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Birth:          ABT 1255 Ashperton, Hertfordshire, England
Death:          27 Jun 1335 Lambourn, Berkshire, England
Burial:         Dore Abbey, Sussex, England

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I09166
BARONY OF GRANDISON (I)

SIR WILLIAM DE GRANDISON, of Ashperton, co. Hereford, &c., younger brother of 
Otes DE GRANDISON, was in the service of Edmund, Earl of Lancaster. On 4 
November 1288 he had letters of protection when remaining in Wales in order to fortify 
the castle of Carnarvon, and was still there 6 November 1289, taking the place of his 
brother, Otes de Grandison. On 3 May 1292 he had licence to strengthen his house of 
Ashperton with a wall of stone and lime and to crenellate it. He was excepted from 
military service in Gascony in 1294, in which year he appears as governor of Jersey 
and Guernsey for his brother. He was summoned to Carlisle for Military Service 26 
September (1298). He was summoned to Parliament from 6 February 1298/9 to 10 
October 1325, by writs directed Willelmo de Grandisono, whereby he is held to have 
become LORD GRANDISON; and was present at a meeting of Parliament, 5 April 1305 
at the house of his brother, Otes de Grandison, Archbishop of York, in Westminster. 
He was summoned again for Military Service and to various Councils from 7 May 1299 
to 21 March 1332/3. He was in Gascony with Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, before 1 
January 1295/6, when his lands were restored to him, seized by the Crown on an order 
to take all lands, &c., of alien laymen of the power of France, but William de 
Grandison was still in the King's faith. He was present at the siege of Carlaverock in 
July 1300. He was summoned to the Coronation of Edward II, 18 January 1307/8. On 
23 February 1309/10 he had letters of protection on going beyond the seas. In 1318 
the Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem complained that William de 
Grandison and Piers, his son, and Otes, brother of Piers, and others had broken into 
his houses at Dartford in Kent and robbed and assaulted, to which accusation there 
was a counterclaim by William de Grandison that there had been theft of his goods 
there. Having been summoned for Military Service in 1322, he did not attend the 
muster, and his lands were seized; but the absence being due to severe illness, 
licence was given him to remain at home for the more speedy restoration of his health, 
provided that he sent at least 6 men-at-arms for the expedition. He had letters of 
protection going to Ireland 16 June 1327, and on 20 September 1329 had respite of 
homage till Easter following, as the King had learnt that he was so infirm and aged 
that he was unable to come. He was, however, summoned, 12 July 1332, to be with 
the King at Michaelmas and take passage to Ireland on the expedition there.

He married, in or before 1285, Sibyl, younger daughter and coheir of Sir John 
TREGOZ, of Ewyas Harold, &c. [LORD TREGOZ], by his 1st wife, Mabel, daughter of 
Sir Fulk FITZWARIN. On 26 November 1300 it was ordered that the lands of Sir John 
Tregoz should be divided between William de Grandison and his wife and the other 
coheir, they having done homage. The partition took place 21 December 1300 by 
mutual assent, but, after petitions concerning the knights' fees of Ewyas Harold, a 
final partition was made 29 October 1302. His wife died 21 October 1334, and was 
buried at Dore Abbey. He died 27 June 1335, and was presumably also buried at Dore 
Abbey. [Complete Peerage VI:60-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Note: CP doesn't mention any previous marriage to Blanche Savoie here, except in 
note (i), but does in volume I:418. In note (i) VI:61-2, CP gives evidence of a previous 
marriage of William (with two sons) to an unnamed wife, who I suppose is the Blanche 
de Savoie mentioned in I:418 as mother of one of the daughters Agnes.

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Note: Since CP refers to brother Otes, who has the information on the ancestry of 
William & Otes, I include part of the CP article for Otes (who also became a Baron and 
lived in Westminster) below:

SIR OTES DE GRANDISON was most probably son and heir. of Pierre DE GRANSON, 
SEIGNEUR DE GRANSON on the Lake of Neufchâtel, by Agnes, daughter of Ulric, 
COMTE DE NEUFCHATEL, a grandson of Ebal IV, SEIGNEUR DE GRANSON (b).

(b) Pedigrees differ, sometimes his father being given as Guillaume and sometimes 
Pierre. On the other hand, M.L. de Charriere (whose work seems to be the most 
authentic), in 'Les Dynastes de Grandison', gives Amadee Seigneur de Granson (d. 
1300), as father of Otes and William de Grandison, by his wife Benoite de la Tour de 
Gerenstein. The last "piece justicative" of this work is of date 1258 and there is no 
actual authority for the statement, without which it is almost impossible to overlook the 
fact of the entry in the Grandison breviary [in which William's (probably this William's) 
mother is said to be Agnes].

Note: Playing it safe, I am going with M.L. de Charriere's ancestry. It has Pierre and 
Agnes as grandparents.

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William de Grandison (younger brother of Sir Otho de Grandison, secretary to King 
Edward I, and afterwards Lord Grandison), being originally a menial servant to 
Edmund, Earl of Lancaster, obtained from that prince, in consideration of his own 
faithful services and the services of his ancestors, a grant of the manors of Radley 
and Menstreworth, co. Gloucester. In the 20th Edward I [1292], he procured license to 
make a castle of his house at Asperton, co. Hereford, and in two years afterwards he 
was in the expedition made into Gascony, where he continued for some time and, 
while so engaged, was summoned to parliament as a baron. He was afterwards 
engaged in the Scottish wars.

His lordship m. Sibilla, youngest dau. and fo-heiress of Sir John de Tregoz, and upon 
partition of the lands of that inheritance, acquired the manors of Burnham, co. 
Somerset, and Eton, in Herefordshire. He had issue by this lady, viz., Peter, John, 
Otho, Mabella, Katherine, and Agnes. His lordship d. before 1335 and was s. by his 
eldest son, Peter de Grandison, 2nd baron. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, 
Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 242, 
Grandison, Barons Grandison]

Parents
____ Amadee (Amadeus) (1229 - 1300)
DE GERENSTEIN Beoite de la Tour (ABT 1230 - )

Siblings
DE GRANDSON (GRANDISON) William (ABT 1255 - 27 Jun 1335)

Marriage To DE SAVOY Blanche (ABT 1267 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by DE SAVOY Blanche ABT 1267 - 
DE GRANDSON (GRANDISON) Agnes (ABT 1285 - 11 Dec 1357)

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