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Birth:          ABT 1045 Normandy
Death:          AFT 1086 Wich-Malbank, Cheshire, England

Notes
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William must have been born around 1045 or before, being 26 when he was 
considered to be a Baron under the Earl of Chester, as stated in the excerpt from CP, 
below:

. . . in 1071 he [Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester], received from the King, his 
maternal uncle, the whole of the county palatine of Chester (excepting the Episcopal 
lands) "to hold as freely by the Sword as he [the King] himself held the Kingdom of 
England by the Crown". becoming thereby Count Palatine (b) thereof, as EARL OF 
CHESTER.

(b) As such he had his hereditary Barons, who (besides one Robert de Rhuddlan, 
General of his forces, who d. 3 Jul 1088, many years before him) are generally 
considered to have been eight, as under, viz.

(1) Eustace of Mold, Baron of Hawarden, co. Flint, Hereditary Steward.
(2) William Fitz-Niel, Baron of Halton, Hereditary Constable and Marshal.
(3) William Malbank, Baron of Nantwich, or Wich-Malbank, whose issue male ended 
with his grandson.
(4) Robert FitzHugh, Baron of Malpas, who dspm. but appears to have been 
succeeded in Earl Hugh's lifetime by David le Clerk (or Belward), said to have been 
his son-in-law.
(5) Hamond de Massey, Baron of Dunham-Massey, whose representation through 
Fitton, Venables and Booth, passed to the Greys, Earls of Stamford and Warrington.
(6) Richard Vernon, Baron of Shipbrooke.
(7) William Venables, Baron of Kinderton, whose issue male continued till 1676.
(8) Robert Stockport, Baron of Stockport, whose existence is somewhat questionable.

After 1265, however, when the Earldom of Chester was, by Henry III, annexed to the 
Crown, the dignity of these Barons became merely titular. [Complete Peerage III:165 & 
note (b)]


Marriage To ____ Adelicia (1055 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Adelicia 1055 - 
DE MALBANK William II ()

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