William Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Warrington

Biography

From http://cybergata.com/roots/3569.htm

Sir William le Boteler, son of Henry and Isabel Boteler, was born about 1275, and succeeded his grandfather as the Eight Baron of Warrington in about 1304. In a charter of 1305, the first mention of a bridge over the Mersey at Warrington is mentioned. This charter shows that Sir William took steps to keep Warrington healthy.

Sir William's name appears on many deeds and grants in the years that followed until the end of 1328. In one such deed for 1320, we are given the name of his wife to be Sibilla as both she and William were listed as complainants. He also recieved a command from the king on 26 Oct 1309 to hasten to York with other to the assistance of the Scottish marchers.

The children of William Fitz Henry le Boteler and his wife Sibilla were:

• William, his eldest, and the next Baron of Warrington
• Mathew, who was given Crophill
• Eda, who married William Trussell, a judge who on 29 Jan 1326, renounced, on behalf of the parliament, the nation's allegiance to Edward II.
• Maud, married to Sir John Trussell

~The Annals of the Lords of Warrington, pp. 133-144, 159-160

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boteler-151

William le Boteler, son and heir of Henry (who dvp) and grandson and heir of William le Boteler, of Warrington, co. Lancaster, (who was Sheriff of Lancaster 1258-59 and Governor of Lancaster Castle), succeeded his grandfather in 1280, and 14 June 1294 was summoned to attend the King in the French wars in Gascony, and was summoned to Parliament 23 June 1295, 26 Aug 1295, and 6 Feb 1298/9 by writs directed Willelmo le Butiller and Willelmo le Botiller de Werington, whereby he may be held to have become LORD LE BOTILLER. In 1305-06 he was in the expedition to Scotland. He d. abt 1328. His widow Sibyl and his son William were living in 1330.

[The accounts of his issue are extremely contradictory, but none of his descendants (who were settled at Warrington, Bewsey, and elsewhere, co. Lancaster) appear to have been summoned to Parliament.]

[Complete Peerage, II:230]

Honors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Boteler

Baron Boteler (sometimes modernly Baron Butler or Baron Botiler) was a title that was created three times in the Peerage of England.

The first barony, Baron Boteler, of Warrington, was created by writ on 23 June 1295 for William le Boteler. It became extinct on his death circa 1328.[1]

Barons Boteler; First creation (1295)
William Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Warrington (died c. 1328)

1. Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant. Vol. 2. London: The St. Catherine Press. p. 230.

References

1. Pedigree of Butler of Bewsy from William Flower's Visitation of Lancashire in 1567 < image >