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Birth:          ABT 1104 Cumberland, England
Death:          Kendal, Westmorland, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Lancaster_I
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I04634
Gilbert, 4th Baron Kendal, son of Ketel, Baron Kendal, son of Eldred, Baron Kendal. 
[Ancestral Roots, line 34-24]

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The following is a post to SGM, 2 Oct 1998, by Nigel Barker (explains why I originally 
had Eldred as son of Ivo de Taillebois):

From: Nigel Barker (nigel AT a6law.demon.co.uk)
Subject: Re: Ivo and Lucy Talybois
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 1998/10/02

I set out some further information which may assist this matter -
another doubtful Charter of a Religeous House, with partisan views, may
be distorting proper genealogy!
>
VICTORIA HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE
VOL I pp35>

.Notes from passage on the family of Lancaster, Barons of Kendal

[The origin of the family is obscure.]

[Small landholder within the Barony of Coupland.]

[Granted land by William Meschine when he was granted his fief by Henry I.]

"The first recorded member is little mentioned beyond the bare fact that his name was 
Gilbert and his wife's name was Godith (Lancs Fines Rec Soc XXXIX 61). To this the 
monkish chroniclers have added the fiction that he was the son of Ketel, son of 
Eldred, son of Ivo Taillebois (Mon Angl iii 553 & Cockersands Cartulary, Chethem Soc 
(New Series) xxxix 305), whereas he was almost, if not quite, contemporary with Ivo, 
by whom Gilbert and his predecessor was probably enffeoffed of those manors within 
the Barony of Westmoreland which his descendants, the barons of Kendal, where 
chief lords. (Gilbert fitz Reinford & Helewise his wife confirmed some of Ivo's grants to 
the Abbey of St. Mary, York (Mon Ang iii 566))

The connection which existed between the heirs of Ketel, son of Eldred, namely the 
Curwens of Workington, and the Lancasters, of whom the former held several manors 
in Cumberland and Westmoreland, was probably of tenure rather than consanguinity. 
Intimately connected with this subject is a charter, of which an ancient transcript is 
preserved at Levens Hall, by which Roger de Mawbury grants to William son of Gilbert 
de Lancaster,in fee and inheritance, "all my land of Lonsdale, and of Kendal, and 
Horton in Ribblesdale, to hold by the service of 4 knights (Reg of Deeds at Levens 
Hall f79, Lancs Pipe Reg 389). It would be interesting to discuss the question as to 
whether this charter represents an original grant or merely a confirmation of a much 
older infeudation.

William son of Gilbert was the first to be enfeoffed of land in Lancaster. In 1212 he is 
described as "Willelmus filiuus Gibberti premus". He is not always described as "de 
Lancaster" for which it may be inferred that he was the first of his line to be 
associated with the Court and its Lords. The Mon. Chronicle to which allusion has 
already been made tells us that he caused himself to be called "de Lancaster" by the 
King's Licence, and to be styled before the King in Parliament (sic) "William de 
Lancaster, Baron Kendal". The same Chronicle states that he married Gundreda, 
formerly Countess of Warwick, whose husband, Roger de Newburgh, died in 1153.

William de Lancaster died in or after 1170.

Et seq.

Nigel Barker

Parents
OF KENDAL Ketel (Kettel) (Chetell) (ABT 1055 - AFT 1120)
DE TAILLEBOIS Christina (AFT 1086 - )

Siblings
DE LANCASTER Gilbert (ABT 1104 - )

Marriage To DE TAILLEBOIS Goditha (ABT 1106 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE TAILLEBOIS William (ABT 1077 - )
____ Margaret (ABT 1080 - )

Children by DE TAILLEBOIS Goditha ABT 1106 - 
DE LANCASTER William (ABT 1124 - 1170)

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