William de Mandeville , 6th Earl of Essex 
William de was born in 1186 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. William de's father was Geoffrey FitzPiers , 3rd Earl of Essex and his mother was Beatrix de Say. He had a brother and a sister, named Geoffrey de and Maud. He was the youngest of the three children. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named John and Hawise. He died in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England (Body). He was buried in Walden Abbey, Saffron Walden, Norfolk, England (Heart).General Notes
William de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, like his deceased kinsman, espoused the cause of the barons and stoutly maintained it, even after the decease of King John, being one of those who then assisted Lewis of France in the siege of Berkhamstead Castle, occupied by the king's forced. A sally having been made, however, from the garrison, much of the baggage of the besiegers was captured and, amongst other things, the banner of the Earl William. His lordship seems to have made his peace soon after, for we find him engaged in the Welsh wars. He d. in the flower of his age, 25 December, 1227, and, as he left no issue, the Earldom of Essex devolved upon his sister, Mary, Countess of Hereford, while the lands which he inherited passed to his half-brother, John FitzPiers. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 353, Mandeville, Earls of Essex]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1186 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.8 JAN 1226/27 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England (Body)
- b.~ 1160 in Kimbolton, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England d.<19 Apr 1197
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