, confirmed the gift of his father of the advowson of the church of Nuneham Courtenay in Oxfordshire to Abingdon Abbey.[3] This reconfirmation of his father's grant was recorded in the abbey's chronicle, the Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis,[1] like the original grant had been. William then gave further lands to the abbey, including a meadow named "cow mead" and a pasture large enough for 300 sheep, 8 oxen and 10 cows.[3]
William died before 1130.[1] William's widow married William Paynel, son of Ralph Paynel.[4] His heir was his son William de Courcy. Another son was Robert, who was steward to King Stephen of England.[5] But Marjorie Chibnall thinks this Robert is a cousin, from the Norman branch.[6]
Citations[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 428
- ^ a b Sanders English Baronies p. 143
- ^ a b Lobel "Parishes: Nuneham Courtenay" A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon hundred
- ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants pp. 1057–1058
- ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 427
- ^ Chibnall Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis p. 517 note 3
References[edit]
- Chibnall, Marjorie. The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis.
- Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.
- Lobel, Mary D., ed. (1957). "Parishes: Nuneham Courtenay". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon hundred. Victoria County History. Victoria County History. pp. 234–249. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.