William 1St Baron Le BOTELER, OF WEMME, SIR

                   Name Suffix: Of Wemme, Sir
William Boteler, in the 24th Edward I [1296],was in ward to Walter de Langton, lord treasurer of England, and Walter de Beauchamp, of Alcester, steward of the king's household. This feudal lord obtaining renown in the Scottish wars of the period, was summoned to parliament as a Baron from 10 March, 1308, to 10 October, 1325. His lordship m. Ankeret, dau. of Griffin, and had an only son, William, his successor. He m. 2ndly, Ela, dau. and co-heiress of Roger de Herdeburgh, by whom he had two sons, Edmund and Edward, who both died issueless, and four daus., viz., Ankeret, m. to John, Lord Strange, of Blackmere; Ida, m. to Wm. Trussell; Alice, m. to Nicholas Langford; Dionyse, m. to Hugh de Cokesey. He d. in 1334, and was s. by his eldest son, William Boteler, 2nd Baron Boteler. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 63, Boteler, Barons Boteler, of Oversley and Wemme]

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NOTE: There is an error here in Burke, for he states that William married Ankeret, dau. of Griffin, whereas Ankeret was, in fact, William's mother, not his wife. Burke states, regardingWilliam's father, "William Boteler, who, in the lifetime of his father, had m.Ankaret, niece of James de Auldithley." These two Ankaret's are one in the same person, for she was the daughter of Gruffydd ap Madog by Emma de Audley, sister of James of Aldithley. I have changed my records to indicate the wife of William, the son, is Beatrice, as found on CD100, Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees #1, the reference for which is given as NCP II :320-3.