William Cantilupe, 1st Baron Cantilupe

William Cantilupe, 1st Baron Cantilupe (also William Cauntelo ) (baptized April 2, 1262 - before August 6, 1308 ) was an English nobleman.

William Cantilupe was a son of Nicholas Cantilupe, Lord of Greseley and his wife Eustache. His father was a younger son of William de Cantilupe I , and by marriage he had acquired the Greseley (or Greasley ) lordship in Nottinghamshire . William was baptized on April 2, 1262 at Lenton Abbey , Nottinghamshire. After the death of his father, he inherited his property. As a minor northern English baron, he took on several local offices, served in the defense of the border with Scotland and took part in several campaigns of the First Scottish War of Independence . On 29 December 1299 he was appointed as Baron Cantilupe in the Parliament appointed.

Before 1285, Cantilupe had married Maud d'Arches, a daughter of Osbert d'Arches and his wife Maud. In his second marriage he married Eve Boltby († after 1314), the former wife of Alan of Walkingham and daughter of Adam de Bolteby. With her he had at least two sons:

William Cantilupe, 2nd Baron Cantilupe († around 1321)
Nicholas Cantilupe, 3rd Baron Cantilupe (around 1301–1355)

Web links

William de Cauntelo, 1st Lord Caunteloe on thepeerage.com , accessed September 15, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ James Bothwell: Edward III and the English Peerage. Royal patronage, social mobility and political control in fourteenth-century England. Boydell, Woodbridge 2004. ISBN 1-84383-047-7 , p. 146
↑ Nicholas Harris Nicolas: A Synopsis of the Peerage of England: exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the date of creation, descent, and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the conquest. Vol. 1. Rivingtons, London 1825, p. 107

personal data
SURNAME	Cantilupe, William, 1st Baron Cantilupe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cauntelo, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	baptized April 2, 1262
DATE OF DEATH	before August 6, 1308

[1] James Bothwell: Edward III and the English Peerage. Royal patronage, social mobility and political control in fourteenth-century England. Boydell, Woodbridge 2004. ISBN 1-84383-047-7 , p. 146

[2] Nicholas Harris Nicolas: A Synopsis of the Peerage of England: exhibiting, under alphabetical arrangement, the date of creation, descent, and present state of every title of peerage which has existed in this country since the conquest. Vol. 1. Rivingtons, London 1825, p. 107