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Birth:          ABT 1190 Willoughby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Death:          BEF 1227 

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I11890
William de Willoughby; held land at Sloothby, Willoughby-in-the-Marsh, Lincs, temp. 
Richard I and a knight's fee at Willoughby-in-the-Marsh 1212; married Maud, daughter 
of William de Fulletby, and died by 1227. [Burke's Peerage]

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Observations.-In the 12th and 13th centuries there were two separate families of 
Willoughby holding lands in Lincolnshire. One, from whom the Lords Willoughby 
descended, took its name from Willoughby in the Marsh, in Lindsey, and the other from 
Silk Willoughby, in Kesteven. Both families were tenants of the Gant fee. As to the 
latter, Robert de Willoughby gave land in Silk Willoughby to the Templars before 
1185; and, with his son Ralph in his place, had a quitclaim from Ralph de Stixwould of 
land there in 1199. Sir Robert son of Ralph de Willoughby gave a toft there to the 
church of Lincoln, circa 1240-50. This family also had an interest in Pleasley, co. 
Derby, where in 1203 the King confirmed land to John de Aincurt and Ralph de 
Willoughby and their wives, heirs of Serlo de Pleasley; and in 1219 it was recorded 
that William de Willoughby had been given the church of Pleasley jointly by his brother 
Ralph de Willoughby and John de Aincurt.

WILLIAM DE WILLOUGHBY, whose parentage is unknown, held land in Sloothby, in 
Willoughby in the Marsh, in the time of King Richard. He witnessed charters at the end 
of the 12th and early in the 13th centuries, two being issued by Gilbert de Gant; 
appears in law-suits in 1200 and 1202; served on juries in 1204 and 1205; held a 
knight's fee in Willoughby in the Marsh of Gilbert de Gant in 1212; and in September 
1217 the sheriff of Lincolnshire was ordered to restore to him possession of his lands, 
as he had held them before the war. He is named in judicial activities, December 
1220-16 August 1223; and in September 1221 he and others were ordered not to 
interfere with the tenure of Earl de Warenne in Stamford and Grantham. He m. Maud, 
daughter and coheir of William DE FULLETBY. He was living in 1225 but died before 
1227. [Complete Peerage XII/2:654-6, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

NOTE: I believe that the 2 Willoughby families are joined at some point. Both held 
lands of Gilbert de Gant in the same county, The place where they might join is with 
Ralph, father of Robert (probably the elder son), could well have been father of 
William as a younger son.

Parents
DE WILLOUGHBY Ralph (ABT 1160 - AFT 1199)
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Siblings
DE WILLOUGHBY William (ABT 1190 - BEF 1227)

Marriage To DE FULLETBY Maud (ABT 1192 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE FULLETBY William (1170 - )
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Children by DE FULLETBY Maud ABT 1192 - 
DE WILLOUGHBY Robert (ABT 1210 - BEF 21 Feb 1258)

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