General Notes

Ralph Boteler m. Maud, dau. and heiress of William Pantulf, by whom he acquired the great lordship of Wemme in the co. of Salop. This feudal baron had divers summonses to attend the king, Henry III, in his wars with the Welsh and, adhering faithfully to that monarch against Simon de Montfort and the revolted barons, he was amply rewarded by grants of land and money from the crown. He was s. at his decease by his son, William Boteler. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 63, Boteler, Barons Boteler, of Oversley and Wemme]