William Daubeney

Sir William Daubeney (* 1424 ; † 1461 ) was an English knight and politician.

William Daubeney came from the Daubeney family , an old gentry family whose possessions were mainly in Somerset and Bedfordshire . He was the eldest son of Giles III Daubeney and his first wife, Joan Darcy . After the death of his father in 1446 he inherited the family estates. He was knighted and represented Bedfordshire in the English Parliament from 1448 to 1449 as Knight of the Shire . In addition, he was sheriff of Cornwall from 1452 to 1453 . After 1453, however, he no longer held any public office, so that he was no longer involved in the dispute between the York and Lancaster families , which ultimately led to the Wars of the Roses .

Daubeney had married Alice (* 1432), a daughter of John Stourton († 1438) from Preston Plucknett in Somerset. She was a co-heir of her father, so by marriage Daubeney acquired the estates of Yeovilton , Speckington and Bridgehampton in Somerset, from which he gained an additional annual income of £ 80. He had several children with his wife, including:

• Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (1451 / 2–1508)
• James Daubeney

He inherited his eldest son, Giles Daubeney, who was still a minor when he died. His widow was second married to Robert Hill of Houndstone , Somerset.

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• Dominic Luckett: Daubeney, Sir William (1424-1461). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004