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William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 1st Marquess of Suffolk, 4th Earl of Suffolk, English courtier and statesman, English nobleman
Dates: 1396–1450
English nobleman and statesman who rose to prominence during the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI. He was created Duke of Suffolk in 1448.
View historical person →William de Leigh, member of the Leigh family of Besselsleigh
Dates: Flourishing c.1199–1247
A medieval landholder whose documented transactions included land and rights in Ackhampstead and neighbouring parts of Lewknor.
View historical person →William de Leybourne, English nobleman, baron of Leybourne, holder of the Leybourne estates
Dates: died 1310
William de Leybourne was a fourteenth-century English nobleman and the son of Roger de Leybourne. He held Meers Court and died lord of the manor in 1309 according…
View historical person →William de London, Knight, landholder in the barony of Naas
Dates: fl. 1318
William de London, knight, was the grantor in the 1318 charter of specified lands in Baronsrath and Kyllyn to Walter de Istelep for Walter's life.
View historical person →William de Lydiate
Dates: fl. 1242
A medieval landholder recorded as jointly holding Eggergarth and Lydiate in 1242.
View historical person →William de Mandeville, 3rd Earl of Essex
Dates: died 1189
Anglo-Norman nobleman and holder under the Barony of Richmond in the Linton-related descent described for Chilford.
View historical person →William de Merlay, First baron of the Barony of Merlay, sergeant to the Bishop of Constance
Dates: died c. 1129
Norman landholder identified in the supplied account as the first holder of the Barony of Merlay in Northumberland.
View historical person →William de Mohun, Norman magnate, sheriff of Somerset, lord of the Honour or Barony of Dunster
Dates: Died c. 1090
Norman landholder who established the principal seat of his west Somerset lordship at Dunster and held extensive estates after the Conquest.
View historical person →William de Montfort, Heir to Adderley manor
Dates: fl. late thirteenth or early fourteenth century
A successor described in the Adderley account as heir to the manor who sold it to Bartholomew de Badlesmere.
View historical person →William de Moore, vicar of Ainstable
Dates: fl. 1446
The vicar of Ainstable who received the manor from Sir John Denton and then enfeoffed the Dacre and Marshall parties.
View historical person →William de Moraunt of Chevening, Sheriff of Kent, 1339 and 1340
Dates: fl. 1339-1340
View historical person →William de Preston
Dates: fl. 1307–1313
An Irish-based member of the Preston family, recorded at Drogheda in 1307 and associated with the acquisition of the Lordship of Gafney in 1313.
View historical person →William de Reyny, Lord of Aisholt and Aley in Over Stowey
Dates: floruit 13th century
William de Reyny was a thirteenth-century feudal landholder whose Somerset interests included Aisholt and Aley in Over Stowey. He appears in the context of the Curci baronial inheritance…
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