William de Courcy

  General Notes:

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Chart, "Lisle of Rougemont & Lisle of Kinston), Vol. VIII, between pages 48 & 49, William de Curcy, sewer of Henry I, was the son of Richard de Curcy of Newenham, Oxon and the father of another William de Curcy who married Amice de Rumelli. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• 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 Emma de Falaise, daughter of Guillaume de Falaise and Geva de Burci.¹³⁴¹