William de Cantilupe († 1254)
William de Cantilupe (also William III de Cantilupe , Cantelupe or Cauntelo ) († September 25, 1254 ) was an English nobleman.
Origin and heritage
William was the eldest son of William II de Cantilupe , who had been King Henry III since 1238 . served as Royal Steward , and by his wife Millicent, a daughter of the French nobleman Hugo V. von Gournay . In July 1241 his father married him to Eva de Briouze , a daughter and co-heir of the Marcher Lord William de Briouze . Eva inherited the Honor of Abergavenny in South West Wales and half the Honor of Totnes in Devon from her father's estate . After 1245, Eva, the daughter of Eva Marshal , one of the daughters of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke , inherited other estates in the Welsh Marches and south-west England. After his father's death in 1251, Cantilupe inherited his estates, including Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire and Aston Cantlow in Warwickshire . Over his wife's inheritance, particularly around Penrhos Castle in Monmouthshire , Cantilupe led a bitter inheritance dispute with John of Monmouth between 1248 and 1253 .
Life
Like his father and grandfather, Cantilupe became a loyal supporter of Henry III. From 1242 to 1243 he had taken part in the king's unsuccessful campaign in the Saintonge , for which he received an annual pension of £ 50 from January 1243. In addition, he often received gifts from the king, especially wood and game from the royal forests. From 1253 to 1254 he accompanied the king on his expedition to Gascon in south-west France, which belonged to the king , where he became one of the king's most important courtiers. Shortly after July 1254, however, he must have returned to England, perhaps due to illness, where he died on September 25, 1254. Like his grandfather, William I de Cantilupe, he was buried in Studley Priory in Warwickshire. Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester , a distant relative of his, who, like him, had taken part in the expedition to Gascony, and his brother-in-law Humphrey V. de Bohun , who was married to a sister of his wife, laid his body in Dig.
Family and offspring
He had at least three children with his wife, Eva de Briouze:
- Joanna († 1271) ∞ Henry Hastings († 1269)
- Millicent († 1299)
- ∞ John de Montalt
- ∞ Eudo de la Zouche († 1279)
- George de Cantilupe (* 1251; † 1273)
Cantilupe had made a vow of crusade and left a handsome sum in his will so that someone else could fulfill that vow. Eventually William de Valence , a half-brother of the king, received the money, which he used to advance his own crusade plans.
His heir became his son George, but after he died childless, the Cantilupe family's estates were divided among William's daughters or their heirs.
Web links
- Robert C. Stacey: Cantilupe, William (III) de (d. 1254). 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
- William de Cauntelo on thepeerage.com , accessed March 3, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Cantilupe, William |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | William III de Cantilupe; de Cauntelo, William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1254 |