William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros

William de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros ( after older counting also 2nd Baron de Ros ; * around 1255; † before September 20, 1316 ) was an English nobleman and military.

origin

William de Ros was the eldest son of Robert de Ros and his wife Isabel († 1301), the daughter and heiress of William d'Aubigné, Lord of Belvoir . He was probably born in Helmsley Castle , his father's headquarters, which is why he called himself William of Hamelake. When his father died around 1285, he inherited his mainly Yorkshire estates.

Life

He took part in the campaigns for the conquest of Wales in 1277 and 1282 . From 1291 to 1292 he was a member of the council meeting in Berwick on the Scottish succession regulation. As a descendant of the Scottish King Wilhelm I , his great-grandmother Isabella was an illegitimate daughter of the King, he was one of the thirteen candidates for the Scottish throne . On November 8, 1292, Ros withdrew his claim after reaching an agreement with John Balliol , who was elected the new King of Scotland by the council. He probably received financial compensation from Balliol for his waiver. When the Scottish War of Independence against English supremacy began in 1296 , William's cousin Robert de Ros, Lord of Wark , betrayed his countrymen. Its Wark Castle in Northumberland was occupied by the king and finally handed over to William. From October 1300 to the end of September 1301, Ros Wark Castle again left the English king, who used the castle as a base against the Scots.

In January 1297 William served in the English army in Gascony during the Franco-English War , but before March 25 he was back in Scotland with Walter Huntercombe . In 1298 he took part in the Battle of Falkirk , and in 1300 in another campaign to Scotland. On February 6, 1299 he was first appointed to parliament by the Writ of Summons . From then on, he held the title Baron de Ros until his death and took part in parliamentary assemblies. On November 8, 1307, King Edward II appointed him custodians of Northumberland, along with Robert de Umfraville, 8th Earl of Angus , and on June 21, 1308, he and Umfraville became deputies to the English King in Scotland. However, he did not defend Northumberland against the raids of the Scottish King Robert I , but probably withdrew to Yorkshire. When Yorkshire was threatened by Scottish raids, he took part in two meetings of the Barons of Yorkshire convened by Archbishop William Greenfield of York in December 1314 and April 1315 , but apparently no longer took part in battles against Scotland.

He was buried in Kirkham Priory in Yorkshire.

Family and offspring

William had married Matilda († 1301), the second daughter and co- heir of John de Vaux from Steresby in Yorkshire , around 1287 . He had several children with her, including:

• William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros († 1342);
• John de Ros, 1st Baron Ros († 1338);
• Anne de Ros († before 1328), ⚭ (1) Pain de Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tibetot († 1314), ⚭ (2) Thomas de Vere († 1329), son and heir of Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford .

literature

• George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Eds.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 11, Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester 2000, p. 97.

Web links

• de Ros, Baron (E, 1298/9) at Cracroft's Peerage (English)
• William de Ros, 1st Lord de Ros of Helmsley on thepeerage.com
• Colm McNamee: Ros, William de, first Lord Ros (c.1255-1316). 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

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron de Ros 1299-1316	William de Ros