Person:William Stanley (43)

m. Abt 1311
  1. William StanleyAbt 1330 - 1398
  2. John Stanley - Aft 1347
m. 1340
  1. John I Stanley of the Isle of ManAbt 1362 - 1413/14
  2. Sir William de StanleyAbt 1367 - 1428
  3. Alice de Stanley
  4. Matilda de Stanley
  5. Henry de Stanley
  • HWilliam StanleyAbt 1330 - 1398
  1. Jonet Stanley
Facts and Events
Name[1] William Stanley
Alt Name Sir William Stanley, Lord Stanley & Hoot
Alt Name[6] Sir William de Stanlegh
Alt Name[10] Sir William de Stanley, Knt.
Gender Male
Alt Birth? 1311 Citation needed
Alt Birth? Abt 1312 Storeton, Cheshire, EnglandCitation needed
Alt Birth? Abt 1319 Storeton, Cheshire, EnglandCitation needed
Alt Birth? 1322 Storeton, Cheshire, EnglandCitation needed
Birth? Abt 1330 Storeton, Cheshire, EnglandCitation needed
Marriage 1340 London, Middlesex, Englandto Alice de Mascy
Alt Marriage Abt 1347 Timperley, Cheshire, Englandto Alice de Mascy
Marriage to Unknown
Residence[10] Storeton, Cheshire, England
Alt Death[8] Aft 1362
Death[3] 1398 Kinver, Staffordshire, EnglandStourton Castle
Alt Death[10] Jun 1398

William de Stanley; Lord of the Manor of Stourton etc, HereditaryForester Wirral Forest 1361/2, Allegedly married Alice, daughter of HughMassey/de Masci (see prior generation), of Timperley, and sister of SirHamon Massey/de Masci, of Dunham Massey. [Burke's Peerage]


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WILLIAM DE STANLEY, son and heir; forester of Wirral Forest; in 1346 he was granted a pardon at the request of Henry, Earl of Lancaster and Derby; in 1355 he, with many others, was accused of an attack on the Abbey of Burton-upon-Trent; in 1359, with his son William, he entered into a recognisance; in 1361-62 he successfully claimed the hereditary forestership of Wirral Forest. He is said to have married Alice, daughter of Hamon (or Hugh) DE MASCY of Timperley. [Complete Peerage XII/1:247,(transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

References
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  2.   Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999 (21)
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  3. Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 (21)
    815.
  4.   Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2000
    XII/1:247.
  5.   William de Stanley, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  6. Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    Volume 3 page 577.
  7.   Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (1905)
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  8. WILLIAM de Stanley, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
  9.   Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    Vol. 2, p. 415.

    Ormerod/Helsby inserts a generation: William de Stanlegh, the father of this William and son of John de Stanlegh and (qy) Mabel dau. of sir James Hausket of Storeton Parva, knt.:

    "William de Stanlegh, son of John de Stanley, Forester of Wirral, claimant of the master-forestership, in a plea to a quo warranto before Jordan de Macclesfield, Justice in Eyre for Cheshire, living 21-22 Edw.3."

  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880)
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  11.   Brydges, Egerton. Collins's peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical, greatly augmented, and continued to the present time. (London: [T. Bensley], 1812)
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