Sir William Banastre Knight

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• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
One Thomas Banastre (father or son) in 1288 held a third part of Heath Charnock; [Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 270]. The son Thomas married Joan de Singleton and thus acquired estates in the Fylde; he died in or before 1303; [Final Conc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs, and Ches.), i, 201]. The remainders were to William and Adam Banastre, brothers. The Adam Banastre who raised an insurrection in 1315 was almost certainly son of the younger Thomas. Thus in 1307-8 Sir Adam Banastre gave Sir William Banastre, his brother, a rent of £16 11s. 6½d. from his manors, &c., of Broughton, Salefield, Heath Charnock, Adlington, Duxbury and Shevington; [Dods. MSS. cxlix, fol. 47b].

William Banastre, son of Thomas Banastre, died in or before 1323, holding lands in Singlton, Claughton, &c.[ Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. II, no. 45]. His son, Adam, afterwards Sir Adam, was said to be sixtenn years of age.

~VCH: The History of Lancaster, Vol. VI, pp. 102-108, footnote (14)

• Background Information. ¹³⁸
Sir William Banastre was knight of the shire in parliament for Lancaster in 1305, and held the inheritance of Alice, his wife, a moiety of the town of Claghton in Lancashire. He died in 1323 leaving Adam, afterwards Sir Adam Banastre, his son and heir, then sixteen years old. Sir Adam Banastre died before 1351, leaving, by Peronell or Petronilla, his wife, Sir Thomas Banastre.

~ Memorials of the Order of the Garter, p. 206

William married Alice.