Early Life
William was born c. 1170, to
William FitzGodric and
Aubrey de Lisours.
From
Baildon1:
1211, Michaelmas Term. — William son of William son of Godric claimed a carucate of land in Hopton against Alexander de Crevequer; he said that Ketelborn, his ancestor, was seised thereof on the day of the death of King Henry, the King's grandfather [December 1, 1135], and from Ketelborn it descended to Godric, and from Godric to William, and from William to the plaintiff, his son. Alexander put himself on the great assize, whether he had the better right to hold the land in demesne, or William to hold it of him. The case had not been tried by Trinity Term 1213. Alexander de Crevequer must have died soon afterwards, and the suit was continued against his grandson and coheir, Alexander de Neville...
1218-9, February 9. — Fine between William FitzWilliam, plaintiff, and Alexander de Neville, tenant, of a carucate of land in Hopton, which William admitted to be the right of Alexander. Alexander granted to William one third of it, to hold to William and his heirs, of Alexander and his heirs, doing forinsec4 service only, and also all his claim to the advowson of a fourth part of the church of Heton [Kirkheaton]. William released all his right to a carucate of land in Mirefeud [Mirrield], belonging to a messuage lying to the north of the castle of Mirefeud, which he had claimed against Alexander in the Constable of Chester's Court at Pontefract.
Footnotes
[1] Baildon and the Baildons, a History of a Yorkshire Manor and Family, by W Paley Baildon, Volume 1, page 350
[2] A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New Edition), by Sir John Bernard Burke, London, 1866. Warren, Earls of Surrey, p. 569
[3] Stemmata Robertson et Durdin, by Herbert Robertson, London 1893-95, page 156
[4]
forinsec: Describing the service owed to the superior of one's feudal lord. Obligations under feudal law, including military service, the supply of labour and certain payments.
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