Sir William VII Brereton 
Sir William VII was born in Egerton, Cheshire, England. Sir William VII's father was Sir William VI Brereton and his mother was Ellen De Egerton. His paternal grandparents were Sir William V Brereton and Margaret Bosley; his maternal grandparents were Philip "le Large" de Egerton and Ellen St. Pierre. He had a half-brother and three half-sisters, named Sir Randall, Joan, Elizabeth and Alice. He died in 1402 in Hartfleur, France.General Notes
Baron of half of Malpas, lord of Egerton and Brereton
Governor of Caen. Born 14th February 1348/9 at Egerton
baptised at Malpas, Died of "honourable wounds" at Harfleur in 1402.
| Married at Audley, 1386.
Sir William Brereton, of Brereton, married his cousin, Angella (Annilla
or Anylla), daughter of Hugh Venables, Baron of Kinderton, who
died 41st of Edward III, and his wife Agatha, daughter of Sir Ralph
Vernon, Baron of Shipbrooke. This marriage was confirmed by dispensation,
which indulgence states that it was granted in consequence of the
services of his father in the crusade against Henry of Castile, under
Edward, the Black Prince. This William served with great distinction in
the French Wars of Henry V. Chandler, in his Life of Bishop Wainfleet,
speaks of Sir William Brereton, who through his daughter Margery was
grandfather of the founder of Magdalen College. Chandler states Sir
William to have afterwards been Governor of Caen, and to have routed a
numerous army of French near Mont St. Michel, and to have returned
home "with glory and increase of fortune." Sir William died in 4th of
Henry VI, 1425, probably of honourable wounds received at the Battle of
Pontoisan. By his first wife Anylla he had William, Hugh and Matthew
and two daughters, Elizabeth, of whom further, and Margery, wife of
Richard Patten alias Wainfleet. By his 2nd wife, Elena, daughter of Sir
William Massey, he had a son Thomas, rector of Brereton 1433. William
succeeded not only to the Brereton estate, but also in right of his mother
to a share of the Barony of Malpas, which Elena's sister Isabella Delves
had succeeded in wresting from David Malpas, the Bastard. William's
1st wife was related to him in the 4th degree on each side, in consequence
of their mutual descent from Sir Ralph Vernon. This marriage
took place at Audlem in 1386. He held in demesne as of fee one-fourth
and a moiety of a fourth of half the Manor of Malpas, a third of Pickton,
and lands in Wordhull, Crouton, Charleton and Northwick.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1223 in Brereton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1245 in Brereton, Cheshire, England
- b.1 JAN 1199/00 in Brechin, Angusshire, Scotland d.1245
- b.~ 1267 in Brereton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1220 in Sandbach, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1245 in Sandbach, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1287 in Brereton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1203 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.1270
- b.~ 1241 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.> 1325
- b.~ 1221 in Great Budworth, Runcorn, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1269 in Shipbrooke, Cheshire, England d.> 1322
- b.~ 1235 in Dacre, Cumberland, England d.03 May 1286 in Lancaster, England
- b.~ 1250 in Dacre, Cumberland, England
- b.~ 1236 in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1320 in Malpas, Cheshire, England d.~ 1381 in Hartfleur, France
- b.~ 1265
- b.~ 1295
- b.14 FEB 1347/48 in Egerton, Cheshire, England d.1402 in Hartfleur, France
- b.~ 1208 in Egerton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1240 in Egerton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1213 in Thornton, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1277 in Egerton, Cheshire, England
- b.1233 in Wrenbury, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1259 in Wrenbury, Cheshire, England
- b.1235
- b.~ 1295 in Egerton, Cheshire, England
- b.1252 in Crewe, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1278 in Crewe, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1325 in Egerton, Cheshire, England d.> 1379
- b.~ 1240 in Shocklach, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1270 in Shocklach, Cheshire, England d.> 1344
- b.~ 1205 in Malpas, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1250 in Malpas, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1220 in Cyfeiliog, Montgomeryshire, Wales
- b.~ 1300 in Shocklach, Cheshire, England
- b.1226 in Billesley, Warwickshire, England d.> 1287 in Cubbleston, Staffordshire, England
- b.1261 in Cubbleston, Staffordshire, England d.1316
- b.1228 in Alton, Staffordshire, England d.06 Apr 1294
- b.~ 1275 in Cubleston, Stafford, England
- b.~ 1276 in Warmingham, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1260 in Warmingham, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1276 in Aldorf, Cheshire, England
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Sir William VII and Angella were married in a religious ceremony about 1386 in Audley, Cheshire, England. They had six sons and four daughters, named William VIII, Nicholas, Hugh, Matthew, John, Henry, Elizabeth, Margery, Joan and Eleanor.
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