Individual Details
William Lancaster
(Abt 1130 - 1184)
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==Biography==
William II de Lancaster or William de Lancaster II are convenient modern names to distinguish him from his father and grandson. In his own time he was referred to by various names such as William de Loncastre or William fitz William (with various spellings).William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay, [http://books.google.com/books?id=TbHFxV8bXuMC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=lancaster+stuteville&source=bl&ots=tnG0xZIqjU&sig=nGjP6J4BKZ7wYn8lXL6tfwkFbhg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=93NvU9vjGKfIsATpjoGADw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=lancaster%20stuteville&f=false Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 9, The Stuteville Fee], Cambridge University Press, Mar 21, 2013 - History - 346 pages. [[Bairfield-1|amb]]F. W. Ragg (1910) "De Lancaster", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, pages 395–493. [https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1910/vol10/tcwaas_002_1910_vol10_0024.pdf]
Born approximately 1130. (William was already witnessing his father's charters in the 1150s.) Parents were William I de Lancaster and his wife (possibly not first wife) Gundreda "the countess".
Died 1184, and was buried at Furness Abbey. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#_Toc389053840 Medieval Lands fmg.ac] "Willielmus de Lancastre", his grandson, donated property to Furness Abbey for the soul of "Agnetis sponsæ meæ" by charter 6 Nov 1240 stating, "avi mei…Willielmi de Lancastre" was buried in abbey.
VCH Lancaster tells us::William de Lancaster II is chiefly noted as the founder of the Premonstratensian Hospital at Cockersand, which was erected into an abbey in 1190. He confirmed to the monks of St. Bees his father's and uncle's grants to that place. To the hospital of St. Leonard of York he gave land called Dochergh (now Docker, par. of Kendal) in exchange for land in Kendal, which had been given to the hospital by Ketel, son of Eldred, and land in Bartonhead which his father gave. He was a liberal benefactor to the canons of Conishead, to whom he gave land between Ulverston and Bardsea, the church of Ulverston and the estate of Gascow, near Ulverston.
:[...]:He died in 1184, and was buried in the presbytery at Furness. Robert of Torigni describes him as 'magnas honestatis et possessionis vir.'Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/360/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 360-1]
William and his father lived through the chaos of the English anarchy and the connected invasion of Scotland into his region. Perhaps somehow this led to the situation in 1179 when there was to be a duel against [[Ireby-1|Gospatrick fitz Orme]], a cousin who had done a major land swap with his father. Ragg suggests that the period must have led to "complications" for the whole region "arising out of the confusion", with all the various changes in overlordships, William having been overlord to Gospatrick at some point it seems. Jackson suspects that one pressure on people such as Gospatrick would be a suspicion of too much closeness to the Scots. Gospatrick was never heard of again, so perhaps William killed him in the duel, and William himself lived only a few more years. Both were apparently relatively old. See FW Ragg (1914) De Culwen, TCWAAS [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1914/vol14/tcwaas_002_1914_vol14_0025.pdf] and W Jackson (1881) The Curwens of Workington Hall and Kindred Families. TCWAAS, [https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/001/1881/vol5/tcwaas_001_1881_vol5_0024.pdf]
===Family===
: m. '''Helwise de Stuteville''', daughter of Robert de Stuteville and Helwise
:* (heiress) '''Hawise de Lancaster''' m. Gilbert fitz Roger fitz Reinfrid, son of Roger FitzReinfrid (d.1216/20). [[Wikipedia: Gilbert fitz Roger fitz Reinfried]]
: '''unknown mother'''. Illegitimate Issue:
:*'''Gilbert de Lancaster of Sockbridge''':*'''Jordan de Lancaster'''. Possibly constable of Knaresburgh.Lancaster, Andrew (2007), "The de Lancasters of Westmorland: Lesser-Known Branches, and the Origin of the de Lancasters of Howgill" ([http://fmg.ac/publications/journal/volume-2/category/49-fnd-2-4 PDF]), Foundations: Journal of the Foundation of Medieval Genealogy 2 (4)
===Footnotes===
===Also see===
*http://www.thepeerage.com/p41221.htm#i412204
==Biography==
William II de Lancaster or William de Lancaster II are convenient modern names to distinguish him from his father and grandson. In his own time he was referred to by various names such as William de Loncastre or William fitz William (with various spellings).William Farrer, Charles Travis Clay, [http://books.google.com/books?id=TbHFxV8bXuMC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=lancaster+stuteville&source=bl&ots=tnG0xZIqjU&sig=nGjP6J4BKZ7wYn8lXL6tfwkFbhg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=93NvU9vjGKfIsATpjoGADw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=lancaster%20stuteville&f=false Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 9, The Stuteville Fee], Cambridge University Press, Mar 21, 2013 - History - 346 pages. [[Bairfield-1|amb]]F. W. Ragg (1910) "De Lancaster", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, pages 395–493. [https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1910/vol10/tcwaas_002_1910_vol10_0024.pdf]
Born approximately 1130. (William was already witnessing his father's charters in the 1150s.) Parents were William I de Lancaster and his wife (possibly not first wife) Gundreda "the countess".
Died 1184, and was buried at Furness Abbey. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3L-O.htm#_Toc389053840 Medieval Lands fmg.ac] "Willielmus de Lancastre", his grandson, donated property to Furness Abbey for the soul of "Agnetis sponsæ meæ" by charter 6 Nov 1240 stating, "avi mei…Willielmi de Lancastre" was buried in abbey.
VCH Lancaster tells us::William de Lancaster II is chiefly noted as the founder of the Premonstratensian Hospital at Cockersand, which was erected into an abbey in 1190. He confirmed to the monks of St. Bees his father's and uncle's grants to that place. To the hospital of St. Leonard of York he gave land called Dochergh (now Docker, par. of Kendal) in exchange for land in Kendal, which had been given to the hospital by Ketel, son of Eldred, and land in Bartonhead which his father gave. He was a liberal benefactor to the canons of Conishead, to whom he gave land between Ulverston and Bardsea, the church of Ulverston and the estate of Gascow, near Ulverston.
:[...]:He died in 1184, and was buried in the presbytery at Furness. Robert of Torigni describes him as 'magnas honestatis et possessionis vir.'Farrer, William & Brownbill, J. ''[[Space:The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster|The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster]]'' (Archibald Constable and Co. Limited, London, 1906) [https://archive.org/stream/victoriahistoryo01farruoft#page/360/mode/1up Vol. 1, Page 360-1]
William and his father lived through the chaos of the English anarchy and the connected invasion of Scotland into his region. Perhaps somehow this led to the situation in 1179 when there was to be a duel against [[Ireby-1|Gospatrick fitz Orme]], a cousin who had done a major land swap with his father. Ragg suggests that the period must have led to "complications" for the whole region "arising out of the confusion", with all the various changes in overlordships, William having been overlord to Gospatrick at some point it seems. Jackson suspects that one pressure on people such as Gospatrick would be a suspicion of too much closeness to the Scots. Gospatrick was never heard of again, so perhaps William killed him in the duel, and William himself lived only a few more years. Both were apparently relatively old. See FW Ragg (1914) De Culwen, TCWAAS [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/002/1914/vol14/tcwaas_002_1914_vol14_0025.pdf] and W Jackson (1881) The Curwens of Workington Hall and Kindred Families. TCWAAS, [https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-2055-1/dissemination/pdf/Article_Level_Pdf/tcwaas/001/1881/vol5/tcwaas_001_1881_vol5_0024.pdf]
===Family===
: m. '''Helwise de Stuteville''', daughter of Robert de Stuteville and Helwise
:* (heiress) '''Hawise de Lancaster''' m. Gilbert fitz Roger fitz Reinfrid, son of Roger FitzReinfrid (d.1216/20). [[Wikipedia: Gilbert fitz Roger fitz Reinfried]]
: '''unknown mother'''. Illegitimate Issue:
:*'''Gilbert de Lancaster of Sockbridge''':*'''Jordan de Lancaster'''. Possibly constable of Knaresburgh.Lancaster, Andrew (2007), "The de Lancasters of Westmorland: Lesser-Known Branches, and the Origin of the de Lancasters of Howgill" ([http://fmg.ac/publications/journal/volume-2/category/49-fnd-2-4 PDF]), Foundations: Journal of the Foundation of Medieval Genealogy 2 (4)
===Footnotes===
===Also see===
*http://www.thepeerage.com/p41221.htm#i412204
Events
| Birth | Abt 1130 | ||||
| Marriage | 1174 | England - Helewise "Hawise" Stuteville | |||
| Death | 1184 | Furness Abbey | |||
| Reference No | 1467827 | ||||
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| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Helewise "Hawise" Stuteville (1156 - 1223) |
| Child | Hawise Lancaster (1175 - 1226) |
| Child | Gilbert Lancaster (1150 - 1220) |
| Father | William Lancaster (1124 - 1166) |
| Mother | Gundreda Warenne (1124 - 1166) |