William of Dixton

Dates: Recorded 1221-1283; dead by 1296

Medieval lord of Dixton associated with the Alderton estate. He held the relevant fees and exercised the advowson of Alderton in 1283.

William of Dixton

Dates: Recorded 1303-1316

A second medieval holder of Dixton Manor, recorded in 1303 and 1307 and dead by 1316.

William of Dixton

Dates: Recorded 1346; dead by 1347

A medieval holder of Dixton Manor, recorded for the year 1346.

William of Windsor

William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, 1367–1404, founder of New College, Oxford

Dates: c. 1324–1404

William of Wykeham was a major fourteenth-century ecclesiastical and administrative figure who served as Bishop of Winchester from 1367 and founded New College, Oxford, in 1379. He made…

William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, founder of New College, Oxford

Dates: 1324-1404

English prelate, royal administrator and founder of New College, Oxford, who endowed the college with the rectory or rectorial manor of Adderbury while retaining the remaining episcopal manor…

William Paget, Sir William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert from 1549, English courtier, diplomat, statesman, and 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert

Dates: circa 1505-1563

William Paget was a Tudor administrator, diplomat and royal secretary who received extensive former monastic lands after the Dissolution, including the Burton Abbey estates of Abbots Bromley and…

William Paget, 4th Baron Paget of Beaudesert

Dates: 1572-1629

William Paget was the son of Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget. After his father's forfeiture, he was restored by James I to the Paget lands and honours and…

William Palmer-Morewood, Esquire, lord of Alfreton, Palmer-Morewood family head

Dates: Born 1780; died 1863.

Nephew and testamentary heir of Ellen Morewood. He inherited the Alfreton estate and adopted the additional surname Morewood in 1825.

William Palmer-Morewood, Last Lord of Alfreton according to Our Alfreton

Dates: Died 1957 according to Our Alfreton; exact birth date not established here.

A twentieth-century member of the Palmer-Morewood family identified by a local historical account as the last Lord of Alfreton.

William Pandolf, Leading man of Roger de Montgomery in Shropshire, lord of Noron, holder of Alkington at the Domesday survey

Dates: floruit late 11th century

A Norman lord and principal man of Roger de Montgomery in Shropshire. He held Alkington at the time of the Domesday survey and possessed lands forming the later…

William Pantulf, Feudal lord, lord of Wem

Dates: fl. reign of Henry I

Anglo-Norman lord recorded in the supplied Stallington history as receiving the lordship during the reign of Henry I.

William Parker, Knight, husband of Alice Lovell, Lady Morley

Dates: Active late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; died before 1518

A member of the Parker family who held the Morley inheritance in right of his wife Alice Lovell, including the manor of Alby according to the antiquarian account.

William Parr, Marquess of Northampton, Lord Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, Earl of Essex, Lord Great Chamberlain

Dates: 1513-1571

William Parr was an English courtier and nobleman who became Marquess of Northampton. In 1542 he received the property described in the Essex fine, including Abells in Halsted…

William Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, Lord St John of Basing

Dates: c.1510-1576

William Paulet succeeded his father as 2nd Marquess of Winchester and is recorded as owner of the Abbotstone manor-house in the 1570s.

William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester, 3rd Earl of Wiltshire, 3rd Baron St John, Knight of the Bath, Sheriff of Hampshire, Member of Parliament for Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire and Dorset.

Dates: 1532/1533–24 November 1598

William Paulet succeeded his father in the Winchester titles and maintained the family's Elizabethan political position. His marriage to Anne Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard…

William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester, Lord St John from 1576, summoned to Parliament in his father’s barony in 1581, 4th Marquess of Winchester from 24 November 1598, 4th Earl of Wiltshire, 4th Baron St John, landowner of Basing and Hackwood., Styled Lord St John from 1576, summoned to Parliament by writ of acceleration in his father's barony in 1581, succeeded as 4th Marquess of Winchester, 4th Earl of Wiltshire and 4th Baron St John of Basing on 24 November 1598., Styled Lord St John of Basing from approximately 1576 until 1598, summoned to Parliament on 16 January 1581 by writ in his father's barony

Dates: before 1560–4 February 1629

William Paulet was the heir of the 3rd Marquess of Winchester. He was styled Lord St John before succeeding to the marquessate. He married Lucy Cecil on 28…

William Paynel, Founder and benefactor of Drax Priory

Dates: fl. 12th century; died after 1139

A 12th-century landholder who founded Drax Priory in Yorkshire and endowed it with lands including Carlton and Camblesforth.

William Percy

Dates: 1086

William Peverel, William Peverel of Nottingham, lord of extensive estates in Derbyshire

Dates: Died c. 1147

A Norman landholder and royal lieutenant who held numerous estates in the Peak after the Conquest, including the Domesday holding identified with Abney.

William Peverel, Norman landholder, tenant-in-chief and lord of Adbolton in 1086.

Dates: Active in the late eleventh century; lord and tenant-in-chief of Adbolton in 1086; died after 1086, exact date uncertain.

William Peverel was a major Norman landholder who held extensive estates in Nottinghamshire after the Conquest. Domesday records him as both tenant-in-chief and immediate lord of Adbolton in…

William Peverel, Tenant-in-chief, lord of extensive estates

Dates: Tenant-in-chief in 1086; a later William Peverel forfeited lands in 1153

William Peverel was a major landholder after the Norman Conquest. The Adstock evidence distinguishes the Domesday tenant-in-chief from a later William Peverel whose lands were forfeited in 1153.

William Piccot

William Pierrepont, Pierrepont landowner, of Tong Castle and later Thoresby

Dates: died 1679

William Pierrepont was the second son of Sir Robert Pierrepont and received most of his father's purchased estates, according to the University of Nottingham account of the Pierrepont…