William de Vesci

WILLIAM DE VESCY, brother and heir, was born 19 September 1245. In the Barons' War he was supporting Simon de Montfort, April 1264, being then of Caythorpe, co. Lincoln; and in June 1265 he, with Robert de Ros, tried unsuccessfully to hold Gloucester against Prince Edward

Having no surviving legitimate male issue and in order to secure a patrimony for his bastard son, he, by fine, 12 November 1295, conveyed his Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and Northumberland estates, including Alnwick, to Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, who by a further fine, 20 January 1295/6, re-granted those in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire to William for life, with remainder to William, his illegitimate son, and his heirs, whom failing, to the right heirs of William first named, which grant was confirmed by the King, 16 February 1296/7. On the same date (20 January 1295/6) the Bishop regranted Alnwick, &c., to William and the heirs of his body, with remainder to the grantor. William served in Gascony under the King's brother Edmund and the Earl of Lincoln in 1296, but was invalided home towards the end of that year. On 18 February 1296/7 he surrendered his castle and liberty of Kildare to the King, on condition of his and his brother's debts to the Exchequer being forgiven, and he was re-granted Kildare, but for life only, 22 June 1297. He was again summoned for service overseas, 15 May 1297.

He married, after 25 July 1266, Isabel, widow of Sir Robert DE WELLE (died shortly before 24 September 1265), 2nd daughter and coh. of Adam DE PERITON (died shortly before 24 February 1265/6), of Ellington, Northumberland, Faxton, co. Northampton, and Rampisham, Dorset, probably by Sarah. He died s.p.s. legitimate 19 July 1297 at Malton, aged 51, when any Barony which may be supposed to have been created by the writ of 1295 became extinct. His widow died shortly before 5 January 1314/5. [Complete Peerage XII/2:281-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

NOTE:

“died s.p.s. legitmate" above indicates that he had one or more legitimate children, but they died without issue before he died; and it also implies that he had illegitimate children. Curt Hofeman indicates in a post-em that he had a son John who died without issue 27 Apr 1295 (only a few months before his father). In another post-em Curt indicates that William had an illegitimate son William, who was himself successful and became a Baron (by legal definition) in his own right, but died without issue at the Battle of Bannockburn, 24 Jun 1314; so his Barony also became extinct.

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