Sir William de Courcy
- Born: Abt 1105, Stogursey, Williton, Somerset, England
- Marriage: Amice de Rumilly 141
- Died: Abt 1130, Irby, Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England about age 25 141
Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 141 Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Chart, "Lisle of Rougemont & Lisle of Kinston), Vol. VIII, between pages 48 & 49:
Richard de Curcy of Newham, Oxon. Robert de Romeli, lord of Harewood | | William de Curcy, sewer of Henry I William de Meschines* = Cicely de Rumelli | | William de Curcy II = Avice or Amice de Rumelli | Henry de Cornhill = Alice de Curcy |
*William was brother of Ranulph Earl of Chester Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, p. 319:
Ralph Paynel, sheriff of Yorkshire in 1088, married, as his second wife, Avice, widow of William de Curcy, and daughter and coheir of William Meschin, by Cecily de Rumilly, by whom he had a daughter named Alice.
• Background Information. 1341 Richard's English estates passed to his younger son William (I), [Chron. Mon. de Abingdon (Rolls Ser.), ii. 52] the king's Steward and an admirer and benefactor of Abbot Faritius and his monastery at Abingdon. By his marriage with Emma, the daughter and coheir of William de Falaise of Stogursey (Som.), William acquired large estates in several counties and an important position in the feudal hierarchy: he held his honor of Stogursey by the service of 25¼ knights [Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), i. 224]. He was dead by 1130 and had been succeeded by his son William (II) de Courcy, who was probably dead by 1155, and by his grandson William (III) de Courcy, whose younger brother John conquered Ulster [Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. lxvi. 104-6].
'Parishes: Nuneham Courtenay', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5, pp. 234-249.
William married Amice de Rumilly, daughter of William le Meschines and Cecily de Rumilly.130 (Amice de Rumilly died about 1179.)
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