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William Malbank, Baron of Wich Malbank, tenant-in-chief in Cheshire
Dates: fl. late 11th–early 12th century
William Malbank was a Norman landholder and baron associated with Wich Malbank, later Nantwich, and held extensive lands in Cheshire after the Norman Conquest, including the Domesday holding…
View historical person →William Malebisse, Lord of the Acaster estate according to local historical tradition
Dates: fl. mid-12th century
William Malebisse was a Yorkshire landholder associated with the establishment of the Malebisse or Malbysse family connection with Acaster.
View historical person →William Malet, Norman landholder and Domesday tenant, lord of the principal Alkborough holding in 1066
Dates: Died 1071
William Malet was a Norman magnate who held extensive lands in England after the Conquest and was recorded in Domesday Book as lord of the principal Alkborough holding…
View historical person →William Mannock
Dates: floruit circa 1528
Purchased Martells Hall approximately ninety years after David Mortimer received it in 1438.
View historical person →William Marmion, of Easton, Gloucestershire
Dates: died 1530
A Marmion landholder who held Adwell by 1494, settled it on himself and his wife in 1513, and died in 1530.
View historical person →William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, Marshal of England, royal regent, regent of England, hereditary Marshal of England, Regent and Protector of England during the minority of Henry III
Dates: c. 1146–1219
Anglo-Norman magnate and celebrated royal servant whose marriage to Isabel de Clare brought him the Clare inheritance, including Chepstow.
View historical person →William Martel
Dates: Recorded in 1155
A medieval landholder recorded as owner of Aldeburgh Manor in 1155. The public source provides no additional biographical details.
View historical person →William Masham
Dates: 17th century
Seventeenth-century landholder associated by the local historical record with Abriwicks alias Allred Wykes and Badwell Ash.
View historical person →William Mauduit, Chamberlain to King Henry II
Dates: died 1170
A member of the Mauduit family who held the office of chamberlain to Henry II and is identified in the registry as lord of Grately by 1167.
View historical person →William Maynard, 5th Baron Maynard
Dates: 1586–1640
English peer who purchased the lordship of Dunmow Rectory from the Crown in 1634.
View historical person →William Molyneux, Son and heir of Sir Richard Molyneaux, member of the Molyneux family of Sefton
Dates: fl. 1554; exact dates not established here
William Molyneux is identified in the deed-based account as the purchaser of estates in Melling, Aintree and Liverpool from Richard Grimshaw in 1554.
View historical person →William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 2nd Baron Montagu, royal soldier and courtier, royal administrator and military commander
Dates: c. 1301–1344
William Montagu was an English nobleman and military commander who was created Earl of Salisbury by Edward III. The supplied manor record states that Edward III granted Kingsbury…
View historical person →William Morgan, Esquire of Chilworth
Dates: flourished late sixteenth century
Chilworth landholder who acquired one moiety of Abinger Manor from the Elringtons.
View historical person →William Mountfort, Of Coleshill in the cited conveyance
Dates: Dates not securely established in the located source; active in the early fifteenth century.
A member of the Mountfort family associated with Coleshill and its surrounding estates. The cited evidence links him directly with the Alcott Hall lands in 1404–05.
View historical person →William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny, 5th Earl of Abergavenny, 1st Earl of Lewes, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of Sussex.
Dates: 16 September 1826–12 December 1915
Eldest son of William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, and Caroline Leeke. He succeeded to the earldom in 1868 and was created Earl of Lewes and Marquess of…
View historical person →William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, clergyman, holder of family ecclesiastical livings.
Dates: 28 June 1792–17 August 1868
Fourth son of Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, and Mary Robinson. He was ordained and served in family livings before succeeding his brother as earl in 1845.…
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