William le Scot

  General Notes:

This Calverley Pedigree is based on The Calverley Charters, Presented to the British Museum, by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet, Vol. I, Notes on the Pedigree, Introduction, pgs. Xxix to lxvi. ¹⁵¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵¹
The traditional Calverley pedigree usually begins with John le Scot who came to England with Empress Maud, who was married to Henry I, King of England. John is supposed to have married Larderina. There may have been a person by the name of Scot who came from the north and married and gained property in Yorkshire, but there is nothing to prove that a John le Scot or Larderina really existed.

The Doomsday Survey entry for of the land that is part of the Calverley manor show it belonging to a person named Archil during the reign of Edward the Confessor, and that after the Conquest, this manor was part of the Lacy Fee. Archil held some of the Yorkshire property along with his son Gospatric, and it is possible that the first of the Scots' family married a heiress of this land as according to the legend of the Calverley pedigree.

The tradition pedigree gives John Scot with a son also named John Scot who married a daughter of Sir John Lutrell of Hutton Paynell, and was to have had six sons, William, Walter, John, Christopher, Jordan and Robert. None of this is supported by evidence, with the exception of three of John II's alleged sons.

William Scot of Calverley, the alleged son of John II is the first family member who can be found in documented evidence. He was "Wilelmus Scottus" who paid a fine of 40s in Morley Wapentake in 1165/66 [Pipe Roll, 12 Henry II]. Taking in account the birth of his great-great grandson John, in 1239, is likely that William Scot could not have been born any later than 1140, and more likely earlier than 1140. William Scot gave the church of Calverley to Roger, Archbishop of York (1154-1181). This shows that William was the lord of the manor of Calverley, and the church would be part of the manor.
~The Calverley Charters, Presented to the British Museum, by Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet, Vol. I, Notes on the Pedigree