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Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Sir William FitzThomas

Male Abt 1235 - 1294  (~ 23 years)

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  • Name William FitzThomas 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Abt 1235 
    Death Between 1258 and 1294  [1] 
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2021 

    Father Sir Thomas FitzWilliam, of Emley and Sprotborough
              b. Abt 1200  
              d. Aft 1265 (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Agnes Bertram
              b. Est 1215 

    Wife Agnes Metham
              b. Between 1219 and 1244 
    Children 
     1. Sir William FitzWilliam, of Emley and Sprotborough
              b. Abt 1265  
              d. Between 12 Apr 1340 and 1342 (Age ~ 75 years)
    Last Modified 4 Oct 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      William FitzThomas was probably born in the 1230s. His parents were Thomas FitzWilliam and Agnes Bertram.

      Family Life
      William married Agnes Metham, daughter of Sir John Metham (the two places I have seen this mentioned is in Baildon1 and in Extinct Northern Peerages3). Stemmata2 suggests that William married twice, first to Agnes Grey, daughter of Richard Grey, Lord Grey of Codron (as also stated in Burke's Peerage, but not in Burke's Extinct Peerage) and secondly to Agnes Metham, but that the marriage with Agnes Metham had no issue.

      On this issue, there's a salient post at soc.genealogy.medieval from John P Ravilious on the 30th May 2007:
      In reviewing possible evidence concerning the FitzWilliams and a long alleged Metham marriage, I found the charter of William fitz William (1331) to Hanepole priory to be interesting initially in that the abbreviated witness list includes "domino Johanne de Eland, Rogero de Novo-mercato, Thoma de Metham, militibus, &c." .

      Also interesting, the portion of this charter confirming a grant by the first William fitz William, son of Aubrey de Lisours (and great-grandfather of the grantor in 1331), mentions the confirmation by that William of his mother's grant of the church of Athewyks, and of annual of rents from Plumtree for use in maintaining the supply of oil for lamps to light the area around the tomb of his late wife Matilda, or Maud: "Insuper inspexi cartam Willielmi filii Willielmi, filii et haeredis praedictae Albredae de Lisours, testantem quod idem Willielmus filius Willielmi confirmavit donationem matris suae Albredae,..... ad oleum emendum, ut lampas una, nocte dieque indesinenter sit ardens ad tumbam Matildis quondam uxoris suae."


      Death
      He was dead in 1294 when his will was proved.

      Footnotes
      [1] Baildon and the Baildons, a History of a Yorkshire Manor and Family, by W Paley Baildon, Volume 1, page 353
      [2] Stemmata Robertson et Durdin, by Herbert Robertson, London 1893-95, page 156
      [3] FitzWilliam, p76; Extinct and Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England, John William Clay, London (1913)

  • Sources 
    1. [S0454] W Paley Baildon, Baildon and the Baildons, a History of a Yorkshire Manor and Family, Chapter 11; Fitzwilliams of Emley and Sprotborough, of Volume 1, pages 343+.