Sir William de Berners

Sir William Berners held lands in Islington before 1220, when his widow Beatrice claimed from William's son Sir Ralph Berners, of Berners Roding (Essex), a third of her husband's free lands in Islington, and Sir Ralph was summoned to acquit the service which William had owed the bishop for a free tenement there.

Islington: Manors, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8, Islington and Stoke Newington Parishes (1985)

Their son William and his wife Beatrice, daughter of Ralph Swynburne, held Berwick Berners in Essex in 1166. - William paid 10s out of his debt of 20s into the Norman Exchequer as pledge for Osbert de Maisoncel. - John fil. Beners John Berners, Walter and William de Berneriis and Hugh pay taxes into the Norman Exchequer in 1180 (V.1) . In 1194 Warin Starkemere burnt his mother's farm at Barleston held of William Berners, and fled (CRR).

Persons Involved in The Sale of Knelle Manor: Dallingridge, Knightly Families