Ketel, Baron of Kendall

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 34:23-24, Gunnilda married Orm, son of Ketel, Baron of Kendal, son of Eldred, the Thane. The son or Orm and Gunnilda was Gospatric, Lord of Workington in Coupland who exchanged his lands with his cousin William Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, son of Gilbert, a Norman Knt. and Godith, daughter of Eldred the Thane, Lord of Workington and sister of Ketel, Baron of Kendal.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 88:23-24, Goditha, daughter of Eldred the Thane of Workington, was the sister of Ketel, third Baron Kendal, husband of Christian, possibly the daughter of Ivo de Tailbois, and second Baron of Kendal. Goditha married Gilbert, a Norman knight, fourth Baron of Kendal in the right of his wife. Goditha and Gilbert were the parents of William I de Lancaster.

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Lancaster.
Ketel's parentage is confirmed by a charter of William of Lancaster to York St Leonard's, confirming a donation by his "avunculus" Ketel fitz Eldred, from which it can be deduced that William's mother was Ketel's sister (assuming that avunculus is interpreted in its strict sense of maternal uncle) [Domesday Descendants, p. 539]. "Chetellus filius Eldred" donated "ecclesiam de Morlund…et ecclesiam de Brounefeld…et ecclesiam de Wirkynton" to St Bees, with the consent of "uxoris mee Christiane et Willelmi filii mei", by undated charter, witnessed by "Cristiana uxore mea , Willelmo filio meo, Archil senescaldo, Yvone filio Forni…" [Wilson, J. (ed.) (1915) The Register of the Priory of St Bees (Durham) ("St Bees"), 212, p. 233. ]. "Chetellus filius Eltred" donated "ecclesiam de Morlund…et ecclesiam de Wirchington" to York St Mary by undated charter, witnessed by "Christiana uxore mea, Willelmo filio meo, Archibaldo senescallo" [Prescott, J. E. (ed.) (1897) The Register of the Priory of Wetherhal (Kendal) ("Wetherhal"), 235, p. 370. ]. "Ranulfus Meschinus filius Willelmi Meschin" confirmed the donation of land "in Wirchintuna" donated by "Chetellus filius Heltredi" to St Bees by undated charter [St Bees, 4, p. 32]. "Chetellus filius Eldred" donated "ecclesiam de Morlund…" to St Bees, with the consent of "uxoris mee Christiane et Willelmi filii mei", by undated charter[St Bees, 212, p. 233]. "Chetellus filius Eltred" donated "ecclesiam de Morlund…et ecclesiam de Wirchington" to York St Mary by undated charter, witnessed by "Christiana uxore mea, Willelmo filio meo, Archibaldo senescallo" [Wetherhal, 235, p. 370].

Ketel, married Christiana.