William de Mandeville
William de Mandeville (died before 1130)[1] was an Anglo-Norman baron and Constable of the Tower of London.
Life[edit]
William de Mandeville inherited the estates of his father Geoffrey de Mandeville, the Domesday tenant-in-chief, around 1100.[2] He was Constable of the Tower of London at that time,[3] and thus keeper of the first person known to be imprisoned there for political reasons, Ranulf Flambard. Flambard's escape in February 1101 would have significant consequences for William.[4]
It is not known if William was in some way complicit in the escape of Flambard, or was simply a careless keeper. Regardless, as a punishment, in 1103 Henry I confiscated the three richest of William's Essex estates, Sawbridgeworth, Saffron Walden, and Great Waltham, comprising about a third of his entire holdings, as well as the constableship giving them to Eudo Dapifer, William’s father-in-law.[5][6] Little is known of William's activities after this.
William married Margaret, daughter of Eudo FitzHubert (Dapifer)[7] and Rohese de Clare. Widowed, Margaret married secondly Othuer fitz Earl (d. 1120), illegitimate son of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester.[6][8] William and Margaret's son Geoffrey de Mandeville would recover the seized estates and the constableship during the reign of King Stephen.[5]
Family[edit]
- Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex (d. 1144)[4][9]
- Beatrice de Mandeville (d. 19 Apr. 1197), married William de Say (d. Aug. 1144).[10] Their granddaughter Beatrice de Say took some of the Mandeville inheritance to her husband, Geoffrey fitz Peter.
References[edit]
- ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, Vol. V (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1926), p. 113
- ^ K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 227
- ^ Ronald Sutherland Gower, The Tower of London, Vol. ii (George Bell & Sons, 1902), p. 179
- ^ a b J. H. Round, Geoffrey de Mandeville, (Longmans, Green, 1892), p. 37
- ^ a b C. Warren Hollister, Henry I, Editor Amanda Clark Frost (Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2003), p. 173
- ^ a b Nicholas Vincent, 'Warin and Henry fitz Gerald, the King’s Chamberlains: The Origins of the FitzGeralds Revisited,' Anglo-Norman Studies 21 (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1999) pp. 223-260
- ^ "Unfortunately, this service is no longer available | University of Essex".
- ^ K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, I Domesday Book, (Boydell Press, 1999) p. 194
- ^ George Edward Cokayne,The Complete Peerage, Vol. V (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1926). pp. 113-16
- ^ George Edward Cokayne,The Complete Peerage, Vol. XI (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1949). pp. 464-5