William DeWrottesley

Family/Spouse: Joan Basset. Joan (daughter of Roger Bassett) was born in 1320 in Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom; died in 1413 in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joan Wrothesley was born in 1350 in Somerset, England, United Kingdom; died on 27 Jul 1412 in Devon, England, United Kingdom.

William married Petronilla DeAudley. Petronilla (daughter of Nicholas De Audley and Catherine Giffard) was born in 1285 in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom; died in in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ancestral File Number: 9HP4-GG

Nicholas married Catherine Giffard on 23 Oct 1299 in Dower, Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom. Catherine (daughter of 1st Lord Giffard Sir John Giffard and Maud De Clifford) was born in Dec 1272 in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom; died in 1322 in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James de Alditheley was a great favourite of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, at whose coronation as king of Almaigne he assisted. This nobleman had livery of his lands in the 31st Henry III [1247], and was constituted in two years afterwards constable of Newcastle-under-Lyne. Being one of the lords-marchers he was actively employed for some years against the Welsh and was appointed governor of the castles of Salop and Bridgenorth and sheriff of the counties of Salop and Stafford. In the 47th of Henry III [1263] he was made justice of Ireland; and in the same year, upon the misunderstanding between the king and the barons regarding the provisions of Oxford, being referred to arbitration of the monarch of France, he was one of the noblemen who undertook for the king therein. The next year we find him with Roger de Mortimer and the other barons-marchers giving battle to Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and afterwards joining the Earl of Gloucester at Evesham in rescuing the king, who had become captive to the Earl of Leicester at the battle of Lewes. In the 52nd of Henry III [1268], his lordship performed a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James in Galicia, and the following year embarked in the Crusade. His death, occasioned by breaking his neck, occurred soon afterwards (1271). He had a dau. Joan, who m. John, son of Robert de Beauchamp, to whose child, prior to its birth, the said John then being deceased, his lordship was appointed guardian. He had also five sons, the youngest of whom, Hugh, is supposed to have been the Hugh Alditheley who had summons to parliament 15 May 1321, and whose son became Earl of Gloucester. His lordship was s. by his eldest son, James de Alditheley, who d. s. p. in 1272, and was s. by his brother, Henry, who d. without issue in 1275, and was s. by his brother, William, who d. without issue is 1275, was s. by his brother, Nicholas, who died in 1299. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 15, Audley, Barons Audley, of Heleigh]

NOTE: John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV, R. Bentley, London, 1834, p. 757, Stansfeld, of Burley Park, names two additional sons, William, Lord of Blore and Grindon, co. Stafford, and Sir Adam, surnamed FitzWolfric.

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James married Ela Longespee in 1244 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom. Ela was born about 1228 in Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom; died before 22 Nov 1299. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He [James of Aldithley] m. in 1244, Ela, daughter of William Longespee (who d. 1250), son and heir of Ela, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, by Idoine, daughter and heir of Richard de Camville. She brought him the manors of Stratton, afterwards called Stratton Audley, and Wretchwick, Oxon, in frank marriage. He d. about 11 June 1272, in Ireland, by "breaking his neck". Writ for his Inq.p.m. 16 July 1272. His widow d. apparently shortly bef. 22 Nov 1299. Inq.p.m. 1325-6. [Complete Peerage I:337-8 XIV:50]

John married Maud De Clifford in Bef. 1263 in Brimsfield, Gloucester, England, United Kingdom. Maud (daughter of Walter de Clifford and Princess Margaret ap Llywelyn) was born about 1234 in Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England, United Kingdom; died after Dec 1282. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]