• General Notes

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  Sir William de Dacre; (states born by Geva, Ralph Dacre's 1st wife); served against Scots 1304 and 1311; granted charter of freewarren in all his demesne lands at Dacre and Halton, Lancs, and license 1307 to Crenellate his mansion at Dunwalloght, Cumberland. [Burke's Peerage]
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  William de Dacre, b. 1265, who, in the 32nd Edward I [1305], was in the expedition made that year into Scotland, and about the same period obtained a charter for free warren in all his demesne lands at Dacre, co. Cumberland, and at Halton, in Lancashire. In the 1st year of the next reign [1307], he had license to encastellate his mansion at Dunwalloght, in Cumberland, on the marches of Scotland, and in three years afterwards was again engaged in the Scottish wars. His lordship m. Joane, dau. and heiress of Benedict Garnet, or according to some authorities, dau. of Sir William Bluet, and having been summoned to parliament as a baron from the 28th Edward I, to the 12th Edward II [1300 to 1319], departed this life in the latter year, and was s. by his son, Ranulph de Dacre. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 152, Dacre, Barons Dacre, of Gillesland, or the North]

Details of (Baron) William's family with (Heiress) Joane De GERNET