William de Stuteville

William de Stuteville (* around 1140; † 1203 ) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman.

William came from the Normandy family Stuteville . He was the eldest son of Robert III. de Stuteville († 1183) and his wife Helewise. He is first mentioned at Easter 1173 when he became administrator of Knaresborough , Aldborough and other estates in northern England. Like his father and his uncle Roger de Stuteville , he was an important supporter of King Henry II during the revolt of 1173-1174 . In 1174 he was entrusted with a castle that had been built at Topcliffe to help the rebels under Roger I de Mowbray to meet. In the same year he was one of the leaders of a force that could capture the Scottish King William I. Henry II probably rewarded him in July 1175 with the castles Knaresborough and Aldborough, which he had previously administered, as a fiefdom. In 1177 he became administrator of Roxburgh Castle .

Towards the end of Henry II's reign, Stuteville occasionally served as a royal judge. He also served Heinrich's sons King Richard the Lionheart and King Johann Ohneland in a variety of ways. In 1189 he was sheriff of Northumberland for six months , and in 1191 he was briefly sheriff of Lincolnshire . During Richard the Lionheart's absence during the Third Crusade , Stuteville was a major supporter of Lord Chancellor William Longchamp . In 1190 he was to receive Lincoln Castle as a favorite of Longchamp , since Constable Gerard de Canville supported Johanns Unhneland 's claim to the throne, but the siege failed. He remained a supporter of Longchamp until it was overthrown in 1191.

During the rebellion of John Ohneland against his brother Richard in 1193, Stuteville assisted Archbishop Geoffrey of York in the fortification of Doncaster Castle . But he refused to support the archbishop as a follower of Johann in the siege of Johann's castles and even defended Tickhill Castle for Johann . However, King Richard pardoned him, and when John became King of England in 1199, Stuteville's demeanor was rewarded. After King William I of Scotland refused to pay homage to John in 1199, the latter handed over to him William Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland for administration. Stuteville remained sheriff of Northumberland until 1200 and of Cumberland until 1203. From 1200 to 1202 he was also sheriff of Yorkshire and Westmorland , for the office of Yorkshire he paid the king £ 1,000  . In addition, Johann entrusted him with the administration of various royal estates, such as the forest of Milburn in Westmorland, and castles and allowed him to build Cottingham Castle . The favor of King John presumably encouraged Stuteville to resume the old family dispute with William de Mowbray until he agreed in 1201 a compromise that was advantageous for him, through which he received nine additional Knight's fees and a lucrative good.

Stuteville was a patron of Fountains Abbey and Keldholme Priory while reversing the endowments made by his father for Meaux Abbey , which is why he is portrayed in the writings on Robert of Knaresborough as the villainous pursuer of the saint. He was married to Bertha, a niece or granddaughter of Ranulf de Glanville . Presumably he had been married one more time, from this marriage came his son and heir Robert, who, however, probably died under age 1205, so that his younger brother Nicholas became his heir. William also had an illegitimate daughter. Presumably he was buried in Fountains Abbey.

Web links

• Hugh M. Thomas: Stuteville, William de (d.1203). 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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ William Farrer; Charles Travis Clay; Edith Margaret Clay: Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. 9: The Stuteville Fee. Cambridge University Press, New York 2013. ISBN 978-1-108-05835-3 , p. 9
2. ^ John T. Appleby: Johann "Ohneland". King of England. Riederer, Stuttgart 1965, p. 47
3. ^ John T. Appleby: Johann "Ohneland". King of England. Riederer, Stuttgart 1965, p. 84
4. ^ John T. Appleby: Johann "Ohneland". King of England. Riederer, Stuttgart 1965, p. 251
5. ↑ Magna Carta 800th: William de Mowbray. Retrieved November 5, 2015 . 
6. ↑ William Farrer; Charles Travis Clay; Edith Margaret Clay: Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. 9: The Stuteville Fee. Cambridge University Press, New York 2013. ISBN 978-1-108-05835-3 , p. 13