William Peverell

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
William Peverel, the younger, one of the principal supportors of King Stephen, was a commander at the Battle of the Standard and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lincoln. His estates were forfeited for a time, and his castle of Nottingham was committed by The Empress Maud to William Paynel. He recovered it in 1143. His wives were Odonna and Avice de Lancaster, who was presumably a daughter of Count Roger the Poitevin (cognomine Pictaviensis), Lord of the honor of Lancaster, by his wife Aumodis, Countess of La Marche. He had a son Henry, and a daughter, Margaret, eventually, or in her issue, his heir, and a wife of Robert, Earl of Ferrières.

About March 1152/3 Henry, Duke of Normandy (the future King Henry II) and count of Anjou, by a charter expedited at Devizes, formulated what he was prepared to give to Ranulf de Gernon, the Earl of Chester, as the price of his support, even to the half of the kingdom, but yet no inconsiderable portion of it. Nine months afterwards, in Dec. 1153, the Earl died, poisoned, as men said, by William Peverel.

Shortly after his accession to the throne, King Henry II visited Nottinghamshire, in order, as the annalists state, to disinherit William Peverel for having poisoned the, but more probably to punish him for what had previously been termed his wickedness and treason. William, on The King's approach, retired to one of his religious foundations where he became a monk. The honor of Peverel remained in the Crown for nearly half a century.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, Appendix I, pp. 762-765

William first married Oddona.

William married Avice of Lancaster, daughter of Roger "The Poitevin" de Montgomery and Almodis comtesse de la Marche.¹²⁴ (Avice of Lancaster was born about 1088 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England and died after 1149.)