William Peverell 1040-1115

Paternal Family Tree: Peverell

William Peverell and Adeline Unknown were married.

Around 1040 William Peverell was born.

Around 1080 [his son] William "The Younger" Peverell was born to William Peverell [aged 40] and Adeline Unknown. He married in or before 1110 Avicia Taillebois, daughter of William Taillebois and Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick, and had issue.

Around 1090 William Peverell [aged 50] built Peverell Castle.

Chronicon ex Chronicis by Florence and John of Worcester. 1094. The earl [Robert Curthose III Duke Normandy [aged 43]], driven to extremity, brought his suzerain, king Philip, with a French army into Normandy, who laid siege to the castle of Argentan, and on the very day he sat down before it, took seven hundred of the king's knights prisoners, with as many squires, and the whole garrison of the place, without loss of blood. He then returned to France, having given orders that the prisoners should be detained in custody until they paid their respective ransoms. Earl Robert also besieged the castle called Holme, until William Peverel [aged 54] and eight hundred men who defended it surrendered to him. When the king was informed of this, he sent messengers to England with orders that twenty thousand foot soldiers should be levied and despatched to his aid in Normandy. They were mustered at Hastings, in readiness for crossing the sea, but Ralph Passe-Flambard, by the king's command, withheld the pay which had been allotted for their maintenance, at the rate of ten-pence for each man, and gave them orders to return to their homes: the money he remitted to the king. Meanwhile, all England was distressed by heavy and constant taxation, and by a mortality which was very general in this and the following year.

Around 1100 William Peverell [aged 60] was granted Bakewell, Derbyshire [Map] by King Henry I "Beauclerc" England [aged 32]. The Anglo-Saxon Minster was demolished and a new church built.

In or before 1110 [his son] William "The Younger" Peverell [aged 29] and [his daughter-in-law] Avicia Taillebois were married. She the daughter of William Taillebois and Gundred Warenne Countess Warwick.

Around 1115 William Peverell [aged 75] died.

[his daughter] Adeliza Peverell was born to William Peverell and Adeline Unknown. She married Richard Redvers and had issue.

The History of William Marshal, Earl of Chepstow and Pembroke, Regent of England. Book 1 of 2, Lines 1-10152.

The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.

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[his daughter] Maud Peverell was born to William Peverell and Adeline Unknown. She married before 1117 Robert Fitzmartin.

William Peverell 1040-1115

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Royal Descendants of William Peverell 1040-1115
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