William de Arden, of Radbourne

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Arden-134

William I. de Arden functioned as steward to Waleran, earl of Warwick. [1]

Professor Peter Coss has written:

Contemporary with Thomas de Arden I was William de Arden of Radbourne. According to both Dugdale and the 1619 pedigree, William was a younger son of Henry de Arden and hence brother to Thomas. He had appears at Radbourne as early as 1194 when he was party to a fine, by which time Thomas who first appears in 1185, may not have long succeeded his father. It is clear that a subordinate tenure of some sort had been created for William. He and his descendants made substantial benefactions at Radbourne to the of Combe.[2]
In a footnote he however adds:

Some doubt has been cast on this on the grounds that Henry did indeed have a son William, at one time his heir, but that he predeceased him, and it has been suggested rather that William of Radbourne was a younger son of Thomas (Book of Seals, No. 502n.).
The editorial remarks in Hatton's Book of seals were by Lewis Loyd and Doris Stenton. In the collection is a charter where Henry clearly names William his son and heir, which obviously contrast with the status of his descendants. They point out that William's son William speaks of the consent of his lord Thomas of Arden in a charter from Combe. Among historians who accept that William of Radbourne must be a son of Thomas is Watson, in his edition of the Kenilworth cartulary.

It is certain that William's main son and heir was also named William.

The main Dugdale pedigree of Arden shows William having two sons Thomas Arden and William Arden.[3] In the 1619 visitation of Warwick, William has sons William and Michael instead.[4]

Arden, (Dugdale, 1656)

Sources

1. Coss, Peter R. Lordship, Knighthood and Locality: A Study in English Society, c.1180-1280. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, p. 191. [1]
2. Peter R. Coss, Lordship, Knighthood and Locality, p.191.
3. Arden Pedigree Chart from Dugdale, The Antiquities of Warwickshire, 2nd ed., vol 2, p.925.
4. Camden, William (1551-1623) The visitation of the county of Warwich in the year 1619, p.178
5. Northamptonshire Past and Present, 2007, #60, article by Arden, Douglas, Knights Disinterred: The Lost Ardens of Northamptonshire 1234-1370, page 11, pedigree chart p.12, 13 Thomas Arden III, http://www.northamptonshirerecordsociety.org.uk/eNpp/NppNo60.pdf
6. Also see: Wikipedia:Arden family