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  SIR WILLIAM DE PLUMPTON
  Sir William de Plumpton, of Plumpton, d. 1362; m. (1) c 1330, Alice, daughter of Sir Henry Byaufiz (mar. sett. 1322). Her property did not go to the Plumptons, but to a distant cousin, so Alice was not her daughter; m. (2) by 1338, Christianna Mowbray, widow of Richard de Emildon, d. 1333. [Ancestral Roots] -------- Sir William de Plumpton, Knt., of Plumpton, keeper of Knaresborough Forest 1332, knighted 1340, Knight of the shire 1350, High Sheriff of Yorkshire 1351; m. (1) c 1330, Alice de Swillington; m. (2) c 1338, Christian Mowbray, d. 1365, widow of Richard de Emildon, alderman of New Castle. [Magna Charta Sureties] --------  Weis' Ancestral Roots. . . , 170:29, Alice, daughter of Sir William de Plumpton was the daughter of his second wife, Christina de Mowbray, widow of Richard de Emildon. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, pg. 826 Background Information. Sir William de Plumpton succeeded to the family property before Monday next after the feast of St. martin in Winter, 14 Apr, 15 Edward II (1322). Sir William married Alice, the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Byaufiz, sometime before 14 Apr 1322, at which date the manor of Nesfield was given to him and his wife by his father Sir Robert. Sir Henry Byaufiz died in 1325, whereupon the manor of Brakenthwaite, together with the lands in Plumpton, Follyfoot, Braham, Kirby and Little Ribston, which he held by the courtesy of England, of the inheritance of his wife Cecilia, daughter of another William de Plumpton (descended from Robert, son of Huckman, seneschal of the manor of Plumpton,) was settled by fine, levied in Hilary term, 19 Edward II (1325/1326), upon Sir William de Plumpton and Alice his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to Thomas son of Peter de Midleton, and the heirs of his body, remainder to Marmaduke de Plumpton and the heirs of his body, remainder to Adam son of Peter de Midleton, and his heirs forever. Sir William de Plumpton had a second wife, Christina, widow of Richard de Emildon, mayor of Newcastle in the reigns of Edward I through Edward III, the year he died. She remarried to Sir William before 18 May 1338, being the Monday next before the feast of the Ascension of our Lord, for a settlement was then made of the manor of Grassington in Craven to hold to Sir William de Plumpton and Christina his wife, and the heirs of Sir William, by Henry de Spofford, Champlain, as feoffee in trust. Sir William was the founder of a chantry, at the altar of the Holy trinity, behind the high altar of the collegiate church of Ripon. The act of endowment is dated at Ripon, on Wednesday, the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, 20 Edward III (1345) and was sealed with the seals of Henry de Plumpton, the chaplain first appointed thereto, and of Sir William de Plumpton. Sir William de Plumpton died 36 Edward III (1362) close to the end of the year, as appears in account of the feodary of the honor of Pontefract of that date, wherein is set down xxv. as the relief of Robert de Plumpton, knight, for the fourth part of one knight's fee in Idell, after the decease of William de Plumpton, knight, his father. ~Plumpton Correspondence. William married Christianna Mowbray, daughter of Sir John de Mowbray Knight, Sheriff of Yorkshire and Alina de Braose, before 1338. (Christianna Mowbray was born about 1312 in York, Yorkshire, England and died on 25 Dec 1362 in England.) http://www.cybergata.com/roots/3518.htm -------------------------------- -----------------------------  The Forest of Knaresborough: The origins of this title are obscure, but shortly after the Norman invasion of 1066, the rich tracts of forest were referred to under the enduring title of the Forest of Knaresborough and administered by a Chief Forester. This position was an extremely important one and at varying times the Chief Forester was referred to as Lord of the Forest. Clearly the Normans regarded the area as much prized and tended to guard it jealously. The forest itself comprised of the lands between the rivers Wharfe and Nidd which were dense woodlands, rich in game and an expanse broken only by isolated areas of moorland where trees would not grow. The only really accessible route into the area was alongside the rivers, although over the centuries, much land was cleared and routes opened up along both dales. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Details of William's family with Christiana Mowbray