General Notes

In the reign of the 1st Henry, Ralph Boteler, so called from holding the office of butler to Robert Earl of Mellent and Leicester, seated himself at Oversley, co. Warwick, where he erected a strong castle and, at a mile distant, founded a monastery for Benedictine monks (anno 1140, and 5th Stephen). This Ralph was s. by his son, Robert Boteler. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, pp. 62-63, Boteler, Barons Boteler, of Oversley and Wemme]