Guillaume, seigneur de Vernon

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, "Vernon of Shipbrook Pedigree, Vol. III" p. 252, begins the family with William, Lord of Vernon in Normandy who had two sons, Richard de Vernon and Walter de Vernon.
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  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷⁵²
This family is descended from the Lords of Vernon, in the duchy of Normandy. Their common ancestor, William de Vernon, assumed his surname from the town and district of Vernon, whereof he was sole proprietor, annon 1052. He founded and richly endowed the collegiate and parochial church of St. Mary, in Vernon, for a Dean and Secular Canons, and lies interred there, under an altar monyment, whereon is his effigies.

He had two sons, Ricahrd and Walter, both who came to England with William the Conqueror. The younger, Walter obtained the Lorships of Winfleton, Nesse, Ledsame and Preston, in Cheshire; Hertwell, Adestock and Plact-Merton, in Bucks, and had a shire in his father's possessions in Normandy; but dying without issue, they descended to his elder brother, Richard de Vernon, Lord of Vernon.

~Collin's Peerage of England, Vol. 7, p. 648

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Richard de Reviers, Seigneur de Reviers, Vernon, and Néhou, in Normandy. His parentage is unknown, but he has been conjectured to be son and heir of William de Vernon. In a charter of Henry I to the canons of Breamore, it appears that Richard's son, Baldwin, had an Uncle Hugh, who may be the Hugh de Redeveris mentioned in a memorandum of La Trinité at Caen. Also the Hugh mentioned as son of William de Vernon in a document in the cartulary of La Trinité de Rouen, signed by William Vernoneniss and Emma his wife. In the register of Carisbrooke [Monasticon, vol. Vii, p. 1041] it is said that Richard de Reviers was nepos of William Fitz Osborn, after whose death, the Isle of Wight was inherited by Richard de Reviers because William Fitz Osborn's two sons had died without issue. Richard de Reviers may have been the son of William de Vernon by Emma, sister of William Fitz Osborn. William of Jumièges states that a nice of Gunnor, the wife of Duke Richard was married to Osmund de Centumvillis, Vicomté de Vernon, and was the mother of the first Fulk de Aneio and of the mother of the first Baldwin de Reviers.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, (Devon), p. 310, footnote (a)

Guillaume, married Emma Fitz Osbern, daughter of Osbern de Crépon Seigneur de Breteuil and Emma d’Irvy. (Emma Fitz Osbern was born in Normandy, France.)